# CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index, full text > Every public page of cci30.com flattened into one document. The CCi30 > Cryptocurrency Index is a rules-based benchmark tracking the 30 largest > cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, excluding stablecoins, published > in real time since 1 January 2017 with a base value of 100 on 1 January 2015. Generated: 2026-08-23 (rebuilt daily) Index of links: https://cci30.com/llms.txt Licence: official end-of-day values under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 with attribution. Real-time values, constituent composition and weights require a written licence. See https://cci30.com/terms/ --- # Page: https://cci30.com/ The cryptocurrency market benchmark ## The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index measures the performance of the 30 largest cryptocurrencies by adjusted market capitalization under a published, rules-based methodology. 30 constituents i Constituents: the index holds the 30 largest cryptocurrencies by adjusted market capitalization, stablecoins excluded. Thirty is the smallest count that keeps sampling error statistically insignificant. 99% confidence level i Confidence level: the 30-constituent sample tracks the total cryptocurrency market capitalization within a 99% statistical confidence interval. Monthly rebalancing i Rebalancing: constituent weights are recalculated on the first calendar day of every month and implemented at 00:00 GMT. Membership does not change at a rebalancing. Quarterly reconstitution i Reconstitution: index membership is reviewed on the first calendar day of every quarter, when assets leaving the top 30 are removed and newly qualifying assets are added. i Live index value: the CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index publishes a real-time value, recalculated continuously from constituent prices, alongside the change against the previous daily close at 00:00 GMT. Index real time 11,665.90 50.00 0.43% Last updated: 23 August 2026 14:50:52 GMT Index levels are disseminated in real time. Daily reference values correspond to the previous day close at 00:00 GMT. | 52 week change | -48.75% | | 52 week high | 23,262.30 | | 52 week low | 9,100.35 | | 30 Day Market Efficiency Ratio | 0.46 | | Year to date change | -17.51% | | Month to date change | 23.62% | | Daily high | 11,791.70 | | Daily low | 11,289.20 | ### About the index The CCi30 is the first independent, rules-based index constructed to measure the performance of the cryptocurrency market as a whole. It tracks the 30 largest cryptocurrencies by adjusted market capitalization, excluding stablecoins and other pegged instruments, and expresses their aggregate performance as a single value. The index serves as a performance benchmark for investment professionals and as a replication reference for diversified, passive exposure to the asset class. Key features of the CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index The construction of the CCi30 rests on five principles: - Diversification. Exposure is distributed across thirty constituents rather than concentrated in a small number of assets. - Replicability. Constituent weights are published and reproducible, permitting direct replication by investment products. - Transparency. The construction rules, weighting formula and maintenance schedule are public and unchanged in substance since inception. - Market Coverage. The constituent set captures the substantial majority of aggregate cryptocurrency market capitalization. - Risk-Aware Calibration. Square-root weighting limits concentration in the two largest assets without transferring undue weight to illiquid constituents The index was launched on 1 January 2017 with a base value of 100 set at 1 January 2015. ### Constituents The current constituent set, ranked by adjusted market capitalization, as determined at the most recent quarterly reconstitution. Prices, market capitalizations and daily changes update in real time. | Ranking | Name | Price | Market cap | Change (day) | | 1 | Bitcoin | $77,185.75 | $1,548,515,119,326 | 0.14% | | 2 | Ethereum | $2,420.73 | $293,171,537,970 | -0.11% | | 3 | XRP | $1.49 | $94,678,909,027 | 1.63% | | 4 | BNB | $695.92 | $92,470,513,004 | 0.11% | | 5 | Solana | $94.63 | $55,223,092,389 | 0.82% | | 6 | TRON | $0.34 | $32,594,221,690 | 0.14% | | 7 | Hyperliquid | $78.87 | $20,033,464,460 | -0.96% | | 8 | Dogecoin | $0.09 | $15,822,733,274 | -0.30% | | 9 | Zcash | $795.34 | $14,293,157,496 | 1.14% | | 10 | UNUS SED LEO | $9.46 | $8,728,459,694 | 0.43% | | 11 | Chainlink | $11.55 | $8,570,002,617 | -0.84% | | 12 | Cardano | $0.22 | $8,264,139,272 | -1.03% | | 13 | Monero | $437.89 | $7,919,957,621 | 1.22% | | 14 | Stellar | $0.20 | $6,839,794,263 | -0.11% | | 15 | Bitcoin Cash | $275.26 | $5,482,759,075 | -0.46% | | Ranking | Name | Price | Market cap | Change (day) | | 16 | Canton | $0.12 | $4,646,950,898 | 0.83% | | 17 | Gram (prev. Toncoin) | $1.49 | $4,173,365,903 | 3.11% | | 18 | Litecoin | $51.42 | $4,048,504,998 | -2.02% | | 19 | Hedera | $0.08 | $3,445,412,556 | -0.20% | | 20 | Sui | $0.80 | $3,328,719,760 | -2.37% | | 21 | Avalanche | $7.43 | $3,254,455,466 | -0.87% | | 22 | Shiba Inu | $0.00 | $3,210,349,551 | -3.16% | | 23 | Cronos | $0.06 | $2,829,021,155 | -1.33% | | 24 | Uniswap | $4.13 | $2,789,614,161 | -4.12% | | 25 | Bittensor | $224.48 | $2,615,248,210 | 0.93% | | 26 | NEAR Protocol | $2.02 | $2,536,710,876 | 6.91% | | 27 | World Liberty Financial | $0.06 | $1,878,230,796 | -0.34% | | 28 | Aster | $0.72 | $1,790,815,779 | 10.38% | | 29 | MemeCore | $1.11 | $1,473,425,115 | -0.53% | | 30 | DeXe | $1.89 | $158,884,989 | 0.66% | ### Index methodology The construction rules below define how the index picks its 30 constituents, how it weights them, how the published value is computed, and when each of those steps is repeated. #### Constituent selection The index comprises the thirty cryptocurrencies with the highest adjusted market capitalization. Stablecoins and other assets pegged to fiat currencies or external instruments are excluded from consideration, as their prices convey no independent information about the cryptocurrency market. Selection is performed on adjusted market capitalization rather than on an instantaneous figure. The volatility characteristic of the asset class is such that instantaneous measurement would introduce excessive turnover into the constituent set. Adjusted market capitalization is therefore defined as an exponentially weighted moving average of market capitalization: M*(t)=∑i=0∞M(T−i)e−αi∑i=0∞e−αiAdjusted market capitalization: exponentially weighted moving average with a three-day half-life where M(t) is the observed market capitalization at time t, M* is the adjusted market capitalization, and α is the decay rate of the moving average, calibrated to a half-life of three days. The constituent count is set at thirty on statistical grounds. Thirty is the minimum number of constituents at which the index remains statistically significant as an estimator of the market. At this scope the index represents the aggregate cryptocurrency market with a confidence level of 99% and a confidence interval of 1.11, a margin of error of 1.11% in the index level as an indicator of the market. A larger constituent set would increase replication cost without a corresponding improvement in accuracy; a smaller set would reduce diversification, compromise statistical significance, and increase the probability of omitting assets that subsequently appreciate materially. #### Constituent weight calculation Each constituent is weighted by the square root of its adjusted market capitalization, normalized across the constituent set. At time t, the weight of constituent 0 is: w0(t)=M0*(t)∑i=0NMi*(t)Constituent weight: square root of adjusted market capitalization, normalized across the 30 constituents where Mi* is the adjusted market capitalization of the specified constituent at time t. The square-root function is applied as a calibrated intermediate between capitalization weighting and equal weighting. A capitalization-weighted index of this universe would be dominated by its two largest constituents; equal weighting, or any substantially flatter scheme, would assign disproportionate weight to the smallest and least liquid constituents. No caps or floors are applied to constituent weights, so that measured weights follow observed market proportions without administrative intervention. #### Index value calculation Between rebalancing dates, the index level is defined as: It=∑j=130WjPj(t)Pj(0)Index level between rebalancing dates: weighted sum of constituent price ratios Where It is the value of the index at time t, Wj is the weight of the jth name in the index, and Pj is the price of the jth name as a function of time. Constituent prices denominated in currencies other than the US dollar are converted at prevailing market foreign exchange rates. On rebalancing dates, weights are normalized such that the index level is identical whether computed under the previous or the updated weights. The index is calculated in real time. Daily reference values correspond to the close of the previous day, taken as 00:00 GMT. #### Rebalancing and reconstitution Index maintenance is conducted on two distinct schedules. Rebalancing (monthly). On the first calendar day of each month, the adjusted market capitalization of each constituent is recalculated and constituent weights are updated in accordance with the square-root weighting formula. Revised weights are implemented at 00:00 GMT on the first Index Business Day of the month. Rebalancing does not alter index membership. Reconstitution (quarterly). On the first calendar day of each quarter, all eligible cryptocurrencies are re-ranked by adjusted market capitalization. Assets no longer ranking within the top thirty are removed; assets newly ranking within the top thirty are added. Changes are implemented at 00:00 GMT on the first Index Business Day of the quarter. Index membership remains fixed between reconstitution dates. At each rebalancing and reconstitution, the index divisor is adjusted so that the index level is unchanged whether computed under the previous or the updated composition and weights. Scheduled maintenance therefore has no effect on the index level. Rebalancing and reconstitution at a glance | | Rebalancing | Reconstitution | | Object of the change | Constituent weights | Index membership | | Frequency | Monthly | Quarterly | | Implementation | 00:00 GMT, first Index Business Day of the month | 00:00 GMT, first Index Business Day of the quarter | The separation of weight updates from membership review follows established practice among major equity benchmarks. Monthly reweighting maintains correspondence between index weights and prevailing market proportions; quarterly membership review constrains turnover and, consequently, the transaction costs borne by funds and products replicating the index. The use of adjusted market capitalization, an exponentially weighted moving average with a three-day half-life, further prevents transient ranking changes from affecting index composition. #### Interpretation and applications Index-level exposure produces a materially different risk profile from concentrated positions in individual assets. Participation in the appreciation of constituents that cannot be identified in advance is retained, while the effect of any single constituent’s decline on the aggregate is bounded by its weight. The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index functions as a performance benchmark for asset managers and trading desks, as a measurement instrument for the cryptocurrency market and the broader digital asset sector, and as a replicable underlying for passive funds and exchange-traded products. Download the index whitepaper Download the index methodology manual ### Statistics These figures are computed from the official daily index values. They cover risk-adjusted return, volatility and the market efficiency ratio, each recalculated as new closes are published. - Sharpe-Rivin* ratio (annualized)0.59 - Bitcoin Sharpe-Rivin0.67 - Yearly Volatility (σ)1.65 - Monthly Volatility (σ)0.22 - Bitcoin R2: 0.73971, Beta: 0.95, Alpha0.02 - Euro R2: 0.00104, Beta: 0.32, Alpha0.97 - GLD R2: 0.00592, Beta: 0.45, Alpha0.91 - SPY R2: 0.02363, Beta: 0.71, Alpha0.83 * The Sharpe-Rivin ratio is a refinement of the Sharpe ratio developed by Professor Igor Rivin. It is intended to measure risk-adjusted returns more accurately under the return distributions characteristic of this asset class. The underlying research is set out in this paper. Download the daily OHLCV values (CSV) Explore historical constituents and weights $2,254.79 bn total 30 cap $69.05 bn 24hr trading volume 86.1% of all market cap ### Index administration The CCi30 is administered by an independent team of mathematicians, quantitative analysts and fund managers led by Igor Rivin, Professor of Mathematics at Temple University and Regius Professor of Mathematics at St. Andrews University, and Carlo Scevola, economist and entrepreneur. Robert Davis, Engineer, IT expert and programmer, is responsible for index technology and dissemination infrastructure. The index is used by financial institutions as the performance benchmark for cryptocurrency investment strategies. A commercial license provides real-time API access, historical data feeds and the right to reference the index as an underlying benchmark. A no-cost license is available to universities and research institutions for non-commercial academic use. ### Contact the team Inquiries regarding licensing, data access, product partnerships and academic research are directed through the form below. More resources FAQs Visit our FAQ Index data Download CSV datasets Methodology Whitepaper and manual #### Send us a message Complete the form and a member of the team will respond. Email: info at cci30 dot com This form is protected by reCAPTCHA.The Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. ### Questions and answers Answers below cover what the index measures, how constituents and weights are chosen, when it is rebalanced and reconstituted, and how the data can be used. Basics Methodology Data and access Using the index Risk and performance What is a cryptocurrency index? A cryptocurrency index is a financial benchmark that measures the performance of a defined basket of digital assets under published rules. It operates on the same principle as an equity index such as the S&P 500: constituent prices are combined into a single value, permitting measurement of the market rather than of individual assets. The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index applies this construction to the thirty largest cryptocurrencies by adjusted market capitalization. What does the CCi30 index measure? