ResearchPrototype

Independent market-formation observatory

Track how new markets come into being.

Follow attempts to make illiquid assets, scarce resources, and ideas legible, financeable, and genuinely tradeable—from first standard to final settlement.

Version 0.18 sample marketsIllustrative readiness

Prototype observatory

Market formation index

IndexMarketCategoryReadinessStage
01
Builder-deployed marketsPermissionless creation of synthetic exposuresConstraint: Regulated access and real-asset clearing
New venues78Live
02
Tokenized public equitiesPortable digital claims on listed sharesConstraint: Legal ownership and registry integration
Real assets72Live
03
GPU compute contractsForward access to scarce computing capacityConstraint: Standard units, delivery, and benchmark quality
Compute & data66Emerging
04
Private SaaS secondariesContinuous reference pricing for private sharesConstraint: Disclosure, transfer restrictions, and fragmented supply
Private assets58Emerging
05
Tokenized real estateFractional ownership and secondary liquidityConstraint: Trust, servicing, securities law, and local title
Real assets54Emerging
06
Synthesized exotic optionsCustom payoffs assembled from clearable primitivesConstraint: Reliable marks, hedging cost, and legal wrapper
Derivatives46Proposed
07
Research and thesis marketsFinanceable research with contributor attributionConstraint: Validation quality and non-speculative incentives
Knowledge36Proposed
08
Instant FX settlementAtomic movement of currency and ownershipConstraint: Netting economics, legal finality, and adoption chains
Settlement34Proposed

Prototype only: readiness scores and stages are illustrative, not investment assessments.

Formation stack

A market is more than a listing.

01

Legibility

Can the asset, claim, or resource be understood and measured?

02

Standardisation

Can many participants trade identical or offsettable units?

03

Trust

Are disclosure, validation, and ownership credible?

04

Price discovery

Can participants form a reliable, observable mark?

05

Liquidity

Can buyers and sellers enter, exit, and size positions?

06

Clearing

Can risk be margined, netted, and mutualised safely?

07

Settlement

Can cash and ownership move with reliable finality?

08

Regulation

Who may issue, access, operate, and enforce the market?