{"id":33501,"date":"2020-12-16T17:21:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T15:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=33501"},"modified":"2025-08-28T14:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T11:07:20","slug":"cme-to-add-ethereum-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/cme-to-add-ethereum-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"CME to add Ethereum futures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago-based futures exchange (CME), focused on large players, will add Ethereum futures, according to a company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmegroup.com\/media-room\/press-releases\/2020\/12\/16\/cme_group_to_launchetherfuturesonfebruary82021.html?utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=organic_social&#038;utm_campaign=ether_futures&#038;utm_content=20201216_press_release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">\u0441\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0438 <\/a>\u043a\u043e\u043c\u043f\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0438. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Trading in the new product will begin on 8 February 2021. Settlements will be based on the ETH\/USD reference rate.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives said that the addition of Ethereum contracts was driven by demand and &#8220;sustained growth&#8221; of the Bitcoin futures market.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, CME Group&#8217;s managing director Tim McCourt said plans to test the possibility of launching Ethereum futures; at that time there was no talk of actual listing.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, CME Group launched futures on the Bitcoin index in December 2017.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2020, the open interest (OI) in Bitcoin futures on CME came <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/cme-bitcoin-futures-open-interest-nears-1-billion\">close to the $1 billion mark<\/a>.<\/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 the full 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>The Chicago-based futures exchange CME, focused on large players, will add Ethereum futures, according to a company statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[383,1168,46],"class_list":["post-33501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cme-group","tag-crypto-derivatives","tag-ethereum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33501","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=33501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33503,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33501\/revisions\/33503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}