CDS
Planned. There is no wire surface, and nothing to build against. The contract specification — reference events, premium schedule, collateralization, settlement and the resolution design — is not finalized. This page states intent only, and will be replaced with mechanics when the design ships behind a MIP.
A credit default swap is a contract in which a protection buyer pays a periodic premium to a protection seller, and the seller compensates the buyer if a defined credit event occurs on a reference entity. It is insurance against a credit event.
The intent on MetaFlux is an on-chain protection market that reuses the platform's primitives: the order book for price discovery on premiums, agent wallets for signing, and the margin and liquidation stack for collateralizing the seller's obligation.
The open problem is resolution — how a credit event is defined and settled on-chain, including the oracle, the time windows and dispute handling. That is the same problem the deferred MIP-6 prediction-market proposal must solve, and it is why on-chain credit products are rare.
See also
- Perpetuals — the live leveraged-derivatives market today
- MIP-6 — the shared on-chain resolution problem
- Improvement proposals — where a new market type is specified