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Gate and Bybit sit close together at roughly 60K BTC each
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Smaller venues like Bitget, BingX, and Bitunix round out the rankings, with BingX posting an 18.41% drop in open interest over 24 hours, the steepest decline among the major platforms tracked.
Key facts
- The most active strikes on Deribit include the Dec. 25, 2026 $120,000 call, holding 7,526.9 BTC in open interest, and the July 31, 2026 $80,000 call at 7,118.9 BTC
- CME ‘s bitcoin options open interest, measured in dollar terms, has dropped from a peak near $290 million in late November to roughly $30 million to $40 million by mid June, according to Cryptoquant
- Exchange-wide BTC open interest in dollar terms has fallen from highs above $90 billion last October to a range closer to $60 billion to $70 billion now, tracking bitcoin ’s retreat from levels
- CME ranks second among the listed venues at 106.03K BTC, or $6.77 billion, holding a 14.64% share with a notably high open interest to volume ratio of 1.1547
Summary
Bitcoin traded at $64,159 at 6:45 p.m. CME bitcoin options open interest fell from $290M in November to under $40M by June 2026. Deribit max pain climbs to $75,000 for September and December 2026 contract expirations. Binance leads futures open interest at 131.97K BTC, an 18.22% share, per Coinglass data. CME ‘s bitcoin options open interest, measured in dollar terms, has dropped from a peak near $290 million in late November to roughly $30 million to $40 million by mid June, according to Cryptoquant data.