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<p>CME Group, the world’s largest regulated derivatives marketplace, announced plans to begin 24-hour, seven-day-a-week trading of its cryptocurrency futures and options contracts on May 29, 2026, pending regulatory review.</p>
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   <li>Pending regulatory approval, crypto products will move to a 24/7 schedule on the CME Globex platform, with only a brief weekly window for maintenance.</li>
   <li>The shift follows a massive 2025 where CME saw $3 trillion in notional activity, driven by professional traders seeking regulated risk-management tools.</li>
   <li>Beyond Bitcoin and Ether, CME recently broadened its reach by launching futures for Cardano (ADA), Chainlink (LINK), and Stellar (XLM).</li>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="cme-group-adopts-24-7-crypto-trading-as-competition-heats-up">CME Group adopts 24/7 crypto trading as competition heats up</h2>
<p>The <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cme-group-to-launch-247-cryptocurrency-futures-and-options-trading-on-may-29-302692346.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">decision</a> marks a significant step in aligning regulated digital-asset derivatives with the continuous nature of global crypto spot markets.</p>
<p>Under the new schedule, CME’s cryptocurrency products will trade continuously on its CME Globex platform, with a brief weekly maintenance window. Any trading conducted from Friday evening through Sunday evening will receive the following business day’s trade date for clearing, settlement and reporting.</p>
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<p>CME said that client demand for regulated crypto risk-management tools is at an historic high, driven by record volumes in 2025 when its crypto futures and options saw $3 trillion in notional activity. Average daily volume and open interest have both climbed sharply year-over-year in 2026, underlining robust participation from institutional and professional traders.</p>
<p>The expansion builds on CME’s <a href="https://crypto.news/cme-group-digital-token-launch-crypto-trading-2026/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">broader push</a> into digital assets. In early February, the exchange successfully launched <a href="https://crypto.news/cme-bets-on-altcoins-as-cardano-chainlink-and-stellar-futures-go-live-feb-9/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">futures contracts</a> for Cardano (<a href="https://crypto.news/price/cardano/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">ADA</a>), Chainlink (<a href="https://crypto.news/price/chainlink/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">LINK</a>) and Stellar (XLM), including both standard and micro sizes, broadening its altcoin derivatives lineup beyond Bitcoin and Ether. Market participants have viewed this as a key step in giving regulated access to a wider range of crypto assets.</p>
<p>However, CME’s push to modernize its markets has faced <a href="https://crypto.news/cme-group-outage-future-trading-stopped-as-cooling-issue-at-data-centers/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">operational challenges</a>. In November 2025 a cooling-system failure at a CyrusOne data center triggered a major outage that halted futures trading across cryptocurrencies, commodities, equities and FX, highlighting infrastructure risks as trading demand intensifies.</p>
<p>As crypto continues its integration into mainstream finance, round-the-clock regulated trading at CME could help close the gap between always-on digital markets and traditional exchange hours — offering traders more flexibility and risk management options around the clock.</p>
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