{"id":20203,"date":"2025-04-02T12:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T12:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=20203"},"modified":"2025-04-02T12:18:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T12:18:02","slug":"cme-crypto-derivatives-average-volume-hit-record-11-3b-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=20203","title":{"rendered":"CME Crypto Derivatives Average Volume Hit Record $11.3B in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>CME Group (CME)  saw record activity in its cryptocurrency derivatives markets during the first quarter of the year, driven by increased interest in micro-sized contracts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmegroup.com\/media-room\/press-releases\/2025\/4\/02\/cme_group_sets_newall-timequarterlyadvrecordof298millioncontract.html?source=rss\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> average daily volume of 198,000 contracts for crypto products, representing $11.3 billion in notional value. It pointed to record highs across its micro ether futures, with 76,000 contracts being traded, as well as its BTC and ETH futures contracts with a volume of 18,000 and 13,000 contracts, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Trading in micro bitcoin futures also stood out with a 113% year-over-year increase, hitting 77,000 average daily volume (ADV).The company\u2019s cryptocurrency contracts were already at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/02\/04\/cme-s-monthly-crypto-volumes-hits-record-high-in-january-surges-180\" target=\"_blank\">record back in January.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The exchange\u2019s bitcoin and ether futures contracts have a notional value of 5 BTC and 50 ETH, respectively, their micro contracts represent only 0.1 of each cryptocurrency. This smaller size enables more precise trading and risk management.<\/p>\n<p>The record-setting crypto activity came as part of broader momentum across the derivatives giant\u2019s business. CME posted an all-time quarterly average daily volume of 29.8 million contracts in the first quarter, with records also set in U.S. Treasury futures, energy options, and agricultural contracts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CME Group (CME) saw record activity in its cryptocurrency derivatives markets during the first quarter of the year, driven by increased interest in micro-sized contracts. The company reported average daily volume of 198,000 contracts for crypto products, representing $11.3 billion in notional value. It pointed to record highs across its micro ether futures, with 76,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-20203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}