Options linked to BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF rise to almost 50% of Deribit’s BTC Open Interest in two months
The government’s demand for regulated crypto products is real. The US SEC-approved options linked to BlackRock’s spot bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (IBIT), which debuted on November 19, are already nearly half the size of Deribit’s eight-year-old bitcoin options market. On Monday, there were 2.16 million open or active IBIT option contracts, representing a notional value […]









