{"id":33729,"date":"2020-12-21T15:38:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T13:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=33729"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:20:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:20:02","slug":"cme-bitcoin-futures-open-interest-hits-record-1-47-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/cme-bitcoin-futures-open-interest-hits-record-1-47-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"CME Bitcoin futures open interest hits record $1.47 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open interest in Bitcoin futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) reached a new high at $1.47 billion.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The current reading is up 42% from a week ago ($1.03 billion).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Aggregated Open Interest of Bitcoin Futures\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.theblockcrypto.com\/data\/crypto-markets\/futures\/aggregated-open-interest-of-bitcoin-futures-daily\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Total open interest (OI) across major derivatives exchanges stands at $8.78 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The highest OI is on OKEx, followed by CME and Binance.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_120169\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120169\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120169\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/skew_exchange_btc_futures_open_interest_bn-4.png\" alt=\"Open interest in Bitcoin futures on the CME reached a record $1.47 billion\" width=\"1200\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/skew_exchange_btc_futures_open_interest_bn-4.png 1200w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/skew_exchange_btc_futures_open_interest_bn-4-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/skew_exchange_btc_futures_open_interest_bn-4-1024x572.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/skew_exchange_btc_futures_open_interest_bn-4-768x429.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-120169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/analytics.skew.com\/dashboard\/bitcoin-futures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">skew<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>There has been a noticeable uptick in institutional players (the Commercial category) at CME, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cftc.gov\/dea\/futures\/deacmesf.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CFTC data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?14\" data-telegram-post=\"forklog\/16629\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In early February, CME <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/cme-to-add-ethereum-futures\">will launch Ethereum futures trading<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open interest in Bitcoin futures on the CME reached a new high at $1.47 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33730,"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],"class_list":["post-33729","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":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33729","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=33729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33731,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33729\/revisions\/33731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}