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  • Introduction to Ribbon Finance
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  • Ribbon Theta Vaults
    • Introduction to Theta Vaults
      • Strike Selection and Expiry
      • Options Architecture
      • Options Settlement
      • Auctions
      • Risk profile
      • Fees
    • Theta vaults architecture
    • User guides
      • How to deposit
      • How to withdraw
      • How to pause and resume
      • How to stake, unstake vault shares and claim rewards
      • How to transfer vault positions
      • How to participate in Paradigm Auctions
      • How to redeem oTokens
  • RIBBON EARN
    • Introduction to Ribbon Earn
    • Ribbon Earn USDC
      • Risk-Free Rate
      • Twin win strategy
      • Vault specifications
      • Eligibility
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    • Ribbon Earn stETH
      • What is a dolphin strategy?
      • Vault specifications
      • Risk profile
      • Fees
  • RIBBON LEND
    • Introduction to Ribbon Lend
      • Yields from unsecured lending
      • No lockups
        • Pool status
        • Default
      • Off-chain enforcement / credit underwriting
      • Built-in insurance
      • Fees
  • ribbon treasury
    • Introduction to Ribbon Treasury
      • Why Ribbon Treasury?
      • Partners
      • How to get involved
  • Ribbonomics
    • Overview and RBN tokenomics
      • Vote-Escrowed RBN
      • Fee Collection and Distribution
      • Liquidity Gauges and RBN Emissions
      • Gauge Weight Voting
      • Bribes
        • Guide to Boost Bribing
          • For Bribers
          • For veRBN Holders
      • Upgrades
    • How to lock RBN, boost and claim protocol revenues
  • Developers
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  1. Ribbon Theta Vaults

Introduction to Theta Vaults

What are Theta Vaults?

Theta Vaults run an automated European options selling strategy, which earns yield on a weekly basis through writing out of the money options and collecting the premiums. We use the Vault terminology because it stems from the idea of depositing your assets into a vault and earning a yield on them.

Users can simply deposit and the vaults will automatically start running a specific option strategy. This alleviates a majority of the gas problems by socializing the gas costs across all the vault depositors: instead of doing 3–4 transactions per week per user, the vault will do 3–4 transactions per week for thousands of users at once. This makes the user experience of using these Theta Vaults extremely straightforward and relatively cheap.

Theta Vaults also allow you to choose when to participate or not to participate in the weekly strategy through a pause and resume function, so that you do not limit your usage options in relation to your market expectations.

There are two vault types currently active:

  1. Covered call selling: each week the vault issues OTM (out of the money) call options on all deposits.

  2. Put selling: each week the vault issues OTM put options on all deposits.

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