CME Group has turned on around-the-clock trading for its cryptocurrency futures and options, opening the regulated derivatives markets through the weekend for the first time.

The change took effect on Friday, May 29, and lets clients trade the contracts at any hour, any day, on the CME Globex platform.

The shift ends a long-standing quirk of regulated crypto derivatives, which until now shut down on weekends and outside set daily hours even as the underlying tokens kept trading nonstop.

Weekend Debut Draws Modest Volume

Over the opening weekend, more than 7,200 crypto futures and options contracts traded, worth roughly $50 million in notional value, CME Group said. The company described the activity as evidence of immediate liquidity and…