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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Risky Assets and Great Escapes
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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CF Benchmarks Newsletter Issue 81
We're enormously proud to win ETF.com's Index Provider of the Year Award!
Ken Odeluga
Announcement of a Consultation on Methodology Changes to the CF Capitalization Series Methodology
Announcement of a Consultation on Methodology Changes to the CF Capitalization Series Methodology
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Announcement of a Consultation on Methodology Changes to the CF Digital Asset Index Family Multi Asset Series - Ground Rules
Announcement of a Consultation on Methodology Changes to the CF Digital Asset Index Family Multi Asset Series - Ground Rules
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Tariffs, Turbulence, and Bitcoin Divergence
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
CFB Talks Digital Assets Episode 43: FalconX's David Lawant on the Tariff Aftermath, and What to Watch in The Next 100 Days
As markets contemplate what the next 100 days hold in store, we're stoked to have another dose of exclusive insights from FalconX's Head of Research, David Lawant, from his vantage point serving the biggest investors in the world.
Ken Odeluga
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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CME announces XRP futures, based on CF Benchmarks' XRPUSD_RR index
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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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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Evolve's Sixth Crypto ETF
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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CF Benchmarks Newsletter Issue 80
One way or another, quite remarkably, the crypto ETP class has continued to progressively evolve, despite political, geopolitical, and consequent market flux we’ve seen over the last several months. Those hard-won origins have come in handy.
Ken Odeluga