CF Benchmarks Launches Indices for Tezos, Stellar Lumens and EOS
CF Benchmarks will begin publishing benchmark indices for Tezos (XTZ), Stellar Lumens (XLM) and EOS (EOS) to USD from today. Each asset will be represented by both a once a day Settlement Price and a per second Spot Rate, published 365 days a year. Transaction and Order Book data for these indices will be drawn from Coinbase and Kraken. The new indices will become the latest members of the CF Cryptocurrency Index Family - full index methodology and governance documents can be found here. "We a
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ETH returns 61% in April, the best monthly return since May 2019 (64%), recovering most of its March losses
* ETH remains 24.4% off its 2020 high yet still shows an impressive 60.6% YTD return * Aggregate volumes in April (713,389) trail March (934,680) but were still significantly ahead of January (247,500) and February (534,707) * April 23rd saw volumes of 120,812 ETH traded, only slightly behind "Black Thursday" - March 13th (123,248)
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Bitcoin recovers most of its March losses, but remains 14.4% below its 2020 high
* BRR shows Bitcoin recovers most of its March losses, on April 30th BRR was $8848.5 sitting just 3.1% below the March high of $9127.1 set on March 7th. * YTD returns at April 30th are a healthy 22.8% but Bitcoin is still 14.4% below its 2020 high of $10,336.0 set on February * Aggregate BRR volume of 74,656 XBT for April was significantly lower than March's record volumes (103,765 XBT) but still a long way ahead of volumes seen in Jan (35,034 XBT) and Feb (44,538 XBT)
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BRR sees record volumes as Bitcoin falls 24.6% in March
* BRR sees record monthly volumes of 103,765 XBT traded in March, more than double February * Over 14,000 XBT were traded on March 13th - Black Friday * Bitcoin ends the month 24.6% lower, after recovering towards the second half, losses stood at 41% on March 16th * Rolling 24hr volatility of the CME CF Bitcoin Real Time Index reached 70% on March 13th 0305 UTC https://twitter.com/CFBenchmarks/status/1238477558401904640
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Website improvements
At CF Benchmarks, we're always trying to improve our infrastructure. One area we've been focusing recently is our website. Last year we spent some time revamping the site. We gave it more of a dashboard feel, improving the graphs and adding a bit more data content. Once that was deployed, the data looked great, but we felt we could do more to improve our news posts. Until recently, our news items were all simple text based posts that were difficult to write and publish. We wanted the abili
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Ether-Dollar Reference Rate posts 23.2% return in Feb'20 amidst record breaking volumes
* Best monthly return for ETH-USD Reference Rate since May'19 and second best month on record * Aggregate volumes in Feb'20 (534,707 ETH, $130.5M) smash all previous records - Dec'18 (457,417 ETH) and May'18 ($79M) * Feb 15th 2020 saw all-time record dollar volume of $15.9M, topping the previous high of $11M set on Nov 21st 2019 * Month high of $279.94 (Feb 19th) is highest since July 10th 2019 * Volumes recorded surged 127.8% vs Jan'20
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BRR falls 7.5% in Feb'20 on strongest monthly volumes since July'19
* Total aggregate volumes traded in Feb'20 increased by 27.1% vs Jan'20, reaching 44,538 BTC, despite a short month * Feb'20 (44,538 BTC, $434.9M) saw the strongest monthly volumes since July'19 (83,151 BTC, $883.1M) * Feb 11th 2020 saw 7,268 BTC/ $72.9M traded, the highest daily volumes recorded for the BRR since Nov 21st 2019 - 12,577 $95.3M * Coinbase gained over 5% in share vs. the previous month
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Bitcoin climbs 28.7% in Jan, amidst smoother trading volumes than Dec
* Aggregate volume captured by the BRR in Jan '20 15% lower than Dec '19 * Highest volume day in (Jan 14) saw 42% less volume than the highest volume day in previous month (Dec 9), pointing to smoother trading volumes in Jan * Bitstamp increased share of volume by 4 percentage, whilst Coinbase share fell 3.5 percentage points month to month * Average trade size in Jan'20 fell to 0.2598 BTC from 0.2879 BTC in Dec'19
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Consultation for Proposed Methodology Change to CF Ripple-Bitcoin Settlement Price Now Open
0900 LDN The consultation on proposed methodology parameter changes to the CF Ripple-Bitcoin Settlement Price previously announced by the Administrator is now open. This consultation will close at 1600 LDN on May 24th and should the consultation result in the Administrator not implementing any of the proposed changes or the implementation date being changed then this and any further shall be announced by the Administrator. . This consultation is open to all index users and interested market pa
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Announcement of Consultation Regarding Changes to Methodology Parameters of CF Ripple-Bitcoin Settlement Price
1400 LDN The Administrator announces that it will initiate a consultation on proposed changes to the methodology parameters of the CF Ripple-Bitcoin Settlement Price, a member of the CF Cryptocurrency Index Family. The proposed change is to amend both the observation window parameters and partition lengths that are utilised for the calculation of the index. The proposed change and implementation date Current Parameters Utilised * Observation Window (LDN): 1500 to 1600 LDN * Partition Len
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Consultation for Proposed Methodology Change to CF Ripple-Bitcoin Settlement Price Now Closed
The consultation for the proposed parameter change to the CF Ripple-Bitcoin Settlement Price that was opened on May 10th 2019 has now closed. The Administrator shall announce the findings of the consultation in due course.
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Results of Methodology Parameter Change Consultation for CF Ripple Bitcoin Settlement Price and Confirmation of Implementation
The Administrator conducted a consultation with index users and market participants for proposed index methodology parameter changes to the CF Ripple-Bitcoin Settlement Price, a member of the CF Cryptocurrency Index Family, between 0900 LDN May 10th and 1600 LDN May 24th. There were no responses received to this consultation and nor were there any queries regarding any aspects of the proposed change. The Administrator can now confirm it will implement the proposed change of amending the method
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