business
CME Is Launching a Bitcoin VIX: Here’s Why That Changes Wall Street’s Bitcoin Game
Key takeaways
- The contracts are linked to the CME CF Bitcoin Volatility Index (BVX), which reflects how much movement traders expect from Bitcoin over the next 30 days.
- Wall street institutions already trading spot Bitcoin ETFs and CME futures may now have a cleaner way to manage volatility risk without cutting their overall Bitcoin exposure.
- The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks.
CME Is Launching a Bitcoin VIX: Here’s Why That Changes Wall Street’s Bitcoin Game Sam Daodu Tue, May 12, 2026 at 4:45 PM GMT+7 5 min read BTC-USD CME Quick Read CME Group is set to launch Bitcoin volatility futures on June 1, opening the door for traders to profit from or hedge against BTC price swings directly.
The contracts are linked to the CME CF Bitcoin Volatility Index (BVX), which reflects how much movement traders expect from Bitcoin over the next 30 days.
Wall street institutions already trading spot Bitcoin ETFs and CME futures may now have a cleaner way to manage volatility risk without cutting their overall Bitcoin exposure.
Article preview — originally published by Yahoo Finance. Full story at the source.
Read full story on Yahoo Finance →
More top stories
Also covered by
Bloomberg Markets
Wall Street Veteran Yardeni Confident in S&P 500 Eclipsing 8,000
Bloomberg Markets
Wall Street Puts Blockchain to Work in $13 Trillion Repo Market
NY Times
Justice Dept. Subpoenas Wall Street Journal in Leak Investigation
Le Monde (English)
Suspicious transactions on oil markets: 'On Wall Street, this sense of impunity is clearly widespread'
Aggregated and edited by the Scoop newsroom. We surface news from Yahoo Finance alongside other reporting so you can compare coverage in one place.
Editorial policy · Corrections · About Scoop