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Bitcoin "CME Gap" may become a thing of the past, as CME Bitcoin futures will support 24/7 trading
BlockBeats News, May 28 — The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) will officially begin supporting 7×24 trading for Bitcoin futures and options this Friday, keeping only one hour of system maintenance from 22:00–23:00 UTC every Sunday. This means the long-standing “CME gap” mechanism that has drawn widespread market attention will basically disappear. In the past, because CME Bitcoin futures trading was paused between the Friday close and the start of the new trading week, while the BTC spot market continued to run, so-called “CME gaps” would often form, and many traders would trade around “filling the gap.”
Analysts believe this move means CME is further moving toward the crypto market’s native 24/7 trading structure, which helps reduce institutional weekend risk exposure and improve hedging efficiency. However, currently, institutional liquidity is still mainly concentrated in the ETF options and offshore perpetual contracts markets. Volmex Labs CEO Cole Kennelly said the open interest in BlackRock’s IBIT ETF options is approximately $27 billion to $30 billion, while CME Bitcoin options are only about $800 million to $900 million.
As of now, there are still 3 unfilled CME gaps in the market. Two of them are above the current BTC price, at around $80,000 and $78,500 respectively; the other is below $70,000.