#deribit

Bitcoin Slides Toward $58,000 As ETF Outflows And Options Expiry Add Pressure

Bitcoin fell toward $58,000 as spot ETF outflows, a $10B Deribit options expiry and broad crypto liquidations hit market sentiment.

Bitcoin’s latest pullback was not driven by a single headline. Instead, traders were hit by a cluster of pressure points at the same time: weakness in global technology stocks, another heavy day of spot Bitcoin ETF redemptions, a sharp leverage flush, and a large monthly options expiry that kept the market focused on downside strike levels. TL;DR Bitcoin fell toward the $58,000 area as risk…

Anchorage: Bitcoin Options Traders Brace for Volatility

Bitcoin dropped below $60,000 by mid-June after a punishing start to the month, but the figure drawing the most attention across trading desks is the June 26 Bitcoin options expiry, with over $10 billion of contracts set to expire and roughly 80% currently sitting out of the money. Chart showing the open interest for Bitcoin options on Deribit by expiry date on June 18, 2026 (Source:…

BTC Holds $78K as Trump Pushes the CLARITY Act Amid Bank Pushback and IBIT Options OI Tops Deribit in Institutional Shift

Bitcoin’s options market is large, liquid, and (at the moment) unusually concentrated. Total open interest stands near $55.76 billion, with Deribit carrying $46.24 billion of that stack, far ahead of CME at $4.50 billion, OKX at $3.17 billion, Bybit at $1.29 billion, and Binance at $558.42 million, while spot trades in the $92,479.90 area. The curve tilts toward a single settlement date, Dec. 26,…

A week ago, CoinDesk highlighted a bearish shift in the BTC options market, with the $85,000 put overtaking the $140,000 call as the most popular bet on crypto exchange Deribit. Now, the $80,000 put has taken the lead, boasting an open interest of just over $2 billion, while the $85,000 put ranks second with $1.97 billion in open interest. Meanwhile, the $140,000 call’s open interest has dropped…

Every few months, headlines warn of a looming multi-billion-dollar options expiry poised to shake Bitcoin price. This quarter’s figure, roughly $13 billion in notional contracts, sounds dramatic, yet it’s part of a well-worn pattern on Deribit, the exchange that clears nearly 90% of Bitcoin’s options open interest. The real story isn’t the size of the expiry, but the rhythm of how volatility is…