Weekly Index Highlights, October 13, 2025
Digital assets fell sharply week-on-week, with high‑beta large caps worse-off. Little relative immunity was visible across categories tracked by CF DACS, though Culture still underperformed. ETH staking improved. BVX implied volatility rose, while realized softened. Key BTC and USDT tenors firmed.
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CFB Talks Digital Assets Episode 50: 21Shares’ Federico Brokate on Staking, Solana, and how to win in the coming altcoin ETF flood
We're excited to sit down with Vice President of 21shares US, Federico Brokate, for a timely episode of CFB Talks Digital Assets.
Ken Odeluga
Weekly Index Highlights, October 6, 2025
Digital assets rose, led by mega caps: Bitcoin +8.1%, ETH +8.6%, Solana +10%. CF Web 3.0 Smart Contract Platforms Index +7.2% and DeFi +5.7% showed renewed sentiment. Staking eased. BVX tracked higher Bitcoin implied and realized volatility, while BTC funding tightened slightly.
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CF Benchmarks Newsletter Issue 92
CME Group closes the chapter on almost 230 years of tradition, with crypto contracts set be the venue operator’s first non-stop trading products, all settling to CF Benchmarks indices.
Ken Odeluga
Rate Cuts & Regulatory Clarity: From Red Tape to Greenlights
Crypto markets are entering a phase where regulatory clarity and monetary easing outweigh macro headwinds. Stablecoin adoption, expanding ETF pipelines, and Fed rate cuts are set to create tailwinds for digital assets.
Gabriel Selby
Fed Easing & SEC Progress Counter Seasonal Weakness
Our market recap offers a concise overview of key blockchain categories and their recent price action within the broader market context, providing valuable insights for investors and industry practitioners.
Gabriel Selby
Weekly Index Highlights, September 29, 2025
Digital assets dipped further last week, with Bitcoin again exhibiting the least drag among mega caps, while Avalanche, -8.2%, was a big loser among majors. ETH was best staking performer. Bitcoin implied volatility revived, and the front of its curve flattened.
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REX-Osprey lists first US ETH ETF with direct staking rewards
CF Benchmarks is delighted that REX-Osprey has once again opted to select a regulated CF Benchmarks index as the reference price for another of its crypto ETFs, this time our CME CF Ether-Dollar Reference Rate – New York Variant (ETHUSD_NY).
Ken Odeluga
Reserve Protocol deploys Large Cap Index DTF (LCAP), first institutional-grade, on-chain crypto portfolio
CF Benchmarks congratulates Reserve Protocol on the successful deployment of the Large Cap Index Decentralized Token Folio (LCAP) — the first ever fully collateralized, on-chain, multi-asset index tracker.
Ken Odeluga
Transition of CF Maker-Dollar indices to CF Sky-Dollar indices
According to the CF Settlement Price Methodology, the correct price of this asset is now represented by the SKY token.
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Weekly Index Highlights, September 22, 2025
Digital assets consolidated last week as majors diverged. Bitcoin anchored with mild gains, Avalanche led layer-1s with double-digit returns, and XRP fell 1%. BTC volatility eased, while its rate curve flattened on a short-end spike.
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CF Benchmarks Newsletter Issue 91
Those Generic Listing Standards (GLS) for ‘commodity based trust shares’ that tracked into focus less than a couple of months ago have now been crystallized by an accelerated approval order.
Ken Odeluga
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