CME is a stalwart of conventional finance, a Chicago-based agency whose enterprise covers a large span of monetary, commodity and agricultural futures and choices. The timing of it overtaking Binance, a crypto-focused alternate, is poignant. Wall Avenue companies like BlackRock are more and more steering the narrative round bitcoin and the remainder of crypto, by attempting, as an example, to introduce bitcoin and ether (ETH) ETFs in an try to open up crypto investing to a broader group of individuals. Such monetary heavyweights are accustomed to doing enterprise on a extremely regulated alternate like CME, versus Binance, which has run into hassle with U.S. regulators.