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🗓️ 3 July 2025
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The latest price moves and insights with Amberdata Director of Derivatives Greg Magadini.
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Amberdata Director of Derivatives Greg Magadini joins CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie and Andy Baehr for a conversation on bitcoin's low volatility and increasing maturity. Plus, how it now takes "more money to move around bitcoin" at its current $2 trillion market cap.
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0:00.0 | On a cyclical basis, you could get this sort of Wall Street bets crowd that could essentially run up the asset from a low priced option call buying. |
0:10.6 | I think structurally we're on the same page. Essentially, the volatility has to go down as the asset class grows and matures. |
0:18.8 | It just takes more money to move around Bitcoin at a |
0:21.8 | $2 trillion market cap, and it does at a $300 billion market caps. |
0:32.8 | Greg, welcome to the show. |
0:35.2 | Thank you so much, Jen. |
0:36.2 | Happy to be here. |
0:37.4 | Happy to have you here. |
0:38.7 | Now, Andy and I were discussing previously that Bitcoin has really been in this kind of range-bound situation. |
0:47.2 | Talk to me about what you're watching when it comes to Bitcoin this week. |
0:51.7 | Yeah, I find the volatility of Bitcoin quite interesting year-to-date. |
0:55.4 | So if we look at the deval index, this is really the Derbit Bix methodology applied to |
0:59.9 | Bitcoin options. We can see that the devol index year-to-date has come down from 60 all the way |
1:04.7 | down to 40, just a consistent grind lower. And this is really in line with a lot of the |
1:10.0 | institutional participation that we're |
1:12.0 | seeing in the iBid options and the inflows into the ETF. As we get more sort of institutional |
1:17.8 | traders and investors, we're seeing some of the typical flows that you would see in traditional |
1:22.7 | equities. Buying the underlying asset, selling the covered call, maybe buying the put, all those types of |
1:28.6 | flows reduce risk in the underlying asset. And I think this is kind of what's playing out here. |
1:36.2 | You know, it's good to hear that. I think that one of the predictions we on the index side made |
1:42.0 | for 2025 was that volatility would decrease with adoption growing. |
1:46.6 | I think there were some voices out there that predicted that the availability of Bitcoin |
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