Pods Finance

Description sourced from DeFiLlama's protocol metadata; teams submit their own copy when listing.

Pods Finance is published as a versioned release inside the Pods protocol family. Releases inside the same family typically share governance, brand, and large parts of the audit history, but each version can run materially different contract logic — a release labelled v2 or v3 is not just a UI refresh. Newer versions inside a family typically launch with their own audit cycle and parameter set, so do not assume the previous release's safety record carries over without checking the linked audit reports.

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Pods Finance is a versioned release inside a larger protocol family. View the parent for combined TVL and all sibling versions.

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1. Oct 12, 2021
   Listed on DeFiLlama

Pods Finance is a Options protocol where traders open leveraged, perpetual, or option positions priced off oracle feeds and settled in collateral held by the contract. It is deployed across 3 chains, including Polygon, Ethereum, Arbitrum. The codebase has been independently audited (1 report on file).

Pods Finance operates on 3 networks (Polygon, Ethereum, Arbitrum), keeping its surface area narrower than chain-agnostic peers. Roughly 100% of its on-chain value sits on just three networks (Polygon, Ethereum, Arbitrum), so a fault on any one of them would affect a large slice of users. Price feeds come from a single oracle provider (Chainlink); an outage or manipulation of that feed would propagate into every market the protocol prices. Only one audit report is currently listed; users should weigh that against the protocol's TVL before depositing significant amounts.

Verified external resources for Pods Finance — use these to read the source code, follow governance discussions, or cross-check on-chain data against the original team's channels.

Pods Finance is one of 7 Options protocols Mantapex tracks in this category. Direct peers ranked by total value locked include Rysk V12, Hegic, Deri V4, and 3 more. These peer protocols collectively secure $85.6M in deposits, giving you a frame of reference for whether Pods Finance's own TVL is at the top, middle, or tail of the category.

Rysk V12

TVL $62.6M · 24h +4.61%

Hegic

TVL $9.8M · 24h -0.02%

Deri V4

TVL $7.8M · 24h +0.27%

Hypersurface

TVL $2.7M · 24h +3.58%

GammaSwap Open Interest

TVL $1.4M · 24h +0.51%

Jasper Vault

TVL $1.3M · 24h -0.03%