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Bitcoin’s $4.2B October Options Expiry May Increase Short-Term Volatility

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Crypto options market has grown multi-fold in the past four years, with contracts worth billions of dollars expiring every month and quarter. That said, its still relatively small compared to the spot market. According to Glassnode, as of Friday’s data, the spot volume was approximately $8.2 billion, while options volume was roughly $1.8 billion. In addition, BTC’s open interest of $4.2 billion due to expire this Friday is less than 1% of BTC’s market cap of $1.36 trillion.

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