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CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 28

Three simultaneously launched Ether ETFs underlined their sponsors’ willingness to go head-to-head.

Ken Odeluga
Ken Odeluga

Ken Odeluga

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Why price liquidity matters for Evolve’s ETHR ETF

Only Evolve Ether ETF, which uses the CME CF Ether-Dollar Reference Rate as its reference index, is backed by a pricing source with a fully public and transparent methodology.

Ken Odeluga
Ken Odeluga

Ken Odeluga

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Announcement: Evolve ETFs is set to launch the world’s first Ether ETF, powered by the CME CF Ether-Dollar Reference Rate

ETHR’s daily NAV will be calculated using the CME CF Ether-Dollar Reference Rate, the only regulated Ether benchmark price

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CF Benchmarks

CF Benchmarks

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CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 27

Evolve ETFs edged ahead of rivals with Friday’s announcement of what’s set to be the world’s first Ether ETF

Ken Odeluga
Ken Odeluga

Ken Odeluga

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BRR Power: updated research backs the index again

Ultimately, demonstrating that the BRR continued to meet the most stringent standards of those qualities underpins the stated aim of the research in the first place: to validate the BRR as a superior reference price for providers of regulated Bitcoin financial products, chiefly ETFs.

Ken Odeluga
Ken Odeluga

Ken Odeluga

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CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 26

Crypto attention is already shifting to the next opportunity – a potential direct listing of Coinbase’s best-established rival, Kraken, in 2022

Ken Odeluga
Ken Odeluga

Ken Odeluga

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CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 25

The SEC has been presented with options to demonstrate where it stands on a Bitcoin ETF.

Ken Odeluga
Ken Odeluga

Ken Odeluga

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CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 24

Like Evolve’s Bitcoin ETF, trading in Canada, the Brazilian fund will track the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate (BRR).

Ken Odeluga
Ken Odeluga

Ken Odeluga

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CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 23

WisdomTree filed an application to offer WisdomTree Bitcoin Trust using the CF Bitcoin Settlement Price (US Close) as its daily valuation index.

Ken Odeluga
Ken Odeluga

Ken Odeluga

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The ‘Bitcoin Effect’ on the traditional 60/40 portfolio

Allocations to Bitcoin represented by the regulated Bitcoin Reference Rate have a very similar effect on a 60/40 portfolio as the one evident from previously published research

Ken Odeluga
Ken Odeluga

Ken Odeluga

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CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 22

There’s really no other way to interpret Evolve ETFs’s filing of a preliminary prospectus for the world’s first Ether ETF, powered by the CME CF Ether Reference Rate, than as a vote of confidence.

Ken Odeluga
Ken Odeluga

Ken Odeluga

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CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 21

The market may well have witnessed its biggest single-session drop ever—since the last one a few weeks ago—though institutional crypto convergence continued apace.

Ken Odeluga
Ken Odeluga

Ken Odeluga

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