CME XRP Futures Mark First Year With Nearly $63B Notional Volume by May 15, 2026

CME's XRP futures have logged nearly $63 billion in notional trading volume since trading opened on May 19, 2025, with totals measured as of May 15, 2026. The exchange listed both a 50,000-XRP standard contract and a 2,500-XRP micro contract, and reported 1.32 million contracts traded over the period. Despite reported inflows of over $98 million into US spot XRP ETFs so far in May, XRP was down over 26% year to date and traded around $1.35 at the time of writing.