Crypto Surge: CME Group Breaks Records with 21.9M Contracts

• Unprecedented Monthly Trading Volume in Cryptocurrency Products

CHICAGO, Aug. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — CME Group, a leading global marketplace for derivatives, announced today that July saw its second-strongest average daily volume (ADV) ever, reaching 21.9 million contracts. The record for July ADV was set in 2024, with 24.8 million contracts traded. Detailed market statistics can be found at: https://cmegroupinc.gcs-web.com/monthly-volume.

Key figures for July 2025 ADV across various asset categories:

Significant product highlights for July 2025, compared with July 2024, include:

• Interest Rate ADV
  • SOFR futures ADV increased 3%, reaching 3.3 million contracts
  • U.S. Treasury Bond options ADV climbed 21% to 203,000 contracts
• Energy ADV
  • NY Heating Oil futures ADV surged 29% to 218,000 contracts
  • Energy options ADV rose by 2% to 411,000 contracts
• Metals ADV
  • Micro Gold futures ADV experienced substantial growth, increasing 92% to 203,000 contracts
• Cryptocurrency ADV
  • Micro Ether futures achieved a record monthly ADV of 175,000 contracts
  • Ether futures also hit a record monthly ADV, reaching 22,000 contracts
• Micro Products ADV
  • Micro E-mini Equity Index futures and options ADV, at 2.2 million contracts, constituted 40% of the total Equity Index ADV. Micro WTI Crude Oil futures represented 2.7% of the aggregate Energy ADV.
• BrokerTec U.S. Repo average daily notional value (ADNV) jumped 23% to $358.7 billion
• Customer average collateral balances for performance bond requirements, calculated over the three months ending in June 2025, were $132.9 billion in cash collateral and $145.2 billion in non-cash collateral.

CME Group (www.cmegroup.com), the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, allows clients to participate in futures, options, cash, and OTC markets. The platform helps optimize portfolios and analyze data, empowering global market participants to manage risk effectively and capitalize on opportunities. CME Group exchanges deliver an extensive range of global benchmark products spanning all key asset classes, including interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products, and metals. The company’s futures and options on futures trading are conducted via the CME Globex platform. Fixed income trading occurs on BrokerTec, and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. Additionally, CME Group operates CME Clearing, a top-tier central counterparty clearing provider.

CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Globex, and E-mini are registered trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board of Trade are registered trademarks of Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange, and ClearPort are registered trademarks of New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a trademark of Commodity Exchange, Inc. BrokerTec is a trademark of BrokerTec Americas LLC, and EBS is a trademark of EBS Group LTD. The S&P 500 Index is provided by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC (“S&P DJI”). “S&P®”, “S&P 500®”, “SPY®”, “SPX®”, US 500 and The 500 are trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC; Dow Jones®, DJIA® and Dow Jones Industrial Average are service and/or trademarks of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. These trademarks are licensed to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Futures contracts utilizing the S&P 500 Index are not sponsored, endorsed, sold, or promoted by S&P DJI, and S&P DJI offers no opinion on the suitability of investing in such products. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners. 

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SOURCE CME Group