CME To Launch XRP, SOL Futures Trading on Feb. 10 If Approved

Futures trading for Ripple XRP and Solana (SOL) volition spell unrecorded connected the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) connected February 10, pending regulatory approval. A staging subdomain of the CME Group’s main website revealed the improvement connected Wednesday. “Trade regulated, capital-efficient futures connected 2 starring cryptocurrencies with caller SOL and XRP futures, launching February 10,” the CME Group’s staging website says.

Bloomberg ETF expert James Seyffart commented connected the CME subdomain revealing this improvement successful a station to X. “Assuming “beta.cmegroup” is really a beta/test mentation of the existent CMEGroup website — looks similar CME is expecting to motorboat SOL & XRP futures connected Feb 10. But this isn’t disposable connected the existent website yet. Honestly makes consciousness and mostly to beryllium expected if existent [in my opinion].” The imaginable draught of the CME announcement from the subdomain besides reads: “Available successful some modular and micro-sized contracts, these contracts let you to standard your vulnerability and negociate hazard with greater precision and flexibility.”

Additionally, these monthly, financially-settled futures volition beryllium disposable successful 2 declaration sizes truthful traders tin standard vulnerability with greater precision and flexibility, the tract said. The caller futures contracts volition person BTIC and artifact functionality disposable astatine launch.

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XRP and Solana Futures To Launch This Year?

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Ripple’s XRP and Solana SOL are 2 of the starring contenders to person ETF support successful 2025. Both altcoins person surged successful worth to unfastened the year, with institutions predicting their ETFs to travel successful 2025. Last year, Standard Chartered’s Geoffrey Kendrick said SOL and XRP ETFs mightiness unafraid support this year. This week, JPMorgan analysts projected that these ETFs could pull up to $13.6 cardinal successful caller investments 12 months if approved.

“We spot a Solana futures ETF connected marketplace arsenic aboriginal arsenic mid-March. But.. knowing spot coming soon however overmuch request would determination be. I conjecture we’ll find out,” Bloomberg ETF expert Eric Balchunas says.

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Per Polymarket, XRP ETFs person a 71% accidental of gaining support successful 2025. However, Solana ETFs mightiness get delayed till 2026, arsenic pending lawsuits on SOL whitethorn instrumentality a portion to wide up. It volition instrumentality plentifulness of clearances for the SOL ETF to motorboat adjacent the aforesaid clip arsenic XRP.

Both assets are up successful the past week. SOL precocious breached a caller ATH and sits astatine $271.04. XRP, meantime is inching person to its ATH of $3.84, conscionable 15% beneath that mark.