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Monthly Market Recap - May 2023This report aims to provide the reader with a quick overview of the blockchain economic categories influencing recent market performance, gain insights into institutional investors' capital allocation in digital assets, and understand how crypto is affected by the broader market landscape.
Key takeaways for the month:
* During the past month, digital assets demonstrated a general downward trend, mirroring the prevailing macroeconomic uncertainties. The primary drivers of these uncertainties w
Gabriel Selby

Gabriel Selby
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Suitability Analysis of the CME CF BRR as a Basis for Regulated Financial Products - May 2023CF Benchmarks ascertains the presence of fair and transparent market conditions and processes to identify and impede illegal, unfair or manipulative practices by conducting a thorough review of any exchange under consideration for inclusion as a Constituent Exchange.
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CF Benchmarks
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Monthly Market Recap - April 2023This report is designed to provide the reader a quick overview of the blockchain economic categories that have been impacting recent crypto market performance, gain insights into where institutional investors are directing capital for digital assets, and comprehend how crypto is affected by and influences the broader market landscape.
Key takeaways for the month:
* The Ethereum network's latest "Shanghai" upgrade enabled validators to un-stake their tokens for the first time, resulting in a s
Gabriel Selby

Gabriel Selby
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Monthly Market Recap - March 2023This report is designed to provide the reader a quick overview of the blockchain economic categories that have been impacting recent crypto market performance, gain insights into where institutional investors are directing capital for digital assets, and comprehend how crypto is affected by and influences the broader market landscape.
Key takeaways for the month:
* Major bank failures have increased concerns about financial stability, leading to a decrease in market-based interest rate expect
Gabriel Selby

Gabriel Selby
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Monthly Market Recap - February 2023This report has been designed to help you see at a glance which blockchain economic categories have been driving recent crypto market performance, get a sense of where institutional investors are allocating capital earmarked for digital assets, and understand how crypto fits into, impacts and is influenced by the broader market picture.
Please click here to read the full report. Lastly, be sure to subscribe to our latest news and research to stay on top of the crypto market!
Gabriel Selby

Gabriel Selby
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Monthly Market Recap - January 2023This report has been designed to help you see at a glance which blockchain economic categories have been driving recent crypto market performance, get a sense of where institutional investors are allocating capital earmarked for digital assets, and understand how crypto fits into, impacts and is influenced by the broader market picture.
Please click here to read the full report. Lastly, be sure to subscribe to our latest news and research to stay on top of the crypto market!
Gabriel Selby

Gabriel Selby
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Quarterly Attribution Analysis
CF Benchmarks Quarterly Attribution ReportAnother exogenous shock has led crypto markets lower over the last rebalancing period as one of the world’s largest exchanges surprisingly filed for bankruptcy. All of our flagship portfolio indices finished in negative territory with pricing volatility surging in the month of November.
Gabriel Selby

Gabriel Selby
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Quarterly Attribution Analysis
Quarterly Attribution Report: CF Diversified Large Cap IndexThe CF Diversified Large Cap Index - is a liquid, investible benchmark portfolio index designed to track the performance of large-cap digital assets. The index seeks to capture 95% of the total market capitalization of the investible digital asset universe as its constituents. Index constituents are weighted using the diversified market capitalization which is determined by the free-float market capitalization adjusted by the application of the harmonic series' terms. This has the benefit of dis
Gabriel Selby

Gabriel Selby
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Gabriel Selby

Gabriel Selby
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Gabriel Selby
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Gabriel Selby
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Gabriel Selby
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Quarterly Attribution Analysis
Quarterly Attribution Analysis: CF Web 3.0 Smart Contract Platforms IndexThe higher weighting of Solana (SOL), coupled with weak performance, led to a pronounced drag on our Smart Contract Platforms Index. The total negative contribution of SOL for the rebalance period was almost 40% of the index’s total -31.8% decline.
Gabriel Selby

Gabriel Selby
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CF Benchmarks Monthly Market RecapHere's the November edition of a monthly compilation of digital asset market data, analysis and insights by CF Benchmarks' Lead Research Analyst Gabe Selby.
This report has been designed to help you see at a glance which blockchain economic categories have been driving recent crypto market performance, get a sense of where institutional investors are allocating capital earmarked for digital assets, and understand how crypto fits into, impacts and is influenced by the broader market picture.
Gabriel Selby

Gabriel Selby
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CF Benchmarks
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CF Benchmarks
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CF Benchmarks
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Ken Odeluga

Ken Odeluga
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Ken Odeluga
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CF Digital Asset Classification Structure
How to see Crypto Portfolio Return Drivers in 3D, with DACSAttributing notional digital asset portfolio returns to DACS Categories and Subcategories provides information and insights into the economic reality engendered by holdings at a higher-resolution than is possible from an examination of the assets and their weights alone.
Ken Odeluga

Ken Odeluga
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CF Digital Culture Index benchmarks protocols of funInstitutional participants seeking to capture alpha from material present and promising future opportunities in the Metaverse, NFTs, video games and digitalised music consumption, can now do so via a secure, replicable, methodology devised by a regulated Benchmark Administrator
Ken Odeluga

Ken Odeluga
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