Indices & Data

The world's leading digital asset index provider.

CF Benchmarks is a UK FCA-authorized Benchmark Administrator providing the reference rates and indices that power regulated financial products globally. Its indices and pricing are used by CME Group, Nasdaq, and major institutional issuers for ETFs, structured products, and trading systems.

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200+

Indices

$3T+

In referenced products traded

$100B+

Assets under reference

2017

UK FCA-regulated since

Power a structured product or ETF with regulated rates

Your product needs a defensible, regulated reference price; CF Benchmarks provides settlement-quality rates used across CME Group's Bitcoin and Ether futures and major ETFs today.

Reference live pricing in a trading system

Your platform needs tick-by-tick reference data; CF Benchmarks delivers real-time pricing across major crypto pairs and select traditional asset classes.

Classify digital assets consistently across a portfolio

Your firm needs a standard taxonomy for digital assets; CF DACS classifies coins and tokens by the role they play for end users.

Build a custom index for a digital asset strategy

Your fund needs an index that doesn't exist yet; CF Benchmarks constructs single-asset, multi-asset, or thematic indices to your specifications.

Key capabilities

Regulated benchmarks

CF Benchmarks is a UK FCA-authorized Benchmark Administrator, audited by KPMG for compliance with the Benchmarks Regulation. Regulated financial products can reference these indices with confidence in their methodology.

Real-time and reference rates

Live tick-by-tick pricing across major crypto pairs and select traditional asset classes, plus once-daily settlement-quality reference rates for end-of-day pricing and structured products.

Custom index construction

Single-asset, multi-asset, and thematic indices built to partner specifications, supporting ETF issuers, structured note providers, and onchain index products.

Track record at scale

Over $500B in CFTC and FCA-regulated futures contracts settled against CF Benchmarks rates, with $80B+ in assets carried through investment funds, ETFs, and other financial products.

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One of the most trusted and robust infrastructures in crypto."

Thijs Maas, CEO, Onramper

For developers

If you're evaluating the data feeds, the indices documentation covers methodology specifications, data licensing, and integration.

Read the Indices documentation

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