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Glossary
Backwardation
When the price of the futures is lower than the spot price of the underlying asset.
When borrowing on a fixed rate protocol, this is the value of the collateral, in debt terms, relative to the size of the debt.
Ofter referred as 'money lego' thesis: it refers to the idea of building new DeFi protocols on top of others (e.g. Contango is built on top of fixed-rate markets, and at the same time it could be leveraged by new protocols to create structured products on top of it).
When the price of the futures is higher than the spot price of the underlying asset.
The settlement date at which the price of the futures is identical to the spot.
An atomic transaction where output tokens are sent to the recipient before enforcing that enough input tokens have been received. See Uniswap docs.
Variable interest rate on the underlying debt, charged periodically by derivative exchanges to keep the price of perpetual futures tethered to the index price of the underlying asset.
E.g. an ETHDAI inverse contract is simply the opposite pair DAIETH, so it’s quoted in ETH and all margin and PnL calculations are also denominated in ETH.
Borrowed capital that allows traders to amplify their buying or selling power.
E.g. an ETHDAI linear contract is quoted in DAI and all margin and PnL calculations are denominated in DAI.
Crowdsourced pools of tokens that facilitate trading without an order book between buyers and sellers. The deeper the liquidity of the pool, the smaller the price impact of each trade.
This is the value of the margin, posted by a trader, relative to price to open a position.
The change in price that is directly caused by the size of a trade. Larger transactions cause higher price impacts. It differs from slippage, which is caused by external broad market movements, unrelated to the trade. See more at 1inch.
An ERC-721 Non-Fungible Token that represents ownership of a position. Tokenizing a position allows the independent transfer of its ownership without the need to update Contango's internal accounting. This enhances composability, as positions can be bought and sold on a secondary market or in a private transaction, and potentially used as collateral in third party protocols.
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