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Deribit is a cryptocurrency exchange offering Bitcoin and Ether options and futures, a leading venue for crypto derivatives trading volume.
Net outflows from U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs reached $681 million last week, according to SoSoValue, their highest since June. Small tokens rallied through it, and CoinDesk research says their order books are still thinning.
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Traders hold 25,030.6 BTC of $95,000 bitcoin calls expiring Oct. 30 on Deribit, about $2.07 billion in notional. Max pain for that expiry sits near $78,000, and since both figures come from the same contracts, the gap depends on whether the calls were bought outright or sold by holders.
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Bitcoin has logged 10 three-sigma days in 2026, more than in all of 2018, while its annualized volatility fell to about 46% from 84%, a CoinDesk analysis found. Risk models that lean on recent prices read that calm as lower risk and can approve bigger bitcoin positions than the tail record supports.
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Bitcoin climbed back to about $82,500 after Trump said the U.S. would not attack Iran before the Nov. 3 midterms, still about 4% down on the week. Futures open interest barely moved on the way up, so traders bought the bounce without taking on fresh leverage.
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Coinbase will relaunch Pro by the end of 2026 inside a Global Exchange built on Deribit, the derivatives venue it bought for about $2.9 billion. Whether that pays depends on high-volume traders joining one regulated pool while access is still opening region by region.
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Coinbase opened a CFTC-regulated route for US institutions into Deribit, the $2.9 billion exchange it bought, with Prime options trading due within weeks. Desks that kept offshore entities to reach that market can now use a domestic broker instead.
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Crypto liquidations rose 235% to $547 million after Iran's tanker attacks pushed Brent above $101, yet futures open interest slipped only 1%. Leverage was already thin, so the selling moved token prices far more than it cleared out positions.
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Bitcoin open interest rose $1.5 billion to $22.4 billion as the price climbed 3.4% past $86,000 before a US jobs report forecast at 90,000. Funding costs show the leverage plainly, but the claim that traders are leaving stablecoins rests on a market-share figure that any rally pushes down.
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Derive will move its options exchange onto Ethereum on October 6 pending a vote, carrying about $2 billion of an estimated $40 billion in open interest. The V3 rebuild bets that outside apps will plug into its engine and carry Derive's growth against Deribit.
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Robinhood said eligible US customers will trade eight crypto perpetual futures in its app within months, with up to 10x leverage on bitcoin and ether. The product brings leverage US retail traders mostly found on offshore exchanges into a mainstream American brokerage.
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BlackRock's fund is back at roughly $2.8bn, but the pool it leads has grown to $15bn to $16bn. A share that once ran 40% to 46% is now closer to 18%. The title has changed hands twice inside a year.
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The record trade carried $45,220 of premium, about 0.29% of notional, and Paradex says that beat Deribit on cost. The figure is the price of the options, so it moves with strike and expiry.
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A one-tenth-point inflation overshoot took roughly 3.7% off Bitcoin in hours. Four more triggers land before Friday's $6.4 billion options settlement.
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