Announcement of a Consultation on the Cessation of the CF Bitcoin Cash - Dollar Settlement Price & Spot Rate and CF Litecoin – Dollar Settlement Price & Spot Rate

The Administrator hereby announces that a consultation shall be launched for the Administrator proposal of cessation of the following benchmarks that are members of the CF Cryptocurrency Index Family:

Rationale for Cessation

The reason for cessation of these benchmarks is commercial and the Administrator shall be launching benchmarks to replace these that will:

· Utilise input data from the same pool of Constituent Exchanges

· Utilise the same calculation methodology

· Are published at the same time – 1600 London, utilising input data during the most liquid period for trading in the Asset Pairs

· Mean no loss of service for index users

Consultation Process

This consultation process shall begin on March 28^th2022 and end on April 11^th 2022 under the oversight of the CF Oversight Function. All responses shall be treated confidentially in accordance with the Administrators policies and processes. Al stakeholders are invited to submit a response to the consultation on any aspect of the proposal.

Proposed Implementation Timeline

To promote an orderly transition and minimise any market impact these benchmarks the Administrator proposes provisoon of these benchmarks shall cease from 1100 London time on April 25^th 2022 meaning that the respective Settlement Prices for April 24^th will be the final ones published

In accordance with the Administrators policies and procedures this cessation is subject to a consultation process.

Alternative Benchmarks

Alternative benchmarks to those that are the subject of this announcement will be available from the Administrator and shall be determined using the same calculation methodology and published at the same time as the benchmarks that are the subject of this announcement. They will be available to license from the Administrator and all existing licensees will automatically be licensed for these alternative benchmarks for existing use cases.

Should any market participants have any questions or queries please do not hesitate to contact info@cfbenchmarks.com

Should any users wish to file a complaint regarding this consultation and cessation process this can be done confidentially at complaints@cfbenchmarks.com