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index measures the performance of the thirty largest cryptocurrencies by adjusted market capitalization, excluding stablecoins. That performance is expressed as a single value, with a base of 100 set at 1 January 2015. The index has been published continuously since 1 January 2017, when it was launched as the first independent, rules-based benchmark for the cryptocurrency market as a whole. Why is a cryptocurrency index better than tracking Bitcoin alone? An index measures the market; a single asset measures itself. Bitcoin-referenced benchmarks exclude the price behavior of every other asset in the market. The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index addresses this limitation by tracking thirty constituents, including Bitcoin, Ethereum and twenty-eight further large-capitalization assets. Diversification across the constituent set bounds the effect of any individual asset’s appreciation or failure on the measured result. Why exactly 30 cryptocurrencies? Thirty is the minimum constituent count at which the index remains statistically significant as an estimator of the market. At thirty constituents the CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index represents the aggregate cryptocurrency market at a 99% confidence level with a margin of error of 1.11%. A larger constituent set would raise replication costs without improving accuracy; a smaller set would reduce diversification and compromise statistical significance. The reasoning is set out in full in the index whitepaper. How are the constituents selected? The index selects the thirty cryptocurrencies with the highest adjusted market capitalization. Adjusted market capitalization is an exponentially weighted moving average of market capitalization with a three-day half-life, which suppresses the effect of short-lived movements. Stablecoins are excluded on the grounds that their prices are pegged to fiat currencies and convey no information about the cryptocurrency market. The constituent ranking is recalculated at each quarterly reconstitution; constituent weights are recalculated at each monthly rebalancing. How does square-root weighting work? Each constituent is weighted by the square root of its adjusted market capitalization. Relative to capitalization weighting, this reduces the dominance of the two largest constituents and increases the contribution of mid-capitalization constituents. No caps or floors are applied, so weights track observed market proportions at each rebalancing. Why is market capitalization data smoothed? Smoothing protects index composition from short-term volatility and from manipulation. Each constituent’s market capitalization is smoothed by an exponentially weighted moving average calibrated to a three-day half-life. This reduces the effect of intraday movements on constituent selection and maintains stability of composition between maintenance dates. When is the index rebalanced? The index is rebalanced monthly. Rebalancing adjusts constituent weights: on the first calendar day of each month, adjusted market capitalizations are recalculated and revised weights are implemented at 00:00 GMT on the first Index Business Day. Rebalancing does not change index membership; membership changes occur only at quarterly reconstitution. Weights are normalized so that the index level is identical immediately before and after each rebalancing. When is the index reconstituted? The index is reconstituted quarterly. Reconstitution changes index membership: on the first calendar day of each quarter, the ranking by adjusted market capitalization is re-run, assets no longer qualifying for the top thirty are removed, and newly qualifying assets are added. Membership is fixed between reconstitution dates. An asset that enters the top thirty intra-quarter is not admitted to the index until it qualifies at the following quarterly review. What is the difference between rebalancing and reconstitution? Rebalancing changes weights; reconstitution changes members. The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index rebalances monthly, updating the contribution of each of the thirty constituents, and reconstitutes quarterly, updating which thirty assets are held. The separation is deliberate: monthly reweighting maintains close correspondence with market proportions, while quarterly membership review constrains turnover and replication costs for products benchmarked to the index. How is the index value calculated? The index level is a weighted sum of constituent price ratios. Each constituent’s price ratio is multiplied by its weight and the results are aggregated into a single value. The index is calculated in real time; daily reference values correspond to the previous day close at 00:00 GMT. The complete formulas are published in the CCi30 methodology manual. What happens when a constituent is delisted or compromised? Where a constituent is delisted, suffers a protocol failure, or otherwise ceases to satisfy the eligibility criteria, the index committee reviews the asset and, where the condition persists beyond the threshold period specified in the methodology manual, removes it from the index outside the ordinary maintenance schedule. The next qualifying asset by adjusted market capitalization is admitted in its place, so that the index continues to comprise thirty investable constituents. The index divisor is adjusted so that the substitution has no effect on the index level. Where can I download cryptocurrency index data? CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index data is available at no cost on this page. The statistics section publishes three CSV files: daily OHLCV values of the index, index constituents by quarter, and monthly constituent weights. The daily file covers open, high, low, close and volume, and is updated each day. Is there a real-time API? A real-time API and associated data analysis tools are included in the commercial license. The academic license is provided at no cost to universities and research institutions for non-commercial research and includes access to index data and methodology documentation. License inquiries are submitted through the contact form on this page. How transparent is the methodology? The methodology is fully public. Construction rules, the weighting formula and the maintenance schedule are documented in the index whitepaper and the methodology manual, both of which are available for download without charge. The index level is independently verifiable by applying the published rules to market data. Who uses the index? Hedge funds, asset managers, family offices and private investors use the CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index. Financial institutions apply it as the performance benchmark for cryptocurrency strategies; private investors use it as a reference for diversified exposure to the asset class. Academic researchers access the index under the no-cost research license. Can it underpin ETFs and structured products? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is licensed as an underlying benchmark for investment products. Its rules-based construction and published, replicable weights make it suitable for exchange-traded funds, exchange-traded products, certificates and structured notes. Issuers license index data and the CCi30 trademark under the commercial license. Is the index itself an investable product? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is a benchmark and not an investable instrument. A benchmark is a measurement construct rather than a fund. Exposure is obtained by replicating the published constituent weights or by holding licensed products referencing the index. Replicability is one of the five design principles of the index, alongside diversification, transparency, market coverage and risk-aware calibration. How does a cryptocurrency index handle volatility? Three mechanisms operate in the same direction. Diversification across thirty constituents bounds the effect of single-asset failures. Square-root weighting reduces concentration in the two largest constituents. Smoothing of market capitalization limits the effect of short-term movements on composition. Current annualized and monthly volatility figures are published in the statistics section. What is the Sharpe-Rivin ratio? The Sharpe-Rivin ratio is a risk-adjusted return measure developed by Professor Igor Rivin, co-creator of the CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index. It refines the classical Sharpe ratio for the return distributions characteristic of cryptocurrencies. Current values for the index and for Bitcoin are published in the statistics section, and the underlying paper is available for download. What is the Market Efficiency Ratio (MER)? The Market Efficiency Ratio quantifies the extent to which a price series follows a directional trend rather than undirected movement. It is calculated as the absolute price change over a period divided by the sum of absolute daily changes within that period, and takes values between 0 and 1. Higher values indicate more trend-like behavior. The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index publishes a 30-day Market Efficiency Ratio alongside the live index level. Who maintains the index? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is administered by an independent team of mathematicians, quantitative analysts and fund managers, led by Igor Rivin, Professor of Mathematics at Temple University, and Carlo Scevola, economist and entrepreneur. Robert Davis, engineer, is responsible for index technology. The team has administered the index continuously since 2017. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/index-data/ Index data · Distribution and licensing ## Index Data and Distribution The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index has been calculated and published continuously since 1 January 2015. This page sets out the publication conventions, data access channels, identifiers and licensing terms applicable to CCi30 index data. Enquiries from data vendors, distribution platforms and prospective licensees are directed to the contact set out below. ### Index identification Index identification | Full name | CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index | | Short name | CCi30 | | Vendor code | CCI30 | | Asset class | Digital assets | | Index type | Price return | | Denomination currency | USD | | Base date | 1 January 2015 | | Base value | 100.00 | | First real-time publication | 1 January 2017 | | Constituents | 30 | | Administrator | CS&P DAO LLC, Wyoming, United States | ### Methodology The Index measures the performance of the thirty largest cryptocurrencies by adjusted market capitalisation. Constituent selection and weighting are determined by published mathematical rules. No committee discretion is applied. Methodology summary | Eligible universe | Cryptocurrencies with continuous price and volume data across qualifying venues | | Exclusions | Stablecoins and pegged assets, which are excluded as fiat derivatives | | Selection | The thirty largest constituents by adjusted market capitalisation | | Adjusted market capitalisation | Exponentially weighted moving average of market capitalisation, three-day half-life | | Weighting | Proportional to the square root of adjusted market capitalisation | | Weight rebalancing | Monthly | | Constituent reconstitution | Quarterly | The governing methodology is set out in full in the CCi30 Methodology Manual. The Index is administered in a manner aligned to the IOSCO Principles for Financial Benchmarks. Read the Methodology Manual → ### Calculation and publication Cryptocurrency markets trade continuously. The Index is calculated on a twenty-four hour basis, seven days a week, and observes no market holidays. 