CME Expands Crypto Futures Lineup With Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap

CME Group has added Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap to its regulated futures lineup, an expansion that has already generated over $1 billion in total notional value year-to-date across five other altcoin contracts.

The exchange confirmed in its press release that Bitcoin Cash futures will represent 250 BCH, with Micro contracts covering 25 BCH. Standard Uniswap futures cover 10,000 UNI, while Micro contracts trade at 1,000 UNI. These additions bring CME’s single-asset crypto futures count to eleven when trading opens, joining Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, Solana, Cardano, Chainlink, Stellar, Avalanche, and Sui.

CME’s global head of cryptocurrency products, Giovanni Vicioso, stated in a release that "As crypto markets continue to mature, participants require broader, regulated tools to navigate evolving digital asset related price risk."

The new contracts follow a first half in which CME crypto futures and options averaged 279,800 contracts daily, worth $8.3 billion in notional volume, according to CME’s release. That pace marks the crypto products’ strongest annual performance since their 2017 debut, per data cited in a Yahoo Finance report on the exchange’s record volume. The 2026 expansion into Cardano, Chainlink, Stellar, Avalanche, and Sui has contributed over $1 billion in notional value year-to-date, CME said. The regulatory context remains unsettled: a Coin Desk report from this week notes it is unclear which crypto assets the CFTC’s pending rules cover or how far the agency believes its authority extends. Trading on the new contracts is scheduled for October 19, pending regulatory review, with the next CPI release on October 14 and the Federal Reserve’s rate decision on October 28.