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Major-coin options track Ether’s 24-hour spot lead over Bitcoin

Ether led Bitcoin by 1.02 percentage points in 24-hour spot performance over the observation window: Ether spot gained 0.78%, while Bitcoin spot declined 0.24%. Derivasys data show that the gap coincided with narrower one-week options-market dispersion across the major coins. Solana’s one-week ATM implied volatility was 55.35%, versus Bitcoin’s one-week ATM implied volatility of 39.57%, leaving the one-week ATM implied-volatility gap 0.41 volatility points narrower at 15.78 volatility points. Ether’s one-week RR25 level was 1.66%, while Solana’s one-week RR25 level was 1.28%, narrowing the one-week RR25 gap by 0.66 volatility points to 0.38 volatility points. Implied volatility is the market’s expectation of future price variability: Ether’s one-week ATM implied volatility exceeded Ether’s seven-day realised volatility by 6.27 volatility points, while Bitcoin’s corresponding one-week implied-versus-seven-day-realised spread was 6.10 volatility points. Solana realised-volatility comparisons were unavailable.

01 · Market read

The day across the three live Derivasys markets.

Over the observation window, Ether’s 24-hour spot performance rose 0.78% and Bitcoin’s 24-hour spot performance fell 0.24%, creating a 1.02-percentage-point Ether–Bitcoin spot-performance spread. Derivasys data show Solana’s one-week ATM implied volatility at 55.35% and Bitcoin’s one-week ATM implied volatility at 39.57%; the resulting one-week ATM implied-volatility dispersion narrowed 0.41 volatility points to 15.78 volatility points. Ether’s one-week RR25 level of 1.66% and Solana’s one-week RR25 level of 1.28% reduced their one-week RR25 dispersion by 0.66 volatility points to 0.38 volatility points. Ether’s one-week ATM implied volatility was 6.27 volatility points above Ether’s seven-day realised volatility, compared with a 6.10-volatility-point Bitcoin one-week implied-versus-seven-day-realised spread; Solana’s realised-volatility comparison was unavailable.

This is a comparison, not a pooled surface: each asset keeps its own forwards, expiries, SVI fit and realised-volatility history.

Cross-sectional thesis

Where the complex is diverging.

One-week ATM IV level dispersion is compressing, at +15.78 vol pts; daily one-week ATM IV changes span +0.51 vol pts across the complex.

ETH screens richest and BTC cheapest on one-week implied volatility versus seven-day realised volatility, with a 0.17-point cross-sectional range.

Aligned 24-hour spot correlations: BTC/ETH 0.90 (11 observations).

BTC

1W ATM IV change

+0.41 points from the group median

BTC

1W ATM IV level

-10.62 points from the group median

ETH

1W RR25 level

+0.35 points from the group median

Relative-value rankings

Leaders and laggards across the same cutoff.

Metric1st2nd3rd
1W ATM IV levelSOL · 55.35ETH · 50.19BTC · 39.57
Daily 1W ATM IV changeBTC · 2.86SOL · 2.45ETH · 2.35
1W IV minus 7d realisedETH · 6.27BTC · 6.10SOL · unavailable
Most call-rich 1W RR25ETH · 1.66BTC · 1.31 · up 1SOL · 1.28 · down 1
Most put-rich 1W RR25SOL · 1.28 · up 1BTC · 1.31 · down 1ETH · 1.66
1Y minus 1W curve slopeBTC · unavailableETH · unavailableSOL · unavailable
Largest 1Y minus 1W curve changeBTC · unavailableETH · unavailableSOL · unavailable
24h spot performanceETH · 0.79BTC · -0.27SOL · unavailable

