Raven

Decentralized digital options with deterministic settlement on Canton.

Raven is a decentralized digital options protocol on Canton Network, currently in private beta for whitelisted users. It lets traders take directional views with fixed risk, transparent payouts, and deterministic on-chain settlement.

Background

Raven is built on a straightforward conviction: most trading systems introduce unnecessary complexity, hidden risk, or discretionary execution. Raven's architecture eliminates all three. Every contract settles automatically via Chainlink oracle at expiry, and the coupled AMM design guarantees that CALL and PUT prices always sum to exactly 1 $CC — ensuring mathematical solvency at all times with no spread and no hidden slippage.

Raven is a Featured App on Canton and an approved Canton validator, now live in Private Beta onboarding early traders under real market conditions.

Key Benefits

Raven offers a trading experience designed around simplicity and mathematical certainty:

  • Trade directionally — CALL or PUT on crypto assets
  • Fixed payout of 1 $CC per winning contract at settlement
  • Set-and-forget positioning with no active management required
  • Early exit — close positions fully or partially before expiry via the AMM
  • On-chain settlement via Chainlink oracle for every outcome
  • Live trading competitions with significant prize pools

Why Canton

Canton enables what derivatives require at institutional scale: atomic, synchronized settlement; deterministic execution guarantees; and infrastructure designed for real financial markets. These properties make Canton an ideal foundation for an on-chain derivatives venue where execution integrity is non-negotiable.

What Makes It Unique

Raven is the only digital options protocol on Canton. Its coupled AMM structure is a defining technical innovation: CALL and PUT prices always sum to exactly 1 $CC, ensuring no spread, no hidden slippage, and mathematically guaranteed solvency at all times. The protocol was designed from the ground up for Canton's architecture — not ported from another environment.

What's Included

Digital Options

Raven focuses on directional trading products with fixed risk, clear payout logic, and deterministic settlement on Canton.

Launch Markets

At launch, Raven centers on $CC-denominated digital options with daily and weekly contract cadences, Chainlink oracle settlement, and a protocol-seeded liquidity model.

Risk Clarity

Unlike open-ended leveraged products, digital options can make payoff and downside easier to understand before a trade is placed.

Impact

Raven expands Canton’s trading layer beyond swaps and spot markets. A clean options product can bring more sophisticated risk expression to the ecosystem while keeping settlement transparent and deterministic.

Yields & Earning Opportunities

Weekly trading competitions offer active participants the opportunity to earn from prize pool allocations. The current live competition features a 100,000 $CC pool distributed based on trading performance.

Active Campaigns & Incentives

Private Beta: Raven is open to whitelisted users in cohorts. Users can apply through Raven and trade once their cohort is granted access.

Trading Competition: Raven has promoted a 100,000 $CC trading competition for whitelisted users.

Looking Ahead

Raven's roadmap includes expanding from private beta to broader access, scaling liquidity, adding more underlying markets beyond $CC, introducing USDCx-denominated contracts, and deepening integrations with Canton wallets and data layers.