ETH: CFTC Futures Open Interest by Contract

Shown as its 2–31 Oct 2026 sample; the latest readings and full history are included with Plus.

The ETH held in open futures positions on US-regulated exchanges, contract by contract, from the CFTC's weekly report.

Why use it. These are the futures where US funds, brokers and institutions trade Ethereum. Their size shows how much of the market's leverage sits on regulated venues rather than on offshore exchanges, and new money from institutions often arrives here first. How to read it. Each band is one contract and the top of the stack is the total. Open interest rising with the price is new money arriving through regulated futures; open interest falling while the price rises is shorts closing.

Calculation. Open interest of every Ethereum futures contract the CFTC lists in its Traders in Financial Futures report (futures only), in contracts, times the contract's size in ETH. Contracts: CME (50 ETH a contract, from 6 Apr 2021); CME Micro (0.1 ETH a contract, from 14 Dec 2021); Coinbase Nano (0.1 ETH a contract, from 14 Nov 2023); Coinbase Nano Perp-Style (0.1 ETH a contract, from 22 Jul 2025). A contract the CFTC does not list in a week (it lists one only while enough traders hold it) is missing from that week's total. One value per weekly report, dated the Tuesday whose positions it lists (positions at that day's close); the CFTC publishes each report the following Friday at 15:30 US Eastern time and CryptoKeyhole reads it within ten minutes. The CFTC revises a report now and then; the whole history is read again every day. Source: the CFTC's Traders in Financial Futures report (public data of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission), read by CryptoKeyhole.