{"id":41786,"date":"2021-05-03T15:55:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T12:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=41786"},"modified":"2025-08-30T20:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T17:20:11","slug":"cme-group-launches-micro-bitcoin-futures-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/cme-group-launches-micro-bitcoin-futures-trading\/","title":{"rendered":"CME Group launches micro Bitcoin futures trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 3, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) launched trading of a new instrument tied to the first cryptocurrency: Micro Bitcoin futures.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Coming May 3 \u2013 get ready for the launch of Micro Bitcoin futures with a video series on contract basics, how it compares to the larger Bitcoin futures, and different ways to use it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/goMk7rij9z\">https:\/\/t.co\/goMk7rij9z<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XCz7spr7qF\">pic.twitter.com\/XCz7spr7qF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CME Group (@CMEGroup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CMEGroup\/status\/1388953890599677955?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The new futures contract, ticker MBT, cash-settled, is one-tenth of a bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the instrument in March, CME said the smaller contract would enable hedging price risks on the spot market and allow traders to employ trading strategies in an efficient and profitable way.<\/p>\n<p>On 13 January 2020, the exchange began trading Bitcoin options. On 8 February 2021 the platform <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/cme-launches-ethereum-futures\">added Ethereum<\/a> futures, the trading volume of which on the first day <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-futures-trading-on-cme-surpasses-30-million-on-the-first-day\">exceeded $30 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 3, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) launched trading in a new instrument based on the first cryptocurrency \u2014 Micro Bitcoin futures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41787,"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":[18,383,1168],"class_list":["post-41786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-cme-group","tag-crypto-derivatives"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41786","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=41786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41788,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41786\/revisions\/41788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}