CME Group Announces Launch of Euro-denominated Bitcoin and Ether Futureswww.cmegroup.com/media-room/press-releases/2022/8/29/cme_group_announceslaunchofeuro-denominatedbitcoinandetherfuture.html
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Bitcoin Euro and Ether Euro futures contracts will be sized at five bitcoin and 50 ether per contract. These new contracts will be cash-settled, based on the CME CF Bitcoin-Euro Reference Rate and CME CF Ether-Euro Reference Rate, which serve as once-a-day reference rates of the euro-denominated price of bitcoin and ether.
Here's an article from The Block:
Volumes for CME bitcoin futures have trended downward since peaking in October. Last month, CME bitcoin futures volumes were a reported $38 billion, down from a record of more than $108 billion, according to data compiled by The Block Research.
Derivatives marketplace CME goes live with euro-denominated bitcoin, ether futures https://www.theblock.co/post/166325/derivatives-marketplace-cme-goes-live-with-euro-denominated-bitcoin-ether-futures
And then here's an article on this, from The WSJ:
Dollar-denominated bitcoin futures, launched in 2017, had roughly 16,000 contracts worth of open interest on the exchange as of Friday. That compares to 520,000 for the Russell 2000 index of small cap stocks, 2.3 million for the benchmark S&P 500 and 715,000 for the euro.
You Can Now Bet on Bitcoin and Ether with Euro-Denominated Futures https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-news-today-08-29-2022/card/you-can-now-bet-on-bitcoin-and-ether-with-euro-denominated-futures-oRnfjVdABCe6Eu19saYX https://archive.ph/VmDs0
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