{"id":409702,"date":"2025-10-31T03:28:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T21:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/ethereum-eth-flips-bitcoin-btc-in-futures-activity-on-cme-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T04:18:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T22:48:24","slug":"ethereum-eth-flips-bitcoin-btc-in-futures-activity-on-cme-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/ethereum-eth-flips-bitcoin-btc-in-futures-activity-on-cme-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum (ETH) Flips Bitcoin (BTC) in Futures Activity on CME &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article__contents\">\n<ul class=\"article__contents-list\">\n<li class=\"article__contents-item\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__contents-link link-pseudo\" href=\"#h271309\">Ethereum Futures sets new record in open interest\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"article__contents-item\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__contents-link link-pseudo\" href=\"#h371309\">Bitcoin maintains dominance\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>As Ethereum continues to garner investor interest, outpacing Bitcoin in key metrics, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization has continued to contend with the world\u2019s largest cryptocurrency on the CME derivatives market.<\/p>\n<p>According to recent <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cmegroup\/status\/1983896672582131883?s=46\">data<\/a> shared by the CME Group, Ethereum futures have significantly surpassed Bitcoin futures in derivatives trading activity.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">Ethereum Futures sets new record in open interest\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Data provided by the source shows that Ether futures on the leading derivatives exchange have outpaced Bitcoin futures in monthly average daily volume (ADV) since April 2025.<\/p>\n<p>While <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/u.today\/eu-macroeconomist-sees-ethereum-skyrocketing-to-12000\">Ethereum<\/a> has been in the spotlight this year, with institutions diverting from Bitcoin to owning an Ethereum treasury, its outstanding performance on the CME derivatives exchange further signifies rising institutional demand for Ethereum exposure.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the growing interest among institutions, CME further revealed that open interest in ETH futures has reached a massive 53,183 contracts, while Micro Ether futures climbed to a record 335,016 contracts as of October 28, both setting new all-time highs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__related\">\n<p>You Might Also Like<\/p>\n<div class=\"news__item\">\n<div class=\"news__item-img--wrap\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Bitcoin and Ether futures \u201cmonthly average daily volume (ADV)\u201d disclosed by the exchange show that ETH\u2019s trading volume broke above BTC\u2019s for the first time in April 2025, and it has continued to lead the crypto king since that time. Notably, the move signals a growing divergence in market focus from Bitcoin to Ethereum.<\/p>\n<p>While <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/u.today\/selling-bitcoin-now-btc-price-history-suggests-november-is-worst-time-to-exit\">Bitcoin<\/a> futures activity has leveled off after a strong first half of the year, Ethereum\u2019s momentum has remained resilient as it continues to build\u2014attributable to the growth in DeFi, staking yields, and surging optimism of further institutional adoption of the leading altcoin.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">Bitcoin maintains dominance\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Despite the impressive performance witnessed in Ethereum\u2019s futures activity, Bitcoin still maintains its dominance across the broad spot trading market.<\/p>\n<p>Data provided by CoinMarketCap shows that Bitcoin still holds the highest market share in the broad cryptocurrency market. As such, Bitcoin&#8217;s total market capitalization is currently higher than the total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies combined by a massive 59.2%.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Article image\" src=\"https:\/\/u.today\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/IMG_0675.jpeg\" data-entity-uuid=\"4e41218b-a881-40bd-960c-665fbf188bbc\" data-entity-type=\"file\"\/><figcaption>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/charts\/bitcoin-dominance\/\">CoinMarketCap<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This shows that Bitcoin has seen a mild increase of 0.87% in its dominance rate over the last 24 hours despite the recurring price corrections.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum Futures sets new record in open interest\u00a0 Bitcoin maintains dominance\u00a0 As Ethereum continues to garner investor interest, outpacing Bitcoin in key metrics, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization has continued to contend with the world\u2019s largest cryptocurrency on the CME derivatives market. According to recent data shared by the CME Group, Ethereum futures have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[230,225,221,227,226,228,229,60,223,224,222],"class_list":["post-409702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-brave","tag-coinbase","tag-crypto","tag-decentralised","tag-decentralized","tag-decentralized-exchange","tag-erc-20","tag-featured","tag-meme-coin","tag-robinhood","tag-solana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409706,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409702\/revisions\/409706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}