Perpetual futures, built for the present. The end-to-end US venue for institutional commodity derivatives.
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Monolith retweeted
We are modernizing US commodity trading to enable institutions to participate in frontier financial technology in size. Fully regulated and fully onchain.
Commodity markets move continuously. The capital behind them often doesn't.
Together with @AscendFi, we've developed an end-to-end solution that unlocks idle capital for use as collateral when trading energy perpetual futures. View article
Monolith retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: Monolith and Ascend have partnered to develop institutional commodity derivatives trading and onchain clearing infrastructure in the USA.
Examining the teams and technologies potentially involved: $HBAR $XLM $LINK $POL $ETH
MONOLITH
Monolith is pursuing CFTC registration as a Designated Contract Market, initially focused on cash-settled energy and commodity perpetual futures.
The platform is being built by Windhelm Labs, which has extensive connections to the Hedera ecosystem.
• Rufus Daniel (@Zepzi), formerly Hedera Foundation
• Milan @MilanWiercx, member of Linux Foundation's Hiero Technical Steering Committee.
• Jason Fabritz, developer of the Hiero .NET SDK.
• Monolith identifies Hashgraph as a technology partner.
The team brings experience spanning institutional derivatives, quantitative trading, Citi, and Citadel.
ASCEND
Ascend is developing institutional credit and collateral infrastructure for tokenized real-world assets.
Its ecosystem connections are equally interesting:
• Stellar ($XLM): Received a $1 million investment from the Stellar Development Foundation and recently completed an institutional repo transaction on Stellar mainnet.
• Chainlink ($LINK): Participates in Chainlink Build, incorporating CRE, CCIP, and oracle infrastructure.
• Ethereum ($ETH): Uses ERC-3643, the standard for permissioned tokenized securities. CEO Dennis O'Connell also serves as president of the ERC-3643 Association.
• Polygon ($POL) and Hedera ($HBAR): Both appear in Ascend's published ecosystem, although their specific deployment roles have not been established.
WHAT THIS MEANS
Monolith plans to operate the derivatives venue, while Ascend intends to provide onchain tri-party clearing infrastructure.
The objective is to enable eligible real-world assets, including physical oil shipments, to serve as collateral for institutional derivatives trading, reducing collateralization timelines from weeks to hours.
This potentially brings together physical commodities, institutional credit, tokenized securities, and derivatives clearing within a regulated U.S. market structure.
These are existing technology and ecosystem relationships. The companies have not confirmed which networks will underpin the Monolith–Ascend integration, and Monolith's regulatory registration remains pending.
Monolith retweeted
Execution and clearing are two different problems. The venue matches the trade; the clearing layer holds the collateral, extends credit against it and carries the accountability when a position moves against someone.
Today we announced a partnership with @MonolithFi on institutional commodity derivatives. Monolith is building an onchain venue for energy perpetual futures and pursuing CFTC registration as a Designated Contract Market; we intend to clear it through our onchain tri-party model.
The aim is eligible real-world assets, such as an oil cargo in transit, posted as collateral in hours instead of weeks.
Full release: prnewswire.com/news-releases…
Monolith retweeted
🇺🇸 NEW: Monolith and Ascend have partnered to develop institutional commodity derivatives trading and onchain clearing in the U.S.
Monolith is pursuing CFTC registration, while Ascend plans to enable eligible tokenized assets, including oil shipments, to serve as collateral.
Monolith retweeted
It was great to speak in Singapore on a panel of such highly accredited institutions.
Here we got to discuss institutional DeFi & RWAs, including my input on how Monolith is optimising to scale institutional onchain finance.
CGO, Rufus Daniel (@Zepzi) joins Citi, JP Morgan, Schroders, and Northern Trust on a panel in Singapore.
They discussed RWAs, institutional DeFi, and the road ahead for the institutional adoption of tokenized assets on the secondary markets and wider onchain finance.
Monolith retweeted
Congrats @Zepzi on the new role at @MonolithFi!
Monolith retweeted
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Monolith retweeted
We are at an onchain inflection point.
The demand for tokenization is clear. The next step is regulated secondary markets.
That's what we're building toward at @MonolithFi.
Introducing Monolith, the end-to-end US venue for onchain institutional commodity derivatives.
Tokenize & collateralize any eligible physical or digital asset and hedge it against 24/7 oil and gas futures.
This is the future being built at monolith.finance.
Monolith retweeted
Today, I'm excited to unveil Monolith, and my role as CGO.
As I considered the next step in my career, I had to ask myself "where is the most asymmetric opportunity in markets today?"
Institutional onchain finance was one of the clearest answers. Enormous pools of capital, outdated market infrastructure, and a category in which everything is still to be won.
Here, regulated tokenization and perpetual futures stood out most clearly - with Monolith sitting at the intersection of both.
Under CFTC @ChairmanSelig, a path is clearing for perpetual futures to develop onshore, including active engagement around 24/7 and perpetual energy contracts.
This presents an opportunity for a regulated end-to-end venue where eligible physical and digital assets can be tokenized, used as collateral and hedged continuously. This is what we're building at Monolith.
Our initial focus is energy. Defined by around-the-clock risk, capital-intensive assets that are often difficult to financialize, and demand for 24/7 oil and gas contracts - there is a clear market opportunity.
Built to capitalise on this, our team brings deep experience across energy trading, AI, engineering HFT systems, and onchain development.
Over the coming months, I look forward to sharing our progress in real time as we work towards our vision: unlocking trillions of dollars in idle assets across the globe.
Introducing Monolith, the end-to-end US venue for onchain institutional commodity derivatives.
Tokenize & collateralize any eligible physical or digital asset and hedge it against 24/7 oil and gas futures.
This is the future being built at monolith.finance.
Monolith retweeted
Monolith emerges from stealth to turn trillions in idle capital into active collateral that can be hedged 24/7
Monolith is developing the end-to-end onchain US institutional commodity derivatives venue.
Energy is the first market. Cargo in transit can sit as trapped capital for weeks while custody, insurance, and settlement reconcile across separate systems. Monolith compresses that into hours, turning idle inventory into usable collateral.
Tokenization handles the record. Perpetual futures handle the hedge. Together they replace fixed trading windows with continuous, 24/7 exposure to benchmarks like WTI, Brent, and Henry Hub.
Small and mid-sized firms could hedge directly under the proposed clearing model, without the FCM relationship that currently prices many of them out.
CFTC designation is pending prior to platform launch.
Full story below.
ALT Monolith emerges from stealth, announcing plans to launch an end-to-end US venue for 24/7 institutional commodity derivatives, subject to regulatory approval
Monolith retweeted
Today, as co-founder and CEO, I couldn’t be prouder to introduce Monolith and our mission to bring onchain institutional derivatives to the US - starting with energy.
Over my career in systematic trading, market making, and designing institutional-grade risk systems for digital assets - two things became clear:
(1) Markets can, and should be, global, programmable and always on.
(2) Institutions were never going to accept the risk, governance and market-structure shortcomings of legacy onchain finance.
Instead, the select benefits of being onchain would need to fit into the regulatory framework and market protections that already supports global finance.
For the first time, I believe there is now a real regulatory path to do that in the US, and bring with it the benefits of tokenization and 24/7 markets.
This is a once-in-a-generation chance to help define what regulated financial markets look like when the infrastructure is finally built for the internet age.
We intend to be at the center of it.
Introducing Monolith, the end-to-end US venue for onchain institutional commodity derivatives.
Tokenize & collateralize any eligible physical or digital asset and hedge it against 24/7 oil and gas futures.
This is the future being built at monolith.finance.