OptSwap
  • What is OptSwap?
  • Quick Start
    • Concepts & Definitions
    • Making Your First Trade
    • Managing Your Orders
    • Managing Your Positions
  • User Manual
    • Trading
      • Limit Orders
      • Option Spreads
      • Advanced Order Types
        • Batch Orders
        • All-or-None Fill Type
        • Multi-Legged Strategies
      • Automated Market Maker (AMM)
        • Managed Orders
        • Aggregated Spot Price
        • Liquidity Provider Rewards
        • Match Finder Rewards
      • Modify & Cancel Orders
      • Positions
        • Converting Positions
      • User Accounts
      • Options Oracles
      • Margin Requirements
      • Fees
    • Settlements
      • Exercise Option
      • Force Cash Settlements
      • Recover Margin
      • Automated Settlements
        • Settlements Execution Rewards
    • Meta Oracle
      • Methodology
      • Fetching Price Data
      • Price Mining
      • Managing Oracles
      • Donations
    • Governance
      • Concepts & Definitions
      • Tokenomics
      • Proposals
      • Proposal Types
      • Voting & Execution
      • Fundraising
      • DAO Treasury
      • Commercial Papers
      • Airdrops
      • Staking
      • OptSwap Miner
      • Contracts Registry
      • Testnet Faucet
      • Donations
  • Technical Reference
    • API Overview
    • Smart Contracts
      • Deployment Addresses
      • MetaOracle
      • OptSwap
      • OptSwapAMM
      • OptSwapDAOAirdrops
      • OptSwapDAOFundraising
      • OptSwapDAOGovernance
      • OptSwapDAOStaking
      • OptSwapDAOToken
      • OptSwapDAOVeToken
      • OptSwapDAOCommercialPaperToken
    • Subgraphs
      • Endpoints
      • Entities
      • Querying
        • Example Queries
    • REST API
      • Endpoints
      • API Methods
  • Other
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Risk Warnings
    • Privacy Policy
Powered by GitBook
On this page

Was this helpful?

  1. User Manual

Settlements

"The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit." — Milton Friedman

PreviousFeesNextExercise Option

Last updated 10 months ago

Was this helpful?

Settlements are an absolutely critical aspect of all options contracts. A timely and fair settlement is key to ensuring that all parties are properly assigned and have immediate access to their underlying assets and cash funds after the expiration time has passed.

All the option contracts on OptSwap are natively settled on-chain. Options can be settled for the underlying asset (physical delivery) or in cash tokens.

European style options can only be settled on or after expiration, whereas in-the-money American style options can be settled at any time up to and including the date of expiry.

Topics

Exercise Option
Force Cash Settlements
Recover Margin