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Guides to the whole product: onchain options and perps, depositing USDC, the liquidity vault, funding arbitrage — and the auction matching that decides how much your fills actually cost.

9 guides

• What are crypto options?

  Calls, puts, strikes, expiries and premiums explained from first principles, with the trade-offs that decide when an option is the right instrument.

  8 min read

• DeFi options vs CEX options

  Custody, counterparty risk, liquidity and matching design compared point by point — including the places centralised venues genuinely still lead.

  9 min read

• Best DeFi options protocols, and how to judge them

  The four questions that actually separate onchain options venues, and how the main architectures answer them. Written by the Rocket team, with that bias disclosed.

  10 min read

• Options vs perpetual futures

  Both give leveraged exposure, but only one can liquidate you and only one can express a view on volatility. How to pick per trade rather than in general.

  8 min read

• Front-running and MEV, and how to avoid it

  How value gets extracted from ordinary orders, why the common defences are incomplete, and the one structural fix that removes the opportunity rather than hiding from it.

  8 min read

• How to hedge Bitcoin with options

  Protective puts, collars and put spreads compared on cost and coverage, with a framework for choosing strike and expiry instead of guessing.

  9 min read

• How to deposit USDC on Rocket

  USDC is the only collateral. From Arbitrum the deposit is direct; from Ethereum or Base it bridges through rhino.fi first. Nothing else is a swap product.

  7 min read

• The Rocket Liquidity Provider vault

  A community-owned pool that provides liquidity, runs market making and stands behind liquidations — with a 0% operator fee, and with the risk published rather than hidden.

  8 min read

• Funding rate arbitrage, explained

  Go long where funding is cheapest and short where it is richest, collect the spread, and keep both legs in one interface so a delta-neutral trade does not quietly become a directional one.

  8 min read