How do smart money make profits in 2026 ? hint: is not perps trading, is not memes, is something "smart" called options: I`ll cut into straight into the subject so we dont waste time: What if you wanted to buy or sell an asset but instead of placing limit/market orders on a cex instead you place an option and you get a "premium" upfront in usdc/t for creating it. Let me show you directly in a few easy steps: you get in here and you see there are 2 options: covered calls and cash secured puts. let me explain them fast Covered calls is where you can sell the selected assets at a future price IF the option you create hit that specific price. Lets say you want to sell 1 $BTC at 72.000$ so you go there and create a covered call option and as you can see bellow for 1 $BTC you get upfront 1351.27 USDT in your wallet when u sign the call. So what happens next, if $BTC is bellow 72k by 13th February you get back 1 btc, if is above your BTC get sold and you get 72k USDC. In both situations you keep the upfront 1351.27$ which you can use at your own will. So here you can sell assets at a higher price and get rewarded while waiting. Lets see how we play the covered secured puts. Here we use stablecoins and is what I mainly use to buy assets at predermined prices as seen bellow. Lets say you want to buy $HYPE right now but instead of going into the market you instead sell a covered put for 13th of February maturity at $31 for 134800 usdc. Translation: You deposited that USDC and if HYPE goes bellow 31 you get 4300 hype. If price stays above that price you get your USDC back. In both situation you get upfront (when you sign the tx) of 3519.66$. All you need to do is wait those 6 days. This is a very simple clean strategy to earn income on your stablecoins which is 10-12x higher than what @aave is offering, with a bit of risk ofc but if you anyway intented to buy those assets you get them + a premium which lowers your average. Tips: You need stablecoins on HypeEVM and easiest route is to send from @arbitrum directly on , there you hit deposit and send your stablecoin from arbitrum into HL. Buy a bit of $HYPE and transfer it to hypeEVM so you have for fees ( 1-2$ worth). After you have your stablecoins or other assets into you hyperliquid account you hit Withdraw and send them to hypeEVM and can use them on to write options. Is heard that even an airdrop is possible in the future so I would write some, even small ones for that porpuse alone, lets not forget how good was the $HYPE airdrop. A bit of extra info about the creators of @ryskfinance : I want to thank to @kirbyongeo who introduced me to this dapp. I hope I gave you guys a great way to earn some extra income which is not small at all in this difficult period. Any questions drop them in comments. NFA and please DYOR.