Why options
Perps have demonstrated significant demand for leveraged trading on-chain, but they only enable traders to express up/down opinions and involve the risks of cascading liquidations, automated deleveraging, and volatile funding rates. Options provide a way to express more complex opinions in addition to up/down, such as volatile, flat, or any number of advanced payoff scenarios. The two instruments are complementary and will coexist in both decentralized finance and traditional finance as demand for leverage and hedging continues to grow.Why now
Artificial intelligence unlocks options for the everyday trader. Users no longer have to learn advanced mathematics, internalize the Greeks, or deal with complicated user interfaces. Joyride’s copilot enables the user to express an opinion using natural language and have it executed directly on the exchange immediately. MCP servers allow fully autonomous agents to incorporate options into advanced trading strategies for everyone. Perps are great, but options are too. The key is that perps no longer have a UX advantage in an agentic trading world.Connect your agent
- Integration guide: choose a client and find the endpoints.
- Agent quickstart: set up the CLI and request a quote.
- Documentation index: give your agent a starting point for these guides and references.