IBIT Enters High 10 Checklist Of US Shares With Most Choices Contracts

BlackRock’s US spot Bitcoin ETF (exchange-traded fund) has cracked into the highest ten listing of US-listed shares with the best variety of both energetic or open choices contracts.

Based on information from optioncharts.io, the variety of contracts tied to the BTC ETF, which trades beneath the ticker image “IBIT,” reached 7,714,246. This tally ranks IBIT at quantity 9 on the listing. Amongst shares alone, IBIT choices rank second in open curiosity as properly. 

Choices are by-product contracts that give the purchaser the precise to purchase or promote the underlying asset at a predetermined worth at a later date. A name supplies the precise to purchase whereas a put possibility gives the precise to promote. 

IBIT’s transfer into the highest ten listing of probably the most contracts amongst US-listed shares comes simply over a 12 months after choices for the spot Bitcoin ETF debuted available in the market. 

Since that launch, merchants have used the choices for hedging, hypothesis, and yield-generating methods equivalent to coated calls. 

IBIT Choices Extra Actively Traded Than Gold ETF Choices

IBIT choices have additionally been busier than the SPDR gold ETF contracts. That is although the favored commodity’s worth has soared 50% this 12 months, whereas Bitcoin’s worth has dropped over 2% throughout the identical interval. 

BTC worth efficiency over the previous 12 months (Supply: CoinMarketCap)

Choices tied to the SPDR Gold Shares ETF stood at 5,151,654 contracts on Tuesday, which is way decrease than the overall contracts for IBIT on the day. 

In the meantime, the variety of choices tied to tech giants like Intel, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, and Tesla, and ETFs tied to rising markets and 20-year Treasury notes, additionally got here in decrease than IBIT’s complete. 

Nasdaq Requests Larger Place And Train Limits For IBIT Choices

Demand for choices tied to IBIT has been sturdy in 2025. This prompted Nasdaq ISE to file a proposal with the US Securities and Change Fee (SEC) to develop the buying and selling capability of choices tied to the Bitcoin ETF.

In a Federal Register discover in direction of the tip of November, the alternate requested that place and train limits for IBIT choices be raised from the present 250,000 contracts per aspect to at least one million contracts. This locations IBIT in the identical liquidity tier as main world fairness benchmarks equivalent to iShares MSCI Rising Markets and iShares China Giant-Cap ETF.

Good catch.. new proposal to lift place limits on IBIT optons to 1 million contracts. They simply raised the restrict to 250,000 (from 25,000) in July. $IBIT is now the largest bitcoin choices market on the planet by open curiosity. https://t.co/oxaUtP9Kyc

— Eric Balchunas (@EricBalchunas) November 26, 2025

In its submitting, Nasdaq ISE included an in depth evaluation evaluating IBIT’s market cap, common every day quantity and liquidity to ETFs that already suppose a million contract limits. It additionally famous that even when there’s a absolutely exercised place of 1 million contracts, this might equal simply 7.5% of IBIT’s float and simply 0.284% of all BTC in existence. 

IBIT Breaks Outflows Streak

The surging variety of choices contracts tied to IBIT comes because the spot Bitcoin ETF managed to interrupt its outflows streak. 

Based on information from Farside Buyers, IBIT noticed $120.1 million internet every day inflows within the newest buying and selling session, which was the best quantity posted by the entire US Bitcoin ETFs for the day. 

That adopted two consecutive days of outflows for the BTC funding product, which noticed greater than $170 million depart its reserves. Even with these latest outflows, IBIT nonetheless leads the market when it comes to cumulative inflows. 

Since US spot Bitcoin ETFs launched in early 2024, $62.620 billion has flowed into IBIT. The subsequent-biggest cumulative inflows of $12.127 billion belong to Constancy’s FBTC product.

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