Press release: CF Benchmarks to Provide Crypto Price Indexes for BlockFi Lending Products
"With FCA-regulated cryptocurrency indexes behind our products, our clients can be confident knowing they’re getting the most trusted information to best inform their investment strategies and decisions no matter what time of day it is,” said Zac Prince, CEO of BlockFi.
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Bitcoin and Ether Price Integrity Now comes in Euros
CF Benchmarks was already the only UK and EU-authorised provider of cryptocurrency benchmark indices. Now, it’s the only regulated benchmark administrator that provides euro-denominated Ether and Bitcoin indices.
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Press release: CF Benchmarks launches PAX Gold-USD benchmark price index
"Traditional gold markets only operate Monday through Friday, so this new offering opens new opportunities for financial markets.” said Sui Chung, CEO of CF Benchmarks.
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Press release: CF Benchmarks pioneers world’s first crypto market benchmark index
The “CF Benchmarks Ultra Cap 5” Cryptocurrency Index is the first true beta benchmark for crypto, covering about 75% of the entire crypto market LONDON, 19 August 2020 -- CF Benchmarks, the leading cryptocurrency index provider, has launched an index that accurately reflects the circulating supply of each comprising crypto (or index constituent). The CF Benchmarks Ultra Cap 5 is fully rules-based and free float market capitalisation weighted. The index represents more than 75% of the entire cr
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Introducing the CF Cryptocurrency Ultra Cap 5 Index
The CF Cryptocurrency Ultra Cap 5 Index accurately reveals which coins are driving the crypto market There’s no mistaking that the crypto world is evolving at a dizzying pace. ‘Total Value Locked’ in DeFi (decentralized finance) recently passed $4bn for the first time. High profile investors like Paul Tudor Jones and hedge fund Renaissance Technologies have piled in of late. Ether futures volumes notched new daily highs in early August after Bitcoin’s turbo-charged acceleration a few months ea
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Ether posts strong returns of 11.9% in May and 2020 gains hit 82.5%
* 2020 gains continue for Ether through May but Ether-Dollar Reference Rate shows the second largest crypto is still in negative territory (-9.3%) over the past 12-months * Returns since ETH hit its 2020 low ($113.62 March 16) stand at over 108% * Volumes trended lower but were still well ahead of the lull seen in January
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Bitcoin Returns 7.7% in May and 32.6% for 2020
* May saw the BRR almost touch $10,000, hitting a month high of $9,952 on May 8, on that day the BRR showed Bitcoin returned a staggering 96.6% from its 2020 low ($5082.7 March 16) * The annual return stood at 13.2% with YTD returns even better at 32.6%, but from its 2020 low ($5062.68, March 16) the BRR shows Bitcoin returning a staggering * Volumes remained strong and May 21 saw a volume surge as Bitcoin pared back some of its gains
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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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