Every Zipp story tagged #Options, newest first.
The put-call ratio split tells the actual story: ETH traders opened more puts than calls, while BTC positioning stayed almost evenly balanced ahead of Friday's expiry.
Weak US jobs data handed bulls the catalyst, but options desks are still paying for downside puts, leaving the $66K to $68K zone set up as the rally's first real test.
The IV Moneyness Heatmap shows depressed implieds across strikes, but put-side demand is fading while calls hold steady, the first quiet sign of returning optimism in BTC derivatives.
Weak US jobs data pulled BTC back above $62K into the July 4 weekend, but a large Deribit call condor and an elevated 25-delta put skew at 16% keep the rebound boxed in below $68K.
The product lands the same week the SEC weighs an innovation exemption for tokenized equities, and the launch is silent on which model the new options actually trade under.
Deribit's own CCO calls vol cheap but not at fire-sale levels, with the June 26 book loaded net-long in-the-money puts and out-of-the-money calls heading into a quarter-end reset.
With $10B of Bitcoin options set to expire June 26 and 80% out of the money, derivatives are now setting spot prices — and the same shift is reshaping equities, prediction markets, and tokenized…
With only 20% of the June 26 expiry currently profitable and max pain sitting 14% above spot, the largest expiry on the calendar is shaping up as a volatility catalyst either way.
Bitcoin has bounced and is now pressing back into a dense cluster of options positioning near the $65,000 strike level…
The proposal swaps collateralized debt positions for option-funded exposure, leaning on slow oracles — a structural rewrite of the DeFi liquidation model that has defined every major crash since 2022.
Premium paid versus premium received gives a cleaner read on sentiment than raw options volume — call buyers chasing upside and put sellers underwriting risk tell different stories about the regime.
The pin sits between a $75K put wall and an $80K call wall ahead of the May 29 Deribit expiry, with 15% of BTC supply already crowded into the $74K–$83K range.
Deribit's bitcoin open interest has overtaken BlackRock's IBIT in notional terms, and the $80K strike already holds $532M in calls — the market is positioning for a breakout, but max pain at $75K…
BTC's drop below $80K flushed $535M in shorts and cooled $2.6B in open interest, yet front-end implied vol is repricing higher and put-skew is normalizing — derivatives traders are reading…
A decisive break above $80K is set to flip BTC's risk reversal positive — the first signal options markets have shifted from pricing fear of a drop to pricing demand for upside.
The put/call ratio is moving fast on BlackRock's spot BTC ETF — a sign that institutional desks are repositioning rather than waiting on the sidelines.
First time a US spot BTC ETF derivatives book has outgrown the offshore perps market — and the surge in dealer gamma could either crush or fuel the next BTC move.
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