Crypto Outlook This Week: CME Sets Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap Futures Launch, Global PMIs Take the Stage Friday
CME Group, one of the world's largest derivatives marketplaces, plans to begin offering bitcoin cash and Uniswap futures on Monday pending regulatory review, according to CoinDesk, while flash October PMIs on Friday headline a global macro calendar heavy on inflation prints. Major crypto-linked companies including Tesla and CME Group report earnings this week, and CoinShares' bitcoin and ether ETF is scheduled to halt trading as the fund liquidates.Crypto:• Oct. 19 ET – CME Group plans to offer standard and micro bitcoin cash and Uniswap futures• Oct. 19 ET – Ethereum All Core Devs Testing call No. 101, with Glamsterdam and Hegotá testing on the agenda• Oct. 21 pre-market ET – CoinShares' bitcoin and ether ETF is scheduled to halt trading as the fund liquidatesMacro:• Oct. 19, 8:30 a.m. ET – Canada September CPI MoM (prev. -0.1%); CPI YoY (prev. 3.0%)• Oct. 20, 8:30 a.m. ET – U.S. Housing Starts for September, est. 1.30M (prev. 1.275M); Building Permits, est. 1.40M (prev. 1.394M)• Oct. 21, 2:00 a.m. ET – U.K. September CPI MoM (prev. 0.5%); CPI YoY (prev. 3.1%); Core CPI YoY (prev. 2.6%)• Oct. 22, 8:30 a.m. ET – U.S. Initial Jobless Claims for period ending Oct. 17, est. 200K (prev. 199K)• Oct. 22, 10:00 a.m. ET – Eurozone Consumer Confidence Flash for October (prev. -16.5)• Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m. ET – Japan September National CPI YoY (prev. 1.9%); CPI ex-Fresh Food YoY (prev. 1.7%); CPI ex-Fresh Food & Energy YoY (prev. 1.9%)• Oct. 23, 4:00 a.m. ET – Eurozone Composite PMI Flash for October (prev. 53.1)• Oct. 23, 9:45 a.m. ET – U.S. Composite PMI Flash for October (prev. 58.4)• Oct. 23, 10:00 a.m. ET – U.S. University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Final for October (prelim. 46.3)Earnings:• Oct. 21, pre-market ET – CME Group (CME), est. $2.98• Oct. 21, post-market ET – Tesla (TSLA), est. $0.40• Oct. 22, pre-market ET – Nasdaq (NDAQ), est. $1.02• Oct. 22, pre-market ET – Blackstone (BX), est. $1.29Token Events:• Oct. 19 ET – WalletConnect Network vote ends on adopting a power-law APY formula and a separate RewardWeight system to improve staking incentives• Oct. 19 ET – ZKsync vote ends on resubmitting its v31 protocol upgrade with corrected calldata, introducing Priority Mode for L1-settling chains and unifying the Era and ZKsync OS codebases• Oct. 21 ET – QuickSwap vote ends on deprecating its Soneium deployment and removing the network from its landing page UI• Oct. 22 ET – Arbitrum DAO vote ends on updating L1-pricing parameters for the Glamsterdam upgrade, establishing an L1 voting recovery system, transferring 1,700 ETH to the ADG and Treasury strategies, and adopting USDG as a core strategic initiative• Oct. 22 ET – Starknet vote ends on a non-binding signal to research evolving into an independent post-quantum L1• Oct. 22 ET – Optimism veto-only vote ends on transferring Unichain's sequencer operations and fee routing to the Optimism Foundation• Oct. 25 ET – ENS DAO vote ends on executing the mainnet activation of ENSv2, freezing v1 registrations while keeping existing names renewable and transferring control to the DAO