Daily major-coins market report · BTC, ETH and SOL

Major-coin options diverge as Bitcoin turns defensive and Solana stays call-rich

Major-coin one-week RR25 dispersion widened by 0.78 volatility points to 5.44 points between Solana and Bitcoin. Solana one-week RR25 stood at 3.55%, leaving call-side volatility richer than put-side volatility, while Bitcoin one-week RR25 stood at -1.89%, leaving put-side volatility richer. One-week ATM IV levels remained highest for Solana at 56.08% and lowest for Bitcoin at 34.13%, although the Solana-Bitcoin one-week ATM IV level spread narrowed 1.87 points to 21.95 points.

Major-coin options diverge as Bitcoin turns defensive and Solana stays call-rich. 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 Bitcoin turns defensive and Solana stays call-rich”, Derivasys, 2026-09-23. Source: https://www.derivasys.com/reports/major-coins/2026-09-23.

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01 · Market read

The day across the three live Derivasys markets.

The one-week RR25 gap between Solana and Bitcoin widened to 5.44 volatility points, separating a call-rich Solana surface from a put-rich Bitcoin surface.

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 +21.95 vol pts; daily one-week ATM IV changes span +2.05 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 76.0 percentile; Daily 1W ATM IV-change dispersion 28.0 percentile; 1W RR25 dispersion 96.0 percentile.

SOL

1W ATM IV change

-1.87 points from the group median

BTC

1W ATM IV level

-12.08 points from the group median

SOL

1W RR25 level

+4.32 points from the group median

Relative-value rankings

Leaders and laggards across the same cutoff.

Metric1st2nd3rd
1W ATM IV levelSOL · 56.08ETH · 46.21BTC · 34.13
Daily 1W ATM IV changeETH · -2.28BTC · -2.46SOL · -4.33
1W IV minus 7d realisedBTC · unavailableETH · unavailableSOL · unavailable
Highest 1W RR25SOL · 3.55ETH · -0.77 · up 1BTC · -1.89 · down 1
Lowest 1W RR25BTC · -1.89 · up 1ETH · -0.77 · down 1SOL · 3.55
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 2.64.0 times VIX, while short-window equity correlations remained mixed.

Asset30d ATM IVVIX spreadIV / VIX20d crypto RV20-session SPX RVRV spread percentile30-session correlation
BTC36.48%+22.27 vol pts2.57×48.89%10.59%80.8 percentile+0.393
ETH49.56%+35.35 vol pts3.49×51.19%10.59%38.1 percentile+0.277
SOL57.26%+43.05 vol pts4.03×74.02%10.59%48.9 percentile+0.402

As of 22 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
BTCUnavailable34.13%-2.46 vol ptsUnavailableUnavailable-1.89 vol pts+2.15 vol pts
ETHUnavailable46.21%-2.28 vol ptsUnavailableUnavailable-0.77 vol pts+2.95 vol pts
SOLUnavailable56.08%-4.33 vol ptsUnavailableUnavailable+3.55 vol pts+3.89 vol pts

04 · Term structures

ATM implied volatility across common standard tenors.

Asset1W ATM / Δ1M ATM / Δ3M ATM / Δ6M ATM / Δ
BTC34.13% / -2.4634.94% / -1.5137.61% / -1.0038.84% / -0.49
ETH46.21% / -2.2849.83% / +0.1752.85% / -0.1454.59% / +0.18
SOL56.08% / -4.3356.31% / -0.8254.66% / -0.29Unavailable

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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