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About Variational

Learn about the Variational protocol.

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Our Vision: We’re building decentralized infrastructure for bilateral derivatives on any underlying. Variational is a peer-to-peer trading protocol for perpetuals and generalized derivatives. Variational automates the process of trading and clearing end-to-end for safe bilateral trading of options, futures, perpetuals, and more.

We’re building two apps on the Variational Protocol: , a retail-focused platform for leveraged perps trading that is currently in private beta, and , a platform catering to advanced traders of nonlinear derivatives, coming .

Team

Variational is maintained by a veteran team active in crypto algorithmic trading since 2017 with prior experience at Google, Meta (Facebook), Goldman Sachs, Etsy, Twilio, and more. All members of our core technical team each have more than a decade of experience in software engineering. For more information, please visit our .

Investors

Variational is backed by industry leaders, including Bain Capital Crypto, Peak XV (formerly Sequoia India/Southeast Asia), Coinbase Ventures, Dragonfly, Hack VC, North Island Ventures, Caladan, Mirana Ventures, Zoku Ventures and more.

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