Pando Bitcoin ETF investors are assured of optimal digital asset investment management expertise, as Pando Finance leverages its track record in Web3 innovation and venture capital to enable best-in-class crypto market execution.
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REX-Osprey Solana + Staking ETF (SSK) is the first ETF to deliver spot Solana (SOL) exposure alongside direct, on-chain staking rewards in a regulated investment vehicle.
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Building on our initial research that culminated in publication of the research paper “A Factor Model for Digital Assets”, we are now making components of the underlying model and data sets available online, within a brand-new data product suite, CF Factor Intelligence.
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Evolve expands its suite of crypto products with one of the first North American XRP ETFs, while adding XRP to its unique crypto portfolio ETF.
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The ETF is now trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the ticker XRPQ, for the Canadian dollar-denominated pricing series, and XRPQ.U, for the U.S. dollar-denominated pricing series.
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The SEC’s broader signaling on crypto investment products - meaning chiefly ETFs - throughout the half year, has been a reminder of its more customary cautious footing.
Ken Odeluga
Bitcoin’s volatility is falling just as institutional demand surges, led by BlackRock’s IBIT ETF using CF Benchmarks' BRRNY. As “suitcoiners” seek digital gold over tech risk, flows into Bitcoin ETFs now rival—and even reverse—those of traditional gold funds.
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BlackRock's IBIT marks another month of record inflows; with record-low volatility. We launch more regulated staking benchmarks, this time for Aptos. And get a summary of our research team's essential primer on XRP.
Ken Odeluga
CF Benchmarks is excited to announce the launch of the CF APT Staking Reward Rate, the CF APT Staked Return Index, and CF APT Staking Blend Baskets.
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Starting with our CF Institutional Digital Asset Index (IDAX) and CF Large Cap Index, CIG has begun to roll-out access to CFB’s key measures of investible crypto market beta to users of its platform.
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Institutions entering the digital asset space could soon face a lack of regulated crypto benchmarks following the EU's relaxation of certain licensing requirements
Alise Kane
Global risk assets appear to be staging their latest ‘Great Escape’ — a recurring theme in recent years — as markets rebound sharply from early April lows despite lingering geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainties.
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We are proud to confirm settlement of CME XRP futures will be based on our regulated CME CF XRP-Dollar Reference Rate (XRPUSD_RR).
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One of our first ever ETF clients, $7bn-plus AuM Evolve, has also opted to utilize our Solana benchmark methodology, this time integrating the regulated CME CF Solana-Dollar Reference Rate (SOLUSD_RR) into its latest fund, Evolve Solana ETF (tickers: SOLA, SOLA.U).
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The 3iQ Solana Staking ETF (tickers: SOLQ, SOLQ.U) marks the latest inflection point for the digital asset class, with one of the first spot-based Solana ETFs to be listed in the North America region.
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BlackRock expands its dominant position in the U.S., overseas to Europe with the launch of the iShares Bitcoin ETP listed on Euronext Amsterdam (ticker: BTCN), Euronext Paris (IB1T), and Frankfurt-based Deutsche Boerse’s Xetra (IB1T) on March 25th.
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Just like for all other CME digital asset products, settlement is based on CF Benchmarks' methodology. In the case of Solana futures, their index is our regulated CME CF Solana Dollar-Reference Rate (SOLUSD_RR).
Ken Odeluga
We believe CME SOL futures represent the latest inflection point for institutional crypto adoption, as they provide large investors and capital markets participants with new CFTC-regulated tools for risk management and trading in relation to SOL, for the first time.
Ken Odeluga
The much anticipated rethink of crypto market and asset oversight appears to be well underway, though geopolitical uncertainty means optimism on the outlook for the asset class hasn't been enough to support prices.
Ken Odeluga
CF Benchmarks is excited to announce the launch of CF Category indices, the latest additions to our CF Classification Series of thematic portfolio indices, which track the performance of specific blockchain categories within the CF Digital Asset Classification Structure (CF DACS).
