Around 48,600 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, August 1, and they have a notional value of roughly $5.7 billion. This one is around half of last week’s large end-of-quarter expiry event, so it is unlikely to be enough to influence spot markets, which have started to tank in the wake of Donald Trump’s […]
Around 103,500 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, July 25, and they have a notional value of roughly $12.6 billion. This one is much larger than last week’s expiry, being an end-of-month event, but unlikely to be enough to influence spot markets, which have been on the back foot for most of the week. […]
Around 41,500 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, July 18, and they have a notional value of roughly $5 billion. This event is larger than last week’s expiry but unlikely to be enough to influence spot markets, which have been performing solidly this week. ‘Crypto Week’ in the United States has been chaotic, but the […]
Around 36,800 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, July 11, and they have a notional value of roughly $4 billion. This event is larger than last week’s expiry but unlikely to be enough to influence spot markets, which have performed better towards the end of the week. US President Trump’s tariff deadline came and […]
Around 27,300 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, July 4, and they have a notional value of roughly $3 billion. This event is much smaller than last week’s end of month and end of the second quarter, so there is unlikely to be any impact on spot markets. They have ticked up towards the […]
Around 140,000 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, June 27, and they have a notional value of roughly $15 billion. This event is a big one, being the end of the month and end of the second quarter, so there could be an impact on spot markets. They have been recovering since Monday’s crash, […]
BlackRock’s industry-leading USD Institutional Digital Fund (BUIDL) will become accepted as collateral on Crypto.com and Deribit, two of the industry’s largest exchanges. The move marks a “major turning point,” said Michael Sonnenshein, COO at Securitize, as it provides another option for collateral provision, reported Forbes on June 18. BUIDL is BlackRock’s first Ethereum-based tokenized money […]
Around 34,000 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, June 20, and they have a notional value of roughly $3.3 billion. This event is slightly larger than last week’s options expiry, but the impact on spot markets is likely to be minimal. They have been on the back foot all week, losing $30B since Monday, […]
Around 28,000 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, June 13, and they have a notional value of roughly $3 billion. This event is very similar to last week’s options expiry, so the impact on spot markets is likely to be minimal. They have already tanked by more than 7% over the past 24 hours. […]
Around 30,700 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, June 6, and they have a notional value of roughly $3.2 billion. This week’s event is much smaller than last week’s end-of-month expiry, so the impact on spot markets is likely to be minimal. They have already tanked by $150 billion over the past twelve hours. […]