CME’s bitcoin cash, uniswap futures, global PMIs: Crypto Week Ahead

CME Group, one of the world’s largest derivatives marketplaces, plans to start offering bitcoin cash BCH$279.72 and uniswap (UNI) futures on Monday, pending regulatory review.

Following last week’s key U.S. inflation reports, this week’s price data from other important global economies might also help shape the market’s direction.

Also due are the flash October PMIs, scheduled for Friday. The Purchasing Manager Indexes measure the health of different sectors of the economy as well as providing a composite reading.

Major crypto-linked companies including Tesla TSLA and CME Group (CME) are reporting earnings this week, though the majority of their business is not directly tied to the industry.

(All times ET unless stated otherwise.)

• Crypto
  • Oct. 19: CME Group plans to offer standard and micro bitcoin cash BCH$279.72 and uniswap (UNI) futures.
  • Oct. 21: CoinShares’ bitcoin and ether ETF is scheduled to halt trading before the market opens as the fund liquidates.
• Macro
  • Oct. 19, 8:30 a.m.: Canada CPI MoM for September (Prev. -0.1%); CPI YoY (Prev. 3.0%)
  • Oct. 20, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. Housing Starts for September est. 1.30M (Prev. 1.275M); Building Permits est. 1.40M (Prev. 1.394M)
  • Oct. 21, 2 a.m.: U.K. CPI MoM for September (Prev. 0.5%); CPI YoY (Prev. 3.1%); Core CPI YoY (Prev. 2.6%)
  • Oct. 22, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. Initial Jobless Claims for period ending Oct. 17 est. 200K (Prev. 199K)
  • Oct. 22, 10 a.m.: Eurozone Consumer Confidence Flash for October (Prev. -16.5)
  • Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m.: Japan National CPI YoY for September (Prev. 1.9%); CPI ex-Fresh Food YoY (Prev. 1.7%); CPI ex-Fresh Food & Energy YoY (Prev. 1.9%)
  • Oct. 23, 4 a.m.: Eurozone Composite PMI Flash for October (Prev. 53.1)
  • Oct. 23, 9:45 a.m.: U.S. Composite PMI Flash for October (Prev. 58.4)
  • Oct. 23, 10 a.m.: U.S. University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Final for October (Prelim. 46.3)
• Earnings
  • Oct. 21: CME Group (CME), pre-market, $2.98
  • Oct. 21: Tesla TSLA, post-market, $0.40
  • Oct. 22: Nasdaq (NDAQ), pre-market, $1.02
  • Oct. 22: Blackstone (BX), pre-market, $1.29

• Governance Votes and Calls
  • Oct.19.: Ethereum All Core Devs Testing call No. 101, with Glamsterdam and Hegotá testing on the agenda.
  • WalletConnect Network is voting to adopt a power-law APY formula and a separate RewardWeight system to improve staking incentives. Voting ends Oct. 19.
  • ZKsync is voting to resubmit its v31 protocol upgrade with corrected calldata to introduce Priority Mode for L1-settling chains and unify the Era and ZKsync OS codebases. Voting ends Oct. 19.
  • Arbitrum DAO is voting to update L1-pricing parameters for the Glamsterdam upgrade, establish an L1 voting recovery system, transfer 1,700 ETH to the ADG and Treasury strategies, and adopt USDG as a core strategic initiative. Voting ends Oct. 22.
  • QuickSwap is voting to deprecate its Soneium deployment and remove the network from its landing page UI. Voting ends Oct 21.
  • Starknet is voting on a non-binding signal to research evolving into an independent post-quantum L1. Voting ends Oct. 22.
  • Optimism is holding a veto-only vote to transfer Unichain’s sequencer operations and fee routing to the Optimism Foundation. Voting ends Oct. 22.
  • ENS DAO is voting to execute the mainnet activation of ENSv2, freezing v1 registrations while keeping existing names renewable and transferring control over to the DAO. Voting ends October 25.
• Unlocks
  • Oct. 20: LayerZero ZRO$1.8593 to unlock 3.83% of its circulating supply worth $44 million.
  • Oct. 25: Humanity H$0.05680 to unlock 6.84% of its circulating supply worth $15.27 million.
  • Oct. 25: Plasma XPL$0.07809 to unlock 5.02% of its circulating supply worth $17.76 million.
• Token launches
  • No major launches.

• Oct. 18–21: Money20/20 USA, (Las Vegas)
• Oct. 19–20: The Digital Asset Conference IV (London)
• Oct. 19: Ethereum Stablecoin Summit (Las Vegas)
• Oct. 20: Capital & Code (Frankfurt)
• Oct. 22–23: LF Decentralized Trust Privacy Workshop (New York)