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This weekly report summarizes BTC and ETH spot, perpetual funding, and options conditions during a volatile period. It describes both assets giving back much of a weekend advance, short-tenor implied volatility rising, and volatility term structures…
This brief market-flow commentary examines how option selling may affect Bitcoin volatility around a consumer-price release. It reports that traders favored low-premium speculative positions, while a large seller repeatedly offered March calls during spot…
The article explains how BUIDL works on Deribit as a tokenized fund backed by short-term US Treasuries and overnight repo. Its token is designed to stay near one dollar, while investment returns are distributed to holders. On Deribit, rewards are based on…
This market note links Bitcoin’s near-term outlook to shifting macro conditions and corporate treasury demand. It describes possible support from expectations of easier monetary policy, alongside risks from equity-driven deleveraging, slower institutional…
The document explains an option’s price as intrinsic value plus extrinsic value. Intrinsic value measures how far an option is in the money: for a call, it is the underlying price minus the strike; for a put, it is the strike minus the underlying price.…
This market commentary links weak crypto performance and muted activity to broader market anxiety, thin liquidity, and uncertainty around the US election. It reviews historical S&P 500 drawdowns after rate-cut cycles, reporting an average first-year drawdown…
The article presents a defined-risk bear call spread for a view that Bitcoin may struggle to advance above a resistance area and could move sideways or lower. The example sells an August 30 call at a $65,000 strike and buys a call at $65,500, collecting a…
This commentary reviews a crypto sell-off associated with tariff news, including a reported wave of liquidations and a sharp V-shaped reversal. It compares realized and implied volatility in BTC and ETH, noting a particularly large move in ETH realized…
This market commentary links rising downside concern in BTC and ETH to weakening prices, macroeconomic uncertainty, and renewed demand for puts. It reports falling realized and short-term implied volatility before a sell-off, followed by a rise in put skew…
This tutorial explains how option value separates into intrinsic and extrinsic components, then focuses on implied volatility as a function of strike and expiry. Because market volatility varies across the surface, a single constant-volatility Black–Scholes…
This weekly market recap describes how the FTX collapse shaped BTC and ETH derivatives. Annualized futures yields remained below zero for both assets, while BTC at-the-money implied volatility rose gradually from post-collapse levels and ETH volatility…
This short options-flow commentary describes reported Bitcoin call activity ahead of US–China trade details. It notes buying in June-to-September call spreads and 1-by-2 call spreads, concentrated around strikes from $110,000 to $120,000, alongside sales of…
The article uses an ETH liquidation heatmap to identify price areas where leveraged positions may be forced to close. It describes a pool near $1,975 that was partly reached on July 2 and a remaining concentration that later joined a higher pool, forming a…
This commentary interprets a November 28, 2023 snapshot of at-the-money implied volatility term structures and SABR smile skew for Bitcoin and Ethereum. Both assets show a rise in implied volatility beginning around the 60-day tenor, near the late-January…
The notice describes changes to contract size, minimum order size, and tick size for Deribit’s Linear USDC perpetual markets, scheduled for 18 August 2026. It lists affected markets and old and new parameters. Several markets receive smaller contract and…
The article examines Bitcoin’s potential role in diversified portfolios as institutional participation grows. Its central portfolio argument is that assets with low correlations can reduce combined volatility, while correlations may rise during market…
The document explains how USDC collateral changes the experience of trading linear perpetual futures compared with BTC-collateralized inverse contracts. Both contract types can produce the same dollar profit or loss for equivalent BTC exposure, but settle…
This weekly report compares BTC and ETH derivatives during a rally associated with improved sentiment around traditional financial institutions entering crypto. It highlights a divergence: both spot assets rose, but BTC options carried higher implied…
This weekly report tracks BTC and ETH derivatives after both spot markets retreated from local highs. It interprets the move as a familiar reduction in leveraged long exposure: futures yields and perpetual funding fell, while options skew shifted toward…
This analysis interprets a crypto downturn through two historical comparisons: the dot-com collapse and the 1990s rate-hiking cycle. It describes how institutional failures and asset liquidations can trigger further selling, damage confidence, and transmit…
This podcast discussion examines why gold and silver rose sharply while crypto stayed range-bound, and considers macro liquidity, geopolitical developments, and possible US government shutdown effects on crypto legislation. The speakers compare gold with…
This weekly market review uses spot moves, implied volatility, skew, term structure, open interest, and reported options flows to assess Bitcoin and Ether positioning around repeated tests of Bitcoin’s $25,000 area. It describes short-dated BTC calls moving…
This tutorial explains how an exchange price ladder supports rapid order entry by placing or canceling orders directly at displayed price levels. It describes the layout: market bids and asks, the trader’s own orders, the selected instrument, order settings,…
This market update interprets Bitcoin and Ether price action, volatility, skew, and options flows ahead of the US election. It links Bitcoin’s rise toward $69,000 to seasonal strength and ETF demand, while noting that a strong US dollar may be limiting…