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Around 22,200 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, April 17, with a notional value of roughly $1.66 billion. This event is a little smaller than last week’s expiry, so it is unlikely to have any impact on spot markets.

Crypto prices have been climbing slowly this week, with around $150 billion being added to total capitalization since Monday.

Bitcoin Options Expiry
This week’s batch of Bitcoin options contracts has a put/call ratio of 1, meaning that sellers of longs and shorts are evenly matched. Max pain is around $71,000, according to Coinglass, which is a little lower than current spot prices, so some could be out of the money on expiry.

Open interest (OI), or the value or number of Bitcoin options contracts yet to expire, remains highest at the $80,000 strike price on Deribit, with $1.5 billion as bullish bets take over, but bears still have $1.4 billion in OI at $60,000.

Total $BTC options OI across all exchanges has been steadily climbing this month and is at $35.6 billion, according to Coinglass.

“Positioning has shifted from last week. $BTC flipped from call-heavy to puts leading, while $ETH OI grew week-on-week despite the broader market move,” commented Deribit.

🚨 Options Expiry Alert.
At 08:00 UTC tomorrow, ~$2.1B in crypto options are set to expire on Deribit.$BTC: ~$1.63B notional | Put/Call: 1.02 | Max Pain: $71K $ETH: ~$444.7M notional | Put/Call: 0.94 | Max Pain: $2,250

Positioning has shifted from last week. $BTC flipped from… pic.twitter.com/VMjM3W3XSV

— Deribit (@DeribitOfficial) April 16, 2026

As the price of Bitcoin continues to rebound, “the IV [implied volatility] of major-term options is actually decreasing, while Skew is clearly skewed positively,” stated crypto derivatives provider Greeks Live this week.

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Bitcoin outlook still clouded by 'extreme fear' amid macro uncertainty and profit-taking despite rally to $76K, analysts say

Bitcoin has traded around $75,600 to $76,000, up roughly 6% over the past week, even as sentiment remains in “extreme fear.”

Analysts say the rebound has been real, but still looks flow-led and fragile, with spot demand improving while options and derivatives remain cautious.

Bitcoin traded near $75,300 on Friday after touching an intraday high above $76,300, leaving the asset up more than 6% on the week as traders leaned back into risk.

Yet, this week’s uptrend has come with an odd contrast: sentiment remains bruised, despite an almost two-month high.

Indeed, the crypto Fear and Greed Index still still stands at 21, or "extreme fear," even as bitcoin pressed higher and U.S. stocks extended their run to record territory, The Block's data shows.

This split is becoming the story of the market despite recent higher prices.

QCP Capital called the week’s rebound "relief without reopening" — a reset in pricing rather than a clean turn in the macro backdrop.

In the firm’s view, bitcoin BTC+2.64%

 and crypto have tracked the same cross-asset shift as equities and oil. They noted that data show lower tail-risk, softer dollar pressure, and steadier sentiment, but without a full clearing of inflation, energy, or policy stress.

Glassnode analysts struck a similarly careful note. In its latest weekly report, the firm said bitcoin is holding roughly 5% below the "True Market Mean" near $78,100, which it sees as the key near-term resistance level. Spot demand and ETF flows have improved, it said, but the recovery still lacks depth.

Profit-taking has also increased, while institutional participation remains selective, and options markets are still skewed toward downside protection.



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Plasma blockchain TVL has climbed to $2 billion, making it the seventh-largest blockchain by total value locked after Tether selected Plasma as one of only four networks to support its newly launched self-custody wallet. Summary Plasma's TVL reached $2 billion as of April 16, up 27% over the past week and more than 80% over the past 30 days, per DefiLlama data, placing it seventh globally by TVL. Tether launched tether.wallet on April 14, selecting Plasma alongside Ethereum, Polygon, and Arbitrum as supported networks at launch, giving the chain a direct distribution channel to Tether's 570 million global users. Analysts also point to growing optimism around the CLARITY Act approaching a Senate Banking Committee markup as a secondary driver of capital flowing into stablecoin infrastructure. Plasma blockchain TVL has surged to $2 billion, a 27% weekly gain and more than 80% over the past 30 days, pushing the stablecoin-focused Layer-1 to seventh place globally in total value locked according to DefiLlama. The move coincides directly with the launch of tetherwallet on April 14, a self-custody product from Tether that supports USDT and XAUT on Plasma alongside Ethereum, Polygon, and Arbitrum

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XRPL Gets Massive Adoption Boost As Crypto Wallet Provider Exodus Teams Up With Ripple in Strategic Push

Exodus Movement has announced an expansion of its support for the XRP Ledger (XRPL). The long-time self-custodial crypto wallet provider announced the update in collaboration with Ripple. Exodus is deploying a deep native integration of the XRPL ecosystem, giving its millions of users direct access to advanced tools and newly added stablecoin support.

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