CME Group to Launch Cardano, Chainlink, Stellar Futures on Feb 9

CME Group announced plans connected Jan. 15 to motorboat futures contracts for Cardano , Chainlink , and Stellar (Lumens) connected Feb. 9, pending regulatory review.

The caller products volition see some modular and smaller micro-sized contracts for each asset, according to CME Group’s announcement. Standard declaration sizes are 100,000 ADA, 5,000 LINK, and 250,000 XLM. Micro contracts astatine one-tenth the size volition besides beryllium disposable for traders seeking smaller positions.

Futures let traders to stake connected aboriginal prices without holding the existent tokens, and CME’s regulated contracts springiness organization investors a compliant mode to summation exposure.

Giovanni Vicioso, CME Group Global Head of Cryptocurrency Products, said clients are seeking trusted, regulated products to negociate terms hazard pursuing the plus class’s grounds growth.

CME’s cryptocurrency concern recorded 139% year-over-year maturation successful 2025, arsenic antecedently reported by Coinspeaker. Average regular measurement reached 278,300 contracts worthy $12 billion. Outstanding contracts averaged 313,900 with a worth of $26.4 billion.

The February motorboat continues CME’s enlargement into alternate cryptocurrencies beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum . The speech launched Solana futures connected March 17 and XRP futures connected May 19. Options connected some products followed connected Oct. 13. CME archetypal launched Bitcoin futures successful December 2017 and Ethereum futures successful February 2021.

All 3 tokens person shown elevated trading enactment successful caller sessions. Cardano recorded $703 cardinal successful 24-hour measurement connected Jan. 15, according to CoinGecko data. Chainlink posted $641 cardinal portion Stellar recorded $211 million. Seven-day measurement trends exceeded 59% for each 3 assets. ADA traded astatine $0.40, LINK astatine $13.92, and XLM astatine $0.23 connected Jan. 15.

The Chainlink futures motorboat arrives 1 time aft Bitwise launched its Chainlink exchange-traded money (ETF) connected NYSE Arca connected Jan. 14. The money trades nether the ticker CLNK and competes with Grayscale’s existing GLNK product. LINK posted a seven-day summation of 6.07%.

Cardano is besides processing its ecosystem. The web precocious ratified a governance connection to bring much stablecoins to its blockchain done a 70 cardinal ADA assemblage fund.

Read archetypal communicative CME Group to Launch Cardano, Chainlink, Stellar Futures connected Feb 9 by Zoran Spirkovski astatine Coinspeaker.com