The volatility of ether prices compared to bitcoin reaches the highest since the FTX crash

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Token, who has been in the shadow of Bitcoin for a long time, now becomes the new favorite.

TradingView data show that the propagation between the Volmex implicit volatility index (EVIV) and the Bitcoin (BVIV) index rose to 34%, the highest since November 2022. At the time, the FTX Stock Exchange disappeared, destroying billions of investors.

The widening of enlargement indicates that the market expects much greater price fluctuations for ether, and perhaps the wider cryptography market, compared to bitcoin in the coming weeks.

Ether recently surpassed Bitcoin in terms of price gains, largely due to the renewed institutional interest for cryptocurrency. In particular, in the past 24 hours, ether has increased by $ 8% to $ 2,728, outperforming almost all major cryptocurrencies, including the Bitcoin market leader, who only won 1%, according to Coindesk data.

“Ethereum is pumping with new funds. Over the past two weeks, ETFE Ethereum have attracted $ 812 million, the biggest amount since the start of this year,” said Alex Kuptsikevich, chief analyst of the FXPRO market in an email.

Distribution between Eviv and Bviv. (TradingView)

While the ETHER ETF entries have accelerated, the FNB BTC have managed to attract less than $ 400 million in the past two weeks, according to the Sosovalue data source.

According to the commercial company based in Singapore QCP, several factors have aligned themselves in favor of the ether bulls.

“Looking at the future, the Winds Macro align for ETH. With the act of engineering advancing in the American Senate, the discussion of Introduction on the Circle, Resurfacing and the Stablecoins obtaining a regulatory traction, the indigenous role of Ethereum in the Tokenization and the colony rails can be prepared for the oversized structure” market update.

The ether bias is also obvious because of the drunkenness of options, the ETH purchase options are negotiated at a bonus of at least 2% to 3% compared to the expiration of March 2027. On the contrary, BTC calls are negotiated at 0.5% to 1.5% premium, according to the Amberdata data source.

In other words, traders pay more for upward exposure in ether compared to bitcoin.

“The ETH options markets jumped with a 30 -day call of appeal reaching 6.24% and the funding rates reaching 0.009%, while the term volatility structure was reinforced once again,” said Block Scholes, the analytical company, in its daily report.

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