{"id":31920,"date":"2020-11-17T19:34:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T17:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31920"},"modified":"2025-08-28T06:06:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:06:01","slug":"cme-bitcoin-futures-open-interest-nears-1-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/cme-bitcoin-futures-open-interest-nears-1-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"CME bitcoin futures open interest nears $1 billion."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open interest in Bitcoin futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has edged close to the $1 billion mark. Analysts at Arcane Research have noted this.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The open interest (OI) on CME hit a new all-time high, surpassing August\u2019s levels.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_116817\" style=\"width: 817px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116817\" class=\"wp-image-116817 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-352.png\" alt=\"\u041e\u0442\u043a\u0440\u044b\u0442\u044b\u0439 \u0438\u043d\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0441 \u043f\u043e \u0431\u0438\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0438\u043d-\u0444\u044c\u044e\u0447\u0435\u0440\u0441\u0430\u043c \u043d\u0430 CME \u043f\u0440\u0438\u0431\u043b\u0438\u0437\u0438\u043b\u0441\u044f \u043a $1 \u043c\u043b\u0440\u0434\" width=\"807\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-352.png 807w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-352-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-352-768x541.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 807px) 100vw, 807px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-116817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Arcane Research, skew.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe aggregated open interest in the Bitcoin futures market also rose over the week and is now on track for new all-time highs. The total OI for futures on the leading cryptocurrency currently stands at $6.3 billion,\u201d the experts said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Block analyst Larry Cermak noted that on CME there are more than 100 players, each with at least 25 BTC of open interest.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">CME\u2019s open interest is likely going to surpass $1 billion in open interest today. There are now more than 100 total reportable traders that held at least 25 BTC worth of open interest. Not a small feat. And OI now 50% higher than BitMEX\u2019s BTC OI. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JIvZthVH8Z\">pic.twitter.com\/JIvZthVH8Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Larry Cermak (@lawmaster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lawmaster\/status\/1328677135091965952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 17, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOpen interest on CME is now 50% higher than BitMEX,\u201d the expert said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>OKEx leads the field in open interest. It is followed by Binance and CME, which account for about 15% of the total OI in the segment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_116818\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116818\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116818\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/skew_exchange_btc_futures_open_interest_bn-2.png\" alt=\"\u041e\u0442\u043a\u0440\u044b\u0442\u044b\u0439 \u0438\u043d\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0441 \u043f\u043e \u0431\u0438\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0438\u043d-\u0444\u044c\u044e\u0447\u0435\u0440\u0441\u0430\u043c \u043d\u0430 CME \u043f\u0440\u0438\u0431\u043b\u0438\u0437\u0438\u043b\u0441\u044f \u043a $1 \u043c\u043b\u0440\u0434\" width=\"1200\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/skew_exchange_btc_futures_open_interest_bn-2.png 1200w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/skew_exchange_btc_futures_open_interest_bn-2-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/skew_exchange_btc_futures_open_interest_bn-2-1024x572.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/skew_exchange_btc_futures_open_interest_bn-2-768x429.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-116818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data: skew.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Earlier today ForkLog reported that the price of Bitcoin, for the first time since January 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-price-hits-17700\">broke through<\/a> the $17,000 mark.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forkloglive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog FEED<\/a> \u2014 all the news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open interest in CME Bitcoin futures has edged close to the $1 billion mark, according to Arcane Research analysts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[383,1168],"class_list":["post-31920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cme-group","tag-crypto-derivatives"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31922,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31920\/revisions\/31922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}