CME Group Expands Crypto Derivatives to ADA, LINK and XLM

Derivatives marketplace CME Group recently announced its plans to add Cardano (ADA), Chainlink (LINK) and Stellar (Lumens) futures to its suite of offering. This will mean further expansion of its leading suite of regulated cryptocurrency derivatives. These offerings are scheduled to go live by February 9, pending regulatory review.

CME Group Attempts to Meet Increasing Demand 

CME Group has given market participants the choice to trade both micro-sized and larger-sized contracts. It is set to launch Cardano, Chainlink and Stellar futures by February 9, marking an expansion of its existing suite of regulated cryptocurrency derivatives. This comes as clients demand for trusted and regulated products. 

This is their alternative to manage price risk as well as additional tools to gain exposure to this dynamic market. The precise options available to investors are ADA futures (100,000 ADA) and Micro ADA futures (10,000 ADA), LINK futures (5,000 LINK) and Micro LINK futures (250 LINK) and Lumens futures (250,000 Lumens) and Micro Lumens futures (12,500 Lumens). 

CME Group’s SOL, BTC and ETH Futures Performs Well

Giovanni Vicioso, CME Group Global Head of Cryptocurrency Products noted that “with these new micro- and larger-size Cardano, Chainlink and Stellar futures contracts, market participants will now have greater choice with enhanced flexibility and more capital-efficiencies. Before this time, CME Group’s existing cryptocurrency product suite includes Bitcoin, Ether, XRP and Solana futures and options on futures.

In July, the trading volume for Solana CME futures shot up dramatically, reaching $8.1 billion. Also, CME’s current Bitcoin and Ethereum futures have been seeing support from big investors, raking in billions of dollars. Around the same July, Ethereum’s CME Futures Open Interest (OI) touched an All-time High (ATH) of $7.85 billion.

CME Group Pushes For Expansion 

The company has been making effort to become more important for professional traders. Ordinarily, CME Group exchanges is touted to have the widest range of global benchmark products. This goes across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, cryptocurrencies, energy, agricultural products and metals.

CME Group had announced the coming launch of 24/7 crypto futures and options trading in October 2025. It has set the plan to kickoff in early 2026, after getting approval from regulators. This move shows that big investors are more interested in digital assets and want tools that work outside normal market hours.