Bitcoin Options Block Trades Hit $590 Million After Binance Incident

Bitcoin (BTC) options block trades on Paradigm totaled about $590 million in the eight hours after the Binance incident, with activity concentrated in puts. That total was roughly half of the related block-trade volume on Deribit over the same period. The put activity was more consistent with hedging against further short-term downside than betting on an extreme crash. Put buying overall clustered at strikes from $74,000 to $78,000, with expirations mostly this week and in mid-November. Two mid-November puts at a $74,000 strike each covered 1,000 BTC, for a combined notional value of about $155 million.