On Friday, September 25, 2026, at 08:00 UTC — 10:00 in Germany — Bitcoin options covering roughly 181,896 Bitcoin expire. At an index level of $79,117 that is $14.39 billion in a single morning. Anyone simply holding Bitcoin in their own wallet need do nothing about it. Anyone holding a leveraged position, a futures contract or an option, by contrast, has three things to settle by then: when their own contract runs out, how far away the liquidation price is, and what the position eats in financing costs until that day.
This analysis was compiled by cryptoticker.io itself on September 9, 2026. Instead of taking a figure from a wire report, we read the derivatives market at the Deribit exchange directly: every open options contract in Bitcoin and Ether, together with the stored expiry times, the index level and the futures. We evaluated 908 Bitcoin contracts and 794 Ether contracts, retrieved between 06:53 and 06:58 UTC, every request returning HTTP status 200.
Options expiry on September 25: $14.39 billion runs out in a single morning
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