{"id":27101,"date":"2020-08-11T11:31:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T08:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=27101"},"modified":"2025-08-26T18:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:47:15","slug":"venture-funds-ramp-up-investments-in-decentralized-derivative-exchanges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/venture-funds-ramp-up-investments-in-decentralized-derivative-exchanges\/","title":{"rendered":"Venture funds ramp up investments in decentralized derivative exchanges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venture funds have increased investment in decentralized platforms for trading crypto-derivatives, according to data from analytics firm Messari.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the third quarter, five projects have received a total of more than $5.8 million in funding.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p dir=\\\"ltr\\\" lang=\\\"en\\\">VCs are racing to fund decentralized derivative platforms<\/p>\n<p>In the last 2 weeks alone 5 projects have received funding<\/p>\n<p>Once these platforms go live expect a lot of capital to be thrown their way either through liquidity mining or outright purchases of the native tokens <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/K4B0KAzv7G\\\">pic.twitter.com\/K4B0KAzv7G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jack Purdy (@jpurd17) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jpurd17\/status\/1292949035981115396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">August 10, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Investments have come from among the industry&#8217;s largest funds, including Polychain, Pantera, FBG, Dragonfly.<\/p>\n<p>Some projects have already brought their products to market, but most are still in development. After their launch, analysts expect additional inflows of capital.<\/p>\n<p>Among those in operation is the DeFi platform Opyn, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/defi-platform-opyn-loses-371000-in-hack\">having lost<\/a> $371 000 in a recent hack. In the previous quarter it raised $2.2 million. By early August, nominal trading volume on Opyn had surpassed $50 million, Messari noted.<\/p>\n<p>FutureSwap developers launched an alpha version of the platform several months ago. At that time the exchange led the sector in daily trading volume with more than $7 million. Later, developers prematurely halted testing due to demand exceeding expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts say the rising interest in decentralized platforms is also reflected in the price of their internal tokens. For example, FinNexus (FNX) and Auctus (AUC) rose 300% and 200% respectively in a month.<\/p>\n<p>As of the end of March, Polychain Capital&#8217;s net asset value over 39 months had risen 14.3-fold, despite a 60.4% decline in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/pantera-capital-bitcoin-fund-posts-15140-return-over-seven-years\">exceeded<\/a> 15,000%, beating BTC on that measure.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\\\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">VK<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venture funds have increased investment in decentralized platforms for trading crypto-derivatives, according to data from analytics firm Messari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1168,787,1133],"class_list":["post-27101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crypto-derivatives","tag-dex","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27102,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27101\/revisions\/27102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}