$INJ is featured on @Cointelegraph for our work to bring Nvidia’s AI compute onchain. Brick by brick, Injective is laying the foundation for an entirely new financial paradigm.

A new era of options infrastructure is coming to Injective. Just one day after launching the Super Intelligence Compute Index ($SICI), Injective is officially unveiling Injective Options, introducing an entirely new financial primitive for developers, institutions and users. Now LIVE on testnet. The initial launch brings fully backed calls and puts across six distinct markets: → SICI: The first onchain AI compute index → US500: The top 500 US companies → US Tech: The top 100 US technology companies → Gold, Silver and Oil: Global commodities Every option is fully collateralized using native Injective USDC, as USDC becomes a canonical standard across more than 20 blockchains. But these initial markets only represent just a fraction of what’s possible on $INJ starting now Developers can leverage the new options infrastructure to build white label exchanges, launch their own derivatives protocols and introduce entirely new financial products without building the underlying infrastructure from scratch. Institutions can create customized derivatives and hedging products, while users gain access to new markets and the ability to trade or write options directly onchain. As more applications launch, they can generate entirely new revenue streams for builders while bringing additional trading activity, liquidity and fees to Injective and its broader ecosystem. Injective isn’t building just another options exchange. It’s introducing the composable infrastructure for an entire ecosystem of options protocols to thrive and interact with financial primitives across the onchain universe. And this is only the beginning.

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$INJ futures trade on @Bitnomial, the CFTC-regulated DCM and DCO owned by Payward, the parent company of Kraken. They went live April 15 and have now traded on a US regulated market for more than six months. What comes next? Six months of futures on a CFTC-regulated DCM is one of the conditions the SEC’s generic listing standards set for commodity-based ETPs, and $INJ now meets it ahead of the upcoming Canary Staked INJ ETF ($INJC). Institutions trade the contracts through Bitnomial’s clearing member FCMs. Each contract is crypto-settled with a monthly expiration, and traders can post crypto or USD as margin through Bitnomial Clearinghouse, funding positions with assets they already hold. INJC is built for a different trader. The fund is set to hold and stake INJ inside a US ETF and restake the rewards into NAV. Futures gave US institutions a regulated way to trade INJ. INJC is set to give US investors a regulated way to own it, staked, in the same brokerage account they use for everything else. The regulated stack around $INJ keeps growing, and we’re building the onchain infrastructure underneath it all 🥷