Daily ETH options market report · 24-hour comparison
Ether options turn more call-rich at the one-month tenor
Ether one-month RR25 rose 1.22 volatility points to 2.03%, a notable shift toward relatively higher call-side volatility. One-week ATM IV rose 2.65 volatility points to 51.27%, a routine move, while the front-end ATM IV average increased 1.93 volatility points to 50.57%.
5 of 6 headline tenors were comparable at both endpoints. The largest ATM IV move was 1W at +2.65 volatility points, to 51.27%.
Derived directly from structured Derivasys surface data
03 · Catalyst check
20 Sept 2026, 18:42 UTC to 21 Sept 2026, 18:42 UTC
No relevant catalyst identified.
No qualifying context was found in the monitored news sources for this reporting window.
04 · Detailed analysis
What changed across the ETH volatility surface.
Front end
Front-end ATM IV increased, averaging +1.93 volatility points to 50.57% across 1W, 2W and 1M.
Long end
Six-month ATM IV was broadly unchanged at 54.89% (+0.45 volatility points); 1Y was unavailable.
Skew
RR25 moved towards calls, averaging +0.41 volatility points to 1.71% across the five available headline tenors.
Convexity
BF25 was broadly unchanged, averaging +0.10 volatility points to 3.15% across the five available headline tenors.
Largest standard-tenor move
The largest standard-tenor ATM IV move was +2.65 volatility points at 1W, to 51.27%.
Universe roll: no additions; removed 21SEP26. Comparisons use common expiries only.
05 · Standard-tenor ranking
Largest surface events
01
Largest eligible smile rotation
24SEP26, +7.00 vol pts02
Largest standard-tenor ATM IV move
1W, +2.65 vol pts03
Largest standard-tenor RR25 move
1M, +1.22 vol pts04
Largest standard-tenor BF25 move
3M, +0.22 vol pts05
Largest eligible SVI sigma move
25SEP26, +0.1062 param06
Largest eligible SVI rho move
27NOV26, +0.0866 param
06 · ATM volatility
Standard-tenor ATM implied volatility.
Tenor
Current (vol %)
Previous (vol %)
Change (vol pts)
Relative change
1W
51.27
48.62
+2.65 vol pts
+5.45%
2W
50.12
48.20
+1.92 vol pts
+3.98%
1M
50.31
49.10
+1.21 vol pts
+2.46%
3M
53.45
52.54
+0.91 vol pts
+1.73%
6M
54.89
54.44
+0.45 vol pts
+0.83%
9M
55.68
55.57
+0.11 vol pts
+0.20%
1Y
Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
07 · Risk reversals
RR25 skew moved most at 1M.
RR25 moved towards calls, averaging +0.41 volatility points to 1.71% across the five available headline tenors. Negative RR25 denotes a richer 25-delta put wing under the call-minus-put convention.
CurrentPrevious day
Tenor
Current (vol %)
Previous (vol %)
Change (vol pts)
1W
1.97
1.48
+0.49 vol pts
2W
2.05
1.69
+0.36 vol pts
1M
2.03
0.81
+1.22 vol pts
3M
0.87
0.91
-0.04 vol pts
6M
1.64
1.62
+0.02 vol pts
9M
1.80
1.96
-0.16 vol pts
1Y
Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
08 · Butterflies
BF25 convexity changed most at 3M.
BF25 was broadly unchanged, averaging +0.10 volatility points to 3.15% across the five available headline tenors. BF25 measures the average 25-delta wing premium over ATM IV.
CurrentPrevious day
Tenor
Current (vol %)
Previous (vol %)
Change (vol pts)
1W
3.11
2.98
+0.13 vol pts
2W
3.13
3.09
+0.04 vol pts
1M
2.85
2.83
+0.02 vol pts
3M
3.29
3.07
+0.22 vol pts
6M
3.36
3.28
+0.08 vol pts
9M
2.98
2.86
+0.12 vol pts
1Y
Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
09 · Expiry effects
Near-settlement moves, shown with context.
Contracts with fewer than 2 full days to expiry remain in the tables but are excluded from headline rankings. Settlement proximity, time decay, changing liquidity and fewer quotes can exaggerate their changes.
0.6d
Smile rotation
22SEP26, +28.68 vol pts1.6d
Smile rotation
23SEP26, +12.53 vol pts
10 · Volatility term structure
Today against the previous 24-hour snapshot.
Only fixed tenors bracketed by listed expiries at both snapshots are charted. The listed-expiry table preserves the observable exchange maturities underneath those interpolated points.
CurrentPrevious day
Suppressed outside the observable listed-expiry range: 1Y.
Expiry
Time left
Forward now (USD)
Forward change (USD)
ATM IV now
ATM IV change
RR25 change
BF25 change
22SEP26Expiry effect
0.6 days
2,748.5
+114.00 USD
48.11%
-0.25 vol pts
+5.34 vol pts
-0.50 vol pts
23SEP26Expiry effect
1.6 days
2,749.56
+114.56 USD
51.96%
+2.41 vol pts
+2.99 vol pts
-0.39 vol pts
24SEP26
2.6 days
2,750.27
+114.88 USD
53.16%
+3.27 vol pts
+2.08 vol pts
-0.28 vol pts
25SEP26
3.6 days
2,750.88
+114.80 USD
54.17%
+4.04 vol pts
+1.38 vol pts
-0.36 vol pts
2OCT26
10.6 days
2,752.45
+114.45 USD
50.23%
+2.75 vol pts
-0.22 vol pts
+0.24 vol pts
9OCT26
17.6 days
2,754.56
+115.28 USD
50.05%
+1.02 vol pts
+1.00 vol pts
-0.04 vol pts
30OCT26
38.6 days
2,761.27
+116.66 USD
50.39%
+1.26 vol pts
+1.31 vol pts
+0.05 vol pts
27NOV26
66.6 days
2,772.35
+117.93 USD
52.93%
+0.98 vol pts
-0.32 vol pts
-0.06 vol pts
25DEC26
94.6 days
2,783.19
+119.47 USD
53.50%
+0.88 vol pts
-0.01 vol pts
+0.25 vol pts
26MAR27
185.6 days
2,809.75
+120.49 USD
54.92%
+0.43 vol pts
+0.02 vol pts
+0.08 vol pts
25JUN27
276.6 days
2,835.61
+120.87 USD
55.70%
+0.09 vol pts
-0.17 vol pts
+0.13 vol pts
11 · Smile movement
Reconstructed SVI smiles for every common expiry.
