#deribit

Live market data from Deribit — the leading crypto options and futures exchange. A keyless, no-account JSON wrapper over Deribit's public v2 API. Read the spot index price for any settlement currency (BTC, ETH, USDC, USDT), pull a full ticker for any instrument — last / mark / index price, best bid-ask, open interest and 8-hour funding for perpetuals, plus mark implied volatility and the greeks (delta, gamma, vega, theta, rho) for options — list the entire active instruments catalog by currency and kind (future, option, spot, combos) with strikes, expiries and contract sizes, and fetch per-currency order-book summaries across all live instruments. The raw exchange feed for derivatives desks, options dashboards, volatility models and trading bots — distinct from analytics products: this is Deribit's own ticker, instrument and book data, decoded into clean JSON.

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The single headline gauge of how the crypto options market is positioned, computed live from Deribit's public option book — no key, nothing stored. The put/call ratio is the amount of put activity divided by call activity: a low ratio means the market is loaded with calls (bullish, greedy positioning), a high ratio means puts dominate (hedging, fear). The ratio endpoint returns, for a currency (BTC or ETH), the market-wide put/call ratio computed two ways — by open interest (the standing positioning) and by 24-hour volume (today's flow) — with the call and put totals, the spot index and a plain-language sentiment label. The expiries endpoint breaks the put/call ratio down by expiry, revealing the term structure of sentiment: whether hedging is concentrated in the near term or further out. This is the aggregate options put/call sentiment cut for crypto — distinct from the US-equity put/call API (a different market), the max-pain / open-interest positioning view, the implied-vol skew surface and the gamma-exposure APIs in the catalogue. Below roughly 0.7 is call-heavy and bullish, above 1.0 put-heavy and defensive; it is most useful read as a contrarian gauge. Currency is BTC or ETH, the two assets Deribit lists liquid options for.

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The shape of the crypto dated-futures curve and the annualised basis at every expiry, read live from Deribit's public futures book — no key, nothing stored. A single spot price tells you nothing about what the market pays to hold a position over time: dated futures trade at a premium (contango) or a discount (backwardation) to spot, and that premium, annualised, is the cash-and-carry yield basis traders harvest. The curve endpoint returns, for a currency (BTC or ETH), the spot index, the perpetual and every listed dated future — each with its days to expiry, mark price, the absolute and percent basis to spot and the annualised basis — plus the overall curve shape (contango or backwardation) and the front- and back-month annualised basis. The basis endpoint returns the annualised basis (cash-and-carry yield) for a chosen expiry, or the front future. This is the futures-curve / term-structure cut for crypto — distinct from the spot-versus-perpetual basis API (a single point on the curve), and from the funding-rate, options, max-pain, gamma and price APIs in the catalogue. Currency is BTC or ETH; expiry is a Deribit code like 26JUN26.

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The crypto market's "fear gauge" and the premium option sellers earn, read live from Deribit's public DVOL index and Binance's candles — no key, nothing stored. DVOL is Deribit's 30-day forward implied-volatility index for BTC and ETH, the crypto equivalent of the VIX: the single number that says how much volatility the options market is pricing in. The index endpoint returns the latest DVOL, the session open/high/low/close, the 24-hour change and a plain-language regime label (low, normal, high, extreme). The vrp endpoint computes the variance risk premium — implied vol (DVOL) minus the realised volatility actually delivered over the last 30 days (annualised standard deviation of daily log returns from Binance candles): when implied sits well above realised, option sellers are being paid a premium and the rich/cheap signal flags it; when implied is below realised, options are cheap relative to what the market has been doing. The history endpoint returns the DVOL index time series. This is the implied-volatility-index / variance-risk-premium cut — distinct from the realised-volatility API (which has no implied leg), the equity VIX-family indices and the option-chain, skew and gamma APIs in the catalogue. Currency is BTC or ETH (the assets Deribit publishes DVOL for).