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Each card opens the full review with the head-to-head result first. - 30 index families reviewed - 4 tiers - 8 criteria #### Tier 1: Traditional-finance incumbents Tier 1 S&P Cryptocurrency Indices S&P Dow Jones Indices Equity-index bureaucracy transplanted onto crypto: custody-constrained universe, cap-weighted concentration, 2021 vintage with backfilled history. Read the comparison → Tier 1 Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index Bloomberg / Galaxy Digital A dozen coins, cap-weighted with arbitrary caps and floors, co-branded with an asset manager trading the same assets. Read the comparison → Tier 1 Nasdaq Crypto Index Nasdaq / Hashdex Investability defined as what US-friendly custodians will touch: a compliance filter marketed as a methodology. Read the comparison → Tier 1 FTSE Global Digital Asset Indices FTSE Russell / DAR Impressive vetting machinery aimed at the wrong target: venue permission, not market truth. Read the comparison → Tier 1 FT Wilshire Digital Asset Indices Wilshire Indexes A Top 5 flagship: five coins presented as a market standard. Read the comparison → Tier 1 MSCI Global Digital Assets Indexes MSCI A late, cautious entry from the equity-classification giant: committee governance over quantitative rules. Read the comparison → #### Tier 2: Crypto-native institutional providers Tier 2 CoinDesk 20 and CoinDesk Market Index CoinDesk Indices (Bullish) Built to trade, owned by an exchange group: a product, not a benchmark. Read the comparison → Tier 2 Bitwise 10 Large Cap Crypto Index Bitwise Asset Management Ten coins, self-administered by the fund manager selling BITW on top of it. Read the comparison → Tier 2 CF Benchmarks CF Benchmarks (Kraken) Excellent regulated reference rates, but five coins is a basket, and Kraken ownership is a conflict, not a credential. Read the comparison → Tier 2 MarketVector Digital Assets Indices MarketVector (VanEck) The broadest TradFi family at 100 coins, yet cap-weighted and owned by an ETF issuer. Read the comparison → Tier 2 Vinter Indices Vinter A bespoke index factory for ETP issuers: client-driven baskets, not an independent market standard. Read the comparison → Tier 2 Galaxy Crypto Index Family Galaxy Digital An asset manager and trading firm benchmarking the assets it trades: the BGCI conflict, squared. Read the comparison → Tier 2 21Shares HODL5 and Crypto Baskets 21Shares Product-embedded baskets engineered for ETP shelf space. Read the comparison → Tier 2 Single-Asset Reference Rates CME Group and others Reference rates for one or two assets are prices, not indices: category confusion at institutional scale. Read the comparison → #### Tier 3: Academic, tokenized, and legacy Tier 3 CRIX Humboldt University / Royalton Academically serious, statistically sophisticated, practically uninvestable. Read the comparison → Tier 3 Crypto20 Invictus Capital A tokenized fund pretending to be an index: the instrument and the benchmark collapsed into one. Read the comparison → Tier 3 Bletchley Indexes Bletchley (discontinued) An honorable early effort that proved the survival problem: an index that can disappear is not a benchmark. Read the comparison → Tier 3 NYSE Bitcoin Index and Legacy Indices NYSE and others Historical footnotes: one asset is not a market. Read the comparison → #### Tier 4: The long tail Tier 4 CMC Crypto 200 CoinMarketCap (Binance) / Solactive 200 names, 30 of which matter: breadth as marketing, with an exchange at the root of the data. Read the comparison → Tier 4 Compass Crypto Indices Compass Financial Technologies A skilled Swiss contractor building baskets to client order. Read the comparison → Tier 4 BITA Crypto 10, 20, 30 BITA Its broadest basket stops at exactly 30: the right answer offered without conviction, on a menu. Read the comparison → Tier 4 SIX Crypto Market Index 10 SIX Swiss Exchange A listing venue shop window: ten constituents, exchange-owned. Read the comparison → Tier 4 Coinbase 50 Index Coinbase Fifty names, six of which carry 91 percent of the weight: an exchange product catalog as a time series. Read the comparison → Tier 4 F5 Crypto Index F5 Crypto Capital A momentum bet filed under benchmark: the academic literature calls it lacking theoretical foundation. Read the comparison → Tier 4 CIX100 Cryptoindex Ltd (defunct) Black-box AI weighting with Nasdaq distribution, now dead: tickers are not survivability. Read the comparison → Tier 4 Brave New Coin Indices Brave New Coin Good early Bitcoin plumbing, no benchmark: the franchise faded. Read the comparison → Tier 4 Exchange Basket Indices Huobi, OKEx, Bitmain (defunct) The graveyard largest plot: indices that died with their marketing budgets. Read the comparison → Tier 4 Tokenized Thematic Indices Index Coop and others Sector narratives governed by token vote and wrapped in the Crypto20 mistake. Read the comparison → Tier 4 CoinShares Gold and Cryptoassets Index CoinShares / Imperial College Sound monetary instincts, wrong category: an allocation strategy, not a market index. Read the comparison → Tier 4 Broker CFD Crypto Indices AvaTrade and others A broker payout formula wearing the word index. Read the comparison → Appendix Crypto Index Mortality Ledger Appendix Every discontinued crypto index on record, because survival is a benchmark property. Read the comparison → ### The CCi30 test: eight criteria for a rules-based crypto index #### 1. Whole-market representation, and the number thirty An index of a market must represent that market, not a sliver of it, and not an untradeable census of it either. The constituent count is therefore not a branding decision; it is an optimization problem with a solution, and the solution is thirty. The CCi30 documentation establishes this from three independent directions: - Statistical sufficiency. Thirty is the classical threshold of statistical significance, the sample size at which estimates of a population stabilize. The top 30 cryptocurrencies represent the entire market at a 99% confidence level with a margin of error of 1.11%. Below thirty, the index is no longer a statistically significant representation of the market; it is an anecdote with a ticker. - Coverage. The top 30 true cryptocurrencies consistently capture roughly 90% of total market capitalization. The remaining thousands of assets contribute noise, not information. - The liquidity cliff. Below the top-30 cutoff, liquidity deteriorates sharply. Adding constituents past thirty therefore buys no meaningful additional representation while imposing real transaction costs and market impact, higher fees with no significant improvement to performance. Fewer than thirty sacrifices diversification and statistical validity; more than thirty sacrifices investability. Thirty is the unique count that sacrifices neither. History corroborates the mathematics: the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the most recognized benchmark ever constructed, in continuous publication since 1896, settled on 30 components, a number that has survived every market regime for a century. The CCi30 arrived at the same number not by imitation but by derivation; the convergence is the point. #### The consequence for this analysis: every competing index deviates from thirty, and every deviation is a diagnosable error. Baskets of 5, 10, 12, or 20 fail statistical significance, they are concentrated bets marketed as measurements. Universes of 100+ pay liquidity and fee costs for basis points of incremental coverage. Variable-count designs cannot be replicated at all. The constituent count alone disqualifies most of the field before any other criterion is examined. #### 2. A censorship-free universe A cryptocurrency index must include every cryptocurrency that qualifies by objective, quantitative rules, including privacy coins such as Monero (XMR) and Zcash (ZEC) when their market capitalization earns them a place. An index that excludes assets because a regulator, custodian, or compliance department disfavors them is no longer measuring the market. It is measuring permission. That is a political statement wearing the costume of a statistic. The CCi30’s universe is defined by mathematics alone. #### 3. Exclusion of stablecoins and all pegged assets Stablecoins, whether pegged to fiat, gold, or anything else, are not cryptocurrencies in the economic sense. They are derivative claims on external assets: tokenized IOUs. A dollar-pegged token is a dollar with extra counterparty risk; its price series carries zero information about the crypto market and 100% information about the thing it replicates. Including stablecoins in a crypto index is a category error, it dilutes the very beta the index exists to measure, and it smuggles fiat exposure into an asset class whose entire raison d’être is escape from fiat. The CCi30 has excluded all pegged instruments by rule from the beginning. (Notably, most serious competitors eventually adopted this principle, years after the CCi30 established it.) #### 4. A statistically defensible weighting scheme Pure market-cap weighting in crypto produces a portfolio that is ~60–75% Bitcoin: a Bitcoin proxy with altcoin garnish, not an index. Equal weighting commits the opposite sin, giving the 30th coin the same influence as Bitcoin and overweighting illiquid tails. The CCi30 weights constituents by the square root of smoothed market capitalization, the statistical middle path. It respects the size ordering of the market while materially reducing concentration (a far lower Herfindahl–Hirschman Index than any cap-weighted rival), delivering genuine diversification without abandoning liquidity. #### 5. Smoothing against noise and manipulation Crypto market caps are noisy and manipulable at any single instant. The CCi30 computes weights from an exponentially weighted moving average of market capitalization, filtering out flash spikes, wash-traded volume distortions, and rebalancing-day gaming. Indices that sample market cap at a single cutoff time invite exactly the manipulation they should be immune to. #### 6. Independence Who owns the ruler matters. Indices owned by exchanges (CF Benchmarks/Kraken), by media-and-exchange conglomerates (CoinDesk/Bullish), by asset managers selling products on their own benchmark (Bitwise), or by exchange groups selling listings (Nasdaq, LSEG/FTSE) all carry structural conflicts of interest. The CCi30 is independent: it is not owned by an exchange, does not sell order flow, and does not manage a fund that grades its own homework. #### 7. A live track record, not a backfilled one The CCi30 has published values computed from January 1, 2015 under a methodology fixed in advance, through two full bear markets and three bull cycles. Most competitors launched in 2021 or later, marketing “performance” that is hypothetical back-testing constructed with the benefit of hindsight, data their own disclaimers admit may reflect survivorship and look-ahead bias. #### 8. Investability An index must be a portfolio someone can actually hold. That requires liquid constituents, a manageable number of positions, transparent rules, and a rebalancing schedule (the CCi30 rebalances constituents quarterly and weights monthly) that keeps turnover and transaction costs low. An index is not a theoretical exercise; it is a buy list. — ### Where competing crypto indices fail Read the analyses in sequence and one pattern emerges. Every competitor fails the CCi30 test in at least one, usually several, of the same four ways: 1. The wrong count. Five, ten, or a dozen coins marketed as “the market”, or a hundred marketed as “completeness.” Both directions fail: below thirty, statistical significance collapses and the basket becomes a Bitcoin-and-Ethereum tracker with residual noise (correlation to BTC alone typically exceeds 0.95, so the “diversification” being sold is largely fictional); above thirty, the liquidity cliff turns coverage into cost. Thirty is where the mathematics lands, and no competitor lands there. 2. Censored. Privacy coins excluded by compliance decree, not by market capitalization. The resulting universe reflects regulatory preference, the antithesis of what an independent measurement should be. 3. Concentrated. Cap-weighting hands the index to Bitcoin. Arbitrary caps (30%, 35%) then get bolted on to disguise the problem, replacing one arbitrary choice with two. 4. Conflicted. Exchange-owned, ETF-issuer-owned, or committee-governed. When the referee is also a player, the score is suspect. The CCi30 was designed, by a mathematician and a financial economist, published openly, fixed by rule, live since 2015, precisely so that none of these failures could occur. It includes every true cryptocurrency that earns inclusion, excludes every fiat replication, weights by a function chosen for statistical optimality rather than marketing convenience, and can be replicated by any investor with a spreadsheet and an exchange account. That is what an index is supposed to be: not a product, not a permission slip, not a hypothesis, a measurement. Each linked page provides the full technical analysis. Methodology data are drawn from each provider’s published documents and; constituent lists change and should be re-verified against provider publications before citation. ### Method and sources Methodology data are drawn from each provider’s published documents and; constituent lists change and should be re-verified against provider publications before citation. The CCi30 rules are published in the methodology manual, and the allocation calculator shows the CCi30 basket for any amount. