{"id":67033,"date":"2022-09-12T17:50:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T14:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=67033"},"modified":"2025-09-07T04:31:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T01:31:34","slug":"cme-group-launches-ethereum-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/cme-group-launches-ethereum-options\/","title":{"rendered":"CME Group launches Ethereum options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago-based CME Group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cme-group-announces-launch-of-ether-options-301621757.html\">\u0437\u0430\u043f\u0443\u0441\u0442\u0438\u043b\u0430<\/a> \u043e\u043f\u0446\u0438\u043e\u043d\u044b \u043d\u0430 Ethereum.<\/p>\n<p>The contract is a single futures contract for 50 ETH.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWith market participants awaiting the upcoming The Merge for Ethereum, which could change the playing field for one of the largest cryptocurrency networks, interest in ether derivatives is growing. <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/cme-group-to-list-ethereum-options\">Launch<\/a> of our new Ethereum option contracts is especially timely to provide the community with another important instrument for gaining access to ether and managing it,\u201d said Tim McCourt, head of equity and forex products at CME Group.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to him, trading volume of Ethereum futures has risen by 43% since launch.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cOptions are an integral part of the trading strategy used by institutional counterparties [the platform] Cumberland for hedging risk or gaining access to the asset class without holding it on balance,\u201d said Rob Strebel, head of public relations at DRW.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier in August, CME Group <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/cme-group-launches-euro-denominated-futures-on-bitcoin-and-ethereum\">announced the launch<\/a> of euro-denominated Ethereum futures.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) has launched Ethereum options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[383,1168,46],"class_list":["post-67033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cme-group","tag-crypto-derivatives","tag-ethereum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67033","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=67033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67035,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67033\/revisions\/67035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}