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Weekly Index Highlights, November 18, 2024

A pack of meme coins soared as digital assets continued their ‘Trump Trade’ fueled run over the last week, though our November 11th to November 17th Weekly Index Highlights quickly spotlights the gainers with a more reliable trajectory!

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Weekly Index Highlights, November 18, 2024

Whilst the ‘Trump Trade redux’ exerted a dwindling influence across digital assets in the most recent week, specific politically related effects have begun to emerge. Ripple’s (XRP) +84.16% weekly surge was the most evident of these among CME CF Single Asset Series indices. With XRP’s year-to-date return now standing at +74.81%, it clearly turned definitively positive for the year over the course of the week. By contrast, Cardano (ADA) posted a second straight solid weekly gain, but was a distant second, rising +20.62%. Recent weekly revivals for ETH and Chainlink (LINK) petered out entirely, with falls of -4.10% and -2.14% respectively.

Ripple’s advance underpinned a somewhat unusual near-uniform advance by key Non-Programmable tokens. Stellar’s (XLM) + 79.52% jump was second largest in this sub-category, for an average weekly +36.55% overall. With all sub-categories rising to some extent though, upward pressure from recent febrile political developments appeared to have lingered. That said, the +15.98% ascent by the Culture sub-category was the frothiest. It was fuelled almost entirely by a rush for mascot-emblemed meme coins, led by BONK’s parabolic +107.35% leap, followed by PEPE, +73.71%. A broad-based progression by General Purpose Smart Contract Platforms tokens looked more reliable. Hedera (HBAR), +58.26%, gained most in this segment, following news of the first U.S. filing to list an HBAR ETF, also helping explain the rise by ADA mentioned earlier. Algorand (ALGO), +30.28%, SUI, +16.21%, and EOS, +13.51%, also benefitted.

We’re excited to spotlight the addition of the CF SOL Staking Reward Rate Index (SOL_SRR), and the CF SOL Staked Return Index (SOLUSD_SRIC) to our CF Staking Series. Read the launch post here. As for staking rewards tied to the first asset represented within the series, our CF ETH Staking Reward Rate Index continued to indicate deteriorating rewards, as the weekly change moved -13.79 basis points (bp) lower. A similar year-to-date change of -10.86 bp means prospects of 2024 progress by Ethereum staking rewards remain in the balance.

Narrow differentials on a weekly basis within this series point to relatively broad advances across mega cap and large cap tokens, though bereft of the spectacular standouts seen among lesser-capitalized altcoins. Diversified-weight portfolios inched ahead: the CF Broad Cap Index (Diversified Weight) gained +9.66%, and the CF Large Cap (Diversified Weight) added +8.91%. Modest weekly returns by Bitcoin and Ether were reflected by the relative underperformance of the CF Institutional Digital Asset Index, which rose +5.43%.

Somewhat static year-to-date (YTD) performances by the CF Digital Culture Composite Index and the CF DeFi Composite Index persist. The former inched forward by +2.70% for the week, extending its still-modest YTD increase to +6.53%. The latter edged -3.59% lower during the week, turning its YTD return mildly negative by -0.99%. The jump by HBAR outlined in the CF DACS section accounts for the CF Web 3.0 Smart Contract Platforms Index’s weekly outperformance, +8.65%, solidifying its YTD series outperformance to +28.87%. Meanwhile, the CF Blockchain Infrastructure Index’s weekly +1.04% gain barely scratched its underperformer status, leaving it down -33.56% for the year.

A mild reversion of CME Bitcoin implied volatility was seen over the week, within what is still, almost certainly for now, a medium-term weakening trend. The change of our CF Bitcoin Volatility Index Settlement Rate (BVXS) ended the week +7.17% higher, almost entirely erasing the extent of the negative change posted the previous week. The decline of BVXS’s YTD change was trimmed to -12.32%.

The latest addition to CF Benchmark’s CF Interest Rate Curve Series is the CF USDT Interest Rate Curve, providing a comprehensive benchmark for stablecoin borrowing and lending rates. It is a longstanding component of our CF Bitcoin Interest Rate Curve (BIRC). During the most recent week, operable rates returned to almost all tenors across the CF BIRC term structure, save for the 5-month tenor, where the zero reading extended to a third consecutive week. Notable weekly changes included those by the session rate, which advanced approximately a basis point (bp) to 2.2 bp, the 2-week tenor’s circa 2 bp uptick to almost 6 bp, and a ~2.19 bp rise to around 7.17 bp at the 3-week tenor.

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