02 · Macro and crypto diary

Major-coin options track Ether’s 24-hour spot lead over Bitcoin

Ether led Bitcoin by 1.02 percentage points in 24-hour spot performance over the observation window: Ether spot gained 0.78%, while Bitcoin spot declined 0.24%. Derivasys data show that the gap coincided with narrower one-week options-market dispersion across the major coins. Solana’s one-week ATM implied volatility was 55.35%, versus Bitcoin’s one-week ATM implied volatility of 39.57%, leaving the one-week ATM implied-volatility gap 0.41 volatility points narrower at 15.78 volatility points. Ether’s one-week RR25 level was 1.66%, while Solana’s one-week RR25 level was 1.28%, narrowing the one-week RR25 gap by 0.66 volatility points to 0.38 volatility points. Implied volatility is the market’s expectation of future price variability: Ether’s one-week ATM implied volatility exceeded Ether’s seven-day realised volatility by 6.27 volatility points, while Bitcoin’s corresponding one-week implied-versus-seven-day-realised spread was 6.10 volatility points. Solana realised-volatility comparisons were unavailable.

8 September 2026

Ether spot lead accompanies tighter major-coin one-week options gaps

Ether’s 24-hour spot performance exceeded Bitcoin’s 24-hour spot performance by 1.02 percentage points, with Ether up 0.78% and Bitcoin down 0.24%. In options, Solana’s one-week ATM implied volatility stood at 55.35% and Bitcoin’s one-week ATM implied volatility stood at 39.57%, producing a one-week ATM implied-volatility dispersion of 15.78 volatility points after a 0.41-volatility-point narrowing. Ether’s one-week RR25 level of 1.66% and Solana’s one-week RR25 level of 1.28% left one-week RR25 dispersion at 0.38 volatility points.

Macro: No qualifying macro event was retained.

Crypto: Bitcoin’s reported recovery from session lows offers context, not a proven explanation for cross-major repricing.

Completed-session cross-asset context

Crypto volatility against VIX and SPX.

The benchmark comparison is separately timestamped to the latest completed US session; it does not replace the intraday crypto surface cutoffs above.

BTC and ETH and SOL 30-day implied volatility remained 2.53.5 times VIX, while short-window equity correlations remained low.

Asset30d ATM IVVIX spreadIV / VIX20d crypto RV20-session SPX RVRV spread percentile30-session correlation
BTC36.20%+21.67 vol pts2.49×50.32%8.30%87.7 percentile+0.158
ETH49.28%+34.75 vol pts3.39×65.32%8.30%60.4 percentile+0.029
SOL50.73%+36.20 vol pts3.49×76.48%8.30%59.5 percentile+0.252

As of 04 Sept 2026, 20:00 UTC. Crypto RV uses calendar days and sqrt(365); SPX RV uses US sessions and sqrt(252).

03 · Cross-asset scorecard

Implied volatility, realised volatility and skew.

AssetSpot 24h1W ATM1W ATM Δ7d RV1W IV − 7d RV1W RR251W BF25
BTC-0.27%39.57%+2.86 vol pts33.47%+6.10 vol pts+1.31 vol pts+1.87 vol pts
ETH+0.79%50.19%+2.35 vol pts43.92%+6.27 vol pts+1.66 vol pts+3.04 vol pts
SOLUnavailable55.35%+2.45 vol ptsUnavailableUnavailable+1.28 vol pts+4.26 vol pts

04 · Term structures

ATM implied volatility across common standard tenors.

Asset1W ATM / Δ1M ATM / Δ3M ATM / Δ6M ATM / Δ
BTC39.57% / +2.8637.95% / +0.9839.36% / +0.5640.12% / +0.17
ETH50.19% / +2.3551.40% / +0.7752.51% / +0.2554.39% / +0.11
SOL55.35% / +2.4552.81% / +0.4351.79% / -0.04Unavailable

05 · Constituent evidence

Audit the independently published source artifacts.

06 · Methodology and provenance

A derived publication with no duplicated market data.

The report is assembled at request time from the immutable BTC, ETH and SOL daily-report artifacts for the same UTC report date. It is omitted unless all three exist. Cross-asset averages are descriptive and equal-weighted; no attempt is made to combine distinct volatility surfaces into a single fit.

Major-coin options track Ether’s 24-hour spot lead over Bitcoin