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BlackRock 'Dabbles' In Bitcoin, CBDC Card, Ethereum Futures + More News
17.2.2021
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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Rick Rieder, BlackRock's Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income, told CNBC that the world’s largest asset manager started...
CME Ethereum Futures, Explained
11.2.2021
Ethereum futures are now live on the CME exchange. But what does that mean exactly and how do you trade them?
Bitcoin Futures Open Interest Smashes $15 Billion, CME Registers Over $33 Million in ETH Contracts
9.2.2021
Following the revelation that Tesla now owns $1.5 billion in bitcoin, crypto spot markets across the board skyrocketed. Data shows that crypto derivatives markets also saw significant demand as bitcoin futures open interest tapped $15 billion on Monday. Moreover, this week was the start of ethereum...
Industry Players Weigh In As CME Group’s Ethereum Futures Go Live
8.2.2021
The CME Group’s ethereum (ETH) futures offering has gone live, meeting a 6pm Eastern Time (UTC 11am) target – and marking a historic first for the second-largest cryptoasset by market capitalization.
The major derivatives exchange said that its liquidity backers for the financially settled...
Ethereum Futures Are Now Trading on CME
8.2.2021
The Chicago exchange has now traded 77 ETH contracts after going live on Sunday
CME Ethereum futures go live, Bitcoin caps its best week ever: 5 things to watch this week
8.2.2021
With its best-ever weekly close in the bag, Bitcoin is set to vie with Ether and the new "altseason" for supremacy this week
CME Group to Launch Ethereum Futures in February Pending Regulatory Approval
16.12.2020
On December 16, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) announced that CME Group is expanding the company’s crypto derivatives and plans to launch Ethereum futures. The company said the launch is based on increasing client demand and aims to launch the new ether derivatives products on February...
Ethereum smashes past $600 as CME unveils ETH futures product
16.12.2020
Ethereum reclaims $600 price levels as the CME announces Ether futures citing "client demand."
Bitcoin Derivatives See Record Highs, Year-End BTC Options Show 29% Chance Price Crosses $20K
20.11.2020
As the crypto economy sets its sights on half of a trillion in USD value, digital currency derivatives markets are swelling significantly. Bitcoin futures have surpassed a six-month high at $52 billion, while the crypto asset’s options markets have jumped massively too. Additionally, bitcoin...
Crypto Derivatives Set New Records, ETH Futures Set All-Time Highs, CME Open Interest Spikes
5.8.2020
Digital currency derivatives have been on fire during the last two weeks as ethereum futures volumes touched an all-time high on Sunday. The popular derivatives trading platform Deribit saw 1.9 million ETH contracts traded and CME Group is now the third-largest exchange in terms of bitcoin futures...
Time For ETH to Rise and Shine as Futures Trading Now Available in US
16.5.2020
ErisX rolls out CFTC-regulated, physically-settled ETH futures contracts to U.S. traders, but positive spot price action is not a certainty
TD Ameritrade-Backed ErisX Joins Ethereum Futures Market
12.5.2020
Major online trading platform TD Ameritrade-backed American crypto exchange ErisX starts offering regulated futures contracts with ethereum (ETH) as the underlying asset.
The new futures contract will be based on the ETH/USD spot rate and will be listed with monthly and quarterly expirations,...
Crypto Exchange ErisX Launches First US Ether Futures Contracts
12.5.2020
Since being granted a DCO by the CFTC and offering digital asset futures trading in December, ErisX has expanded its offering to ETH
Bitcoin, Ethereum Futures Volumes Decline Along with Decreasing Volatility
1.4.2020
Along with decreasing volatility in the spot price of major cryptoassets, trading volumes in both bitcoin (BTC) and ethereum (ETH) futures contracts have also been on the decline across exchanges since the crypto market crash in mid-March.
As would be expected, the futures market was most active...
What the CFTC Chairman Actually Said About Ether Futures and Ethereum 2.0
15.11.2019
Speaking at CoinDesk's Invest: NYC, Heath Tarbert addressed ethereum futures markets and the move to a proof-of-stake model with Ethereum 2.0
CME Bitcoin Futures Sees Institutional Interest and Demand from Asia
18.10.2019
Global markets business CME Group said that institutional interest toward the firm’s Bitcoin futures is thriving and 2019’s third-quarter data showed a record number of open interest. Moreover, despite the lackluster start, the Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) Bakkt platform...
Ethereum Futures: The Next Big Derivative to Hit the Market?
17.10.2019
Ether futures are coming soon, will institutional investors follow?