Ken Odeluga
We are excited to confirm that the leading derivatives marketplace's first SOL-based product will be the latest to settle to a regulated CF Benchmarks Reference Rate.
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The news is intriguing more broadly, with digital asset participants in the U.S. waiting on the edge of their seats to see whether, or when, an XRP ETF might be approved there.
Ken Odeluga
There are indications the SEC is moving. This might be attributable to the 'Crypto Task Force' announced on January 21st, led by Commissioner Hester Peirce.
Ken Odeluga
Head of Research Gabe Selby, CFA, and Research Analyst Mark Pilipczuk, gave a clear heads-up, well ahead of network difficulty peaking.
Ken Odeluga
SAB 121 was widely assumed to be but one aspect of an unstated cross-agency policy referred to as Operation Chokepoint 2.0. A modern form of unofficial sanction against unfavored industries.
Ken Odeluga
There are instances where 'in-cash' makes some sense. Crypto isn't one of them.
Ken Odeluga
Crypto ETFs have become one of the most pivotal on-ramps for bridging participation in mainstream assets with participation in cryptoassets - and for filings, at least, the floodgates have well and truly opened.
Ken Odeluga
The remarkably low correlations in our heat map are excellent news for anyone interested in factor-based approaches to digital asset investing.
Ken Odeluga
One lightening rod for that sentiment seems to be the question of whether or not the newly installed crypto-friendly President will follow through on pledges to establish a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve.
Ken Odeluga
As pivotal as it might turn out to be, a 'regulatory reset' isn't the only significant evolutionary aspect mooted for crypto in 2025.
Ken Odeluga
This is a great occasion to see the CF Bitcoin Volatility Index (BVX) in action - and get an insight into the typically counterintuitive relationship between spot bitcoin and implied volatility.
Ken Odeluga
Perhaps inevitably, Bitcoin's tussle with $100,000 – which it's currently winning, according to our CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate (BRR) - is now commonly regarded as a threshold between 'constructive' short-term sentiment, and a supposedly more bearish outlook for the OG crypto, if below.
Ken Odeluga
With a total market cap of around $120 billion, meme coins as a whole can no longer be dismissed as entirely frivolous and inconsequential.
Ken Odeluga
Will the SEC really soften its hardline stance on crypto ETFs as quickly as applicants expect?
Ken Odeluga
Debunking the myth of crypto’s Random Walk: our quantitative research shows liquid market returns mirror traditional market dynamics.
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CF Benchmarks, the UK FCA-regulated benchmark administrator and the world's largest indices provider for cryptocurrencies, has today announced it is adding market data from Bullish Exchange to its full suite of bitcoin benchmarks.
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CF Benchmarks is excited to announce that the latest regulated benchmarks to be added to our CF Staking Series are the first institutional-grade indices of Solana staking rewards.
Ken Odeluga
Whilst the outcome of the US election may have been a surprise for some, the follow-on reaction by ‘risky’ assets broadly, including the digital class, was well within the range of widely trailed expectations.
Ken Odeluga
Our Weekly Index Highlights series is designed to provide quick insights into crypto market events of the past week. Here’s a detailed look at what the series offers.
Ken Odeluga
Inevitably, cross-market attention has been fixated on Federal Reserve policy probabilities and implications in recent weeks, leaving large cap crypto, like most other risk assets, in a proto funk in the run-up to the decision.
Ken Odeluga
Following the transitional events for crypto of the year so far, institutionalisation has continued to cogently evolve, with a view to further fill out the infrastructure one would expect to see for any emerging asset or financial product class.
Ken Odeluga
The top end of new Ether funds, represented by BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHA), and Bitwise’s Ethereum ETF (ETHW), comfortably join the echelons of ETFs evincing a faster-than-historical-average pace of asset gathering.
