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Nasdaq Crypto Index Family – Free Float Supplies Announcement

The reconstitution and rebalance of the Nasdaq Crypto Index Family will take place on December 1st, 2022.

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The CFB index behind BlackRock’s Bitcoin Private Trust

The availability of a choice of bitcoin indices published by CF Benchmarks, a tried and tested (and regulated) cryptocurrency Benchmark Administrator, undoubtedly helped give BlackRock the confidence to begin offering spot bitcoin exposure to institutional clients.

Ken Odeluga
Ken Odeluga

Ken Odeluga

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Nasdaq Crypto Index Family - Reconstitution Announcement

The Calculation Agent announces that the reconstitution of the Nasdaq Crypto Index Family will take place on December 1st, 2022.

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CF Digital Asset Index Family Multi Asset Series Reconstitution Announcement

The Administrator announces that the Reconstitution of the CF Digital Asset Index Family Multi Asset Series will take place on December 1st, 2022.

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Why FTX and SBF may have triggered the next wave of institutional adoption

Ironically, it could well be that the legacy of Sam Bankman-Fried’s career in digital assets is the acceleration of regulatory clarity

Sui Chung
Sui Chung

Sui Chung

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CF Benchmarks announces the addition of LMAX Digital and Gemini as Constituent Exchanges of certain CME CF Cryptocurrency Family indices

The Administrator announces that the following Constituent Exchange changes will come into effect at 10:00 London Time on Tuesday November 22nd, 2022.

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CF Benchmarks Monthly Market Recap

All our benchmark indices finished October in positive territory. Larger-cap tokens saw the strongest relative performance with the Ultra Cap 5 (+11.8%) and Diversified Large Cap (11.3%) outperforming.

Gabriel Selby
Gabriel Selby

Gabriel Selby

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CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 51

As well as continuing to creep higher in recent days, Bitcoin is also definitively holding above $20K for the first time since mid-September, with CME CF Bitcoin Realtime Index (BRTI) depicting constructive and unusually benign price action.

Ken Odeluga
Ken Odeluga

Ken Odeluga

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Cessation of Certain Settlement Prices and Spot Rates of the CF Cryptocurrency Index Family

To promote an orderly transition and minimise any market impact, the benchmarks will continue to be published until provision ceases from 11:00 London time on October 31st 2022, meaning that the last values to be published shall be for October 30th 2022.

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Expansion of the CME CF Cryptocurrency Pricing Products Family to include 3 new Digital Assets

The Administrator hereby announces the addition of the below 3 cryptocurrency reference rates and real-time indices to the CME CF Cryptocurrency Pricing Products Family: * Avalanche (AVAX) * Filecoin (FIL) * Tezos (XTZ) Each reference rate will publish the U.S. dollar price of each digital asset once a day at 16:00 London time. Each respective real-time index price will be published once per second, 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. Publication of these reference rates and real-time indic

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CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 50

Recent selloffs have profoundly increased the volatility in the fiat-forex markets, with volatility now ranging from approximately 75% to over 100% that of bitcoin's.

Ken Odeluga
Ken Odeluga

Ken Odeluga

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We need to talk about crypto oracles

An attacker would have to put such an exponentially high amount of capital at risk to move a CF Benchmarks MNGO RTI as to make the economics of the manipulation absurd.

Ken Odeluga
Ken Odeluga

Ken Odeluga

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