We are proud to share that Subzero Labs (Rialo) has been featured in the CBOE Innovation Spotlight, a recognition that reflects not just a milestone for our team, but a meaningful signal about where institutional finance and onchain infrastructure are heading.
CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange) is one of the world's largest derivatives and securities exchanges, processing 3.8 billion options contracts annually and powering over $45 billion in daily FX volume. These are not abstract numbers. They represent the backbone of global financial markets, the infrastructure that professional traders, institutional desks, and market makers rely on every single day.
Bringing Institutional Data Onchain
We are integrating CBOE's high-fidelity market data directly into Rialo, making institutional-grade financial data a native part of our infrastructure. This means developers building on Rialo will have access to the same quality of market data that powers institutional trading floors. Not approximations, not third-party aggregations, but the real thing, available natively within their onchain applications.
This matters because data quality is foundational. A financial application is only as good as the data it runs on. Too many onchain financial products today are constrained by the limitations of the data available to them: stale feeds, unreliable oracles, or custom pipelines that are expensive to build and maintain. With CBOE market data integrated at the infrastructure level, that constraint goes away.
What This Means for Developers on Rialo
Our goal has always been to make Rialo the most serious platform for developers building financial applications onchain. Serious infrastructure means removing the friction between a developer's idea and a production-grade application. It means not asking developers to stitch together data providers, manage third-party dependencies, or compromise on data fidelity because better options weren't accessible.
With market data from CBOE provided natively, developers on Rialo can build sophisticated, data-rich applications: options pricing tools, FX-aware products, derivatives platforms, portfolio analytics, without reinventing the wheel on the data layer. Rialo handles the infrastructure so developers can focus entirely on building world-class apps.
This is what it means to build neofinance infrastructure seriously.
Looking Ahead
The CBOE spotlight is one step in a broader vision: creating an onchain environment where the data, tooling, and performance that institutional markets depend on are available to any developer, anywhere. We believe the next generation of financial applications will be built onchain, and we're building the foundation to make that possible.
Read the full CBOE Innovation Spotlight here.