Bitcoin News Week Ahead: CME Bitcoin Cash Futures, ETF Liquidation and Global PMIs

• CME Group plans to start offering standard and micro bitcoin cash (BCH) and Uniswap (UNI) futures on Monday, Oct. 19, pending regulatory review.

• CoinShares’ bitcoin and ether ETF is scheduled to halt trading before the market opens on Oct. 21 as the fund liquidates.

• Flash October PMIs for the Eurozone and the U.S. are due Oct. 23.

• Tesla and CME Group report earnings on Oct. 21. Nasdaq and Blackstone report on Oct. 22.

• LayerZero (ZRO) unlocks 3.83% of its circulating supply, worth $44 million, on Oct. 20.

• Bitcoin trades at $82,928.68 on CoinDesk’s ticker.

Here’s what’s on the calendar for the week starting Oct. 19. CME Group plans to start offering bitcoin cash and Uniswap futures on Monday, pending regulatory review.

A CoinShares bitcoin and ether ETF is also scheduled to stop trading on Oct. 21 as the fund liquidates.

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Bitcoin News Week Ahead: Key Dates

Times are Eastern Time (ET) unless stated:

• Oct. 19: CME Group plans to offer standard and micro bitcoin cash and UNI futures

• Oct. 21: CoinShares’ bitcoin and ether ETF halts trading before the market opens as the fund liquidates

• Oct. 21: CME Group and Tesla report earnings

• Oct. 22: Nasdaq and Blackstone report earnings

• Oct. 23: flash October PMIs for the Eurozone and the U.S.

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Crypto Events

• Oct. 19: CME Group plans to offer standard and micro bitcoin cash (BCH) and Uniswap (UNI) futures. Bitcoin cash trades at $279.21.

• Oct. 21: CoinShares’ bitcoin and ether ETF is scheduled to halt trading before the market opens as the fund liquidates, per an SEC filing.

Macro Calendar

Previous readings are shown for each release:

• Oct. 19, 8:30 a.m.: Canada CPI for September. Previous: -0.1% month on month, 3.0% year on year

• Oct. 20, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. housing starts for September (previous 1.275M) and building permits (previous 1.394M)

• Oct. 21, 2 a.m.: U.K. CPI for September. Previous: 0.5% month on month, 3.1% year on year, core 2.6%

• Oct. 22, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. initial jobless claims for the week ending Oct. 17 (previous 199K)

• Oct. 22, 10 a.m.: Eurozone consumer confidence flash for October (previous -16.5)

• Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m.: Japan national CPI for September. Previous: 1.9% year on year, 1.7% ex-fresh food, 1.9% ex-fresh food and energy

• Oct. 23, 4 a.m.: Eurozone composite PMI flash for October (previous 53.1)

• Oct. 23, 9:45 a.m.: U.S. composite PMI flash for October (previous 58.4)

• Oct. 23, 10 a.m.: U.S. University of Michigan consumer sentiment final for October (preliminary 46.3)

The Purchasing Manager Indexes measure the health of different sectors of the economy and provide a composite reading.

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Earnings This Week

• Oct. 21: CME Group (CME), pre-market

• Oct. 21: Tesla (TSLA), post-market

• Oct. 22: Nasdaq (NDAQ), pre-market

• Oct. 22: Blackstone (BX), pre-market

Governance Votes and Calls

• Oct. 19: Ethereum All Core Devs Testing call No. 101, with Glamsterdam and Hegotá testing on the agenda

• Oct. 19: WalletConnect Network vote on a power-law APY formula and RewardWeight system ends

• Oct. 19: ZKsync vote on resubmitting its v31 protocol upgrade ends

• Oct. 21: QuickSwap vote on deprecating its Soneium deployment ends

• Oct. 22: Arbitrum DAO vote ends. It covers L1-pricing parameters for Glamsterdam, an L1 voting recovery system, a transfer of 1,700 ETH to the ADG and Treasury strategies, and adopting USDG as a core strategic initiative

• Oct. 22: Starknet signal vote on researching an independent post-quantum L1 ends

• Oct. 22: Optimism veto-only vote on transferring Unichain’s sequencer operations and fee routing to the Optimism Foundation ends

• Oct. 25: ENS DAO vote on activating ENSv2 on mainnet ends

Token Unlocks

• Oct. 20: LayerZero (ZRO, $1.8817) 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, $0.07801) to unlock 5.02% of its circulating supply, worth $17.76 million

• Token launches: none major

Conferences

• 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)

Bitcoin and Crypto Market Snapshot

Prices from the CoinDesk market ticker alongside the report:

• Bitcoin (BTC): $82,928.68 (+1.02%)

• Ethereum (ETH): $2,439.15 (+0.66%)

• XRP: $1.32 (+1.28%)

• Solana (SOL): $105.86 (+1.84%)

• Hyperliquid (HYPE): $80.08 (+1.30%)

Summary: Bitcoin News Week Ahead

CME plans to start bitcoin cash and Uniswap futures on Oct. 19, a CoinShares bitcoin and ether ETF halts trading on Oct. 21, and flash PMIs follow on Oct. 23.

• Crypto: CME’s BCH and UNI futures (pending regulatory review) and the CoinShares ETF liquidation

• Macro: CPI releases in Canada, the U.K. and Japan, plus flash PMIs on Oct. 23

• Earnings: CME and Tesla on Oct. 21, Nasdaq and Blackstone on Oct. 22

• Unlocks: LayerZero, Humanity and Plasma

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