Originally published at: https://www.channel-sea.cc/crypto-options-trading-volume-surged-in-january-as-prices-fell-coindesk/
January was a gloomy month for digital assets, but the crypto options market boomed. Deribit, the biggest crypto options exchange, wrote in a newsletter to investors on Thursday that the volume of option trades on its platform in ether (ETH), the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain, rose to a record 5.4 million in January,…