CHICAGO and LONDON, Might 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — CME Group, the world’s main derivatives market, and CF Benchmarks, the main supplier of cryptocurrency benchmark indices, right this moment introduced plans to launch 4 new cryptocurrency reference charges and real-time indices for Arbitrum, Ondo, NEAR and Sui.
These reference charges and indices will not be tradable futures merchandise.
“Our new benchmarks are designed to present clear and clear pricing information to a broad vary of market individuals, permitting them to extra precisely worth portfolios or create structured merchandise,” stated Giovanni Vicioso, CME Group International Head of Cryptocurrency Merchandise. “With 28 cryptocurrencies in our suite of CME CF References Rates and Real-Time Indices, we are going to present pricing benchmarks throughout greater than 96% of the investible cryptocurrency market capitalization, additional bringing dependable and trusted information to these rising property within the crypto ecosystem.”
As with all current CME CF Benchmark Reference Rates and Real-Time Indices, these new benchmarks will make the most of pricing information from at the very least two of the present constituent exchanges for the CME CF Benchmark suite of reference charges and real-time indices, which embody Bitstamp, Bullish, Coinbase, Crypto.com, Gemini, itBit, Kraken and LMAX Digital.
“Because the vary of investible crypto property continues to evolve and develop, establishments want benchmarks they’ll belief—benchmarks that meet the identical requirements of accuracy, transparency, and governance they anticipate in conventional finance,” stated Sui Chung, CEO of CF Benchmarks. “The addition of Arbitrum, Ondo, NEAR, and Sui to the CME CF Single Asset Collection ensures that market individuals can interact with these rising tokens utilizing indices and reference charges constructed on the identical sturdy methodologies because the BRR and BRRNY for Bitcoin, which underpin greater than $100 billion in regulated crypto monetary merchandise. This enlargement displays the accelerating institutionalization of digital property and our ongoing dedication to supporting the subsequent wave of regulated crypto monetary merchandise.”
Every of those new reference charges will present the U.S. greenback value of every digital asset, printed once-a-day at 4 p.m. London time, whereas every respective real-time index will probably be printed as soon as per second, 24 hours a day, three hundred and sixty five days per yr. Moreover, reference charges for Ondo and Sui may even be printed once-a-day at 4 p.m. New York time.
For extra data on these merchandise, please go to www.cmegroup.com/cryptobenchmarks.
Because the world’s main derivatives market, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) allows shoppers to commerce futures, choices, money and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze information – empowering market individuals worldwide to effectively handle danger and seize alternatives. CME Group exchanges supply the widest vary of worldwide benchmark merchandise throughout all main asset lessons based mostly on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals. The corporate presents futures and choices on futures buying and selling by the CME Globex platform, mounted revenue buying and selling by way of BrokerTec and international trade buying and selling on the EBS platform. As well as, it operates one of many world’s main central counterparty clearing suppliers, CME Clearing.
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About CF Benchmarks
CF Benchmarks is the main regulated cryptocurrency index supplier. Licensed as a registered benchmark administrator beneath the UK Benchmarks Regulation (UK BMR). CF Benchmarks (FRN 847100) is on the FCA Benchmarks Register. Benchmark indices are supplied by totally replicable public methodologies and clear governance, for monitoring, valuing and settling danger in cryptocurrency merchandise and providers.
CF Benchmarks’ indices are built-in into a number of the largest regulated crypto merchandise by property. This consists of six out of the 11 spot bitcoin ETFs within the US (IBIT, ARKB, EZBC, BITB, BRRR & BTCW) and 99% of the regulated crypto derivatives market, together with crypto derivatives provided by CME Group. In complete, over $40bn of property are referenced to CF Benchmarks indices.
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