Announcement ProFunds launches First U.S. Bitcoin Mutual Fund – with CF Benchmarks-powered Performance Index BTCFX instantly becomes the first widely available U.S. cryptocurrency fund – distinct from numerous crypto funds that are only available to accredited investors. This fact alone makes the news a true watershed moment for Bitcoin and crypto.
crypto asset management CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 37 NYDIG will handle the BTC, etc., avoiding the regulatory uncertainty U.S. banks face in an increasingly crypto world.
bitcoin CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 36 Backed by the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate, QBTC11 joins the ranks of the most trustworthy, fully regulated crypto assets in the world, bringing the convenience of the simplified ETF wrapper to Brazilian investors.
bitcoin SEC rewinds more Bitcoin ETF reviews The SEC is continuing to take its time to decide whether or not to (finally) approve one of the weighty Bitcoin ETF applications on its desk.
crypto asset management CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 35 Texas-based Victory Capital, an $157bn AuM investment manager, is set to launch assets referencing the CF Benchmarks-devised and calculated Nasdaq Crypto Index.
bitcoin SEC warns on Bitcoin futures funds, not ETFs A close examination of the commission’s recent warnings suggests that its concerns won't have a great deal of bearing on Bitcoin ETF decisions.
Post CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 34 By way of consolation, BTC continued to levitate above May’s $29k-handle lows.
crypto asset management SEC restarts the clock on WisdomTree ETF decision Quite often, the Commission simply needs to ‘restart the clock’, to afford itself more time for consideration
Post CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 33 The latest CF Benchmarks-powered planned Bitcoin ETF to be tapped for SEC review is Anthony Scaramucci’s First Trust SkyBridge Bitcoin ETF.
Keeping tabs on CF Benchmarks-supported U.S. Bitcoin ETF applications To help keep tabs on the CF Benchmarks-powered Bitcoin ETF applications so far, we’ve put together the table below.
Post CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 32 Beyond market shock and awe, institutional convergence has barely appeared to miss a step
CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 31 The SEC has reaffirmed its preference for regulated Bitcoin prices (aka BRR) and regulated Bitcoin futures (aka CME Bitcoin Futures).
Post CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 30 Anthony Scaramucci’s First Trust Skybridge Bitcoin ETF Trust officially named CF Bitcoin US Settlement Price as proposed NAV calculation index
CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 29 For the last several months there’s really been only one game in the institutional crypto town, and it’s all about those steps to a potential first U.S. Bitcoin ETF
The CF Benchmarks-powered ETFs at the top of the SEC’s queue The fact that two of the three Bitcoin ETF filings under active review at the SEC propose to use a CF Benchmarks index as their daily valuation price is welcome, to say the least, and may turn out to be significant.
CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 28 Three simultaneously launched Ether ETFs underlined their sponsors’ willingness to go head-to-head.
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.
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
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.
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
CF Benchmarks Recap - Issue 25 The SEC has been presented with options to demonstrate where it stands on a Bitcoin ETF.
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).
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.
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
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.
