- Bitcoin slid toward $84,000 on Wednesday after touching a seven-month high near $87,250 earlier in the week, with traders rotating into Bitcoin's two biggest forks.
- CME Group will launch Bitcoin Cash futures on Oct. 19 pending regulatory review, making BCH the exchange's tenth single-asset crypto contract with Uniswap as the eleventh; standard contracts represent 250 BCH and micro contracts 25 BCH.
- Bitcoin Cash jumped as much as 30% to briefly touch $358 after the CME news, and Grayscale's filing to convert its Bitcoin Cash Trust into a spot ETF for NYSE Arca listing pushed the weekly gain past 50%.
- Bitcoin SV gained roughly 20% in sympathy, touching an annual high near $21, with open interest in BSV derivatives climbing alongside the price.
- Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $715 million on Tuesday, a solid inflow day even as the flagship coin's price stalled.
- Thirty-eight of the 100 CoinDesk 100 constituents were lower on the day, with bitcoin cash up 32% over 24 hours on the CME futures listing.
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