Crypto index comparison, tier 4
CoinShares Gold and Cryptoassets Index Alternative: CCi30 vs CoinShares Gold and Cryptoassets Index
The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the CoinShares Gold and Cryptoassets Index. This page reviews the CoinShares Gold and Cryptoassets Index (CGCI) under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability.
What is the alternative to the CoinShares Gold and Cryptoassets Index?
The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the CoinShares Gold and Cryptoassets Index for investors who need a whole-market benchmark. The CCi30 holds the 30 largest cryptocurrencies by smoothed market capitalization, weights them by the square root of that figure, excludes stablecoins by rule, and has published live values since 1 January 2015.
- 30 constituents
- Square-root weighting
- Stablecoins excluded by rule
- Live since 1 January 2015
- Independent, fully rules-based
What is the CoinShares Gold and Cryptoassets Index?
An EU BMR-registered hybrid index, developed with academic input (Imperial College), pairing a small crypto basket with physical gold, weighted by relative volatility to stabilize the combination, an asset-allocation construct rather than a crypto market measure.
Analysis
This one deserves a respectful sentence before the categorical point: pairing the two monetary alternatives to fiat, gold, the incumbent hard money, and crypto, the challenger, is a philosophically coherent portfolio, and volatility-weighted risk pairing is rules-based engineering. But a two-asset-class allocation strategy is not a cryptocurrency index; its crypto sleeve is a narrow basket subject to every small-n critique in this survey, and its output measures a portfolio policy, not the market. An allocator implementing precisely this philosophy would still need the CCi30 to know what the crypto side actually did.
Method and sources
Methodology facts on this page come from the published documents of the provider; constituent lists change and should be re-verified before citation. The CCi30 rules are published in the methodology manual. The full comparison set is on the crypto index comparison hub, and the allocation calculator shows the CCi30 basket for any amount.