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Bitcoin bulls control Friday's $1.7B monthly options expiry
29.7.2021
Bitcoin's surge above $40,000 boosted the bulls' advantage in this month's $1.7 billion options expiry
Billionaire SBF says FTX may one day buy Goldman Sachs and CME
14.7.2021
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has said that acquiring Goldman Sachs and CME “is not out of the question,” if the exchange beats competition from Binance and Coinbase
CME Group’s Micro Bitcoin Futures Reach 1 Million Contracts Traded
27.6.2021
CME Group’s(Chicago Mercantile Exchange) micro-bitcoin futures have already traded more than one million contracts. This instrument allows institutions and retail traders to invest in the crypto asset at a lower price point of 0.1 bitcoin. The contract has only been available for seven weeks...
CME Micro Bitcoin futures surpass 1M contracts as institutional speculation grows
27.6.2021
The Chicago-based derivatives market launched its Micro Bitcoin futures product in early May, providing investors with smaller positioning opportunities
Goldman Sachs to offer Bitcoin futures trading in partnership with Galaxy Digital
18.6.2021
Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital will serve as the counterparty entity for Goldman Sachs’s Bitcoin futures trading product
Bitcoin price edges higher as Fed inflation meeting sends DXY to 2-month high
17.6.2021
The U.S. dollar appeared to benefit from fresh comments by Jerome Powell, while Bitcoin remains frustrated
Bull trap fears engulf Bitcoin market as BTC paints CME gap below $40K
14.6.2021
Spot Bitcoin prices rallied towards $40,000 over the weekend but hinted at bullish exhaustion as CME Bitcoin futures opened Monday with a $1,500-plus gap
Here’s what would happen to Bitcoin if the government tried to take it over
9.6.2021
Fear mounted as the FBI announced that it helped Colonial Pipeline retrieve a portion of its BTC ransom payment, but can the government actually take over Bitcoin and the network?
Bitcoin bears dominate Friday’s $2.1B BTC options expiry with a $585M lead
26.5.2021
Bitcoin price is struggling to regain the $42,000 support as bears hold a $585 million advantage ahead of Friday's $2.1 billion BTC options expiry
Data shows the ‘Bitcoin price drops ahead of CME expiries’ claim is a myth
15.5.2021
Many traders believe the narrative that Bitcoin price drops ahead of CME BTC futures expiries, but data shows the trend is all bark and no bite
100,000 Micro Bitcoin Futures Trade on CME Exchange in First Six Days
12.5.2021
More than 100,000 micro bitcoin futures traded on CME in the first six days since launch, the exchange has revealed. CME’s global head of equity index says that this new smaller contract, along with the full-size bitcoin futures, strengthens the exchange’s ability to help a broad array...
Goldman Sachs Launches Bitcoin Derivatives Trading as ‘Institutional Demand Continues to Grow Significantly’
6.5.2021
Investment bank Goldman Sachs has reportedly begun offering a bitcoin investment product to clients. The firm has opened up trading with non-deliverable forwards, a bitcoin derivatives product. To hedge against the cryptocurrency’s volatility, Goldman Sachs will trade bitcoin futures on...
CME Group introduces micro Bitcoin futures
3.5.2021
The new contract is worth one-tenth the size of a single Bitcoin
Over $4 Billion in Bitcoin Options Set to Expire Friday, BTC Derivatives Markets Still Frothy
27.4.2021
Bitcoin options markets are set to see a large expiry on Friday as more than 77,000 BTC worth over $4 billion in derivatives contracts are set to expire. The lion’s share of bitcoin options stems from the derivatives trading platform Deribit, as the exchange has more than $11 billion in open...
Ethereum Day: Berlin Upgrade, Price ATH, Gas Drop, and CME Futures Record
15.4.2021
This Thursday has been quite an eventful day for the most popular smart contract platform, Ethereum (ETH), as its Berlin upgrade went live, its native token, ETH, hit a new all-time high, gas dropped lower, and the CME Group revealed the records reached by their ETH futures offering.
On April...
BTC Futures Open Interest Hits $23B, Binance Captures Lion’s Share, Signals Say 43% Chance of $64K Bitcoin by Month’s End
6.4.2021
Bitcoin futures open interest on Monday has crossed $23 billion according to data recorded on April 5. The crypto asset exchange Binance has taken the lead as far as open interest in bitcoin futures is concerned with a massive $10.5 billion in open interest. Binance Captures the Bitcoin Futures...
One-Tenth of a Bitcoin: Derivatives Giant CME Group to Launch Micro BTC Futures Contract
31.3.2021
The American global markets company Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) has announced the launch of a new bitcoin futures product on May 3, 2021, if U.S. regulators approve the product. The new contract is a micro bitcoin futures product that represents 0.1 bitcoin rather than CME’s other...
CME Group set to launch Micro Bitcoin futures
30.3.2021
The new futures contract will launch on May 3, 2021, pending regulatory approval
CME Bitcoin futures numbers saw a 57% uptick in January
24.2.2021
January proved significant in terms of Bitcoin futures trading average daily volume for the CME
Fuel for a broader Bitcoin rally? BTC dip fills futures gap, liquidating $1 billion
22.2.2021
A CME gap closed at around $55,504 as the price of Bitcoin steeply dropped following the new weekly candle