🛤️Why Rysk?

Rysk V12 is built on deep expertise in options and structured products. Before this, we developed one of the top options AMMs on Arbitrum, trading over $250M in volume, and a high-performance orderbook exchange that processed over $1B in trades. This is the next evolution: refined through real conversations with DeFi-native users and years of experience in structured yield.

Like the V12 engine, covered calls were abandoned by most because they were too complex and difficult to scale. But Ferrari saw the potential, refined it, and made it one of the most successful engines in history. Rysk is doing the same for covered calls: a powerful yet overlooked strategy, now made scalable, accessible, and built for DeFi.

We’re backed by DeFi-native investors who understand structured products and yield at a deep level: Archetype, Lemniscap, Coinbase Ventures, Encode, Ascensive Assets, HASHCib, Yunt Capital, and Manifold. Alongside them are angels from projects like Gearbox, Yearn, and Ethena, as well as early believers like Evan Van Ness.

DeFi was built as an alternative financial system, but without scalable yield, its impact might be restricted to just speculation. Today, ETH, BTC, and other volatile assets can earn low or inefficient returns beyond staking or unstable, low-efficiency strategies. This isn’t just an inefficiency, it’s a fundamental blocker to DeFi’s evolution. Fixing this unlocks everything: real yield on ETH, BTC, and native assets attracts more capital on-chain, sustainable returns create long-term retention instead of mercenary liquidity, and yield-seeking institutions and treasuries enter the space, scaling structured products to billions.

For too long, DeFi has been stuck, recycling the same capital through short-term farming incentives and inefficient yield models that have proven to be both unsustainable and short-sighted. Rysk is solving this by making structured yield accessible, efficient, and built to scale, building the foundation for a new on-chain economy where capital stays, yield is transparent and sustainable, and structured products grow into a multi-billion dollar pillar of the ecosystem.

This goes beyond covered calls. It’s about scaling DeFi itself. DeFi cannot become the world’s financial hub until we fix its yield problem, and Rysk is here to make that happen.