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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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Why CME CF BRR and Coindesk XBX are far from "nearly identical"

During the course of the analysis as to the rights and wrongs of the SEC's decision, an assertion has been made that we believe needs to be corrected. Namely that the Coindesk XBX and the CME CF BRR are "nearly identical". They are not.

Sui Chung
Sui Chung

Sui Chung

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Why there won’t be a regulated ETH Proof of Work Benchmark

In accordance with CF Benchmarks’ Hard Fork Policy, ETHW’s hard fork is not material.

Ken Odeluga
Ken Odeluga

Ken Odeluga

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CF Benchmarks launches CF Bitcoin Interest Rate Curve

The CF Bitcoin Interest Rate Curve (CF BIRC), the first index of its kind published by CF Benchmarks, measures the underlying economic reality of Bitcoin borrowing and lending, whether on an outright basis or an implied basis in tradeable instruments.

Ken Odeluga
Ken Odeluga

Ken Odeluga

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CF Benchmarks passes independent Deloitte audit for second time

Achieving this independent kitemark for the second time is further objective corroboration of CF Benchmarks’ transparency, the soundness of our operational processes, as well as the integrity of our Benchmark Methodology.

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Ether Options settling to CME CF ETHUSD_RR launched by CME

Ether options began trading on CME yesterday led by a block trade between Genesis and Cumberland. As the Ethereum merge approaches the opportunity for investors to hedge price risk for Ether (ETH) through CFTC regulated, centrally cleared options contracts will be invaluable. The launch of Ether options further extends the suite of instruments that investors and product providers can utilise to create differing pay-off structures, an invaluable tool as investors seek to integrate digital assets

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