Crypto Market Update: Bitcoin and Ether Futures Options Contracts, Ethereum and Dogecoin Resilient, Outflows Exceed $18B, Ether's Strong Price Action, and Falling Crypto-Linked Stocks.
CME Group is adding daily expirations for bitcoin and ether futures options contracts, effective May 22. Bitcoin and ether futures options will have expirations Mondays through Fridays, while contracts based on micro-sized bitcoin and ether futures will add Tuesdays and Thursdays as expirations dates to the current slate of Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. CME's bitcoin and ether futures and options had a record daily average volume of more than $3 billion in the first quarter.