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/academic-literature/ Research and citations ## The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index in the Academic Literature Researchers use the CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index as a market benchmark, a forecasting target, and a data source. This page lists every located academic work that employs or cites the index: peer-reviewed articles, working papers, theses, and conference papers, with venue, year, and citation counts. ### How is the CCi30 used in academic research? The academic literature applies the CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index in three main roles: as the market portfolio for cryptocurrency asset-pricing tests, as the forecasting target for machine-learning models, and as the benchmark for diversification, hedging, and market-efficiency studies. - 172 academic works - 3,371 citations combined - 139 venues and publishers - 2017 to 2026 Index methodology · Daily OHLCV data used in these studies (CSV) ### Which journals and venues publish CCi30 research? Springer journals, Elsevier journals, IEEE and ACM conference proceedings, national finance journals, and university repositories all host CCi30 research. Recurring venues include Financial Innovation, Evolving Systems, Physica A, and Research in International Business and Finance. The list below groups every located work by publication year, newest first, with the citation count reported by Google Scholar at the time of verification. ### 2026: 8 publications The multifractal nature of cross-correlations between emerging market equities and financial assets T. Acikgoz Computational Economics (Springer) · 9 citations Uses CCi30 State-Dependent Relationship Between Cryptocurrency Returns and Credit Spreads G. Lee, D. Ryu European Financial Management (Wiley) · 5 citations Uses CCi30 Nonlinear Dependence Structure Between BRICS Stock Markets, Gold, and Cryptocurrencies J. Yan The Manchester School (Wiley) · 3 citations Uses CCi30 Dependency structure and volatility connectedness among China-ASEAN stock market, crypto, oil H. Zeng, A.D. Ahmed Financial Innovation (Springer) · 2 citations Uses CCi30 Dynamic quantile frequency connectedness … football club fan tokens, cryptocurrencies, uncertainty O. Ozcelebi, R. El Khoury, S.H. Kang Empirical Economics (Springer) Uses market-cap-weighted CCi30 index Asymmetric effects of monetary policy uncertainty on BRICS stock markets, cryptocurrencies, and oil P. Tong, W. Zhang, T. Xiao, Y. Ma, P. Zhang Applied Economics (Taylor & Francis) Uses CCI30 for digital assets Exploring the Determinants of Crypto Currencies Price: Short and Long-Run C. Karamti, A.K. Abdelmoula Finance & Economics Review CCi30 as market measure False-News Triggers As New Manipulation Risk – Bitcoin ETF Approval A. Pucher, D. Schiereck, M. Bormann AIS CCi30 as robustness check index ### 2025: 21 publications Connectedness and frequency connection among green bond, cryptocurrency and green energy metals H. Zeng, Q. Huang, M.Z. Abedin, A.D. Ahmed Research in International Business and Finance (Elsevier) · 65 citations Uses crypto indices incl. CCi30 A machine learning based regulatory risk index for cryptocurrencies X. Ni, T. Xie, W.K. Hardle, X. Zuo Computational Statistics (Springer) · 25 citations Uses CCI30 The dynamics between clean energy, green bonds, grain commodities, and cryptocurrencies R. Wu, J. Yan, C. Isik Economic Change and Restructuring (Springer) · 14 citations Uses CCi30 Inter-Market mean and volatility spillover dynamics between cryptocurrencies and Thai stock market Y. Zhang, S. Lo, D. Sutthiphisal Risks (MDPI) · 11 citations Includes CCi30 (data from cci30.com) Time-frequency volatility spillovers between CBDC uncertainty and cryptocurrencies J. Wan, L. Han, Y. Wu Finance Research Letters (Elsevier) · 7 citations Uses CCi30 Wisdom of the crowd signals: Predictive power of social media trading signals for cryptocurrencies F. Haase, T. Celig, O. Rath, D. Schoder Electronic Markets (Springer) · 7 citations Benchmarks vs CCI30 & S&P500 Connectedness between green financial and cryptocurrency markets (TVP-VAR, wavelet VaR) L. Sebai, Y. Jaber J. of Risk and Financial Management (MDPI) · 5 citations Uses CCI30 index Spillover network of tourism stocks, metaverse, AI, and traditional assets O. Ozkan, O. Usman, A.L. Komba, G.N. Ike Tourism Economics (Sage) · 4 citations Uses CCi30 Herding behaviour in the cryptocurrency market: the role of uncertainty and return of classical financial markets H. Ansari, M. Peymany Studies in Economics and Finance (Emerald) · 3 citations Uses CCI30 index returns Integration or separation? Dynamic relationship between crypto and traditional finance D. Vidal-Tomas, T. Aste Finance Research Letters (Elsevier) · 3 citations Uses CCi30 Unveiling dynamic linkages and hedging between Indian sectoral indices and alternative investments P. Vairasigamani, S. Amilan Revista Mexicana de Economia y Finanzas · 3 citations CCI30 from cci30.com as crypto proxy Do Crypto and Equity Go Hand in Hand? G-7 Economies (VECM, Granger) P. Gupta, P. Bhatia, N. Malhotra Management and Labour Studies (Sage) · 2 citations Uses CCi30 Artificial intelligence-based model – key technique for cryptocurrency price prediction M. Paskaleva Int. J. Inf. Technol. Secur. · 2 citations References CCi30 Peran mata uang kripto sebagai fasilitas hedging saham (thesis) I. Septiadi UGM Uses CCi30 On Risk Pricing and Arbitrage in the Cryptomarket F. Jamhamed, F. Martin, F. Rondeau et al. SSRN Uses CCi30 Impact of Federal Policy Interventions and Strategic Crypto Reserve Designation D.M. Manohal, S. TS, B.A.V. Nair, M. Kagzi et al. SSRN CCi30 as market portfolio proxy Nonlinear Dynamics of Systematic Risk in Cryptocurrency Market: A Multifractal Analysis T. Acikgoz Fluctuation and Noise Letters (World Scientific) CCi30 as general market benchmark A Model for Predicting Cryptocurrency Prices Using Meta-Synthesis Methods M.D. Jahed, Z. Fathi, G. Zomorrodian Business, Marketing, and Finance (BMF) References CCi30 A Hybrid Deep Learning Model Enhanced with PSO for Cryptocurrency Prediction A.V. Ramana, S. Behera 5th Int. Conf. (IEEE) Cites CCI30 index prediction Integrating crypto assets into portfolio management (thesis) T. Pramel Univ. Catolica Portuguesa Studies CCI30 vs BTC in portfolios Three Essays on Key Challenges for Modern Banking (dissertation) J. Krettek Univ. Duesseldorf Uses CCi30 ### 2024: 31 publications Blockchain, sport and fan tokens D. Vidal-Tomas J. of Economic Studies (Emerald) · 69 citations Correlates CCi30 with Chiliz/fan tokens Are gold and cryptocurrency a safe haven for stocks and bonds? Conventional vs Islamic markets M. Widjaja, Gaby, S.A.H. Havidz European J. of Management and Business Economics (Emerald) · 41 citations Uses CCI30 index Investor sentiment and the holiday effect in the cryptocurrency market: evidence from China P. Zhang, K. Xu, J. Huang, J. Qi Financial Innovation (Springer) · 14 citations Uses CCI30 index return The rapid growth of cryptocurrencies: How profitable is trading in digital money? V. Manahov Int. J. of Finance & Economics (Wiley) · 13 citations Profit persistency for CRIX and CCI30 Spillover analysis on NFTs, NFT-affiliated tokens and NFT submarkets K.H. Ho, M. Law, Y. Hou, T.T. Chan Finance Research Letters (Elsevier) · 13 citations Uses CCi30 Volatility and dependence in cryptocurrency and financial markets: a copula approach J. Liu, A. Serletis Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics · 12 citations Uses CCi30 A comparative study of bitcoin price prediction pre-Covid19 and whilst-Covid19 I. Chatterjee, S. Chakraborti, T. Tono Discover Analytics (Springer) · 11 citations References CCI30 index relationship The Impact of International Conflicts on the Cryptocurrency Market: Israel-Palestine Z.C. Ergun Politik Ekonomik Kuram · 10 citations CCI30 as benchmark index When is blockchain worth it? Value and risk drivers of corporate blockchain announcements T. Rogalski, D. Schiereck Electronic Markets (Springer) · 9 citations Uses CCi30 The interdependence structure of cryptocurrencies and Chinese financial assets T. Gao, H. Wang, D. Du Finance Research Letters (Elsevier) · 8 citations Uses CCi30 (crypto market) An empirical approach and practical framework for a decentralized Ethereum Ecosystem Index (EEI) M.F.A. Gadi, M. Schmidt, N. Ruemmele et al. PeerJ Computer Science · 5 citations References CCI30 performance The determinants of prices of fan tokens as a new sports finance tool E. Kanat, E. Oget, F. Kaya Ege Academic Review · 5 citations Uses CCi30 index Kripto para piyasasi ile kuresel ekonomi politikasi belirsizligi endeksi arasindaki nedensellik N. Ozkan Muhasebe ve Finans Incelemeleri Dergisi · 4 citations CCI30 vs global EPU Deciphering crypto interconnections using a multi-analytical approach Z. Daruwala Int. J. of Applied Economics, Finance and Accounting · 4 citations Extends correlation analysis to CCi30 Calendar anomalies in NFT coins Z.C. Ergun Ekonomi Politika ve Finans Arastirmalari Dergisi · 2 citations CCi30 as crypto benchmark Spillover Volatility Effect Return of Stock, Gold, and Cryptocurrency (Indonesia) F.A. Firdausia, N. Nasrudin J. of Economics and Financial Studies · 2 citations CCi30 as crypto proxy The Nature of the Beast: A Study of Crypto Volatility K. Gosal, G. McMurran, Z. Ding SSRN 4954736 · 2 citations Asymmetric effect for CCI30 index The DeFi ecosystem game: Proof-via-simulations E. Hoch Int. Conf. on Math. Research for Blockchain (Springer) · 2 citations CCI-30 Buy & Hold benchmark The Impact of Middle East Conflict on Crypto-Market: Palestine-Israel War and Bitcoin M. Ebaba, A. Koy Int. J. of Business and Economic Studies · 1 citations Uses CCI30 index for market returns Bitcoin, speculative sentiments and crypto-assets valuation D. Tut MPRA · 1 citations Uses CCi30 (launched 2017, top 30) Can cryptocurrency markets be beaten? Calendar anomalies aspect S. Imre, O. Ozaydin Yonetim ve Ekonomi Arastirmalari Dergisi · 1 citations CCI30 coin index Recent Techniques and Algorithms for Cryptocurrencies’ Price Prediction: A Literature Review H. Haxhimehmeti, A. Besimi Int. Scientific Conf. (Springer) · 1 citations References CCi30 forecasting Financial Crimes in Fintech: An Evidence from Cryptocurrency Market M. Rewal, P. Singh E-banking, Fintech & Financial Crimes (Springer) Uses CCi30 to assess hacks/news impact Investigating Herding Behavior in The Cryptocurrency Market Post Covid-19 L. Pu Int. J. of High School Research Uses cci30 index top-30 data Financial Investment Risk Comparison Stock, Gold, and Cryptocurrency (Indonesia) F.A. Firdausia, N. Nasrudin J. of Business and Political Economy CCi30 from cci30.com Herding Behavior in the Cryptocurrency Market: The Impact of COVID-19 (thesis) L.S.A. Cavalcante Univ. Catolica Portuguesa Uses CCi30 Cryptocurrency in a Time of Conflict: Russo-Ukrainian War’s Impact on the CCI-30 Index H. Al-Najjar, D. Al-Najjar, N. Al-Rousan et al. (Conf. on Technology and Business Mgmt, Springer) Studies impact on CCI-30 index Tracking and Sourcing the Risk of Cryptocurrencies (CGRI) X. Guo, K. Guo, S. Wang SSRN 4975843 Compares CRIX and CCI30 Dynamic Linkages between Chinese Financial Market and Global Emerging Markets (thesis) H. Zeng RMIT Uses CCi30 Real consequences of non-stationary fundamentals among digital assets (dissertation) K. Hausler HU Berlin Uses CCi30 A Deep Learning Approach to Predict the Fall of Cryptocurrency Long Before its Actual Fall A.T. Meem arXiv:2411.13615 Estimates CCi30 (rules-based index) ### 2023: 19 publications What drives the popularity of stablecoins? Frequency dynamics of connectedness… B. Let, K. Sobanski, W. Swider, K. Wlosik Technological Forecasting and Social Change (Elsevier) · 71 citations Uses CCi30 Online risk-based portfolio allocation on subsets of crypto assets (prototype clustering) L. Lorenzo, J. Arroyo Financial Innovation (Springer) · 38 citations Compares to CCI30 market index & buy-hold Impact of liquidity and investors sentiment on herd behavior in cryptocurrency market S. Bogdan, N. Brmalj, E. Mujacevic Int. J. of Financial Studies (MDPI) · 28 citations Uses CCi30 An empirical investigation on risk factors in cryptocurrency futures Y. Chi, W. Hao, J. Hu, Z. Ran J. of Futures Markets (Wiley) · 11 citations Uses CCi30 Predicting cryptocurrency prices with machine learning algorithms: a comparative analysis H.N. Gudavalli, K.V.R. Kancherla (Working paper) · 9 citations Uses CCi30 No cryptocurrency experience required: Managerial characteristics in cryptocurrency fund performance A. Urquhart, P. Wang Review of Corporate Finance (Emerald) · 9 citations Uses CCi30 Trampadan kripto paraya (book) H. Gokgoz, T. Kandemir (Book) · 8 citations References CCi30 An analysis of volatility and herd behavior among investors in S&P500, Bitcoin, and gold M. Qezelbash, S. Tajdini, F. Jafari J. of Mathematics and Modeling in Finance · 8 citations Uses CCi30 Testing for herding in AI-themed cryptocurrencies following the launch of ChatGPT A. Ballis, D. Anastasiou J. of Financial Data Science · 8 citations Uses CCi30 Pemodelan EGARCH Return Saham, Emas, dan Cryptocurrency F.A. Firdausia, N. Nasrudin Seminar Nasional Official Statistics · 4 citations CCi30 from cci30.com Kripto para piyasalarinda suru davranislarinin analizi H.T. Akkus, I. Celik, T. Karakaya Finans Ekonomi ve Sosyal Arastirmalar · 3 citations Uses CCI30 index Cryptocurrency volatility: before, during and after Covid-19 O. Ozaydin Nisantasi Univ. Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi · 1 citations CCI30 from cci30.com Intensification Dimension of Prices Cryptocurrency with Hamiltonian Quantum Mechanics M. Faris, R. Fauzan, N. Komari Asian J. of … (SSRN) · 1 citations Uses CCi30 Calendar anomalies in the cryptocurrency markets (dissertation) A. Almosfi Radboud Univ. · 1 citations CCI30 as market return indicator Navigating Uncertainty: Gold, Silver, Oil, Cryptocurrency, and ESG in MENA (thesis) R.Z. Sakr American Univ. in Cairo · 1 citations Uses CCi30 CLiVi50 – A less Volatile than Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Index M. Gadi, M.A. Sicilia AIS (AMCIS) Compares CLiVi50 to CCi30 Does Herding Behavior Exist in The Cryptocurrency Market? A. Mnif Sacred Heart Univ. CCi30 as market return Cryptocurrency market herding analysis under different economic environments (thesis, Chinese) Qi-Zhang Huang Tamkang Univ. / QUT Uses CCI30 index with BTC/ETH/USDT/XRP Assessment of Crypto Market Heterogeneity using Clustering Methods (thesis) H.A.M. Al Ahbabi Khalifa Univ. Uses CCI30 index (top 30) ### 2022: 30 publications The new crypto niche: NFTs, play-to-earn, and metaverse tokens D. Vidal-Tomas Finance Research Letters (Elsevier) · 347 citations Uses CCi30 Behavioural finance and cryptocurrencies A. Ballis, T. Verousis Review of Behavioral Finance (Emerald) · 85 citations References CCi30 Applying artificial intelligence in cryptocurrency markets: A survey R. Amirzadeh, A. Nazari, D. Thiruvady Algorithms (MDPI) · 77 citations References CCi30 Analysis of the cryptocurrency market using different prototype-based clustering techniques L. Lorenzo, J. Arroyo Financial Innovation (Springer) · 54 citations Uses CCI30 to represent market A dropout weight-constrained recurrent neural network model for forecasting the price of major cryptocurrencies and CCi30 index I.E. Livieris, S. Stavroyiannis, E. Pintelas, T. Kotsilieris et al. Evolving Systems (Springer) · 44 citations Forecasts CCi30 index value Outliers and time-varying jumps in the cryptocurrency markets A. Dutta, E. Bouri J. of Risk and Financial Management (MDPI) · 40 citations Uses broad crypto index (CCi30) Bitcoin price forecasting and trading: data analytics approaches A.H. Al-Nefaie, T.H.H. Aldhyani Electronics (MDPI) · 35 citations Forecasts CCi30 index value Analysis of critical events in the correlation dynamics of cryptocurrency market C.X. Nie Physica A (Elsevier) · 32 citations Crypto market network incl. CCi30 Herding behavior and liquidity in the cryptocurrency market S. Arsi, K. Guesmi, E. Bouri Asia-Pacific J. of Operational Research (World Scientific) · 27 citations Uses CCi30 Analyzing diversification benefits of cryptocurrencies through backfill simulation J.H. Kim Finance Research Letters (Elsevier) · 22 citations Uses CCi30 Indices on cryptocurrencies: an evaluation K. Hausler, H. Xia Digital Finance (Springer) · 20 citations Evaluates CCi30 vs HODL5 Out-of-sample forecasting of cryptocurrency returns J. Yae, G.Z. Tian Physica A (Elsevier) · 19 citations Uses CCi30 Cryptocurrencies, correlations, and COVID-19: diversifiers, hedge, or safe haven? B. Lavelle, K.N. Yamamoto, M. Kinnen Review of Integrative Business & Economics · 18 citations Tests CCi30 as diversifier/hedge/safe haven Observing cryptocurrencies through robust anomaly scores G. Bae, J.H. Kim Entropy (MDPI) · 10 citations Uses CCi30 index (top 30) Analysis of the relationship between cryptocurrency index (CCi30), BIST 100, and NASDAQ with Granger causality test S. Kendirli, F.Y. Senol, S. Ergenoglu Quantrade Journal of Complex Systems · 9 citations CCi30 vs BIST100 & NASDAQ causality Revisiting spillovers between investor attention and cryptocurrency markets (noisy ICA and transfer entropy) D. Neto J. of Economic Asymmetries (Elsevier) · 8 citations Uses CCi30 Bitcoin: like a satellite or always hardcore? Core-satellite identification C.J. Borner, I. Hoffmann, J. Krettek, T. Schmitz J. of Asset Management (Springer) · 7 citations Uses CCi30 Attention to Authority: The behavioural finance of Covid-19 M. Burke, J. Fry, S. Kemp, D. Woodhouse Finance Research Letters (Elsevier) · 6 citations Uses CCi30 (crypto returns) Causal linkages among cryptocurrency and emerging market indices P. Bhatia, P. Bedi Vision (Sage) · 6 citations CCI30 vs Indian indices KNN virtual currency price prediction model based on price trend characteristics W. Huang IEEE 2nd Int. Conf. on Power… · 6 citations Cites CCi30 BP-NN index model COVID-19’s Impact on the Cryptocurrency Market and the Digital Economy (book) N. Mansour, S. Ben Salem (Book) · 6 citations CCI30 index used by crypto funds Metanomics: adaptive market and volatility behaviour in metaverse A. Shah, A. Bahri SSRN 4206410 · 3 citations CCi30 as crypto market benchmark Outlook of Digital Currencies and Future Restrictions on Cryptocurrencies Q. Chen, S. Dong, J. Li 7th Int. Conf. (Atlantis) · 2 citations References CCi30 Dynamic Interdependence and Volatility Connectedness in China-ASEAN Stock, Crypto and Oil H. Zeng, A.D. Ahmed SSRN · 1 citations Uses CCi30 (data from cci30.com) Neural network training using flower pollination algorithm for bitcoin price prediction E. Kaya (Working paper) · 1 citations Uses CCi30 Principal Components Analysis: Impact on Alternative Crypto-Currencies N. Haouas, A. Sghaier COVID-19’s Impact on the Crypto Market (IGI-Global) Describes CCi30 characteristics Krypto moter aksjer. En analyse av risiko og avkastning under Covid-19 (thesis) N.J.F. Tveten, R.J. Larsen OsloMet Crypto risk/return incl. CCi30 Research on the relationship between Cryptocurrency and OTC market based on VAR model R. Han, X. Wang 4th Int. Conf. on Economic Management (Atlantis) Cites CCi30 BP-NN prediction model Unsupervised Crypto Clustering with NLP (thesis) S. Zhang MIT Regresses returns on CCi30 index Ar kryptomarknaden effektiv? En eventstudie (thesis) T. Rydle, M. Ratajczak Kristianstad Univ. Uses CCi30 index ### 2021: 21 publications An advanced CNN-LSTM model for cryptocurrency forecasting I.E. Livieris, N. Kiriakidou, S. Stavroyiannis, P. Pintelas Electronics (MDPI) · 255 citations Predicts CCI30 index closing price Smoothing and stationarity enforcement framework for deep learning time-series forecasting I.E. Livieris, S. Stavroyiannis, L. Iliadis et al. Neural Computing and Applications (Springer) · 59 citations Applies framework to CCI30 Principal component analysis based construction and evaluation of cryptocurrency index A. Shah, Y. Chauhan, B. Chaudhury Expert Systems with Applications (Elsevier) · 54 citations Benchmarks against CCi30 Linearity extensions of the market model: a case of the top 10 cryptocurrency prices during pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 S. Neslihanoglu Financial Innovation (Springer) · 35 citations Studies stochastic behavior of CCI30 index Impacts of the global pandemic on returns and volatilities of cryptocurrencies V.K. Rai, V. Kumari Int. J. of Accounting, Business and Finance · 19 citations Uses CCi30 Cryptocurrency shocks J. Liu, S. Rahman, A. Serletis The Manchester School (Wiley) · 18 citations Uses CCi30 Measuring Value at Risk using GARCH model – evidence from the cryptocurrency market C. Obeng Int. J. of Entrepreneurial Knowledge · 15 citations Uses CCI30 daily returns Exploring the success factors of security token offerings J.H. Beinke, K. Rohde, F. Pohl Int. J. of … (World Scientific) · 14 citations CCI30 index of 30 largest cryptos Cryptocurrency price forecasting based on short-term trend KNN model H. Jiang IEEE 3rd Int. Conf. on Civil… · 11 citations Cites cci30 index BP-NN model Pricing Exotic Derivatives for Cryptocurrency Assets – a Monte Carlo Perspective M. Alfeus, S. Kannan (Working paper) · 7 citations Prices exotics on CCI30 index Bitcoin, speculative sentiments… (Financial Economics of Cryptocurrency markets, book/thesis) A. Aslan Bilkent Univ. (ProQuest) · 4 citations Uses CCI30 from cci30.com Cryptocurrencies as Pension Fund Components: Smart Move or Drinking the Kool-Aid? M. Soland, P. Schueffel The Journal of FinTech (World Scientific) · 3 citations CCi30 2%/5% portfolio supplements Forecasting Monero prices with a machine learning algorithm Z.C. Ergun, B.K. Karabiyik Eskisehir Osmangazi Univ. IIBF Dergisi · 3 citations Uses CCi30 Crypto-Asset Pricing Models and Their Efficiency-Dependent Trading Strategies W.M. Tse SSRN · 3 citations Uses CCi30 Comparing cryptocurrency indices to traditional indices (thesis) A. Kirsch HU Berlin · 1 citations Compares CCi30 to stock indices Application of machine learning techniques on cryptocurrency index prediction M.H. Jukifli NTU (thesis) Predicts CCi30 price action with ML Rodeo or Ascot: which hat to wear at the crypto race? (thesis) K. Hausler HU Berlin Compares Bitwise10, CRIX, CCi30 Comparison of crypto-assets market risk proxies A. Mercik, D. Cupriak Nauki o Finansach Compares Crypto20, CCI30, CRIX proxies Dynamic Volatility Modelling of Cryptocurrencies Using TVTP Markov Switching (thesis) T.C. Yen (ProQuest) Uses CRIX and CCI30 Sovershenstvovanie indeksov kriptovalyut E.R. Ryndakova Chelovek. Socium. Obshchestvo Discusses Bit20, CAMCrypto30, CCI30 Price Discovery, Technical Analysis and Weak-form Efficiency: Evidence From Cryptocurrencies (thesis) S. Ismail (ProQuest) Uses CCi30 + constructed index ### 2020: 13 publications A critical investigation of cryptocurrency data and analysis C. Alexander, M. Dakos Quantitative Finance (Taylor & Francis) · 257 citations Analyzes CRIX-CCi30 spread & data quality An approach to predict and forecast the price of constituents and index of cryptocurrency using ML R. Chowdhury, M.A. Rahman, M.S. Rahman et al. Physica A (Elsevier) · 205 citations Forecasts CCi30 index & constituents Herding behavior and cryptocurrency: Market asymmetries, inter-dependency and intra-dependency R.N.U.D. Jalal, M. Sargiacomo, N.U. Sahar et al. J. of Asian Finance · 77 citations Uses CCI30 index for herding analysis Investing with Cryptocurrencies – evaluating their potential for portfolio allocation strategies A. Petukhina, S. Trimborn, W.K. Hardle arXiv · 71 citations Uses CCi30 Does herding behaviour among traders increase during COVID-19 pandemic? D. Susana, J.K. Kavisanmathi, S. Sreejith IFIP Conf. on transfer & diffusion of IT (Springer) · 46 citations CCI30 index constituents Herd behaviour in the cryptocurrency market: Fundamental vs. spurious herding C.W. Senarathne, W. Jianguo European J. of Applied Economics · 31 citations CCi30 crypto index return proxy (data from cci30.com) Machine learning of emerging markets in pandemic times (proceedings intro) A.E. Kiv, P. Hryhoruk, I. Khvostina, V. Solovieva M3E2 2020 Proceedings · 27 citations Collection incl. CCI30 network study Correlation dynamics in the cryptocurrency market based on dimensionality reduction analysis C.X. Nie Physica A (Elsevier) · 22 citations Crypto market analysis incl. CCi30 Complex networks theory and precursors of financial crashes V. Solovieva, A. Tuliakova, A. Hostryk, L. Pichl (Conference) · 20 citations Builds multiplex network of CCI30 constituents K voprosu o primenimosti teorii Markovica pri raspredelenii kriptovalyut… D.A. Malinovskiy Ekonomicheskie nauki · 2 citations MSCI World vs CCI30 in portfolio How Do Whitepaper Disclosures Influence Investors’ Decisions? Evidence from ICOs J. Ernstberger, S. Romeike SSRN Uses CCi30 Inference and Prediction of Cryptocurrency Market Returns (thesis) E.F. Alarcon Valdez Lund Univ. Uses CCi30 Machine learning of emerging markets in pandemic times P. Hryhoruk, I. Khvostina, V. Solovieva (Proceedings, KDPU) Collection incl. CCI30 study ### 2019: 13 publications Volatility in the cryptocurrency market J. Liu, A. Serletis Open Economies Review (Springer) · 260 citations Uses CCi30 Underpricing in the cryptocurrency world: evidence from initial coin offerings T.H. Felix, H. von Eije Managerial Finance (Emerald) · 115 citations Uses CCi30 The Crypto Encyclopedia: Coins, tokens and digital assets from A to Z P. Schueffel, N. Groeneweg, R. Baldegger (Book) · 46 citations References CCi30 Behavioural biases in bitcoin trading T. Hidajat Fokus Ekonomi · 41 citations References CCi30 Cryptocurrency, Stablecoins and Blockchain: digital money solutions for remittances R. Kulkarni, L. Schintler, N. Koizumi, J. Olds 66th Annual North American … (SSRN) · 23 citations References CCi30 Structural change analysis of active cryptocurrency market C.Y. Tan, Y.B. Koh, K.H. Ng arXiv:1909.10679 · 16 citations Compares CRIX and CCI30 (base 100) Avkastning og risiko i kryptovalutamarkedet (thesis) M. Furseth, A.C.B. Olsen OsloMet Crypto risk/return incl. CCi30 Prediction of cryptocurrency index based on BP neural network Y. Li (Li Yinglu) Shichang Zhoukan Predicts CCi30 index via BP NN Hot issue markets for initial coin offerings (thesis) O.A. Ozkan METU CCI30 as overall market measure Effectiveness of technical trading strategies on intraday bitcoin markets (thesis) V. Tanner LUT Benchmarks vs CCi30 Initial Coin Offerings: The Role of Subjective Information in Whitepapers (thesis) J. Zhang (OhioLINK) Uses CCI30 index returns around ICOs Testing Explanatory Risk Factors for Cryptocurrency Returns (dissertation) P. Tonev (Master dissertation) Uses CCi30 Optimaalisen kryptovaluutta portfolion allokaatiot eri suhdannesykleissa (thesis) H. Louhisto LUT CCi30 as benchmark index ### 2018: 9 publications Herding in crypto-currency markets T. Ajaz, A.S. Kumar Annals of Financial Economics (World Scientific) · 76 citations CCI30 as market-return proxy The cci30 index I. Rivin, C. Scevola arXiv:1804.06711 · 15 citations Original CCi30 index paper (author) VCRIX – volatility index for crypto-currencies on the basis of CRIX (thesis) A. Kolesnikova HU Berlin · 10 citations Mentions CCi30 among crypto indexes An investable crypto-currency index I. Rivin, C. Scevola SSRN 3154706 · 7 citations CCi30 index design paper (author) F5: optimised crypto-currency investment strategies H. Elendner White paper (F5 Crypto) · 7 citations Describes CCI30 value-weighted index Crypto Currency as an Emerging Investment Instrument: The Missing Link M. Ibrahim SSRN 3144187 · 4 citations References CCi30 Time-series momentum in the cryptocurrency market (thesis) N.J. Wesselink Erasmus Univ. · 1 citations Uses CCi30 Returns to Buying Winners and Selling Losers: A Look at Cryptocurrencies (thesis) D. Walker Claremont · 1 citations Uses CCi30 Exploring the performance enhancing effects of investing with cryptoassets in SA portfolios (thesis) B. Wright Univ. of Cape Town Uses CCi30 ### 2017: 1 publication Cci30 – the crypto currencies index I. Rivin, C. Scevola, R. Davis cci30.com · 2 citations Original CCi30 methodology (author) ### Undated works: 6 publications Analysis on Performance Comparison Between Cryptocurrency Index 30, LQ45 Index and Gold N.P. Sulaeman ITB Uses CCi30 to measure crypto performance Herding Behavior in Stock and Cryptocurrency Markets (MBA dissertation) J. Rakhmatov Banking and Finance Academy of Uzbekistan S&P100 and CCi30 as market proxies Speculative bubbles and herding in cryptocurrencies I. Yagli, O. Haykir (Working paper) Uses CCi30 Momentum investing in cryptocurrencies L. Swinkels (Working paper) Uses CCi30 Deep learning-based short-term cryptocurrency price forecasting using LSTM + technical indicators Y. Celik, I.S. Ince Int. J. of Pure and Applied Sciences References CCi30 forecasting Diseno y construccion de un indice de criptoactivos, el Bitindex (thesis) A. Voces Cuadrado Univ. de Leon References CCI30 crypto index ### Method and sources Entries were located through publisher databases. Citation counts change continuously and are reported as found. A work appears on this list when it uses CCi30 index values, constituents, or methodology as data or benchmark, or when it analyzes the index itself. Corrections and additions can be sent through the contact form. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/tools/ CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index ## Tools of the CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index publishes three tools for replication, rebalancing analysis, and performance measurement. Each tool reads the official index files live, so every figure on these pages can be reproduced from the public data. The tools serve investment professionals, index licensees, and researchers. 01 · Current official weights ### Allocation calculator The allocation calculator splits any USD amount across the 30 constituents according to the official weights of the latest monthly rebalancing, read live from the published weights file. Basis — official weights, latest rebalancing Output — USD allocation per constituent, CSV export Use — index replication, fund operations, due diligence Open the calculator → 02 · Composition history ### Rebalancing explorer The rebalancing explorer shows the composition and weights of every monthly rebalancing since January 2015, with entries, exits, and weight changes against the previous month. Basis — full monthly weights history Output — weights, Δ in percentage points, entries and exits Use — rebalancing analysis, turnover research Open the explorer → 03 · Risk and performance ### Statistics calculator The statistics calculator computes return, volatility, and drawdown from the published daily index values over a trailing window of 3, 6, or 12 months, with every formula stated next to its figure. Basis — daily OHLCV history since 2015 Output — return, σ, maximum drawdown, best and worst day Use — asset allocation, risk management, research Open the statistics → 04 · Composition since 2015 ### Historical constituents and weights The history explorer shows the full composition of the index at every quarterly reconstitution since January 2015 and the weight of every constituent at each monthly rebalancing. A time bar moves the table to any past date. Basis official quarterly composition and monthly weight files Output dated constituent table with icons and a weights view Use research, backtesting, composition audits Open the history explorer ### Index data and documents behind the tools Every figure the tools display can be verified independently. The files below are the same files the tools read. Daily OHLCV values Complete history since 2015 · .csv Historical constituents and weights Interactive explorer · quarterly and monthly Index whitepaper Construction and rationale · .pdf Methodology manual Complete rule set · .pdf Sharpe-Rivin paper Risk-adjusted return methodology · .pdf ### Which data do the tools read? The allocation calculator and the rebalancing explorer read the monthly constituent weights file, which lists every weight of every rebalancing since 1 January 2015. The statistics calculator reads the daily OHLCV file, which holds one open, high, low, close, and volume row per calendar day since 1 January 2015. Both files sit on this domain and update on the same cycle as the index itself. ### How do the tools relate to the methodology? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index selects the 30 largest cryptocurrencies by adjusted market capitalization, weights each constituent by the square root of that figure, and rebalances on the first calendar day of each month at 00:00 GMT. The tools apply arithmetic to the published output of that process; they add no discretion of their own. The full rule set is documented in the methodology section and the methodology manual below. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/tools/allocation-calculator/ Replication tool · Current official weights ## CCi30 Index Allocation Calculator The allocation calculator splits any USD amount across the 30 constituents of the CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index according to the official weights of the latest monthly rebalancing. The output is the basket a passive investor would hold to replicate the index under the published rules. Amount to allocate USD Weights in force: loading…, 00:00 GMT. Source: official monthly weights file, read live on this page. ### The basket, proportionally Rank 1 Rank 2 3–10 11–20 21–30 | # | Constituent | Weight | Allocation (USD) | | | Total — 30 constituents | | | The weights file could not be loaded. Reload the page or download the file directly from the data section below. ### How does the calculator distribute an amount? The calculator multiplies the entered amount by each constituent weight. The weights come from the official monthly weights file and sum to 100 percent, so the 30 allocations always sum to the entered amount. A weight of 27.49 percent turns 1,000,000 USD into 274,900 USD for that constituent. ### Where do the weights come from? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index weights each constituent by the square root of its adjusted market capitalization, an exponentially weighted moving average with a three-day half-life. The index recalculates and implements the weights on the first calendar day of each month at 00:00 GMT, with no caps and no floors. The calculator reads those published weights live; it never estimates them. ### What the output leaves out The calculator reports allocations in USD, not unit quantities. Execution prices differ by venue and by minute, so a unit count computed from a single reference price would misstate a real order. For weight changes between months, the rebalancing explorer shows every entry, exit, and weight change since 2015. The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is a benchmark, not an investment product, and this calculator is not investment advice. ### Index data and documents behind the tools Every figure the tools display can be verified independently. The files below are the same files the tools read. Daily OHLCV values Complete history since 2015 · .csv Historical constituents and weights Interactive explorer · quarterly and monthly Index whitepaper Construction and rationale · .pdf Methodology manual Complete rule set · .pdf Sharpe-Rivin paper Risk-adjusted return methodology · .pdf --- # Page: https://cci30.com/tools/constituents-history/ ## Historical Constituents and Weights of the CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index This page shows which cryptocurrencies made up the CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index on any date since 1 January 2015, and the exact weight each constituent carried after every monthly rebalancing. Pick a view, move the time bar, read the table. Loading Loading the official index files. | # | Constituent | Weight | | # | Constituent | Weight | ### What does the constituents view show? The constituents view lists the cryptocurrencies that formed the index after the selected quarterly reconstitution. Membership changes only at reconstitution: the index reviews the ranking on the first calendar day of each quarter, removes assets that left the top 30, and admits assets that entered it. The questions and answers section covers the schedule in detail. ### What does the weights view show? The weights view lists the weight applied to every constituent after the selected monthly rebalancing. Weights follow the square root of adjusted market capitalization, are recalculated on the first calendar day of each month, and take effect at 00:00 GMT. The allocation calculator converts current weights into a USD allocation, and the rebalancing explorer shows how weights move from month to month. ### Where does the data come from? Both views read the official index files directly: the quarterly composition file and the monthly weights file. The same files back the published index values, update on the index schedule, and can be downloaded for independent analysis. Definitions and formulas are documented in the methodology manual. ### Index data and documents behind the tools Every figure the tools display can be verified independently. The files below are the same files the tools read. Daily OHLCV values Complete history since 2015 · .csv Historical constituents and weights Interactive explorer · quarterly and monthly Index whitepaper Construction and rationale · .pdf Methodology manual Complete rule set · .pdf Sharpe-Rivin paper Risk-adjusted return methodology · .pdf --- # Page: https://cci30.com/tools/rebalancing-explorer/ Composition history · Monthly rebalancings ## CCi30 Index Rebalancing Explorer The rebalancing explorer shows the composition and weights of every monthly rebalancing of the CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index since January 2015. For each month the table lists every constituent, its weight, the weight change against the previous month in percentage points, and the assets that entered or left the index. Rebalancing month Amount to allocate USD Coverage: loading… Δ column: weight change against the previous rebalancing, in percentage points. ### Composition Constituents, weights, and weight changes for the selected rebalancing | # | Constituent | Weight | Prev. | Δ (pp) | Allocation (USD) | | | Total — constituents | | | | | The weights file could not be loaded. Reload the page or download the file directly from the data section below. ### What changes at a monthly rebalancing? The index re-ranks all eligible cryptocurrencies by adjusted market capitalization on the first calendar day of each month and re-weights the top 30 by the square root of that figure. A rebalancing therefore changes weights every month and changes composition whenever an asset crosses the top-30 boundary. The explorer marks entering assets in the table and lists leaving assets under it, with the weights they held. ### Why the next composition is not shown A projection of the next rebalancing requires the adjusted market capitalizations, which the index computes as a three-day exponentially weighted moving average across its full eligible universe. That computation runs inside the index infrastructure, not in a browser. The explorer therefore shows implemented rebalancings only: figures that are final, published, and verifiable against the weights file. ### How to read the change column The change column reports the weight move in percentage points against the previous rebalancing. A move from 6.87 to 6.43 percent shows as −0.440. Weight changes of the two largest constituents run larger in absolute terms because square-root weighting compresses, without removing, the size differences between constituents. For the current basket in USD terms, use the allocation calculator. ### Index data and documents behind the tools Every figure the tools display can be verified independently. The files below are the same files the tools read. Daily OHLCV values Complete history since 2015 · .csv Historical constituents and weights Interactive explorer · quarterly and monthly Index whitepaper Construction and rationale · .pdf Methodology manual Complete