Each overlay uses the stored five-parameter SVI fit and the snapshot-specific time to expiry. Ultra-short expiries are displayed but do not determine the headline ranking.
22SEP26rotation towards calls · wing steepening23SEP26rotation towards calls · wing steepening24SEP26rotation towards calls · wing steepening25SEP26rotation towards calls · wing flattening2OCT26parallel shift higher · rotation towards puts9OCT26rotation towards calls30OCT26rotation towards calls27NOV26parallel shift higher25DEC26parallel shift higher26MAR27parallel shift higher25JUN27parallel shift higher
Surface movement heatmap
Each cell is the fitted IV change in volatility points. Rows are listed expiries; columns run from the put wing through ATM to the call wing.
IV lowerIV higher
22SEP26
23SEP26
24SEP26
25SEP26
2OCT26
9OCT26
30OCT26
27NOV26
25DEC26
26MAR27
25JUN27
-0.30kATM+0.30k
12 · Technical appendix
Model parameters and normalized Greeks.
These diagnostics preserve the fitted-surface audit trail without competing with the main market story.
Show SVI parameter changes and normalized Greeks
SVI diagnostics
Daily movement in a, b, rho, m and sigma.
Among ranking-eligible expiries, the largest absolute rho change occurred at 27NOV26; the largest sigma change occurred at 25SEP26.
Expiry
Δ a
Δ b
Δ rho
Δ m
Δ sigma
Smile classification
22SEP26
+0.04220
-0.04870
+0.18840
+0.09170
-0.09420
rotation towards calls, wing steepening
23SEP26
-0.00290
-0.01380
+0.06190
+0.02900
+0.07710
rotation towards calls, wing steepening
24SEP26
+0.00640
-0.01890
+0.04000
+0.01400
+0.03400
rotation towards calls, wing steepening
25SEP26
-0.00730
-0.01400
+0.00760
-0.01450
+0.10620
rotation towards calls, wing flattening
2OCT26
+0.01610
-0.01230
+0.01990
+0.02390
-0.04560
parallel shift higher, rotation towards puts
9OCT26
+0.00880
-0.01020
+0.00640
-0.00600
-0.01150
rotation towards calls
30OCT26
+0.01140
-0.00850
+0.01660
-0.00810
-0.02590
rotation towards calls
27NOV26
+0.01890
-0.02390
+0.08660
+0.07640
-0.01880
parallel shift higher
25DEC26
+0.02310
-0.01140
+0.03250
+0.04640
-0.07000
parallel shift higher
26MAR27
-0.00480
+0.01990
-0.05950
-0.04840
-0.01360
parallel shift higher
25JUN27
+0.00520
-0.01160
+0.03610
+0.05690
-0.00260
parallel shift higher
Current surface characteristics
Where normalized model Greek intensity is highest.
These are comparable Black-forward Greeks for a one-ETH ATM-forward call at each listed expiry—not portfolio exposure, open interest or a prediction of dealer positioning.
ETH 30-day implied volatility was 3.3 times VIX, while its 30-session return correlation with SPX was low at 0.20.
Implied-volatility premium
ETH 30-day ATM IV was 48.50%, against VIX at 14.81: a 33.69-point spread and 3.27× ratio.
Realised-volatility regime
ETH 20-calendar-day realised volatility was 50.63%, versus SPX 20-session realised volatility of 9.38%. The spread ranked at 37.2 percentile of 234 prior observations.
Equity co-movement
Return correlation with SPX was 0.196 over 30 aligned sessions and 0.231 over 60 sessions. VIX9D, VIX and VIX3M closed at 12.27, 14.81 and 18.24.
As of 18 Sept 2026, 20:00 UTC. Cross-asset metrics use the persisted 2026-09-18 common US session; crypto realised volatility is annualised using sqrt(365) and SPX realised volatility using sqrt(252).
13 · Methodology and provenance
Generated from measured Derivasys surface data.
Current snapshot
21 Sept 2026, 18:42 UTC
Comparison snapshot
20 Sept 2026, 18:42 UTC
Source
Derivasys proprietary historical SVI surface database
Comparison window
Nearest successful surface snapshots approximately 24 hours apart
RR convention
25-delta call IV minus 25-delta put IV
BF convention
Average 25-delta wing IV minus ATM forward IV
Fixed tenors
Fixed-tenor measures are published only when listed expiries bracket the target at both comparison snapshots. Targets outside either observable range are suppressed, not extrapolated; headline rankings use only supported tenors.
Smile reconstruction
Listed-expiry smiles are reconstructed from stored SVI total-variance parameters on a fixed log-moneyness grid.
Ultra-short expiries
Expiries with fewer than 2 full days remaining stay in detailed tables but are excluded from headline rankings. Settlement proximity, time decay, changing liquidity and fewer quotes can exaggerate their changes.
Greek normalization
Black forward Greeks for a normalized one-ETH ATM-forward call, zero rate, fitted SVI IV
Catalyst policy
Only sufficiently relevant, reliably sourced events are shown; otherwise no catalyst is assigned.
