Deribit, the world’s largest crypto choices trade by quantity, will quickly launch bitcoin volatility futures, providing digital-asset traders a less complicated manner than choices to hedge towards market volatility. Futures tied to Deribit’s forward-looking bitcoin volatility index shall be accessible to Deribit beneath the ticker BTCDVOL on the finish of March, Luuk Strijers, the trade’s chief industrial officer, informed CoinDesk. DVOL, which was launched early 2021, measures bitcoin’s 30-day implied volatility calculated utilizing Deribit’s choices order e book. Implied volatility refers back to the choices market’s expectation for worth turbulence over a selected time frame.
