{"id":2513,"date":"2026-06-24T08:57:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T08:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexify.io\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2026-06-24T08:59:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T08:59:01","slug":"atomic-swaptions-crypto-derivatives-without-a-trusted-third-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexify.io\/de\/atomic-swaptions-crypto-derivatives-without-a-trusted-third-party\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0ATOMIC SWAPTIONS: CRYPTO DERIVATIVES WITHOUT A TRUSTED THIRD PARTY\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Derivatives let crypto users hedge price risk, but trading them on centralized venues brings back the counterparty and custody risks that crypto set out to remove. This article walks through a research paper that builds option contracts settling directly between two parties and works through how these instruments interact with the EU financial regulation. The Paper is by James A. Liu, <em>Atomic Swaptions: Cryptocurrency<\/em> Derivatives, University of California, Irvine, arXiv no. 1807.08644, hereinafter the referred to it as the \u201c<strong>Paper<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The idea<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The idea is simple: use derivatives in crypto the way traditional finance already uses them. Derivatives are a good tool for hedging, especially when your costs sit in a different currency from your revenue.<br>Take a concrete case. Miners earn their revenue in crypto-assets but pay most of their expenses in other currencies, including stablecoins. A futures contract could cover that mismatch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why centralized venues don\u2019t solve it<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s a catch. If you trade these derivatives on a centralized exchange (\u201c<strong>CEX<\/strong>\u201d), you inherit the same risks crypto was meant to avoid, and sometimes worse ones given the regulatory position: counterparty risk, liquidity risk, custody risk. Most crypto derivatives today are booked offshore, which compounds the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Paper makes the point sharply. Derivatives are long-dated, so users have to leave their assets on the exchange for the entire life of the contract. Any margin the venue offers adds direct and indirect counterparty risk, and in a sharp market move the exchange itself can become insolvent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What the Paper proposes<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It shows that atomic swaps can limit the risks above. An atomic swap uses Hashed Time-Lock Contracts (\u201c<strong>HTLCs<\/strong>\u201d), a form of cryptographic escrow, with the blockchains themselves acting as the trusted third party. Put differently, you use cryptographic proof on one chain that a prerequisite payment happened on another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">There are two features that matter here. First, the chains <strong>don\u2019t need to be Turing-complete<\/strong> (like Ethereum), which makes the method more scalable. Second, the construction <strong>needs no oracle<\/strong>, so it removes a point of failure and the need to trust an external data provider. The Paper also describes how to route these contracts over the Lightning Network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How an atomic swap works<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">An atomic swap solves a basic trust problem. If notorious Alice sends her coins to notorious Bob first, Bob can take them and walk away without sending his. The reverse is true if Bob goes first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The fix is an HTLC on each chain. Alice creates a secret and locks her tokens in a contract that unlocks only if that secret is revealed within a set time. Bob does the same with his tokens, on a slightly shorter deadline. When Alice claims Bob\u2019s tokens, she reveals the secret, which lets Bob claim hers. If anything breaks, both parties recover their funds once the timelocks expire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>From a swap to an option<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Now add the option. An option contract gives Alice the right, not the obligation, to swap 1 ACoin for 1 BCoin up to a set date (E), in exchange for a premium paid to Bob. If the price moves her way, she exercises and Bob must deliver; if not, she lets it expire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The buyer holds the right to decide whether delivery happens, and the buyer pays the seller a premium. Alice\u2019s value is the choice between the two assets; Bob takes the premium and the obligation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">For the sake of completeness: a so-called \u201cAmerican option\u201d can be exercised any time before expiry, a so-called \u201cEuropean option\u201d only at maturity. This construction gives Alice early exercise, so it\u2019s American-style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In traditional finance a \u201c<em>swaption<\/em>\u201d is an option to enter into an interest-rate swap. The Paper coins \u201c<em>atomic swaption<\/em>\u201d for something different: an atomic swap that exchanges a premium for the creation of an option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Building the atomic swaption and brief note on put-call parity<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Paper\u2019s construction nests two atomic swaps. I\u2019ll keep this light on the cryptographic detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The first swap, the funding contract, pays Bob the premium and at the same time funds the second swap, which is the option itself. The second swap looks like a standard atomic swap, except its expiry is set far out (say, 1 year), which gives Alice the time to decide whether to exercise. In short, Alice pays a premium for the future right to swap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">For safety, the principal deposit transactions need both parties\u2019 signatures plus the secret, and they\u2019re pre-signed so neither side can change the terms on its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The capital problem, and margin<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s a downside, and it\u2019s the one every on-chain contract faces. Someone has to lock the full principal in the contract until exercise or expiry. In traditional markets you wouldn\u2019t post the whole amount up front; you\u2019d post a small margin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Paper\u2019s answer is the margin contract. Instead of locking the full sum, Alice and Bob each post an agreed margin. Each signs transactions that force the other, if it wants to proceed, to deposit the full principal into the swaption. If a party doesn\u2019t, the counterparty keeps the margin as a penalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Bob, for example, has to complete his deposit by a deadline. If he misses it, Alice takes his margin without even revealing the secret, and she simply doesn\u2019t exercise. Alice\u2019s side is symmetric but on a shorter deadline: if she fails to fund, Bob keeps her margin and forfeits his own. The mechanism cuts the capital tied up at the start and gives both sides a reason to perform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It is noteworthy that the Paper states that floating margin <strong>can closely replicate a call or put payoff, and that a version of put-call parity then lets you build a futures contract<\/strong>: a long futures position equals a long call plus a short put at the same strike and expiry.