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- Glossary termRequest for quote (RFQ)A way of making a trade in which a participant asks one or more market makers for a price and then accepts or rejects the quote received.
- ArticleRFQ, AMM and order books: three ways to arrive at a priceA trade's price can come from a queue of other people's orders, a pool formula or a market maker's quote. We look at how order books, AMMs and RFQ work and the trade-offs each model carries.
- SectionTechnology and infrastructureHow the mechanisms behind crypto applications work: price discovery, oracles, on-chain settlement, layer 2 networks and the line between on-chain and off-chain.
- ArticleWhat is Variational: the protocol, its applications and how the ecosystem fits togetherVariational describes itself as a protocol for trading and settling derivatives, not as an exchange. We look at its components, how Omni and Pro differ and which risks the documentation itself names.
- ArticleProtocol and application: how Variational and Omni relateWhere the Variational protocol ends and the Omni application begins: what settlement pools define, what Omni decides, what OLP is, where revenue comes from and how this split affects risk.