Open Interest
Derivatives
Total notional open interest in BTC derivatives (USD). Rising OI alongside price means leverage is building — a setup for volatile liquidations.
Current Value
$7,759,180,592
As of
2026-10-16
Z-Score
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Signal
No threshold
Current Open Interest reading
As of 2026-10-16, Bitcoin’s Open Interest is $7.8B, compared with $8.3B one year earlier (2026-09-18). The series has 29 daily readings from 2026-09-18 to 2026-10-16, computed from our own full-archive Bitcoin node and refreshed every day.
Historical extremes
The highest Open Interest on record is $9.5B on 2026-09-22; the lowest is $7.6B on 2026-10-09. Readings near either end of that range have historically coincided with cycle turning points — use the chart above to see where today sits relative to past extremes.
Read it with
- Funding Rate — Perpetual-swap funding rate.
- Annualized Basis — Annualized futures basis (premium of futures over spot).
- BTC Price — Bitcoin price (USD)
- MVRV — Market Value to Realized Value.
- SOPR — Spent Output Profit Ratio.
Data & method
Source: computed from raw UTXO data on OnChainLab’s own Bitcoin node — no third-party data vendor. Category: Derivatives. Last updated 2026-10-16. The full series is free to download as JSON or as part of the full daily CSV, and the published dataset is cryptographically committed — you can verify it yourself. Browse all metrics.