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Futures trading for Ripple XRP and Solana (SOL) will go live on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) on February 10, pending regulatory approval. A staging subdomain of the CME Group’s main website revealed the development on Wednesday. “Trade regulated, capital-efficient futures on two leading cryptocurrencies with new SOL and XRP futures, launching February 10,” the CME Group’s staging website says. Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart commented on the CME subdomain revealing this development in a post to X. “Assuming “beta.cmegroup” is actually a beta/test version of the actual CMEGroup website — looks like CME is expecting to launch SOL & XRP futures on Feb 10. But this isn’t available on the actual website yet. Honestly makes sense and largely to be expected if true [in my opinion].” The possible draft of the CME announcement from the subdomain also reads: “Available in both standard and micro-sized contracts, these contracts allow y...

Want to learn about Ethereum smart contract functionality, but have little to no developer experience? There’s a decentralized app for that. Etherscan, the preeminent block explorer and analytics platform for Ethereum, is beta testing a new feature — called Code Reader — a tool that makes it easy to query OpenAI’s large language model (LLM) to research solidity smart contracts. Just as the recent Advanced Filter makes it easier to research transaction information history, Code Reader provides an intuitive way for non-developers to learn about how specific smart contracts function. Etherscan stresses that the answers are coming from OpenAI’s LLM, not Etherscan itself, and that while the tool is known to have useful applications in writing and parsing code, it shouldn’t be relied upon in a vacuum. Professional auditing firms are already finding it offers a useful productivity boost, such as Michael Lewellen, a security solutions architect at OpenZeppelin. “I’ve actually found it...