Options positioning in major altcoins pointed to diverging near-term expectations on Thursday, with Ethereum (ETH) showing heavy downside hedging into expiry, Solana (SOL) retaining a comparatively constructive bias, and XRP (XRP) drawing short-term rebound interest despite a largely neutral open-interest mix. Data from Deribit, the largest crypto options exchange, showed that as of 02:40 ET on July 17 (06:40 UTC), same-day expiring open interest totaled 131,684 contracts for Ethereum (about $242.93 million), 20,935 contracts for Solana (about $15.
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