{"id":66047,"date":"2022-08-19T13:39:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T10:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=66047"},"modified":"2025-09-06T23:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T20:17:07","slug":"cme-group-to-list-ethereum-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/cme-group-to-list-ethereum-options\/","title":{"rendered":"CME Group to list Ethereum options"},"content":{"rendered":"

On September 12, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) \u0437\u0430\u043f\u0443\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0442<\/a> options on Ethereum futures in anticipation of The Merge<\/a>. This will occur after regulatory approval.<\/p>\n

The migration of the blockchain of the second-largest cryptocurrency to the Proof-of-Stake consensus algorithm Proof-of-Stake<\/a> is expected 15-16 \u0441\u0435\u043d\u0442\u044f\u0431\u0440\u044f<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u00abAs the long-awaited Ethereum merge approaches, market participants are turning to CME Group to manage price risk. In this regard, options will offer greater flexibility and additional precision\u00bb,<\/em> \u2014 said Tim McCourt, head of equities and FX products at CME Group.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The new contract will correspond to one Ethereum futures contract of 50 ETH.<\/p>\n

Earlier, on February 8, 2021, the exchange added Ethereum futures<\/a>, and on December 6 launched mikrofutures on the second-largest cryptocurrency<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In March 2022, the exchange announced<\/a> the appearance of options on microfutures based on Bitcoin and Ethereum.<\/p>\n

At the end of July, influential Chinese miner Chandler Guo voiced the idea of a fork<\/a> with the emergence of an Ethereum fork that will continue to operate on the Proof-of-Work (PoW) algorithm. The resulting asset ETHW will allow miners to continue operating after the merge.<\/p>\n

Earlier, supporters of the PoW fork of Ethereum called it \u00abinevitable\u00bb<\/a>. However CoinShares analysts were skeptical about the prospects of the cryptocurrency, calling it \u00abunviable\u00bb<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read ForkLog’s Bitcoin news in our Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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