{"id":25021,"date":"2025-05-03T15:04:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T15:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=25021"},"modified":"2025-05-03T15:04:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T15:04:48","slug":"cme-group-crypto-derivatives-volume-soars-129-in-april-with-eth-leading-the-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=25021","title":{"rendered":"CME Group Crypto Derivatives Volume Soars 129% in April With ETH Leading the Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>CME Group\u2019s cryptocurrency derivatives market posted a steep increase in trading activity in April, reaching a new average daily volume (ADV) of 183,000 contracts worth $8.9 billion in notional terms, the firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cme-group-sets-new-adv-record-of-35-9-million-contracts-in-april-up-36-year-over-year-302444855.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That marks a 129% jump compared to the same month last year, suggesting growing institutional interest in crypto markets.<\/p>\n<p>Ether led the growth. CME\u2019s ether futures ADV surged 239% to 14,000 contracts, while micro ether futures climbed 165% to 63,000. Micro bitcoin futures followed with a 115% increase to 78,000 contracts.<\/p>\n<p>The CME\u2019s bitcoin and ether futures contracts have a larger notional value, of 5 BTC and 50 ETH, respectively. Micro contracts, meanwhile, enable more precise trading, representing just 0.1 of each cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange operator had already reported r<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/04\/02\/cme-crypto-derivatives-average-volume-hit-record-usd11-3b-in-q1\">ecord cryptocurrency derivatives volumes <\/a>in the first quarter of the year. For the month of April, its overall ADV reached a record 35.9 million contracts, rising 36% year-over-year.<\/p>\n<p>Ether, after significantly underperforming the wider cryptocurrency market, rose just 1.1% over the past 30 days, while the price of bitcoin rose 15.8%. The broader crypto market, measured through the coinDesk 20 (<a href=\"https:\/\/todayincrypto.coindesk.com\/cd20\">CD20<\/a>) index, saw a 12.1% rise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CME Group\u2019s cryptocurrency derivatives market posted a steep increase in trading activity in April, reaching a new average daily volume (ADV) of 183,000 contracts worth $8.9 billion in notional terms, the firm reported. That marks a 129% jump compared to the same month last year, suggesting growing institutional interest in crypto markets. Ether led the [&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-25021","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\/25021","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=25021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}