DIVA Protocol
  • 👋Welcome
  • 🔅Introduction
    • Derivative contracts
    • What is DIVA Protocol
      • What problem does it solve
      • How it works
        • Reference assets
        • Payoff curves
        • Collateral
        • Oracles
        • Settlement
          • Timelines
          • Challenge
          • Status
          • Fast settlement
          • Fallback data provider
        • Fees
        • Compliance feature
      • Vision
      • Terminology
    • What is DIVA Token
      • Owner election mechanism
      • Token distribution
    • DIVA Development Fund
    • FAQ
  • 🌈DIVA App
    • What is DIVA App
    • Overview
    • Create position tokens
    • Trade position tokens
    • Add liquidity
    • Remove liquidity
  • ⚙️Guides
    • DIVA App Training
      • Prepare
      • Testnet
      • Create
      • Trade
      • Add
      • Remove
      • Settle
      • Redeem
      • Fees
    • Quiz
  • 🪄Use cases
    • Overview
    • Insurance
      • Credit default protection
      • Agrarian insurance
      • DeFi Hack insurance
      • Peg insurance
    • Yield optimization
      • Bullish accumulation
      • Bearish accumulation
    • Risk management
      • Downside protection
      • Increasing cost protection
    • Directional bets
      • Downside bet
      • "Bottom-Is-In" bet
      • Upside bet
      • "Top-Is-In" bet
    • Leverage
  • 👨‍🎓Pricing derivatives
    • Introduction
    • Underlying value
    • Volatility
    • Time
  • ⚓Oracle integrations
    • Overview
    • Tellor
  • ⚒️For developers
    • Overview
    • Technical resources
    • Smart contracts
      • Functions
        • Core protocol functions
        • Getter functions
        • Setter functions
        • ABI
      • Contract addresses
      • Example scripts
    • TheGraph
      • DIVA subgraphs
      • Whitelist subgraph
    • Project ideas
  • 📱Contact & Media Links
    • Social media
  • 👨‍🎓Technical Blog
    • Flash loans in DIVA Protocol
    • NDVI outcome reporting guide for Tellor Reporters
    • Enabling capital efficiency in DeFi
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  1. Introduction

What is DIVA Protocol

A permissionless protocol for creating derivative contracts peer-to-peer

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DIVA Protocol is the first truly universal smart contract-based system for creating and managing derivative financial contracts peer-to-peer. It provides a platform for developers to build a wide range of derivative financial applications, including structured products, insurance, prediction markets, conditional donations, swaps, bets, and more, all in a fully permissionless way without involving a central intermediary.

What are the unique features of DIVA Protocol?

DIVA Protocol distinguishes itself from peers like Augur, Polymarket, and Opyn in several key ways:

  • ⚙️High customization: DIVA Protocol offers unmatched customization, allowing users to select virtually any metric as the underlying and choose from a wide range of payoff profiles. With its flexibility to accommodate various slopes, barriers, and ranges, DIVA Protocol is especially well-suited for application in structured products.

  • ☂️Compliance layer: DIVA Protocol is one of the first DeFi protocols that implements a compliance feature to enable traditional financial institutions to use DIVA Protocol while complying with existing KYC and AML regulations.

  • ⛽Gas optimized: DIVA Protocol implements an efficient off-chain matching mechanism with an on-chain settlement process leveraging the EIP712 signature standard, thereby optimizing gas usage by creating the derivative contract on-chain only when a counterparty is found.

  • 🧩Composable: DIVA Protocol harnesses the true power of decentralized finance by prioritizing composability. Developers can seamlessly combine DIVA Protocol with any oracle and trading infrastructure when building end-user applications.

An overview of products that can be powered by DIVA Protocol is provided below:

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Example products that can be powered by DIVA Protocol