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CME Group is set to launch Nasdaq CME Crypto Index futures on June 8, pending regulatory review — marking the first time the exchange has offered a market-cap-weighted crypto futures contract. The cash-settled product will cover seven assets: Bitcoin, Ether, SOL, XRP, ADA, LINK, and Stellar Lumens, settling to the Nasdaq CME Crypto Settlement Price Index in both micro and standard sizes.
The move signals a meaningful step in institutional crypto market infrastructure. A weighted index contract gives professional traders a single instrument to express a broad-market crypto view without managing seven separate positions — the kind of efficiency that tends to attract systematic and macro funds.
With Nasdaq's name on the index and CME's regulated futures rails underneath, this is the structure that compliance-constrained institutions have been waiting for. Watch the open interest figures…
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