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Why are we tokenizing risk and why should traders care...

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Gigantic Untapped Market

In TradFi, a very significant and robust risk ecosystem exists to manage and trade risk—volatility & variance products, structured products, credit risk, interest rate products, FX & commodities risk, liquidity & funding products, tail risk products etc. —amounting to trillions of dollars in products. There is over $4 trillion in notional net risk exposures outstanding in TradFi, enabling investors to trade and hedge volatility and other risks. In contrast, the crypto equivalent is virtually non-existent today. TRP aims to unlock this untapped market (estimated at ~$350B +) by proposing a crypto-native solution to harvest risk, without relying on fiat or off-chain assets. Rather than offloading risk to USD (via stablecoins), TRP embraces crypto’s risks and tokenizes it. The core idea is simple yet powerful: if risk is abundant in crypto, why not make it tradable? By turning risk into a tradable asset, TRP enables users to dial risk up or down according to their risk appetites and fill a critical infrastructure gap, much like how lending protocols added a credit layer in earlier DeFi waves.

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The New Meta

As financial markets mature, they inevitably evolve toward trading risk. In crypto, that means “RiskFi” - the ability to price, tokenize and trade risk exposures on-chain - is conservatively worth over $350B. The Risk Protocol is pioneering this sector with novel risk primitives like Risk Tokenization, Risk Prediction Markets, and Risk Intelligence. These new risk primitives open alpha opportunities that simply don’t exist anywhere else in crypto.

We are initially focused on Risk Tokenization and Risk Intelligence. Following launch, we plan to introduce additional risk products on a regular cadence, as outlined in our roadmap.

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Why Should Traders Care

  1. TURBOCHARGE RETURNS: Picking the right token for the market environment will yield significant outperformance vs. just holding the underlying.

  2. UNIQUE ALPHA: SMART Tokens unlock alpha streams unavailable in perps or spot.

  3. NO MARGIN CALLS, NO LIQUIDATIONS: SMART Tokens are appropriately collateralized from the outset. No constant monitoring required - you can set it and forget it !

  4. SIMPLICITY: No Greeks. No spreadsheets. SMART Tokens wrap complex risk exposures into a single, intuitive token so you can act on your market view without having to understand derivatives or the mechanics behind them. Focus on the outcome, and let the complexity run under the hood.

  5. FRONT-RUN THE FUTURE: "RiskFi" is crypto’s next frontier — an untapped market of inefficiencies and edge. Get in early and position ahead of the curve.

  6. HEDGE RISK, TRADE RISK: Manage drawdowns, leverage upside, or bet on tail events — hedge when you need safety, hunt when you want edge.

  7. PERPETUAL: With SMART tokens there’s no need to roll over expiring derivative positions. You get automatically rebalanced at zero cost.

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