{"id":32251,"date":"2020-11-24T09:45:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T07:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=32251"},"modified":"2025-08-28T07:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:45:10","slug":"open-interest-in-bitcoin-and-ethereum-options-hits-all-time-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/open-interest-in-bitcoin-and-ethereum-options-hits-all-time-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Open interest in Bitcoin and Ethereum options hits all-time high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Total open interest (OI) in Bitcoin options rose over the week by 25% \u2014 from $3.4 billion to $4.53 billion.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As shown in the chart below, the largest share of open interest is on the Deribit exchange.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_117449\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117449\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117449\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-362.png\" alt=\"Open interest in Bitcoin and Ethereum options hits all-time high\" width=\"1200\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-362.png 1200w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-362-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-362-1024x572.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-362-768x429.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-117449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data: skew.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Over the week, open interest in Ethereum options rose by $221.09 million (39.5%). The metric reached $780.05 million, which is also an all-time high.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_117450\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117450\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-340.png\" alt=\"Open interest in Bitcoin and Ethereum options hits all-time high\" width=\"1200\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-340.png 1200w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-340-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-340-1024x572.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-340-768x429.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-117450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data: skew.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bitcoin futures open interest on November 23 also updated a historical maximum at $7.1 billion.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_117451\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117451\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117451\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-203.png\" alt=\"Open interest in Bitcoin and Ethereum options hits all-time high\" width=\"1200\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-203.png 1200w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-203-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-203-1024x572.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-203-768x429.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-117451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data: skew.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Total daily trading volume of Bitcoin futures remains at $30 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, open interest in Bitcoin futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/cme-bitcoin-futures-open-interest-nears-1-billion\">approached<\/a> $1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forkloglive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog FEED<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aggregate open interest (OI) in Bitcoin options rose over the week by 25% from $3.4 billion to $4.53 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1168],"class_list":["post-32251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crypto-derivatives"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32253,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32251\/revisions\/32253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}