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Mark price against Deribit’s index for BTC futures. Basis is the mark minus that index, divided by the index. A positive basis means the future sits above the index. Hourly funding on another venue is on funding. Listed options, put against call, are on options.

About this desk

What you use it for
Switch bitcoin or ether to read Deribit’s futures: mark, the index, basis, and open interest.
What the numbers are
Basis is the mark minus the estimated delivery price, divided by the index. Open interest is the figure Deribit publishes for that book.
What it leaves out
This is Deribit only. Options on the same venue are a different desk. Basis is not a forecast of the spot price.

Every desk is introduced the same way on the desk list.

BitcoinEther

The perpetual marks $83,554.33 against an index of $83,683.89, -0.15%.

  • BTC-PERPETUAL$83,554.33 · -0.15%

    Open interest $818.34M · day volume $1.18B

  • BTC-2OCT26$84,572.03 · +1.06%

    Open interest $13.57M · day volume $13.52M

  • BTC-3OCT26$83,683.89 · +0.00%

    Open interest $1.58M · day volume $1.33M

  • BTC-4OCT26$84,013.42 · +0.39%

    Open interest $1.17M · day volume $1.47M

  • BTC-5OCT26$83,683.89 · +0.00%

    Open interest $80 · day volume $290

  • BTC-9OCT26$85,503.39 · +2.17%

    Open interest $5.98M · day volume $2.93M

  • BTC-16OCT26$84,357.33 · +0.80%

    Open interest $1.55M · day volume $1.57M

  • BTC-23OCT26$84,066.63 · +0.46%

    Open interest $10 · day volume $10

  • BTC-30OCT26$84,588.54 · +1.08%

    Open interest $92.32M · day volume $9.33M

  • BTC-27NOV26$84,283.85 · +0.72%

    Open interest $36.10M · day volume $4.09M

  • BTC-25DEC26$85,049.42 · +1.63%

    Open interest $313.46M · day volume $9.33M

  • BTC-26MAR27$86,284.29 · +3.11%

    Open interest $84.63M · day volume $2.58M

  • BTC-25JUN27$86,546.27 · +3.42%

    Open interest $63.82M · day volume $1.94M

  • BTC-24SEP27$86,691.33 · +3.59%

    Open interest $3.70M · day volume $1.68M

How to read this

Basis
-0.15% is the perpetual’s mark minus the index, divided by the index. It is not Hyperliquid’s funding rate and it is not a prediction of the next day.
Open interest
Open interest is the USD figure Deribit publishes for contracts still open. Day volume is their volume_usd. 14 instruments came back on this request.