Weekly Index Highlights, June 16, 2025
Digital assets fell last week, led by large-cap losses and underperformance in Digital Culture and Smart Contract themes. Staking yields dropped, volatility rose, options skew turned defensive, and a steeper rate curve signaled rising caution amid macro and geopolitical risks.
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CF Benchmarks Newsletter Issue 84
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
Expansion of CME CF Cryptocurrency Pricing Products Family to include new Reference Rate Variants
The Administrator announces the addition of several Reference Rate Variants to the CME CF Cryptocurrency Pricing Products Family.
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Weekly Index Highlights, June 9, 2025
Digital assets were mixed last week. Large-cap tokens like XRP and Bitcoin led gains in capitalization indices, while thematic indices lagged. Ethereum staking yields fell, and volatility hit a 12-month low—suggesting cautious but improving sentiment.
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CF Benchmarks Quarterly Attribution Reports - June 2025
Thoroughly dissect and comprehend the performance of our flagship portfolio indices at the constituent, category, sub-category, and segment levels during the course of each portfolio rebalance period.
Gabriel Selby
Q2 2025 Reconstitution
We’re pleased to share a short video overview of the Q2 2025 Reconstitution of our CF Capitalization Series — a suite of indices regulated under the UK Benchmark Regulation (BMR) — presented by our Head of Product, Thomas Erdösi.
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CFB Talks Digital Assets Episode 45: 3iQ's Pascal St-Jean on crypto's next institutional watershed: SOL staking, and beyond
For a timely overview on Canada's regulated crypto space, exclusive insights on how staking works in ETFs, plus pointers on what 3iQ's building right now, we're delighted to welcome their CEO, Pascal St-Jean, to the CFB Talks Digital Assets podcast.
Ken Odeluga
ETF Inflows Lift Bitcoin as New Tax Bill Lifts Spending
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
Expansion of the CME CF Cryptocurrency Pricing Products Family to include Ondo Finance, SUI, Arbitrum, NEAR and Polkadot Reference Rates and Real-Time indices
The Administrator announces the addition of several Reference Rates and Real-Time indices to the CME CF Cryptocurrency Pricing Products Family.
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Weekly Index Highlights, June 2, 2025
Digital assets fell last week, with Solana, Cardano, and Avalanche leading the losses. Sector indices weakened, ETH staking yields rose, and funding costs dropped. Rising put-side implied volatility signals downside hedging as sentiment stays fragile and speculative demand eases.
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Suitcoiners
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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CF Benchmarks Newsletter Issue 83
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