Injective is opening a new frontier for onchain derivatives: native options infrastructure. Now live on testnet, @injective Options launches with fully collateralized calls and puts across six markets: → SICI — AI compute index → US500 — Top 500 U.S. companies → US Tech — Top 100 U.S. technology companies → Gold, Silver and Oil Contracts are fully backed by native Injective USDC, bringing options trading into the network’s expanding financial infrastructure. The bigger development is what builders can do with it. → Launch custom options exchanges and derivatives protocols. → Create tailored hedging products for institutional users. → Build new financial applications without developing the core options infrastructure from scratch. → Connect options with other onchain markets and financial primitives. This could open up new ways for developers to generate revenue while bringing additional trading activity and liquidity into the Injective ecosystem. Rather than limiting options to a single exchange, Injective is laying the groundwork for multiple applications to build on shared infrastructure. Testnet is live. The next step is seeing what developers build on top of it. $INJ is expanding into another layer of onchain finance.