Odaily Planet Daily reports that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group (CME Group) announced that the average daily trading volume of cryptocurrency contracts in February reached 322,000 contracts, with a notional value of $9.3 billion, a 45% increase. Among them, micro Ethereum futures averaged 115,000 contracts per day, up 22%; micro Bitcoin futures averaged 100,000 contracts per day, up 31%; Ethereum futures averaged 24,000 contracts per day, up 65%. (PRNewswire)
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