Weekly Index Highlights, June 16, 2025
Digital assets fell last week, led by large-cap losses and underperformance in Digital Culture and Smart Contract themes. Staking yields dropped, volatility rose, options skew turned defensive, and a steeper rate curve signaled rising caution amid macro and geopolitical risks.
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Weekly Index Highlights, June 9, 2025
Digital assets were mixed last week. Large-cap tokens like XRP and Bitcoin led gains in capitalization indices, while thematic indices lagged. Ethereum staking yields fell, and volatility hit a 12-month low—suggesting cautious but improving sentiment.
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Weekly Index Highlights, June 2, 2025
Digital assets fell last week, with Solana, Cardano, and Avalanche leading the losses. Sector indices weakened, ETH staking yields rose, and funding costs dropped. Rising put-side implied volatility signals downside hedging as sentiment stays fragile and speculative demand eases.
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Weekly Index Highlights, May 26, 2025
Digital assets gained last week, led by Bitcoin and Solana. Broader indices rebounded, volatility rose, and funding rates spiked—signaling renewed risk appetite. Still, sentiment remains cautious as appetite rebuilds unevenly across high-beta and thematic assets.
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Weekly Index Highlights, May 19, 2025
Digital assets reversed course last week as high-beta segments sold off and thematic indices deepened YTD losses. ETH held firm, while BTC outperformed. Volatility dropped and the BIRC shifted downwards, reflecting de-risking. Despite resilience in select large-cap assets, sentiment remains fragile.
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Weekly Index Highlights, May 12, 2025
Digital assets rallied sharply, led by ETH and meme coins. Diversified and cap-weighted indices rose sharply, though staking yields varied. Volatility stayed low with elevated skew. Despite mixed rate signals, earlier losses in thematic indices underscore the need for downside protection.
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Weekly Index Highlights, May 5, 2025
The digital asset market dipped after a rebound, with broad losses. Diversified-weighted indices underperformed, and speculative sectors lagged, while large-caps outperformed, showing a shift to quality. Bitcoin volatility and interest rates fell, signaling reduced leverage and risk appetite.
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Weekly Index Highlights, April 28, 2025
Big news! CF Benchmarks won Index Provider of the Year from ETF.com. In the same week, digital assets rebounded sharply, with diversified indices outperforming their free-float counterparts, and Bitcoin volatility fell as sentiment improved.
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Weekly Index Highlights, April 21, 2025
The digital asset market fell this week, with CF Large Cap (Diversified Weight) down 1.95%. Ether staking yields dropped to 2.64%, Solana to 6.88%. Bitcoin volatility eased, and skew turned positive across the volatility surface.
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Weekly Index Highlights, April 14, 2025
The digital asset market rallied, led by diversified indices. The CF Large Cap Index rose 8.62%. Ether staking yields fell to 2.82%, Solana was up 6.94%, and Bitcoin’s implied volatility dropped, while realized volatility stayed steady.
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Weekly Index Highlights, April 7, 2025
The digital asset market dipped, with the CF Broad Cap Index down 3.30%. Ether staking yields rose to 2.71%, Solana stayed at 6.90%. Bitcoin volatility (BVXS) hit 56.09, while realized volatility fell, signaling strong hedging demand amid ongoing uncertainty.
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Weekly Index Highlights, March 31, 2025
Digital assets fell sharply, led by small-cap tokens, as the CF Broad Cap Index dropped 9.77%. Ether staking yields rose to 2.72%, Solana stayed at 6.90%. Bitcoin volatility ticked up to 49.72 despite lower realized volatility.
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Weekly Index Highlights, March 24, 2025
The week saw a broad recovery, with the CF Broad Cap Index (Diversified Weight) advancing 2.84%, led by large caps and select mid caps. Meanwhile, the CF Bitcoin Volatility Index Settlement Rate (BVXS) dropped, despite a rise in realized volatility, and short-term borrowing costs surged.
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Weekly Index Highlights, March 17, 2025
Digital assets experienced moderate relief this week, though sharp underperformance in some areas and lackluster gains among large caps suggest that the crypto market's recent volatility may not be entirely over just yet.
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Weekly Index Highlights, March 10, 2025
Last week’s market downturn hit all CF DACS categories. BCH (+7.26%) was the sole gainer, while FTM (-29.54%) and WIF (-35.71%) led losses. Infrastructure tokens fell 16.06%. ETH & SOL staking yields dipped to 2.75% and 7.07%. BVXS dropped to 56.64 and a negative skew signaled rising hedging demand.
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Weekly Index Highlights, March 3, 2025
TIA led gains, up 21.06%, while LDO and the CF Digital Culture Index lagged. Infrastructure tokens declined, with the Blockchain Infrastructure Index down 4.59%. ETH and SOL staking yields rose. BVXS signaled higher volatility, and BIRC's SIRB increase showed greater demand for short-term borrowing.
