October 19 CME futures: What it means for the Bitcoin Cash price

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has a scheduled derivatives-market event on October 19, 2026: CME Group plans to introduce Bitcoin Cash futures in standard and Micro formats. The Bitcoin Cash price stands at 269.98 USD as of October 16, 2026, down 1.20 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 15, 2026, according to Investing.com.

CME sets two BCH contract sizes

CME Group announced on September 22, 2026, that its planned Bitcoin Cash futures would launch on October 19, 2026, pending regulatory review. The standard contract represents 250 BCH, while the Micro contract represents 25 BCH. Futures are agreements to buy or sell an asset at a predetermined price; the contracts would add a regulated venue for BCH exposure and risk management. The announcement covers Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures, with both products subject to CME rules.

The October 19, 2026, date is a scheduled event rather than a completed trading record. Yahoo Finance reported that the BCH contracts remained subject to regulatory review and repeated the 250 BCH and 25 BCH contract sizes. The status matters because the planned date does not by itself establish that trading began.

Hashrate reaches 3.46 EH/s

Network data supplied by the Selene Cash explorer showed a node-estimated Bitcoin Cash hashrate of 3.46 EH/s on October 18, 2026. Hashrate measures the computing power used to process and secure a proof-of-work network. The same dashboard recorded a transaction rate of 0.121 transactions per second over the last 144 blocks and 497,350 BCH transacted in that sample. These figures describe network activity and do not establish a direction for the BCH price.

The explorer also listed a current block subsidy of 3.125 BCH on October 18, 2026. Mining pools accounted for different portions of the recent block sample, with JCBCH listed at 20.1 percent and unidentified miners at 19.4 percent. The scheduled CME launch and these network measures describe separate parts of the BCH market.

BCH market data at October 16, 2026

Bitcoin Cash trades at 269.98 USD as of October 16, 2026, down 1.20 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 15, 2026. The daily high is 278.20 USD and the daily low (UTC day) is 269.38 USD. Investing.com lists market capitalization at 5.43 billion USD, rank 18, and 24-hour volume at 126.75 million USD. Circulating supply is 20.10 million BCH, according to Investing.com.

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