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CME Group’s average crypto derivatives volume hit record $12 billion in 2025

CME's overall average daily volume across asset classes hit an all-time high of 28.1 million contracts, with crypto being a key contributor.

Trading screen with price monitors and charts (Yashowardhan Singh/Unsplash)

Markets

CME Group Expands Crypto Derivatives With Spot-Quoted XRP and Solana Futures

These are CME’s smallest crypto contracts to date, aimed at active participants who prefer to trade in spot market terms without managing contract expiries or rollovers.

Price and depth chart on laptop (Austin Distel/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Institutions Drive CME Crypto Options to $9B as ETH, SOL, XRP Set Records

Open interest across CME’s regulated markets jumped 27% since Oct. 10, signaling growing conviction among large traders.

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Finance

CME Group to Launch 24/7 Crypto Futures and Options Trading in Early 2026

The move, pending regulatory approval, would align trading on the key institutional derivatives marketplace with the nonstop nature of crypto markets.

CME Group Headquarters (CoinDesk Archives)

Markets

Ether Futures Open Interest on CME Hits Record $10B, Hinting at Institutional Resurgence

Institutional interest in ether is growing, with large open interest holders hitting a record of 101 early this month.

CME's ETH OI hits record high (Chicago Board of Trade, 1973, photo courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration.)

Finance

Google Advances Its Layer-1 Blockchain; Here’s What We Know So Far

Rich Widmann, head of Web3 strategy at Google, outlined on Tuesday how his firm's upcoming layer-1 blockchain for finance differs from Stripe's Temp and Circle's Arc.

Google's Mountain View headquarters

Markets

CME Exploring 24/7 Crypto Trading Expansion, Says Memecoin Products Are Off the Table

Though recently expanding into Solana and XRP futures the derivatives exchange giant is drawing the line at memecoins, citing lack of real-world use.

CME Group Headquarters (CoinDesk Archives)

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CME Crypto Derivatives Average Volume Hit Record $11.3B in Q1

A surge in micro futures trading pushed CME’s crypto derivatives volume to the new quarterly record.

CME Group Headquarters (CoinDesk Archives)

Finance

Derivatives Trading Giant CME Group to Test Tokenization with Google Cloud

The company aims to modernize financial markets through asset tokenization using Google Cloud Universal Ledger.

CME Group Headquarters (CoinDesk Archives)

Markets

CME Group to Launch Solana Futures as Demand for Crypto Derivatives Grows

CME Group expands its crypto offerings with Solana futures, set to debut in March.

CME Group Headquarters (CoinDesk Archives)