CME Group
Fri, May 22, 2026 astatine 12:00 PM CDT 6 min read
We proceed to grow our cryptocurrency offering with the motorboat of Avalanche (AVAX and Micro AVAX) and Sui (SUI and Micro SUI) futures, broadening our scope into the high-throughput Layer-1 sector. This builds connected our February 2026 instauration of Cardano, Chainlink and Stellar futures.
Available successful some ample and Micro sizes to service organization and retail investors, these contracts are currency settled against their respective CME CF Reference Rates. Crucially, they let marketplace participants to diversify beyond benchmark assets similar bitcoin and ether. By trading alongside our established Cryptocurrency suite, Avalanche and Sui futures connection imaginable borderline offsets, requiring a little archetypal outlay than the spot marketplace and driving greater superior ratio crossed broader crypto portfolios.
Contract specs
| Avalanche | AVAX futures | AVA | ANB | 5,000 AVAX |
| Micro AVAX futures | MVA | VNB | 500 AVAX | |
| Sui | SUI futures | SUI | INB | 50,000 SUI |
| Micro SUI futures | MSU | BNS | 5,000 SUI |
Avalanche and Sui
Avalanche and Sui run with chiseled architectural frameworks and web designs, each with unsocial characteristics arsenic elaborate successful the pursuing table.
| Avalanche | A high-performance Layer-1 protocol offering accelerated finality and scalability portion maintaining decentralization. | Permits parallel transaction processing, enabling aggregate transactions to beryllium confirmed simultaneously. | AVAX is utilized for staking and securing the network. |
| Sui | A fast, scalable Layer-1 blockchain harnessing the Move programming language. | Built connected an object-centric information exemplary and parallel transaction execution designed for ultra-low latency. | SUI is utilized for state fees successful high-frequency on-chain environments. |
Continued maturation successful Crypto products
The determination to present Avalanche and Sui futures follows a play of sustained momentum and maturation crossed our Cryptocurrency suite. During the archetypal 4th of 2026, mean regular unfastened involvement (ADOI) reached 313.9K contracts, representing a 25% summation compared to Q1 2025.
Following the February 9 motorboat of Cardano, Chainlink and Stellar futures, the trading assemblage has implemented these instruments into their strategies to negociate exposure, arsenic illustrated below.
| Bitcoin suite | 168,394 | $378,486,246,641 |
| Ether suite | 122,853 | $154,693,645,853 |
| Solana suite | 11,202 | $20,541,785,702 |
| XRP suite | 7,082 | $12,857,466,914 |
| Cardano suite* | 111 | $28,979,353 |
| Chainlink suite* | 94 | $67,876,008 |
| Stellar suite* | 61 | $18,857,243 |
*Launched successful February 2026

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