Ken Odeluga
Despite the slower start of the second crypto asset to reach Wall Street, even Ether's more modest indicative fund distribution profile suggests the most pessimistic expectations on flows may prove to be undercooked.
Ken Odeluga
Spot Ether ETFs are finally here! Just like for Bitcoin ETFs though, the path to approval has been full of suspense and drama.
Ken Odeluga
For CF Benchmarks, of course, this second inflection point for digital asset adoption within six months is - again - all the more consequential because of the swathe of high profile issuers opting to use another of our regulated benchmarks for NAV calculation.
Ken Odeluga
The ‘main case’ remains, from our perspective, that Ether ETFs are on track for full approval and listing – relatively imminently.
Ken Odeluga
This is an unprecedented acknowledgement of the veracity of our regulated benchmark methodology and the safeguards we’ve incorporated into it, to ensure the reliability, accuracy and market integrity of our pricing benchmarks.
Ken Odeluga
ETC Group Core Bitcoin ETP (BTC1). is underpinned by CF Benchmarks’ Bitcoin pricing methodology, deploying all three variants of our flagship CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate (BRR) in one product simultaneously, for the first time.
Ken Odeluga
CF Benchmarks is excited to confirm that all successful HK Bitcoin and Ether ETF applicants are those opting to strike net asset value (NAV) with variants of our flagship Bitcoin and Ether benchmarks respectively.
Ken Odeluga
Responding to the need for a singular, comprehensive gauge of volatility, based solely on the CME’s CFTC-regulated Bitcoin options market CF Benchmarks is launching the CF Bitcoin Volatility Index, the first comprehensive benchmark of CME Bitcoin Options implied volatility.
Ken Odeluga
CF Benchmarks is again uniquely positioned to define cogent regulatory grounds for Ethereum to be made accessible to the investing public within exchange traded funds.
Ken Odeluga
Even a cursory examination of volume and flow data shuts down suggestions that the establishment of this new investment product class happened with anything short of demand that was quantifiably above historical norms. (AKA, it was a crushing success.)
Ken Odeluga
The six spot bitcoin ETFs that strike NAV against our CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate – New York Variant, begin trading today!
Ken Odeluga
As a regulated benchmark under the UK Benchmarks Regulation (BMR) framework, compatible with the EU BMR, the CF ETH Staking Reward Rate is designed to promote replicability, representativeness and manipulation resistance, for financial product providers engaging in non-custodial staking.
Ken Odeluga
The launch of the CF Meta Lab GameFi Index is the first step in the process of creating potential investment products, like funds, trusts and ETFs, that offer exposure to GameFi for investors in Hong Kong and the wider APAC region.
Ken Odeluga
The CF Rolling CME Bitcoin Ether Basket Futures Index enables institutional investors to access both bitcoin and ether exposure simultaneously, with an entirely hands-off strategy
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CFB Talks Digital Assets now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. Read more
Jon Zeffert
'Liquidity drought’ or not, large institutions have embarked on a wave of plans to install the infrastructure for the mass adoption they’re clearly convinced is just downwind.
Ken Odeluga
Although PayPal’s move is widely recognized as a potentially important inflection point for broad-scale adoption, for more informed digital asset participants, it’s seen as somewhat less remarkable, in context.
Ken Odeluga
CF Benchmarks’ transparent, regulated Benchmark Methodologies and governance policies, are as rules-based for our DeFi benchmarks, as they are for all of our other indices.
Ken Odeluga
Record open interest in CME crypto contracts both BTC and ETH, futures and options...argue against the notion of retreating participation.
Ken Odeluga
Among on-chain metrics, Bitcoin’s hashrate stands out as continuing to relay the robustness of demand for the network’s functionality and by default, adoption.
Ken Odeluga
The commission will demonstrate its preference for the greatest possible visibility into the market participation of the Bitcoin ETF that is ultimately approved for listing
Ken Odeluga
By offering a suite of benchmarked derivatives contracts, FalconX and CF Benchmarks are addressing the growing demand for secure and transparent investment products in the rapidly expanding digital asset space.
