🚨 Wall Street just went deeper into crypto… are altcoins entering a new institutional era? 🚨 ADA, LINK and XLM.
🏦 CME Group, one of the world’s largest derivatives exchanges, has officially launched futures contracts for Cardano (ADA), Chainlink (LINK), and Stellar (XLM).
Here’s why this matters 👇
🔹 Standard + Micro futures now live → access for both institutions and smaller participants
🔹 ADA gets BTIC (Basis Trade at Index Close) via the CME CF New York Variant
📌 Key for funds executing basis trades tied to the official closing price
🔹 Clear signal: altcoins are no longer “retail-only”
📊 And the numbers are wild…
🔥 CME crypto derivatives hit record volume in 2025
📈 Average daily volume: 278,000 contracts (+139% YoY)
💰 Nominal value traded: ~$12B daily
📌 Open interest peaked at 313,900 contracts
💎 Total notional exposure: $26.4B
👀 What about the next wave?
Projects like Arbitrum, Ondo, Near, and Sui were just added to the CME CF Crypto Benchmarks 🧭
⚠️ No futures yet… but benchmarks usually come before derivatives 👀
💭 Question for the market:
Are we watching the quiet institutional onboarding of altcoins — the same path Bitcoin and ETH took before explosive growth?
Not investment advice.DYOR
