Question 1

Does holding STF mean that I hold a DNT option?

Accepted Answer

No. STF is the platform's official token, whereas DNT is an option-product token with price barriers and a maturity date. Holding STF by itself does not establish a DNT position, and DNT's maturity payoff rules do not apply to it.

Question 2

Must DNT touch both the upper and lower barriers to expire worthless?

Accepted Answer

No. Under the whitepaper design, touching either barrier before maturity causes the DNT token price to fall to zero. Its profit condition is met only if neither barrier is touched throughout the term.

Question 3

When a DNT round matures, do its original terms continue automatically?

Accepted Answer

They do not continue indefinitely under the prior cycle. The whitepaper states that DNT is valid only for a limited term; when that term ends, the token price is reset and a new cycle begins. The prior round's conditions therefore cannot simply be treated as the next round's conditions.

Question 4

How does the Structure Finance whitepaper combine options in a straddle strategy?

Accepted Answer

The whitepaper describes a long straddle as buying both a call and a put on the same underlying asset, with the same strike price and expiration date.

Question 5

Can a long straddle profit from any price movement?

Accepted Answer

No. According to the whitepaper, the underlying asset's move up or down relative to the strike price must exceed the total premium paid. Either direction may work, but a move too small to cover that cost is not sufficient to establish a profit.

Question 6

What platform fees or products can STF be used to pay for?

Accepted Answer

The website's Platform Currency design lists paying trading fees and purchasing option products with STF. That section is marked COMING SOON, so these are planned uses and do not by themselves show that the payment function has been implemented.

Question 7

Where would trading fees go under STF's platform-payment design?

Accepted Answer

Under the website's design, which is marked COMING SOON, trading fees would enter a reserve fund, with decentralized governance deciding how that fund is used. The design does not specify that fees are automatically distributed to every STF holder.

Question 8

What would STF holders be allowed to decide under the governance plan?

Accepted Answer

The plan calls for holders to make proposals and vote on supported assets, protocol integrations, fees, and uses of the reserve fund. The website labels the governance section COMING SOON, so this does not establish that the voting mechanism has already been implemented.

Question 9

Why does the platform plan to reward asset deposits with STF?

Accepted Answer

The stated purpose is to attract initial liquidity, which is important for pricing option products, while encouraging users to deposit assets through STF rewards. This describes an incentive design, not a promise of a fixed return or of automatic rewards merely for holding STF.

Question 10

Did the 100 million STF total supply mean that all tokens circulated at listing?

Accepted Answer

No. The third-party platform's listing material dated November 11, 2021 lists a total STF supply of 100,000,000 and a circulating supply at listing of 8,090,000. Total supply and circulating supply are different measures, and that historical listing figure is not a current circulating-supply figure.

Question 11

How does the whitepaper plan for users to create structured products themselves?

Accepted Answer

The whitepaper plans interfaces to major DeFi protocols and a drag-and-drop interface for composing structured products; token holders would vote on which products receive liquidity. This is a product-orchestration plan, not a guarantee that every user-created product receives funding.

Question 12

Where does the plan obtain external price data for structured products?

Accepted Answer

The website plans first to use decentralized oracles for external price data. It separately conditions the use of offchain workers to obtain external data on the Substrate ecosystem becoming more mature. These are staged, conditional technical arrangements, not features that should be represented as deployed.

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