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Outsize attention on the ambivalent Ripple ruling largely eclipsed important crypto ETF developments.
Ken Odeluga
Just like all other CME cryptocurrency derivative contracts, ETH/BTC Futures are secured by the end-to-end regulation inherent in the CME’s CFTC-regulated trading venue, and CFB’s regulated benchmark methodology.
Ken Odeluga
Bitcoin ETF applicants citing the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate – New York Variant (BRRNY) for NAV calculation, have a built in additional dimension of surveillance sharing.
Ken Odeluga
Whilst it's clear that the first U.S.-listed spot Bitcoin ETF will include a Surveillance Sharing Agreement, that fund is also likely to be one that includes a regulated CF Benchmarks index as its NAV-calculation price
Ken Odeluga
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin ETF Trust filing (citing our regulated CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate - New York Variant for NAV-calculation) offers additional colour to the resurgent spate of similar applications in its wake.
Ken Odeluga
Now, we’ve seen perhaps the ultimate institutional adoption moment that’s counter to the ‘crypto winter’ narrative.
Ken Odeluga
The timing of the filing, on the back of well-aired events of the past week—and in the context of crypto price and counterparty upsets of last year—is as eloquent as gestures like this get.
Ken Odeluga
In fact, from CF Benchmarks’ perspective as an FCA regulated Benchmark Administrator, the most salient points to make in response are actually separate from and pre-exist this week's developments considerably.
Ken Odeluga
With retail activity—markets-wise, and, anecdotally, adoption-wise, still on the back foot in the wake of that late-2022 perfect storm, institutions are now more easily observable at the forefront of participation.
Ken Odeluga
Why you may ask? Well, it's because today marks the thirteenth anniversary of the first documented time someone used Bitcoin to purchase physical goods.
Jon Zeffert
Bitcoin rate market participants can now examine and analyze CF BIRC term rate curves—session, 1-week, 2-week, one-month, etc.—in isolation or collectively
Ken Odeluga
The availability of a choice of bitcoin indices published by CF Benchmarks, a tried and tested (and regulated) cryptocurrency Benchmark Administrator, undoubtedly helped give BlackRock the confidence to begin offering spot bitcoin exposure to institutional clients.
Ken Odeluga
The Administrator hereby announces the addition of the below 3 cryptocurrency reference rates and real-time indices to the CME CF Cryptocurrency Pricing Products Family: * Avalanche (AVAX) * Filecoin (FIL) * Tezos (XTZ) Each reference rate will publish the U.S. dollar price of each digital asset once a day at 16:00 London time. Each respective real-time index price will be published once per second, 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. Publication of these reference rates and real-time indic
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An attacker would have to put such an exponentially high amount of capital at risk to move a CF Benchmarks MNGO RTI as to make the economics of the manipulation absurd.
Ken Odeluga
During the course of the analysis as to the rights and wrongs of the SEC's decision, an assertion has been made that we believe needs to be corrected. Namely that the Coindesk XBX and the CME CF BRR are "nearly identical". They are not.
Sui Chung
In accordance with CF Benchmarks’ Hard Fork Policy, ETHW’s hard fork is not material.
Ken Odeluga
The CF Bitcoin Interest Rate Curve (CF BIRC), the first index of its kind published by CF Benchmarks, measures the underlying economic reality of Bitcoin borrowing and lending, whether on an outright basis or an implied basis in tradeable instruments.
Ken Odeluga
Achieving this independent kitemark for the second time is further objective corroboration of CF Benchmarks’ transparency, the soundness of our operational processes, as well as the integrity of our Benchmark Methodology.
