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docs(hashprice): scope to buy-put/sell-call and add pool-vs-RFQ market structure
Only two of the four option positions hedge mining revenue and are the primitives this design targets: buy put (insure downside) and sell call (monetise the upside the rig is already long). Buying a call or selling a put are directional speculation, already served by venues like Deribit. Document the counterparty asymmetry between the two hedges: - Sell call is desk-friendly RFQ: the miner writes and posts collateral, so the counterparty only pays a premium in cash. - Buy put needs a standing pool: a written put must keep BTC posted for the option's life, and one-directional miner demand cannot be met by on-demand desk RFQ. The two-token vault is that pool; LPs deploy BTC standing, sell DOWN legs as the puts, and shed residual UP to desks via the call-side RFQ. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019xSv5NJ3LFu9qSrZvbou1W
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## Miner strategies
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Everything the desk needs reduces to holding or selling the two legs:
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Of the four option positions a miner could take, only two hedge mining
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revenue — and those are the two this design targets:
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- **buy put** — insure the downside when hashprice falls, and
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- **sell call** — monetise the upside the rig is already long.
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The other two — *buying a call* or *selling a put* — are directional bets on
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hashprice, not hedges of a mining book. They are ordinary speculation,
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already well served by existing derivatives venues (Deribit and the like), so
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this design does not try to serve them. Each hedge reduces to holding or
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selling one of the two legs:
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- **Long put on hashprice — insure the downside.** Buy DOWN tokens of a vault
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whose `highPrice` is the strike. If hashprice falls, DOWN pays out exactly
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part of the upside, or trade out of a leg mid-life by selling it — no vault
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interaction, no counterparty negotiation.
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## Standing the other side: a pool for puts, RFQ for calls
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The two hedges are not symmetric in how their counterparty is sourced, and
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that asymmetry is what shapes the market structure around each vault.
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- **Sell call — an easy RFQ for a desk.** When a miner sells the call it is
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the *writer*: it mints the pair from its own BTC and posts the collateral
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itself (the escrowed band width). The counterparty merely *buys* the UP
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leg and pays a premium in cash. Because that counterparty gives out nothing
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but the premium — no standing BTC, no collateral locked for the life of the
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series — a desk can quote it on request (RFQ) and hedge elsewhere. This is
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the side that bootstraps easily.
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- **Buy put — this one needs a standing pool.** When a miner buys the put it
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is the *buyer*, so someone else has to *write* it, and a written put must
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keep BTC posted as collateral for the whole life of the option. Miners are
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structurally one-directional buyers of downside protection, so this is a
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large, standing, one-way demand. It cannot be met by desk RFQ: no market
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maker keeps a hot wallet full of BTC sitting idle, ready to lock on demand.
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The capital has to be *deployed standing* — which is exactly what the
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two-token vault is for. The vault **is** the pool: liquidity providers
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deposit BTC up front, the pool mints the pairs and stands as the
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collateralised put writer, and the DOWN legs it posts for sale (as standing
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Arkade-intent orders) are the puts miners buy. Premium accrues to the pool
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as legs are taken; the collateral is committed for the series and released
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at settlement. The pool is left holding the residual UP legs — a long-call
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position it can shed to desks through the very RFQ that makes the call side
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easy — so providing standing put capital need not leave the pool
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directionally exposed.
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## Collateral: why BTC, and where the cap sits
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Collateral is BTC throughout — for a miner it is the native working asset,

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