Bitcoin and Ethereum walked, so Solana and XRP could run, according to Giovanni Vicioso, CME Group’s global head of cryptocurrency products. The world’s leading derivatives marketplace began offering futures contracts for the smaller cryptocurrencies earlier this year, and they’re getting a boost from infrastructure and liquidity that wasn’t there before, Vicioso told Decrypt on Wednesday. “These products, hands down, have been our fastest growing,” he said. “Solana and XRP had an ‘accelerating advantage,’ if you will, because they were able to benefit from the learnings that we saw in the marketplace with the launch ... (full story)