Svmuu News: Matrixport released a chart today showing that over the past two years, increased trading activity in Bitcoin and Ethereum options has been a key driver of market performance, but the impact of options on prices has recently weakened significantly. Ethereum Options open interest peaked in August 2025, while Bitcoin’s options open interest peaked in October 2025. Since then, options-related positions in both markets have declined significantly, deleveraging has continued, and the impact of options on spot price volatility has consequently diminished.This shift reflects a slowdown in the pace of short-term capital inflows, with new positions being allocated in a more selective manner. The notional value of options open interest on Bitcoin has fallen from approximately $52 billion to about $28 billion.Although many traders continue to express expectations of future price increases by buying call options, the position structure on Ethereum shows a different pattern: previously, long futures positions were often hedged with put options, but such hedging combinations are now being unwound one after another, and deleveraging continues to advance.