Bitcoin surges past $24,000 on CME launch of BTC event contracts

On Mar. 13, American derivatives marketplace CME announced the launch of Bitcoin (BTC) futures event contracts. The exchange, which is fully regulated and has cleared administrative review, will hence...

CME Group opens trading for event contracts on bitcoin futures

Derivatives trading giant CME Group opened trading of event contracts on bitcoin futures on Monday. The new product will add to the firm’s existing suite of 10 event contracts tied to its ...

Crypto derivatives on the CME reach new milestones amid regulatory uncertainty

Bitcoin and ether derivatives trading volumes in dollar terms continued to climb higher in February.  Futures and options trading volume for bitcoin rose by about 13%, and ether’s volumes ...

Bitcoin Futures on CME Outpace Those on Binance to Trade at Widest Premium Since November 2021

Bitcoin has surged over 45% so far this year, outperforming traditional risky assets, including Wall Street’s tech-heavy Nasdaq index, by a significant margin. Futures typically trade at a premi...

More News That Points To No Recession

Coils of copper wire rods in a storage facility. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP Its now more than half a year since Wall Street’s Cassandras warned of an imminent u...

Weird Winter Weather Set To Send Wheat Prices Back Higher

MYRONIVKA, UKRAINE – JULY 29: A stork flies above a wheat field as a combine harvester of TVK Seed … [+] agricultural company harvests wheat on July 29, 2022 not far from Myronivka, Ukrain...

CME Group Announces New Bitcoin (BTC) Futures Contracts

Alex Dovbnya CME Group, world’s largest futures exchange, has announced plans to expand its event contracts to include Bitcoin futures, providing more accessible and transparent way for investor...

CME Group Records Increased Demand for Crypto Products Despite Bear Market 

Terrence A. Duffy, chairman and CEO of leading derivatives marketplace Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), disclosed that his company has noticed some growth in demand for its crypto products since Nov...

CME Big Boss Terry Duffy Sees More Growth Amid Crypto Sell-Off

The crypto market suffered in 2022 as many assets fell from their 2021 all-time highs. The bearish trend reduced people’s confidence in digital assets resulting in a panic sell-off of tokens. However,...

CME CEO Remains Optimistic About Crypto Despite Sell-Off

Alex Dovbnya In recent interview with CNBC, Duffy spoke about current state of market and impact of Federal Reserve’s recent rate hikes CME Group CEO Terry Duffy remains optimistic about the fut...

Bitcoin BTC Favored Over Ether ETH by CME Traders in 2023 So Far , Arcane Research Report Shows

Joe DiPasquale, CEO of crypto fund manager BitBull Capital, told CoinDesk that institutional investors’ preference for BTC represented “the safest choice in a bear market.” He noted that Ethereum’s up...

Bitcoin price pares weekend gains as another CME ‘gap’ lurks below $20K

Bitcoin (BTC) struggled to maintain bullish momentum on Jan. 30 as the countdown to the monthly close kept the market nervous. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView BTC price see...

Bitcoin futures open interest at CME reaches 20% of overall BTC futures OI

Quick Take Cryptoslate reported on Jan. 24 that the CME exchange saw 84,000 Bitcoin, or $2 billion, allocated in futures contracts in the last 24 hours. A further 2,715 BTC were allocated into futures...

Bitcoin Open Interest on CME Futures Nears Record Highs

The open interest for Bitcoin CME futures is nearing its all-time high. The value is 21% at the moment, with three-month CME futures at a premium of 0.6%. There are signs that the crypto market may be...

CME exchange sees 84,000 BTC or $2B allocated in futures contracts in last 24 hours

Definition Future’s open interest is the total amount of funds (USD Value) allocated in open futures contracts. Quick Take As CryptoSlate has discussed in previous insights, futures open interes...

CME Group to Roll out Metaverse Reference Rates and Indices Soon

Anurag is working as a fundamental writer for The Coin Republic since 2021. He likes to exercise his curious muscles and research deep into a topic. Though he covers various aspects of the crypto indu...

