CME Group halted trading on its Globex electronic trading platform earlier today, suspending markets for futures and options for over eight hours. The disruption affected a wide range of asset classes, including key crypto derivatives such as Bitcoin and Ethereum futures, as well as currencies and stock futures. CME Group subsequently announced that all markets are open and trading normally after the cooling issue at their data centers was resolved. While initial reports suggested an 8-hour halt, later assessments indicate operations were disrupted for approximately 10 hours. [Update 1] Solana co-founder Toly commented on the incident, contrasting the centralized infrastructure failure with Solana's uptime. He noted that despite the major traditional finance outage, the blockchain network remained fully operational, highlighting the resilience differences between traditional centralized exchanges and decentralized networks.