{"id":23401,"date":"2025-04-24T17:59:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T14:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/cme-announces-launch-of-xrp-futures-from-ripple\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T14:59:42","slug":"cme-announces-launch-of-xrp-futures-from-ripple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/cme-announces-launch-of-xrp-futures-from-ripple\/","title":{"rendered":"CME Announces Launch of XRP Futures from Ripple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) has revealed plans to launch XRP token-based futures from Ripple on May 19, pending regulatory approval.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Starting May 19, trade regulated, capital-efficient futures on XRP, available in larger- and micro-sized contracts, so you can scale your exposure with greater precision and flexibility. <\/p>\n<p>More on XRP futures \u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SzDtBmkG7r\">https:\/\/t.co\/SzDtBmkG7r<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BDJRzYSvTd\">pic.twitter.com\/BDJRzYSvTd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CME Group (@CMEGroup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CMEGroup\/status\/1915412921355583954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Traders will have the opportunity to trade contracts in two sizes: 2500 XRP (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/ru\">$5475<\/a> at the time of writing) and 50,000 XRP ($109,500).<\/p>\n<p>Settlements for the derivatives will be conducted daily in cash, based on the CME CF XRP-Dollar reference rate.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cAs innovations in the digital asset landscape continue to evolve, market participants are seeking regulated derivative instruments to manage risks across a broader spectrum of tokens,\u201d stated CME&#8217;s Head of Crypto Products, Giovanni Vicioso.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Since December 2017, the platform has been trading Bitcoin contracts. In 2021, CME added Ethereum products.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the world&#8217;s largest derivatives exchange <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/cme-to-launch-solana-futures\">launched<\/a> Solana-based futures.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in the media, the platform <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/cme-to-potentially-launch-xrp-and-sol-futures\">planned<\/a> to begin trading contracts on XRP and SOL as early as February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) has revealed plans to launch XRP token-based futures from Ripple on May 19, pending regulatory approval. Starting May 19, trade regulated, capital-efficient futures on XRP, available in larger- and micro-sized contracts, so you can scale your exposure with greater precision and flexibility. More on XRP futures \u27a1\ufe0f https:\/\/t.co\/SzDtBmkG7r pic.twitter.com\/BDJRzYSvTd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[383,609,112],"class_list":["post-23401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cme-group","tag-futures","tag-ripple"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}