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0.23%Institutions Will Start Buying Ether in 2021, Messari Analyst Says
CME Group's announcement that it will launch ether (ETH) futures on Feb. 8, 2021, could spur heightened institutional interest.
Updated Sep 14, 2021, 10:48 a.m. Published Dec 27, 2020, 4:04 p.m.
CME Group's recent announcement that it will launch ether (ETH) futures on Feb. 8, 2021, is the "writing on the wall" that institutions will being buying the cryptocurrency next year, according to a pair of tweets by Ryan Watkins, an analyst at crypto data provider Messari.
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CME futures is the writing on the wall.
— Ryan Watkins (@RyanWatkins_) December 27, 2020
They wouldn’t launch an $ETH product if there wasn’t any demand for it.
- The price of the second-largest cryptocurrency just topped $700 for the first time since May 2018, and at the time of writing is at $701.90, up 11.19% in the last 24 hours.
See also: Ether Trades Above $700 for the First Time Since 2018
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Kevin Reynolds was the editor-in-chief at CoinDesk. Prior to joining the company in mid-2020, Reynolds spent 23 years at Bloomberg, where he won two CEO awards for moving the needle for the entire company and established himself as one of the world's leading experts in real-time financial news. In addition to having done almost every job in the newsroom, Reynolds built, scaled and ran products for every asset class, including First Word, a 250-person global news/analysis service for professional clients, as well as Bloomberg's Speed Desk and the training program that all Bloomberg News hires worldwide are required to take. He also turned around several other operations, including the company's flash headlines desk and was instrumental in the turnaround of Bloomberg's BGOV unit. He shares a patent for a content management system he helped design, is a Certified Scrum Master, and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He owns bitcoin, ether, polygon and solana.
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