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Major-coin options diverge as Solana volatility stays elevated

The major-coin one-week ATM IV gap between Solana and Bitcoin widened 4.09 volatility points to 27.32 volatility points over the observation window, reaching the 87.5 percentile of the available historical comparison set. ATM IV is the implied volatility of at-the-money options, a measure of the volatility priced into contracts near the prevailing price. Derivasys data show Solana as the high end and Bitcoin as the low end of this one-week ATM IV comparison. One-week implied-versus-realised volatility data were unavailable for Bitcoin, Ether and Solana, and no qualifying news context was retained.

Major-coin options diverge as Solana volatility stays elevated. ATM implied-volatility term structure from Derivasys data.
Source: Derivasys options data. Annualised volatility; unsupported tenors and unavailable realised volatility remain blank.
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Sean Gordon, “Major-coin options diverge as Solana volatility stays elevated”, Derivasys, 2026-09-22. Source: https://www.derivasys.com/reports/major-coins/2026-09-22.

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01 · Market read

The day across the three live Derivasys markets.

Derivasys data showed one-week ATM IV level dispersion of 27.32 volatility points between Solana and Bitcoin, after the Solana-versus-Bitcoin spread widened 4.09 volatility points. The one-week ATM IV change dispersion was 4.25 volatility points, spanning Solana’s 1.23-volatility-point rise and Ether’s 3.02-volatility-point decline.

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 widening, at +27.32 vol pts; daily one-week ATM IV changes span +4.25 vol pts across the complex.

Comparable implied-versus-realised values are not available for every constituent.

Aligned 24-hour spot correlations: BTC/ETH 0.88 (23 observations).

Historical cross-sectional readings: 1W ATM IV level dispersion 87.5 percentile; Daily 1W ATM IV-change dispersion 66.7 percentile; 1W RR25 dispersion 62.5 percentile.

SOL

1W ATM IV change

+4.09 points from the group median

SOL

1W ATM IV level

+15.57 points from the group median

SOL

1W RR25 level

+3.24 points from the group median

Relative-value rankings

Leaders and laggards across the same cutoff.

Metric1st2nd3rd
1W ATM IV levelSOL · 63.82ETH · 48.25BTC · 36.50
Daily 1W ATM IV changeSOL · 1.23BTC · -2.86ETH · -3.02
1W IV minus 7d realisedBTC · unavailableETH · unavailableSOL · unavailable
Highest 1W RR25SOL · 3.83ETH · 0.59BTC · 0.56
Lowest 1W RR25BTC · 0.56ETH · 0.59SOL · 3.83
1Y minus 1W curve slopeBTC · unavailableETH · unavailableSOL · unavailable
Largest 1Y minus 1W curve changeBTC · unavailableETH · unavailableSOL · unavailable
24h spot performanceBTC · unavailableETH · unavailableSOL · unavailable

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 2.53.9 times VIX, while short-window equity correlations remained mixed.

Asset30d ATM IVVIX spreadIV / VIX20d crypto RV20-session SPX RVRV spread percentile30-session correlation
BTC36.65%+21.78 vol pts2.46×48.77%10.66%80.7 percentile+0.392
ETH51.15%+36.28 vol pts3.44×51.50%10.66%37.0 percentile+0.276
SOL57.77%+42.90 vol pts3.89×74.19%10.66%49.1 percentile+0.401

As of 21 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
BTCUnavailable36.50%-2.86 vol ptsUnavailableUnavailable+0.56 vol pts+1.96 vol pts
ETHUnavailable48.25%-3.02 vol ptsUnavailableUnavailable+0.59 vol pts+2.83 vol pts
SOLUnavailable63.82%+1.23 vol ptsUnavailableUnavailable+3.83 vol pts+4.31 vol pts

04 · Term structures

ATM implied volatility across common standard tenors.

Asset1W ATM / Δ1M ATM / Δ3M ATM / Δ6M ATM / Δ
BTC36.50% / -2.8636.68% / +0.2838.71% / -0.0739.36% / -0.19
ETH48.25% / -3.0249.95% / -0.5552.94% / -0.4554.12% / -1.05
SOL63.82% / +1.2358.30% / +0.6556.13% / -0.45Unavailable

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.

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