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Weekly Index Highlights, February 24, 2025
Sector trends drove select tokens up amid a broad decline. Fantom led (+40.24%), while Immutable X (-15.59%) and CF Digital Culture Index (-7.42%) lagged. Infra tokens fell (-5.80%). ETH staking yields hit 3.01%, SOL 7.04%. BVXS dropped to 48.70 (lower volatility), while SIRB fell to 3.95%.
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Weekly Index Highlights, February 17, 2025
The crypto market saw mixed moves last week. XRP (+12.53%) and Cardano (+10.23%) led gains, while Solana (-6.50%) lagged. Infrastructure and culture tokens rebounded. ETH staking yields fell, SOL staking rates rose. Volatility declined, options market turned bullish and liquidity conditions shifted.
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Weekly Index Highlights, February 10, 2025
The digital asset market declined, led by Cardano (-7.56%) and Chainlink (-6.61%). Infrastructure and Culture lagged, with JASMY (-9.56%) and PRIME down 17.97%. ETH staking yields fell to 2.69%, SOL rose to 7.00%. BVXS hit 53.38, with downside risk. SIRB rebounded to 1.38% amid shifting liquidity.
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Weekly Index Highlights, February 3, 2025
Crypto saw broad declines in the past week, with SOL -9.88% and Avalanche -9.56% leading the losses. ETH staking yields fell to 2.75%, whilst volatility eased with BVXS down to 55.18. The CF BIRC & Cap Series saw sharp declines, reflecting risk-off sentiment & continued institutional repositioning.
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Weekly Index Highlights, January 27, 2025
Digital assets declined this week: XRP (-6.02%) and ADA (-6.34%) led losses, while staking diverged as ETH yields fell to 2.73% and SOL held at 6.91%. Volatility eased with our BVXS dropping to 59.70, but short-term rates spiked, with 1-Week tenor hitting 4.96% amid shifting institutional trends.
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Weekly Index Highlights, January 20, 2025
Crypto rallied, led by SOL (50.68%) and Chainlink (34.12%). The CF Capitalization Series posted robust gains and CF Classification Series also advanced. ETH staking yields hit 3.19% and SOL held 6.82%. BTC volatility surged to 64.02 as short-term rates spiked marking renewed institutional optimism.
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Weekly Index Highlights, January 13, 2025
Digital assets weakened broadly last week. XRP rose 3.19%, while ADA fell 9.39%. The CF Web 3.0 Index dropped 12.31%, and diversified indices lagged. Staking yields declined (ETH: 2.69%, SOL: 6.79%), and Bitcoin volatility rose as 2-month interest rates fell to 3.36%.
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Weekly Index Highlights, January 6, 2025
Digital assets started off 2025 strongly, led by Cardano's 30.82% weekly gain. The CF Web 3.0 Index surged 17.90%, with diversified indices outperforming. Staking diverged: ETH rose 9.24bps, SOL fell 6.43bps. Bitcoin volatility tightened, with 2-month interest rates rising to 5.53%.
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Weekly Index Highlights, December 23, 2024
Volatility triggered by last Wednesday’s Fed rate decision handed Bitcoin it’s first weekly drop since Trump’s re-election, amid sharp declines across most of our crypto indices between December 16th to December 22nd. Still, large and mega caps remain on course for strong gains for 2024.
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Weekly Index Highlights, December 16, 2024
Markets paused after gains: Chainlink rose 16.93%, Bitcoin hit $102,840.89. DeFi surged, led by AAVE (+35.38%) and ONDO (+15.36%), while Culture tokens and Meme Coins fell. The CF DeFi Index rose 9.90%, up 79% YTD, with volatility and ETH staking rewards easing.
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Weekly Index Highlights, December 9, 2024
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Weekly Index Highlights, December 2, 2024
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Weekly Index Highlights, November 25, 2024
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Weekly Index Highlights, November 18, 2024
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Weekly Index Highlights, November 11, 2024
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Weekly Index Highlights, November 4, 2024
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Weekly Index Highlights, October 28, 2024
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Weekly Index Highlights, October 21, 2024
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Weekly Index Highlights, October 14, 2024
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Weekly Index Highlights, October 7, 2024
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Weekly Index Highlights, September 30, 2024
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Weekly Index Highlights, September 23, 2024
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Weekly Index Highlights, September 16, 2024
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Weekly Index Highlights, September 9, 2024
CFB's Weekly Index Highlights provides a brief summary of the performance of our market-leading reference rates and indices for the period September 2, 2024 to September 8, 2024.
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