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Where option-dealer hedging flows concentrate, and whether they damp or amplify price moves — computed live from Deribit's public option book, no key, nothing stored. Each open option carries gamma; when dealers are net long gamma they hedge against the move (buy dips, sell rips) and volatility is suppressed, and when they are net short gamma they hedge with the move and volatility is amplified. The gex endpoint aggregates Black-Scholes gamma across every listed expiry, weighted by open interest, into the net dealer gamma exposure (in dollars per 1% move), the call and put gamma split, the zero-gamma flip level — the spot price at which net GEX crosses zero, the boundary between the mean-reverting (positive-gamma) and trending (negative-gamma) regimes — where spot sits relative to it, and the strikes holding the most gamma (the pinning magnets and acceleration zones). The profile endpoint returns GEX by strike, across all expiries or one. The expiries endpoint returns net GEX per listed expiry. This is the dealer-gamma / GEX analytics cut for crypto — distinct from the max-pain / open-interest positioning view, the implied-vol skew surface, the raw option chain and the single-option Black-Scholes pricer in the catalogue. GEX uses the SpotGamma convention (dealers long calls / short puts, r=0) and Black-Scholes gamma from mark IV — a model estimate of positioning, documented as such, not exchange-reported dealer inventory. Currency is BTC, ETH, SOL or XRP.

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The shape of the crypto implied-volatility surface, computed live from Deribit's public option book — no key, nothing stored. A single at-the-money number hides what the options market is really saying. The skew endpoint returns, for a currency (BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP) and expiry, the ATM implied vol, the implied vols of an out-of-the-money put and call at a chosen moneyness, the risk reversal (call IV minus put IV — positive means calls are bid and upside is favoured, negative means puts are bid and the market is paying up for downside protection) and the butterfly (the average of the wings minus ATM — how convex the smile is). The termstructure endpoint returns the ATM implied vol for every listed expiry, so you see whether near-dated vol sits above far-dated (backwardation, stress) or below (contango, the calm default). The smile endpoint returns the full implied-vol-by-strike curve for one expiry — the classic volatility smile. This is the volatility-surface analytics cut for crypto — distinct from the raw per-contract option chain, the max-pain / open-interest positioning view, the realised-volatility series and the US-equity put/call APIs in the catalogue. Currency is BTC, ETH, SOL or XRP; expiry is a Deribit code like 26JUN26 (omit for the nearest).

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Where the crypto options market is positioned, and the strike toward which an expiry's open interest exerts the most "pain" — computed live from Deribit's public option book, no key, nothing stored. Max pain is the strike at which the total value of all open options is lowest at expiry: the price at which the greatest dollar amount of option open interest expires worthless and option writers keep the most premium. Traders watch it because price often gravitates toward max pain into a large expiry. The maxpain endpoint takes a currency (BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP) and an expiry and returns the max-pain strike, the spot/underlying, how far spot sits from max pain, and the call and put open-interest totals with the put/call OI ratio. The oi endpoint returns the full open-interest-by-strike distribution for an expiry — which strikes hold the most open interest, the magnets and walls (support & resistance) traders watch. The expiries endpoint lists every listed expiry with its aggregate open interest, contract count and call/put split. This is the aggregate options-positioning / max-pain analytics cut for crypto — distinct from the raw per-contract option chain (greeks/IV), from US equity options and from the crypto-volatility APIs in the catalogue. Currency is BTC, ETH, SOL or XRP; expiry is a Deribit code like 26JUN26.

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Live crypto options-market data as an API, streamed from the Deribit public exchange. For BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP: the full option chain with each contract's mark price, mark implied volatility, open interest, 24-hour volume and underlying price; the nearest at-the-money call and put for a one-call read on how the market prices risk; the spot index price; the historical realised-volatility series with stats; and a market-wide summary of open interest, volume and expiries. Built for options, volatility, quant and trading apps. Distinct from spot-price, funding and on-chain APIs — this is the live options surface.

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