Svmuureports that decentralized derivatives trading platform Variational has announced the completion of a $50 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Dragonfly Capital, with participation from Bain Capital Crypto and Coinbase Ventures. Headquartered in the Cayman Islands, the company is dedicated to building an on-chain derivatives protocol for institutional and traditional finance traders. By aggregating liquidity from both traditional finance and crypto markets, it aims to provide instantly tradable on-chain markets for real-world assets such as oil and commodities. Its core product, the Omni platform, adopts a zero-fee model and incorporates a liquidity pool mechanism to enhance market depth and execution efficiency.
Variational stated that its goal is not to directly compete with centralized exchanges, but rather to connect multi-source liquidity through a "brokerage-style" model, including traditional finance market makers and major crypto trading platforms, in order to solve the "liquidity cold start" problem for on-chain markets. (Fortune)