Crypto Options IV Skew & Term Structure API
The shape of the crypto implied-volatility surface, computed live from Deribit's public option book — no key, nothing stored. A single at-the-money number hides what the options market is really saying. The skew endpoint returns, for a currency (BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP) and expiry, the ATM implied vol, the implied vols of an out-of-the-money put and call at a chosen moneyness, the risk reversal (call IV minus put IV — positive means calls are bid and upside is favoured, negative means puts are bid and the market is paying up for downside protection) and the butterfly (the average of the wings minus ATM — how convex the smile is). The termstructure endpoint returns the ATM implied vol for every listed expiry, so you see whether near-dated vol sits above far-dated (backwardation, stress) or below (contango, the calm default). The smile endpoint returns the full implied-vol-by-strike curve for one expiry — the classic volatility smile. This is the volatility-surface analytics cut for crypto — distinct from the raw per-contract option chain, the max-pain / open-interest positioning view, the realised-volatility series and the US-equity put/call APIs in the catalogue. Currency is BTC, ETH, SOL or XRP; expiry is a Deribit code like 26JUN26 (omit for the nearest).
api.oanor.com/optionsskew-api