Three Metaverse Reference Rates From CME Group

Derivatives marketplace CME Group is planning to develop reference rates in addition to real-time indexes for a total of three distinct crypto assets that are part of the metaverse. This would make it...

CME Group and CF Benchmarks Teams Up to Launch New Metaverse Reference Rates

The move to provide the three new metaverse reference rates comes off as a unique contribution by the CME Group and CF Benchmarks to help with the evolution of the Web 3.0 ecosystem. American global m...

CME launches reference rates for Axie Infinity, Chiliz and Decentraland

The US’s largest and most diversified derivatives market, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) announced the launch of reference rates for Axie Infinity (AXS), Chiliz (CHZ) and Decentraland (MANA) on...

CME Group and CF Benchmarks releases three new DeFi reference rates and real-time indices 

Three new DeFi reference rates and real-time indices were revealed on Tuesday via the Twitter account of Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group, the world’s largest derivatives exchange, in collabora...

CME Group, CF Benchmarks launch new DeFi reference rates for Aave, Curve and Synthetix

CME Group and CF Benchmarks launched new DeFi reference rates and real-time indices for Aave, Curve, and Synthetix. The reference rates and real-time indices are not tradeable products, but tran...

Jamie Dimon Predicts a Recession. M2 Money Supply Helps Make the Case.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon raised concerns about the economy sliding into a recession yet again on Tuesday. While the U.S. economy continues to be the strongest globally, rising interest rates and...

CME Group in More DeFi Products Amid Crypto Downturns 

  Introduction Decentralized finance (DeFi) is giving the Blockchain based industry renewed hope ever since cryptocurrency exchange FTX filed for bankruptcy, wiping out billions 0f dollars of customer...

CME Group CEO Accused CFTC Official of Taking Bribe 

Terry Duffy addressed Sam Bankman Fried as an ” absolute fraud.”    Terry Duffy, Chief Executive Officer of Chicago Mercantile Exchange(CME), while discussing FTX collapse with Fox News, noted that he...

CME Head Appears To Say He Bribed CTFC Official

In an appearance on Fox News on Wednesday to discuss the FTX collapse, CME Group boss Terry Duffy appeared to say that he bribes or bribed a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CTFC) official. Tucke...

Wall Street Is Saying ‘No’ to a Bitcoin Rebound. Bearish Bets Are Piling Up.

Bitcoin has been licking its wounds from two-year lows in the wake of crypto exchange FTX’s bankruptcy this month. Sentiment may be cautiously improving in the digital-asset world, but investors on Wa...

CME Group’s CEO Called FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried an ‘Absolute Fraud’ When They Met in March – Bitcoin News

According to the CEO of CME Group, Terry Duffy, the executive met with former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) last March at a conference, and Duffy ended up calling the FTX frontman a “fraud.” When Du...

CME partners with CryptoQuant to provide on-chain data

Financial institutions and hedge funds will now be able to access on-chain cryptocurrency data via the CME Group Datamine service provided directly by CryptoQuant. The partnership, which dates back to...

CME Claims Record Ethereum Volumes – Trustnodes

Wall Street’s futures exchange, CME, has announced that the third quarter broke all records in ethereum futures volumes and crypto volumes overall. “Q3 2022 average daily Open Interest (OI) reached a ...

CryptoQuant Becomes First On-Chain Data Provider for CME Group

– Advertisement – CryptoQuant, a leading on-chain data platform, has become the official provider of on-chain data for CME Group’s Datamine. This on-demand platform allows traditional fina...

CME Group Files for Futures Commission Merchant Status

6 hours ago | 2 mins read Bitcoin News CME submitted the registration back in August. The CFTC has not yet granted FTX clearance organization status for derivatives. The WSJ stated that the CME Group,...

Clash between FTX and CME over crypto derivatives

The world’s largest derivatives exchange, the Chicago-based CME Group, has officially applied to become a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM).  The Wall Street Journal reports this, noting that with thi...