CF Benchmarks

Hashdex set to launch world's first pure-play DeFi index, DEFI11, powered by CF DeFi Composite Index

The CF DeFi Composite Index is a liquid, investible benchmark portfolio index that tracks the return performance of decentralised financial services

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Introducing the CF Digital Asset Classification Structure

CF DACS is intended to assist investors to better understand the blockchain economy, and thereby to support the portfolio construction and analysis process

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CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 44

Monochrome Asset Management is a key contender to list Australia’s first crypto ETP, more so, after partnering with CF Benchmarks

Structured products

B2C2’s Bitcoin NDF set to be institutional first choice

It’s the integration of the CME CF BRR as reference price that distinguishes the Bitcoin NDF deal executed by B2C2 from any such deals that would be executed without the BRR as reference price.

Announcement

WisdomTree and CF Benchmarks launch WisdomTree CF Crypto Index Family

All WisdomTree CF indices are themselves regulated benchmarks, calculated according to CF Benchmarks’ Benchmark methodology which ensures that they meet the most stringent regulatory standards.

Announcement

Nasdaq Crypto Index - Rebalance Announcement

The Calculation Agent announces that there will be no new constituents of the Nasdaq Crypto Index (NCI) when the index is rebalanced on December 1st, 2021.

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CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 43

The latest BTC capital markets innovation is also the first time our regulated CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate (BRR) has been deployed in a structured product transaction

Announcement

CF Benchmarks launches Settlement Prices and Spot Rate indices for AMP, CRV, GRT, MKR, SNX, YFI

CF Benchmarks is continuing to broaden its range of regulated benchmarks for the leading platform tokens, ensuring that the highest standards of price accuracy and governance are in place as institutional volumes approach critical mass.

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ASIC greenlights crypto ETFs with CF Benchmarks-based “good practices”

The key to ASIC’s more sure-footed approach is proposals on exchange traded crypto products that point to the adoption of the essence of CF Benchmarks policies and guidelines

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CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 42

Following the blowout launch of ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF, the pace of follow-on news has predictably been rapid. We summarise some of the most salient developments from our perspective inside.

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ProShares’ Bitcoin ETF launch volumes crush expectations

With around $1bn in day-one volume, BITO approached the turnover dollar value of some of the most popular ETF launches ever

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Incoming: U.S. Bitcoin ETF

News reports suggesting that an SEC approval could be imminent came swiftly after key Bitcoin futures ETF applicant ProShares filed an N1-A Registration Statement (AKA an ‘amended prospectus’) for its Bitcoin Strategy ETF.

Announcement

CF Benchmarks launches Settlement Price and Spot Rate indices for AAVE, DOGE, DOT, MATIC, SOL

Dogecoin now reaches another definitive milestone with the launch of regulated Benchmark Indices calculated by CF Benchmarks, the only UK FCA regulated cryptocurrency Benchmark Administrator, providing reliable, representative, and replicable DOGE pricing.

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CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 41

Evolve ETFs headlines institutional reorientation to the asset class again, this time with Evolve Cryptocurrencies ETF.

Announcement

Announcement: Evolve ETFs’ Evolve Cryptocurrencies ETF, Canada’s first multi-currency crypto ETF, is now trading

With both EBIT and ETHR utilising CF Benchmarks reference indexes, Evolve Cryptocurrencies ETF is backed by the most-trusted and best-regulated cryptocurrency prices.

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Bitcoin, Ether ‘commodity’ ETF prospects on track

SEC Chair Gensler said nothing in the WaPo interview to suggest that his views have changed.

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Australia’s ASIC prepares ground for crypto ETFs with CF Benchmarks-like policies

The similarities between ASIC’s proposals and the wording and substance of CF Benchmarks policies and methodologies are striking.

Announcement

Changes to the CF Ultra Cap 5 Methodology and CF Cryptocurrency Index Family - Multi Asset Ground Rules

The Administrator wishes to announce certain changes to index methodologies and ground rules with immediate effect. CF Cryptocurrency Ultra Cap 5 Index Index rebalancing frequency changed from monthly to quarterly

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CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 40

Summer’s done, and the waiting game for that elusive U.S. Bitcoin ETF continues. We thought it high time to update our round-up of CFB-powered filings.

Keeping tabs on CF Benchmarks-powered U.S. BTC ETFs - Part II

An update on the crypto ETF paperwork that’s been piling up on the SEC’s desk for almost every month of the year.

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How the BRR Liquidity Complex empowers big banks to create regulated Bitcoin products

Our latest whitepaper shows how BRR-powered ETFs within the BRR’s ecosystem of institutional liquidity bridge the regulatory divide to big bank Bitcoin products

Announcement

Nasdaq Crypto Index - Rebalance Announcement

The Calculation Agent announces that there will be no new constituents of the Nasdaq Crypto Index (NCI) when the index is rebalanced on September 1st, 2021.

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CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 39

With multi-asset ETFs looking increasingly like the next logical frontier of accessibility, CF Benchmarks-administered Nasdaq Crypto Index (NCI) was also named in a new filing.

Bitcoin ETF

Bitcoin futures ETFs with end-to-end regulation in focus

Accepting that the series of the statements has been a coherent, deliberate build-up to Gensler’s August remarks, the probability—if not the inevitability—of the SEC approving a form of Bitcoin ETF in the relatively near future appears to increase.

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CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 38

These are Gensler’s least equivocal remarks yet on this topic, indicating a potential line of least resistance.

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