What the capital we read is exposed to outside crypto. Held instruments, stablecoin reserves, and the part we have not classified — as separate figures, because they answer different questions.
These are never added together. A tokenised Treasury bill is a claim on a named instrument; a USDC balance is a claim on a stablecoin whose issuer says it holds bills, at a size the issuer chooses and reports on its own schedule. One headline covering both would overstate the named position roughly thirty-fold.
Exposure
Named instruments are a thin slice on purpose: showing them alone would make a rounding error look like a sector.
Synthetic
Open positions on Ostium, 1,000 of them — the page filled, so this is a floor. Crypto on the same venue ($475.6k) is excluded: this is a picture of real-world exposure, not of a venue.
Notional on each side. A class that is almost entirely one way is a crowd, and a crowd unwinds together.
| Class | Long | Short | Trades | Tilt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indices | $662.9k | $6.27M | 264 | 10% long |
| forex | $2.39M | $2.47M | 99 | 49% long |
| commodities | $3.04M | $113.4k | 319 | 96% long |
| stocks | $1.73M | $15.7k | 145 | 99% long |
| etf | $133.8k | $59.9k | 41 | 69% long |
No open interest figure. The pair-level longOI/shortOI reconcile with neither 1e6 nor 1e18 against the summed notional of that pair’s open trades — BTC reads 2.02 at 1e18 where its open positions total tens of thousands of dollars — so the field is denominated in the base asset rather than dollars. Published as null rather than under a divisor we guessed.
Synthetic · Avantis
120 pairs. Crypto on the same venue ($7.24M) is excluded, as on Ostium. Open interest as the venue reports it, already in USD. Ostium’s comparable figure is summed notional over a capped sample and is a floor; these are not the same measurement and are not added together.
The venue caps exposure per class. A class near its cap is not a class without demand — it is one that cannot take more, which reads identically in an open-interest figure and does not mean the same thing.
| Class | Open interest | Cap | Used | Pairs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| forex | $7.06M | $15.86M | 45% | 18 |
| crypto1crypto | $6.84M | $16.92M | 40% | 9 |
| equities | $2.51M | $10.58M | 24% | 28 |
| commodities | $2.20M | $10.58M | 21% | 5 |
| crypto2crypto | $242.9k |
An on-chain reading settles what a vault holds. It does not settle that the gold, the bill or the loan book behind it exists, or that redemption works at the price shown — those are the issuer’s claims, and they are labelled as such.
| Vault | Instrument | Capital | The issuer says it is | How sure we are |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| thBILL | $66.48M | Short-dated US Treasury bills | symbol only, unverified | |
Tether Gold | $6.63M | Bridged Tether Gold | symbol only, unverified | |
| $4.31M |
The underlying is read but not in the registry. It may be RWA and we have not established it — counting these as "not RWA" would make our coverage look complete by discarding the question.
Separately, $2.20B is ether, bitcoin, chain tokens and staking receipts. Nobody is uncertain whether those are Treasury bills, so they are not in the figure above.
What we read at all: the perimeter. Synthetic exposure — perpetuals on equities, commodities and FX — is not indexed yet, and is the next venue step rather than a gap in this page.
| $7.93M |
| 3% |
| 25 |
| crypto4crypto | $141.3k | $2.12M | 7% | 22 |
| crypto3crypto | $17.7k | $1.32M | 1% | 13 |
| A bond product; the underlying is not established from chain data |
| symbol only, unverified |
| Analyst | $1.57M | A global equity index | symbol only, unverified |
| Analyst | YieldNest | $1.45M | An index of tokenised real-world assets — exposure through a wrapper, not to a named instrument | symbol only, unverified |
| Analyst | $468.6k | Gold | symbol only, unverified |
| Analyst | Tether Gold | $374.7k | One troy ounce of gold per token, held in Switzerland | contract recognised |
| Analyst | Paxos | $233.3k | One fine troy ounce of London Good Delivery gold per token | contract recognised |
3 of 8 shown in full. 5 more are listed with the name withheld. A plan opens every holding of a named real-world instrument, its issuer, what the issuer says it represents, and whether we recognise the contract or only its symbol. The count is free because the count is the finding; the detail is what Analyst carries.