Feb 25, 2020
Constituent Exchanges to CME CF Cryptocurrency Pricing Products Inaccessible for a Period on July 2nd 2019
The Administrator wishes to inform users of the CME CF Cryptocurrency Pricing Products that both the websites and API’s of some of the Constituent Exchanges from which the Administrator utilises orderbooks and transactions as input data to the calculation of the indices were inaccessible for a period today. This issue was caused by the widely used web security software provider Cloudflare suffering a network outage between 1344 and 1408 UTC.
The Administrator confirms that all CME CF Cryptocurrency Pricing Products were calculated in accordance with their respective methodologies during this time.
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