From a benchmark perspective, the most important point to make is that the Ether market as represented by CF Benchmarks' Ether instruments, ETHUSD_RR and ETHUSD_RTI, has remained stable and orderly throughout the turbulence.

The clustering towards correlation coefficients of 1.00 demonstrate a strong price correlation between Constituent Exchanges. In turn, the strong price correlation is evidence of a lack of manipulation within Constituent Exchange prices

A more pressing question than ‘where next for BTC’s price?’ was whether the OSC’s resoluteness would encourage the SEC off the fence

Tesla, driving a coach and horses through conventional notions of treasury management, was the main feature.

Although Ether’s market value is still just slightly more than a quarter of the value of the ‘original gangster’, the CME has evidently satisfied itself that an addressable marketplace of institutional Ether participants is as real as the one for Bitcoin.

Our CME CF Ether-Dollar Real Time Index was recorded at $1,761.86, with a 16:08:25 time stamp. That’s certainly the highest the authorised Benchmark has traded since its inception in May 2018.

Bitcoin’s price behaviour is now the closest to what may be described as ‘a range’ for the first time in months.

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With a CFTC-regulated futures market operated by the CME Group now accounting for the highest BTC-USD open interest, among other elements of a more mature crypto market place than existed in 2017, brave forecasts of what might happen next based on BTC’s trajectory then, are void

Our latest research validates the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate (BRR) as a fully compliant benchmark with consistently achievable prices

Several months into this barrage of records, their frequency has not abated to an extent for a serious correction—say $10,000-plus—to appear highly-probable in the near term.

Our latest proprietary research shows that the BRR achieves a quality that’s like a Holy Grail for institutional traders and providers of regulated products