CME Group, the world’s derivatives marketplace, announced that its Cryptocurrency futures and options suite achieved an all-time daily volume record of 794,903 contracts on November 21. The new high now reportedly overtakes the previous record of “728,475 contracts set on Aug 22, 2025.”
Giovanni Vicioso, the Global Head of Cryptocurrency Products at CME Group, has said that amid ongoing market uncertainty, “demand for deeply liquid, regulated crypto risk management tools is accelerating,”
Vicioso added that Clients across the globe, people continue to turn to their benchmark Cryptocurrency futures and options to “hedge their risk and pursue opportunities in this complex environment, with both large institutions and retail traders driving record activity across their product suite.”
CME Group Cryptocurrency futures and options continue “to reach new highs this year.”
Trading highlights include shared by the CME Group recently include:
- Year-to-date, overall cryptocurrency average daily volume (ADV) of 270,900 contracts ($12 billion in notional), up 132% year-over-year, with average open interest (OI) of 299,700 contracts ($26.6 billion in notional), up 82% year-over-year
- Q4 ADV of 403,200 contracts ($14.2 billion in notional), up 106% vs. Q4 ’24, with average OI 493,700 contracts ($35.4 billion in notional), up 117% vs. Q4 ’24
As the derivatives marketplace, CME Group explains that it enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, “optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities.”
CME Group exchanges reportedly offers a relatively wide range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes “based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, cryptocurrencies, energy, agricultural products and metals.”
The company offers futures and options on futures trading “through the CME Globex platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform.”
In addition, it currently operates one of the world’s “central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing.”
As covered recently, FanDuel, the online gaming firm in North America, part of Flutter Entertainment (NYSE: FLUT), and CME Group (NASDAQ: CME), the world’s derivatives marketplace, unveiled that they will launch prediction markets via the FanDuel Predicts app that will expand access to financial markets for clients in the US.
FanDuel Predicts will launch in December as a standalone mobile application. Subject to “appropriate regulatory filings, the app will provide access to sports event contracts across baseball, basketball, football, and hockey.”
In states where online sports wagering is not yet legal, customers who are not on tribal lands will be “able to trade event contracts on the outcome of sporting events.”