What erupts

When an option moves deep enough into the money, there is profit trapped inside it — the gap between the strike you'd pay and the price the underlying now commands. Eruption reaches in and pulls that gap out in a single move, with no capital of your own at risk. It is the fire finding the fastest path to the surface: borrow, exercise, sell, repay, keep what's left.

• ▸ITM — the option must be in the money; there is no spread to take otherwise.
• ▸Zero capital — the strike is flash-borrowed, not funded from your wallet.
• ▸One transaction — every step settles together or none of it happens.
• ▸Profit only — you walk away with the spread, never a debt.

The chain, sealed in one breath

Inside a single atomic transaction the protocol flash-borrows the strike from the Mantle pools, exercises the option to claim the underlying, sells that underlying at market, and repays the loan plus fee from the proceeds. What remains after the loan is closed is yours. Because it is atomic, the loan is repaid in the same breath it was taken — the borrow can never outlive the trade.

• ▸flash-borrow strike from Mantle
• ▸exercise the option, claim the underlying
• ▸sell the underlying at market
• ▸repay the loan + fee
• ▸keep the remaining spread

It only fires when it pays

Eruption will not erupt at a loss. The transaction carries its own check: if the in-the-money spread does not cover the flash-loan fee and gas, the whole thing reverts and nothing moves. You are never exposed to a half-finished trade, a stranded loan, or a position you didn't ask for. The fire stays contained in the glass until the moment it's certain to clear — human or machine pulling the trigger, the rule is the same.

Where it lives

Eruption sits on every in-the-money position in the Book — wherever an option is ripe, the eruption button is live. One signed transaction does the rest; the spread lands in your wallet and the loan never existed. Agents wield it the same way humans do: read the spread, fire when it clears, answer to no one.