rule set · .pdf Sharpe-Rivin paper Risk-adjusted return methodology · .pdf --- # Page: https://cci30.com/tools/statistics/ Risk and performance · Published daily values ## CCi30 Index Statistics Calculator The statistics calculator computes return, volatility, and drawdown of the CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index directly from the published daily closes over a trailing window of 3, 6, or 12 months. Every figure states its formula, and the window itself can be downloaded for independent verification. Trailing window 3 months 6 months 12 months Data: loading… Formulas: stated under each figure and in the definitions below. Volatility is annualized over 365 days because the index prices every calendar day. Risk and performance statistics computed from daily index closes over the selected window | Statistic | Value | Basis | The history file could not be loaded. Reload the page or download the file directly from the data section below. ### Which statistics does the page compute? The page computes five headline figures. The period return divides the last close by the first close of the window. The mean monthly return converts the period return to a 30.44-day month geometrically. Monthly and yearly volatility scale the standard deviation of daily returns by the square root of 30.44 and 365, because the index prices every calendar day. The maximum drawdown reports the deepest peak-to-trough decline inside the window, with its dates. ### What the calculator does not replace The official risk figures of the CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index, including the Sharpe-Rivin ratio and the market efficiency ratio, appear in the statistics section of the homepage and follow the index methodology manual. The Sharpe-Rivin ratio corrects the standard Sharpe formula for volatile return series; the derivation is published in the Sharpe-Rivin paper. This page complements those figures with window statistics computed from the same public data. ### Reading a drawdown window A negative period return describes the window, not the asset class. The same formulas report the drawdowns of 2018 and 2022 and the recoveries that followed them, because the data reaches back to 1 January 2015. Selecting the 12-month window over a drawdown typically shows a deeper maximum drawdown and a higher yearly volatility than the 3-month window, which is the expected behaviour of scale-dependent statistics. ### Index data and documents behind the tools Every figure the tools display can be verified independently. The files below are the same files the tools read. Daily OHLCV values Complete history since 2015 · .csv Historical constituents and weights Interactive explorer · quarterly and monthly Index whitepaper Construction and rationale · .pdf Methodology manual Complete rule set · .pdf Sharpe-Rivin paper Risk-adjusted return methodology · .pdf --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/21shares-hodl/ Crypto index comparison, tier 2 ## 21Shares Crypto Baskets Alternative: CCi30 vs 21Shares Crypto Baskets The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the 21Shares Crypto Baskets. This page reviews the 21Shares / HODL5 and Crypto Basket Indices under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the 21Shares Crypto Baskets? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the 21Shares Crypto Baskets 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the 21Shares Crypto Baskets? 21Shares, the Swiss ETP issuer, pioneered exchange-traded crypto baskets in Europe with the HODL5 (top-5 basket ETP) and related Crypto Basket indices administered for its own product shelf. ### How is the 21Shares Crypto Baskets built? Small baskets (typically five assets) of the largest cryptocurrencies by capitalization, variously cap- or equal-weighted with caps, rebalanced periodically, universe restricted to assets supported by the issuer’s custody and the SIX listing framework. ### Where the 21Shares Crypto Baskets falls short statistically The HODL5 was included in the academic index-evaluation literature alongside the CCi30, and the comparison is instructive. That literature observed that HODL5 tracked its cap-weighted “total market index” closely, unsurprising, since a BTC-dominated five-coin basket naturally shadows a BTC-dominated total. But correlation with concentration is not representation: an index whose information content collapses into Bitcoin’s price offers nothing an investor cannot get by holding Bitcoin. At n=5, statistical significance as a market estimator is unattainable, one-sixth of the documented n=30 threshold at which the CCi30 achieves 99% confidence with a 1.11% margin of error. The 21Shares case adds the purest form of the product-first pattern: the index exists because the ETP needed a benchmark, not the reverse. Index changes follow product needs (custody availability, listing rules, fee competition), the inversion that defines this entire tier. ### Can the 21Shares Crypto Baskets be replicated by an investor? Perfect, trivially: the index is the product’s holdings. Which is the point, a benchmark identical to the portfolio it benchmarks measures nothing but itself. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/bita/ Crypto index comparison, tier 4 ## BITA Crypto Indices Alternative: CCi30 vs BITA Crypto Indices The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the BITA Crypto Indices. This page reviews the BITA Crypto Indices (BITA Crypto 10, 20, 30, and thematics) under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the BITA Crypto Indices? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the BITA Crypto Indices 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the BITA Crypto Indices? BITA, an indexing-infrastructure firm, offers a small crypto family, BITA Crypto 10, 20, and 30 baskets, a “Next 20” mid-cap index, and thematic products (DeFi Select, Metaverse & NFT Select, even a Football Fan Token index). ### Where the BITA Crypto Indices falls short statistically Note the top of BITA’s product ladder: thirty. An independent index engineer, surveying the same market, capped its broadest liquid basket at exactly the constituent count the CCi30 derived from first principles in 2017, corroboration by convergence. But offering 10, 20, and 30 side by side as equivalent products concedes the firm has no theory of the right number, only a menu; and the thematic sprawl (fan tokens as an institutional index category) reveals the business model: indices as SKUs. Cap-weighted construction and a young, thinly-adopted family complete the picture. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/bitwise-10/ Crypto index comparison, tier 2 ## Bitwise 10 Alternative: CCi30 vs Bitwise 10 The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the Bitwise 10. This page reviews the Bitwise 10 Large Cap Crypto Index under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the Bitwise 10? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the Bitwise 10 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the Bitwise 10? The Bitwise 10 tracks the ten largest crypto assets by free-float, inflation-adjusted market capitalization, excluding stablecoins. It launched in 2017, is administered by Bitwise Asset Management, and underlies the Bitwise 10 Crypto Index Fund (BITW), for years one of the most visible index-linked crypto products in the US. The broader family (Bitwise 20, 70, 100, and European “Select” variants) follows similar construction, with eligibility tied to custody at approved third-party custodians and, for European products, acceptance by the SIX exchange and authorized participants. ### How is the Bitwise 10 built? Free-float and inflation-adjusted cap weighting over a ten-asset universe; monthly reconstitution; stablecoin exclusion; eligibility screens keyed to custody and venue support. An advisory board of indexing luminaries (ex-S&P, ex-Bloomberg) oversees the methodology. ### Where the Bitwise 10 falls short statistically #### Self-administration is disqualifying for benchmark purposes Bitwise the index administrator selects and weights the assets; Bitwise the asset manager collects fees on funds tracking the result. Every reconstitution decision, every eligibility judgment about custody, every treatment of a fork or a delisting, is made by a party whose revenue depends on the product’s marketability. The advisory board is distinguished, but distinguished referees employed by one team are still employed by one team. The CCi30’s rules were published by academics and consultants with no fund attached; the index cannot be bent toward a product because there is no product to bend it toward. #### Ten is a marketing number, not a statistical one The float-adjusted top ten is ~85% BTC+ETH by weight in most regimes; its return series is statistically indistinguishable from a 70/20/10 BTC/ETH/rest portfolio. Ten is one-third of the count required for statistical significance, the step from 10 to 30 constituents is where diversification across sectors (smart-contract platforms, exchange ecosystems, payments, privacy, infrastructure) actually begins, and where the index becomes a defensible estimator of the market rather than a large-cap anecdote. Academic comparison of the major indices (Springer, Digital Finance, 2022) found methodological divergence drives material performance divergence, and grouped the CCi30’s diversification and transparency among its strengths. Where that literature scores narrow baskets favorably on correlation to a “total market index,” note what the yardstick is: a cap-weighted total dominated by Bitcoin, including, in aggregator form, stablecoins. Correlating tightly with a concentrated, contaminated total is not representation; it is replication of the concentration. An index that merely shadows Bitcoin has no reason to exist, since Bitcoin is already available at zero methodology cost. #### Custody-gated universe Eligibility requires support at select custodians, the same permission filter as the NCI, with the same casualty list. A “large cap crypto index” from which Monero is structurally absent while smaller custodian-friendly tokens qualify is ranking by compliance, not by capitalization. #### Adjustments done right, narrowly Credit: Bitwise’s free-float and inflation (supply-emission) adjustments are genuine methodological contributions. The CCi30’s smoothed-cap approach addresses the same measurement noise more generally, but Bitwise’s care here exceeds most Tier 1 efforts. ### Can the Bitwise 10 be replicated by an investor? BITW’s own history makes the case against conflating index and product: closed-end structure, persistent premiums and discounts of extraordinary magnitude, and fee drag, investors tracked the index in name while their returns tracked fund mechanics. An independent index like the CCi30 lets any manager compete to implement it; a captive index marries investors to one implementation. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/bletchley/ Crypto index comparison, tier 3 ## Bletchley Indexes Alternative: CCi30 vs Bletchley Indexes The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the Bletchley Indexes. This page reviews the Bletchley Indexes under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the Bletchley Indexes? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the Bletchley Indexes 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the Bletchley Indexes? Bletchley Indexes was among the first serious attempts (2017) at a family of crypto benchmarks: Bletchley 10, 20, 40 by size band, a total-market composite, and, notably ahead of its time, even-weighted variants of each. Publication ceased; the indexes are defunct. ### Analysis Bletchley got several things right early: size-banded families, publication of both cap- and equal-weighted versions (implicitly acknowledging the concentration problem the industry still mishandles), and transparent monthly reconstitution. It failed at the criterion nobody lists until it bites: existence. A benchmark is a commitment to publish forever, through bear markets, through founder attrition, through the years when nobody is licensing anything. Institutions cannot write mandates, calculate performance fees, or run risk against a yardstick that may stop being printed. The 2018–2020 bear market culled nearly the entire first generation of crypto indices. The CCi30 is the salient survivor: continuously calculated and published since January 2015, methodology intact, through the exact winters that erased its early peers. Longevity is not a vanity metric; it is the empirical evidence of institutional durability, the difference between a benchmark and a blog post with numbers. