Daily SOL options market report · 24-hour comparison

Solana options soften as short-dated skew turns put-rich

Solana’s key surface development was the one-week RR25 decline, which left put-side volatility slightly richer than call-side volatility as front-end ATM IV softened.

02 · Options market read

What the volatility surface did.

4 of 6 headline tenors were comparable at both endpoints. The largest ATM IV move was 1W at -1.14 volatility points, to 53.53%.

Derived directly from structured Derivasys surface data

03 · Catalyst check

06 Sept 2026, 16:54 UTC to 07 Sept 2026, 16:54 UTC

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04 · Detailed analysis

What changed across the SOL volatility surface.

Front end

Front-end ATM IV decreased, averaging -0.62 volatility points to 53.18% across 1W, 2W and 1M.

Long end

Long-dated ATM IV is unavailable because comparable observations were not present at both snapshots.

Skew

RR25 moved towards puts, averaging -2.32 volatility points to 1.27% across the four available headline tenors.

Convexity

BF25 was broadly unchanged, averaging +0.06 volatility points to 4.23% across the four available headline tenors.

Largest standard-tenor move

The largest standard-tenor ATM IV move was -1.14 volatility points at 1W, to 53.53%.

Universe roll: added 9SEP26; removed 7SEP26. Comparisons use common expiries only.

05 · Standard-tenor ranking

Largest surface events

01

Largest eligible smile rotation

11SEP26, -11.58 vol pts
02

Largest standard-tenor RR25 move

1W, -3.33 vol pts
03

Largest standard-tenor ATM IV move

1W, -1.14 vol pts
04

Largest standard-tenor BF25 move

3M, +0.32 vol pts
05

Largest eligible SVI sigma move

30OCT26, +0.1047 param
06

Largest eligible SVI rho move

18SEP26, +0.0934 param

06 · ATM volatility

Standard-tenor ATM implied volatility.

TenorCurrent (vol %)Previous (vol %)Change (vol pts)Relative change
1W53.5354.67-1.14 vol pts-2.09%
2W53.4353.84-0.41 vol pts-0.76%
1M52.5852.90-0.32 vol pts-0.60%
3M51.6851.91-0.23 vol pts-0.44%
6MUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
9MUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
1YUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

07 · Risk reversals

RR25 skew moved most at 1W.

RR25 moved towards puts, averaging -2.32 volatility points to 1.27% across the four available headline tenors. Negative RR25 denotes a richer 25-delta put wing under the call-minus-put convention.

-0.6%0.6%1.9%3.1%4.3%1W2W1M3M
TenorCurrent (vol %)Previous (vol %)Change (vol pts)
1W-0.143.19-3.33 vol pts
2W0.953.65-2.70 vol pts
1M1.683.84-2.16 vol pts
3M2.593.69-1.10 vol pts
6MUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
9MUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
1YUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

08 · Butterflies

BF25 convexity changed most at 3M.

BF25 was broadly unchanged, averaging +0.06 volatility points to 4.23% across the four available headline tenors. BF25 measures the average 25-delta wing premium over ATM IV.

3.6%4.0%4.4%4.8%5.1%1W2W1M3M
TenorCurrent (vol %)Previous (vol %)Change (vol pts)
1W4.023.81+0.21 vol pts
2W3.953.97-0.02 vol pts
1M4.024.28-0.26 vol pts
3M4.934.61+0.32 vol pts
6MUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
9MUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
1YUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

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

8SEP26, -9.31 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.

51.3%52.2%53.2%54.1%55.0%1W2W1M3M

Suppressed outside the observable listed-expiry range: 6M, 9M, 1Y.

ExpiryTime leftForward now (USD)Forward change (USD)ATM IV nowATM IV changeRR25 changeBF25 change
8SEP26Expiry effect0.6 days103.82-2.32 USD54.42%+1.87 vol pts-2.85 vol pts-2.03 vol pts
11SEP263.6 days103.83-2.31 USD52.86%-2.58 vol pts-4.55 vol pts+0.55 vol pts
18SEP2610.6 days103.83-2.31 USD53.78%-0.29 vol pts-3.04 vol pts-0.04 vol pts
25SEP2617.6 days103.88-2.36 USD53.20%-0.35 vol pts-2.57 vol pts-0.01 vol pts
30OCT2652.6 days103.89-2.33 USD52.19%-0.23 vol pts-1.89 vol pts-0.45 vol pts
25DEC26108.6 days104.2-2.30 USD51.56%-0.22 vol pts-0.92 vol pts+0.48 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.

8SEP26rotation towards puts · wing steepening
-0.30k0.00k+0.30k
11SEP26rotation towards puts · wing steepening
-0.30k0.00k+0.30k
18SEP26rotation towards puts · wing steepening
-0.30k0.00k+0.30k
25SEP26rotation towards puts · wing steepening
-0.30k0.00k+0.30k
30OCT26rotation towards puts
-0.30k0.00k+0.30k
25DEC26rotation towards puts
-0.30k0.00k+0.30k

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.

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 18SEP26; the largest sigma change occurred at 30OCT26.

ExpiryΔ aΔ bΔ rhoΔ mΔ sigmaSmile classification
8SEP26-0.00980-0.03110-0.03960-0.00110+0.22100rotation towards puts, wing steepening
11SEP26-0.00930+0.02250+0.00640+0.02960-0.02610rotation towards puts, wing steepening
18SEP26-0.01370+0.00460+0.09340+0.07030+0.04930rotation towards puts, wing steepening
25SEP26-0.01720+0.00850+0.07470+0.05990+0.05770rotation towards puts, wing steepening
30OCT26-0.03200+0.01930-0.03510-0.01050+0.10470rotation towards puts
25DEC26-0.03800+0.03860+0.05590+0.05130+0.07460rotation towards puts

Current surface characteristics

Where normalized model Greek intensity is highest.

These are comparable Black-forward Greeks for a one-SOL ATM-forward call at each listed expiry—not portfolio exposure, open interest or a prediction of dealer positioning.

Highest Vega25DEC26, 0.224548 USD / vol pt
Highest Gamma8SEP26, 0.170059 1 / USD
Highest Theta Decay8SEP26, -0.74363 USD / day
Highest Vanna25DEC26, 0.001077 delta / vol pt
Highest Volga25DEC26, -0.008614 USD / vol pt²

Completed-session cross-asset context

Crypto volatility against US equity risk.

SOL 30-day implied volatility was 3.5 times VIX, while its 30-session return correlation with SPX was low at 0.25.

Implied-volatility premium

SOL 30-day ATM IV was 50.73%, against VIX at 14.53: a 36.20-point spread and 3.49× ratio.

Realised-volatility regime

SOL 20-calendar-day realised volatility was 76.48%, versus SPX 20-session realised volatility of 8.30%. The spread ranked at 59.5 percentile of 222 prior observations.

Equity co-movement

Return correlation with SPX was 0.252 over 30 aligned sessions and 0.383 over 60 sessions. VIX9D, VIX and VIX3M closed at 11.97, 14.53 and 17.61.

As of 04 Sept 2026, 20:00 UTC. market-context-v1; crypto RV=sqrt(365), SPX RV=sqrt(252); sources: DerivaSys fixed-tenor surface, DerivaSys canonical crypto index, ^VIX, ^GSPC.

13 · Methodology and provenance

Generated from measured Derivasys surface data.

Current snapshot
07 Sept 2026, 16:54 UTC
Comparison snapshot
06 Sept 2026, 16:54 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-SOL ATM-forward call, zero rate, fitted SVI IV
Catalyst policy
Only sufficiently relevant, reliably sourced events are shown; otherwise no catalyst is assigned.