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Spooky Szn? Bitcoin Options Worth Record $31 Billion Set to Expire on Halloween
Yahoo Finance·2025-10-25 03:06

There’s roughly 31billionworthofBitcoinoptionssettoexpireonHalloweennextweek.Thatsarecordhighmonthlyexpiry,beatinglastmonths31 billion worth of Bitcoin options set to expire on Halloween next week. That’s a record-high monthly expiry, beating last month’s 18 billion by a wide margin, despite the record-setting liquidation event that followed the Oct. 10 flash crash when 19billioninleveragedpositionswerewipedout.Thateventerasedroughly19 billion in leveraged positions were wiped out. “That event erased roughly 7 billion in BTC options open interest, bringing total open interest down from about 38billiontonear38 billion to near 31 billion, the sharpest weekly contraction since June,” B ...