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The regulatory question<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A genuinely peer-to-peer atomic swaption has no regulated person for EU financial law to attach to. The exposure appears the moment someone centralizes the arrangement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Freedom of contract in private law comes first in most legal systems. Private parties can agree to swap one asset for another. As long as the essential elements of a contract are present (e.g., in civil law agreement, lawful cause, a determinate object, and any required form), a bilateral, off-market swaption is valid. Its private nature doesn\u2019t make it unlawful or defective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The financial regulatory question is narrower: does the arrangement fall inside an European Union\u2019s supervisory perimeter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Directive 2014\/65\/EU (\u201c<strong>MiFID II<\/strong>\u201d) lists financial instruments in Annex I, Section C. Point (4) covers options, futures and swaps relating to securities, currencies, interest rates or yields, financial indices, or other derivative instruments. An atomic swaption is, in form, an option (a contingent claim), and even a swap of a premium for an option. The problem may be the underlying: one crypto-asset against another. A crypto-asset isn\u2019t a currency in the legal sense, isn\u2019t a transferable security, and isn\u2019t any of the listed underlyings. So, the fit with Section C is real on the contract type but may be on some level contestable on the underlying. Where the underlying crypto-asset itself qualifies as a transferable security, the instrument reads more naturally as a Section C(4) derivative; where it doesn\u2019t, the classification could stay open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">This matters beyond MiFID, because Regulation (EU) 648\/2012 (\u201c<strong>EMIR<\/strong>\u201d) borrows the same definition. EMIR defines a derivative by reference to points (4) to (10) of MiFID\u2019s Section C, and an OTC derivative as one not executed on a regulated market. If the swaption is a Section C derivative, EMIR\u2019s obligations on counterparties can attach: clearing, reporting to a trade repository, and risk-mitigation for non-cleared OTC derivatives. But each of those runs against identifiable counterparties, and several turn on counterparty status and thresholds. Are two wallets running an HTLC protocol candidates for that machinery? Probably not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Furthermore, is there a regulated person or activity? MiFID doesn\u2019t regulate instruments in the abstract. It regulates persons, activities, namely financial services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">An \u201c<em>investment firm<\/em>\u201d, in MiFID\u2019s words, is any legal person whose regular business is providing investment services to third parties or performing investment activities on a professional basis (Article 4(1)(1)). The investment services themselves (Annex I, Section A) all presuppose someone providing a service or running a system: receiving and transmitting orders, executing clients, dealing on own account, placing, or operating a multilateral or organised trading facility. A \u201c<em>trading venue<\/em>\u201d is a regulated market, an MTF or an OTF, and an MTF or OTF is a multilateral system operated by an investment firm or a market operator. A \u201c<em>systematic internaliser\u201d <\/em>is, again, an investment firm dealing on own account outside a venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Every one of these has a built-in subject. Remove the issuer, the operator and the intermediary, and there\u2019s no person on whom authorisation, conduct or organisational duties can rest. In fact, the Paper\u2019s whole point is that cryptography replaces the trusted third party. When the third party goes, the regulated person goes with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Regulation (EU) 2017\/1129 (\u201c<strong>Prospectus Regulation<\/strong>\u201d) confirms the pattern from the issuance side. At certain conditions it requires a prospectus for an offer of securities to the public or admission to trading on a regulated market, and \u201c<em>securities<\/em>\u201d means transferable securities as defined in MiFID Article 4(1)(44). Someone may defend a position where a privately negotiated swaption (without possibility to transfer it to other third parties) may be neither a \u201ctransferable\u201d security nor a public offer, so apparently someone could say that no prospectus duty arises, unless a centralised issuer packages and offers these contracts to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">That leaves the interpretation problem the draft raises. Should MiFID be read to catch decentralised instruments even though it contains no decentralisation exemption? MiFID\u2019s operative provisions all presuppose a regulated person, and a rule that governs \u201c<em>the provision of investment services to third<\/em> <em>parties\u201d<\/em> can\u2019t bite where there\u2019s no provider and no third party being served.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">EU secondary law is read purposively and systematically, not only literally. On that method, the tension resolves in favour of substance. The regime targets the function, <strong>an intermediated and organised market activity, rather than the bare existence of an instrument on a public ledger<\/strong>. MiCAR points the same way in principle, since it leaves genuinely decentralised arrangements without an identifiable operator outside its issuer- and provider-based obligations. It would not be wise to lean on MiCAR\u2019s text here, but the functional logic may be considered consistent across the framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In conclusion, the two main questions can be: whether a crypto-to-crypto option is always a Section C(4) instrument when its underlying isn\u2019t itself a financial instrument, and whether two protocol counterparties could ever function as \u201c<em>counterparties<\/em>\u201d for EMIR reporting in practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Lexify as Your Consultant<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Lexify continuously monitors regulatory developments and assists European and international companies within this sector, including digital-asset derivatives and decentralized finance, from instrument classification under MiFID II and EMIR to issuance and 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