Every trade in Deribit's coin-settled bitcoin and ether options that our hourly pull received, added up per day: notional, trade count, share of puts.
$442.0M BTC notional of all trades on Oct-25 2026, the last day in this build, measured and published by askthetape.com.
Options trade one by one, and each trade says what it was: a put or a call, how big, at what price. We keep every trade since Jul-06 2026; the days before that come from Deribit's own public archive of option trades, which reaches back to Nov-29 2016 for bitcoin and Mar-21 2019 for ether. Each day shows the notional in dollars (contracts × the index price), the number of trades and how many of them were puts, the bets that pay when price falls. From Jul-06 2026 a day closes at our 23:26 UTC pull; the archive days are UTC days. Options settled in USDC are not in these lines, so the count is a floor of Deribit's whole book. Inside the day the Tape windows draw a different number: only trades with at least $250K of premium, summed as premium (what the buyer paid), not the notional of every trade that the daily bars add up, next to a count of every trade our live feed heard.
| leg | own hourly pull of Deribit's public trade history · notional = contracts × index price · coin-settled books only: options settled in USDC are not included |
|---|---|
| cadence | every trade, pulled each hour at :26 UTC and summed per day; a day closes at our 23:26 UTC pull |
| since | 2016-11-29 |
| seam | Deribit's public trade archive → own capture since 2026-07-06 |
| archive days | before 2026-07-06 each day is the UTC day of Deribit's public trade history (every trade by its own timestamp): BTC from 2016-11-29, ETH from 2019-03-21 |
| Tape windows | the 1h, 5m and 1m windows (Tape) draw our own live feed of Deribit's option trades, not the measure of the daily bars: the dollar line is the PREMIUM (contracts × price × index price) of trades whose premium was at least $250K — our own cut, not Deribit's block trades — and the count is every trade the feed heard, of any size; closed buckets only. On Oct-25 2026 (UTC) our live feed heard 2,785 BTC option trades; 0 of them had $250K or more of premium, $0 of premium in all (ETH: 0 of 2,117, $0). The daily bar of Oct-25 2026 adds up $441,963,434 of notional across 2,805 trades. |
| history | This series starts on Nov-29 2016: it is our own capture of the options tape from Jul-06 2026 and Deribit's own public trade archive before that; Deribit publishes no earlier history. |
| this build | data to Oct-25 2026 |
| policy | no backfill · read it here · export: from 2026-07-06 (rows before that day are the exchange's own archive and stay here) |
The chart itself is drawn in the browser: turn JavaScript on to hover a day, pick a window and draw your line. The numbers above come from the last build, Oct-26 2026 08:25Z.
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