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Ether options began trading on CME yesterday led by a block trade between Genesis and Cumberland. As the Ethereum merge approaches the opportunity for investors to hedge price risk for Ether (ETH) through CFTC regulated, centrally cleared options contracts will be invaluable. The launch of Ether options further extends the suite of instruments that investors and product providers can utilise to create differing pay-off structures, an invaluable tool as investors seek to integrate digital assets
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The world's most popular programmable blockchain is set for a major upgrade this week: the Ethereum blockchain will switch over its process for executing transactions and mining to a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism. This change may seem to be superficial at first glance, but it has so far had a profound impact on crypto markets. Firstly, we have seen ETH dominate its competitors since the Ethereum Foundation publicly announced their planned 'Merge' timeline in mid-July. So-called ETH K
Gabriel Selby
The Ethereum Merge fork event that will transition Ethereum from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus, is set to take place in the coming days. The majority of Constituent Exchanges have confirmed that the Ethereum PoS chain will retain the ETH ticker after the Merge, with no anticipated disruptions to trading at or around the time of the Merge. Therefore, there will be no change to the underlying markets observed by the CME CF Ether- Dollar Reference Rate, which is a constitue
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Regardless of the short-term market and industry reaction, this watershed news will almost certainly turn out to be a critical juncture for the development of the institutional digital asset space that CF Benchmarks addresses.
Ken Odeluga
The index is able to negate the effects of roll yield significantly, providing strong replication of the physical bitcoin price and mitigating any operational risks in the replication process.
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CF Benchmarks has leveraged its unique position as administrator of the most liquid, established and trusted, regulated Bitcoin benchmark, CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate (BRR), to determine the optimal time to strike NAV for Aussie Bitcoin ETFs.
Ken Odeluga
For those new to this sector, it’s also important to note that a significant proportion of crypto ETP providers have opted to utilise CF Benchmarks’ tried and trusted (and FCA-regulated) Benchmark Methodology to underpin reference and NAV calculation prices
Ken Odeluga
CF Benchmarks, the leading provider of cryptocurrency benchmark indices announces the launch of 11 new cryptocurrency reference rates and real-time indices to the CME CF Cryptocurency Pricing Products, which will be calculated and published daily beginning April 25 and give benchmark index pricing for the below assets: * Algorand (ALGO) * Bitcoin Cash (BCH) * Cardano (ADA) * Chainlink (LINK) * Cosmos (ATOM) * Litecoin (LTC) * Polkadot (DOT) * Polygon (MATIC) * Solana (SOL) * Stellar L
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LMAX Digital will provide market data to six regulated crypto indices, calculated and administered by CF Benchmarks
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The CF Web 3.0 Smart Contract Platforms Index is a liquid, investible benchmark portfolio index that tracks the return performance of smart contract platforms within the digital asset space
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With the bridging of DIA’s Web3 tech infrastructure and CF Benchmarks’ deep experience in regulated price feeds, developers gain the advantage of a more secure, compliant and resilient price feed
Ken Odeluga
We are confident that this partnership will be a significant step towards enabling the high-integrity pricing that will be critical for mass adoption of DeFi, Web3 and beyond
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With institutional demand for Web3 and Metaverse-related tokens continuing to grow, the need for regulated, secure and reliable pricing of such assets is, in turn, becoming ever more critical.
Ken Odeluga
The CF DeFi Composite Index is a liquid, investible benchmark portfolio index that tracks the return performance of decentralised financial services
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It’s the integration of the CME CF BRR as reference price that distinguishes the Bitcoin NDF deal executed by B2C2 from any such deals that would be executed without the BRR as reference price.
Ken Odeluga
All WisdomTree CF indices are themselves regulated benchmarks, calculated according to CF Benchmarks’ Benchmark methodology which ensures that they meet the most stringent regulatory standards.
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CF Benchmarks is continuing to broaden its range of regulated benchmarks for the leading platform tokens, ensuring that the highest standards of price accuracy and governance are in place as institutional volumes approach critical mass.
Ken Odeluga
The key to ASIC’s more sure-footed approach is proposals on exchange traded crypto products that point to the adoption of the essence of CF Benchmarks policies and guidelines
Ken Odeluga