BTC: Bitcoin Price Faces Another Test as $10.9B Deribit Options Expire Today

Published: 30 October 2026

BTC market note dated 30 October 2026. This is an independent English brief of a public news item; it does not add trade levels.

What happened

• Some 135,000 BTC in options contracts, worth $10.9 billion, are set to expire on Deribit at 8 AM UTC today, October 30. With this expiry being quite large and coming right at the end of the month, it’s not beyond reason to think it could affect volatility in the spot marke…

What the figures mean

Independent check on the printed figures (10, 135,000, 10.9 billion, 8): confirm the unit, the session or as-of timestamp, and whether the number is a flow, a price, a rate, or a count before treating the headline as a directional call for BTC. This page restates source figures; it does not invent a second dataset.

Why it matters

The item is included because it is substantively about BTC (institutions, policy, flows, security, or network use), not a passing mention.

What to watch

Separate confirmed actions from speculation in the source. No price target is invented here.