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/bloomberg-galaxy-bgci/ Crypto index comparison, tier 1 ## Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index Alternative: CCi30 vs Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index. This page reviews the Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index (BGCI) under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index? Launched in 2018 as a partnership between Bloomberg Index Services and Galaxy Digital, the BGCI is a market-cap-weighted benchmark of roughly a dozen of the largest USD-traded cryptocurrencies, rebalanced monthly. It is among the more cited indices in financial media, owing to Bloomberg’s distribution. ### How is the Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index built? Constituents must meet screens for liquidity, pricing-source quality, and free float; stablecoins and pegged assets are excluded. Weights are based on market capitalization, subject to caps on the largest constituents and floors on the smallest, mechanical patches applied to restrain Bitcoin’s dominance and keep small members visible. ### Where the Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index falls short statistically #### Caps and floors are a confession The moment an index must cap its largest constituent, it has admitted that pure cap-weighting fails in this asset class. But a hard cap is the crudest possible correction: it introduces a kink in the weight function, forces mechanical selling of the best-performing asset at every rebalance regardless of information, and makes the effective weighting scheme discontinuous and path-dependent. The CCi30’s square-root transform solves the same problem smoothly, a single, continuous, mathematically motivated function that compresses concentration without arbitrary thresholds. One method is a formula; the other is a committee’s tourniquet. #### A dozen coins is not the market With roughly twelve constituents dominated by BTC and ETH, the BGCI’s incremental information over a simple two-asset basket is minimal. Twelve also sits decisively below the statistical-significance threshold of thirty documented in the CCi30 methodology: a sub-30 sample cannot represent the market at meaningful confidence, whereas the CCi30’s thirty constituents represent it at 99% confidence with a 1.11% margin of error. The BGCI’s coverage of the long institutional-grade tail, where the market’s sector diversity actually lives, is negligible next to the CCi30’s thirty. #### The Galaxy problem Galaxy Digital is an active trading firm and asset manager in the very assets the index selects. Co-branding a benchmark with a market participant is a conflict of interest that would be unthinkable in mature asset classes, imagine the “Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Equity Index” deciding which stocks count as the stock market. #### Privacy coins Screened out via pricing-source and venue requirements tuned to US-institutional comfort. Same censorship, different paperwork. ### Can the Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index be replicated by an investor? Genuinely replicable, the constituents are liquid, but that is because the index is narrow, and narrowness is precisely its statistical failure. Ease of replication purchased by refusing to represent the market is not a virtue; it is the definition of a convenience sample. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/brave-new-coin/ Crypto index comparison, tier 4 ## Brave New Coin Indices Alternative: CCi30 vs Brave New Coin Indices The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the Brave New Coin Indices. This page reviews the Brave New Coin (BLX and the BNC Indices) under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the Brave New Coin Indices? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the Brave New Coin Indices 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the Brave New Coin Indices? Brave New Coin, a crypto data firm, built early institutional traction with its Bitcoin Liquid Index (BLX) and Ethereum equivalent (ELX), liquidity-weighted single-asset price indices with long histories, once distributed via Nasdaq, plus assorted market and sector indices. ### Analysis The BLX was, for its era, a genuinely good Bitcoin price series. But the category error stands: single-asset rates are prices, not market indices (see the reference-rate analysis in Tier 2), and BNC’s multi-asset efforts never achieved methodological distinction or institutional adoption. The firm’s index franchise has since faded from relevance, another entry in the mortality ledger. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/cfd-indices/ Crypto index comparison, tier 4 ## Broker CFD Crypto Indices Alternative: CCi30 vs Broker CFD Crypto Indices The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the Broker CFD Crypto Indices. This page reviews the Broker CFD “Indices” (Crypto 10 Index and similar) under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the Broker CFD Crypto Indices? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the Broker CFD Crypto Indices 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What they are Synthetic baskets (e.g., the “Crypto 10 Index” offered by CFD brokers such as AvaTrade) existing solely as house-priced contract-for-difference underlyings for retail speculation. ### Analysis Included only for completeness of the census. These are not benchmarks in any sense: no independent administration, no published governance, house pricing against retail counterparties, and universes chosen for marketing. They are the payout formula of a broker’s product, wearing the word “index.” ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/cf-benchmarks/ Crypto index comparison, tier 2 ## CF Benchmarks Alternative: CCi30 vs CF Benchmarks The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the CF Benchmarks. This page reviews the CF Benchmarks (Ultra Cap 5, Broad Cap Index, BRR) under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the CF Benchmarks? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the CF Benchmarks 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the CF Benchmarks? CF Benchmarks, owned by Kraken, is the regulated-benchmark specialist: its Bitcoin Reference Rate (BRR) settles CME bitcoin futures, and it claims tens of billions of dollars tracking its products, the largest tracked AUM in crypto indexing. Its multi-asset offerings include the CF Ultra Cap 5 and the CF Broad Cap Index, administered under UK BMR authorization. ### How is the CF Benchmarks built? Reference rates aggregate executed trades across vetted constituent exchanges within calculation windows, with manipulation-resistance features; multi-asset indices weight vetted large-cap assets by free-float capitalization, with the Ultra Cap 5 holding the top five. ### Where the CF Benchmarks falls short statistically #### Separate the two businesses CF’s single-asset reference rates are excellent financial engineering, arguably the best price-fixing methodology in the asset class, and their regulatory pedigree (CME settlement) is earned. None of that transfers to the claim that the Ultra Cap 5 represents the cryptocurrency market. Five cap-weighted assets is a Bitcoin price with an entourage: the marginal information content of constituents three through five is noise within BTC’s variance, and n=5 sits hopelessly below the n=30 threshold at which a constituent sample becomes a statistically significant estimator of the market. Regulated does not mean representative; a BMR license certifies process integrity, not statistical adequacy. #### Exchange ownership Kraken lists assets, earns trading fees, and competes with other venues, and its subsidiary decides which venues’ prices constitute truth and which assets constitute the market. The vetted-exchange model has an inherent tension: the vetting entity is a competitor of the vetted. However professionally managed, the structure invites exactly the doubt an independent benchmark exists to eliminate. The CCi30 takes prices as market-wide aggregates, smooths them statistically, and answers to no venue. #### The Broad Cap Index is the more serious instrument, but remains cap-weighted (concentration) and universe-gated by the vetted-venue framework (censorship, privacy assets fare predictably). ### Can the CF Benchmarks be replicated by an investor? Ultra Cap 5: trivially replicable, and therefore of trivial value as a licensed product, the portfolio is four trades. Broad Cap: implementable but BTC-dominated, so the investor pays diversification costs for concentration outcomes. The CCi30’s thirty square-root-weighted names deliver the diversification the fees are supposed to buy. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/cix100/ Crypto index comparison, tier 4 ## CIX100 Alternative: CCi30 vs CIX100 The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the CIX100. This page reviews the CIX100 (Cryptoindex.com) under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the CIX100? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the CIX100 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the CIX100? Was: a Malta-registered, AI-driven index of 100 assets selected and weighted by a proprietary neural network (“Zorax”) claiming to analyze 200+ factors including social media and GitHub activity, wrapped in an ERC-20 utility token, distributed via Nasdaq, Bloomberg, and Reuters tickers. Now: inactive, no trading activity, website gone. ### Where the CIX100 falls short statistically CIX100 is the perfect cautionary specimen, because it violated every criterion simultaneously and enjoyed every superficial credential anyway. A black-box neural network is the categorical opposite of a rules-based methodology: unverifiable, unfalsifiable, unreplicable, an index whose composition cannot be predicted from public rules is an actively managed fund with extra steps. Weighting inputs included social-media sentiment (capital-free opinion) and code-repository activity (developer noise). The token wrapper reproduced the Crypto20 collapse of instrument into benchmark. And the distribution on Nasdaq and Bloomberg terminals, credentials many allocators mistake for diligence, did nothing to prevent the project’s death. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/cmc-crypto-200/ Crypto index comparison, tier 4 ## CMC Crypto 200 Alternative: CCi30 vs CMC Crypto 200 The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the CMC Crypto 200. This page reviews the CMC Crypto 200 by Solactive (CMC200 / CMC200EX) under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the CMC Crypto 200? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the CMC Crypto 200 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the CMC Crypto 200? A 200-constituent, market-cap-weighted index of the largest cryptocurrencies, developed and owned by CoinMarketCap, calculated and administered by German index engineer Solactive, launched 2019 with a base date of December 31, 2018, rebalanced quarterly, and distributed under Nasdaq tickers (CMC200, plus an ex-Bitcoin variant, CMC200EX). ### Where the CMC Crypto 200 falls short statistically #### Two hundred is the overshoot argument in its purest form The CCi30 documentation identifies the frontier: past thirty constituents, additional names add fees and illiquidity without significant representational gain, because the top 30 already deliver ~90% capitalization coverage and 99% statistical confidence (1.11% margin of error). Positions 31–200 of the CMC universe contribute a residual sliver of capitalization spread across assets whose order books cannot absorb institutional size, and being cap-weighted, those 170 extra names barely register in the index level anyway. The CMC200 pays the full cost of breadth and collects almost none of its benefit: an index that is 90%+ driven by its top 30 while carrying the replication burden of 200. #### The ownership problem, aggravated CoinMarketCap is owned by Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, with listing fees, proprietary tokens (BNB sits in the index), and commercial stakes across the constituent universe. The index’s own data source is thus a subsidiary of the market’s largest interested party. Solactive’s IOSCO-compliant administration launders the calculation, not the conflict. #### The ex-BTC variant deserves a note: an index of “the crypto market except its dominant asset” answers no allocator’s question, it is a data product in search of a use case. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/coinbase-50/ Crypto index comparison, tier 4 ## Coinbase 50 Index Alternative: CCi30 vs Coinbase 50 Index The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the Coinbase 50 Index. This page reviews the Coinbase 50 Index (COIN50) under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the Coinbase 50 Index? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the Coinbase 50 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the Coinbase 50 Index? Launched November 2024, Coinbase’s benchmark of 50+ digital assets listed on its own exchange, offered to institutional traders as perpetual futures on Coinbase International Exchange (excluding the US, UK, and Canada), with six assets (BTC, ETH, SOL, DOGE, XRP, ADA) constituting roughly 91% of index weight at launch. ### Where the Coinbase 50 Index falls short statistically #### Fifty names, six of which are the index COIN50 demonstrates that a headline constituent count is meaningless without a weighting theory: cap-weighting concentrates 91% of the index in six assets, so the remaining 44 are ornamental, the concentration profile of a Top 5 basket wearing a broad-market costume. The CCi30’s square-root weighting exists precisely to prevent this: breadth that shows up in the weights, not merely in the brochure. #### The universe is the exchange’s listing book Eligibility begins with “listed on Coinbase”, the purest case in the entire survey of an index defined by one company’s commercial and compliance decisions. Coinbase’s listing choices are shaped by US regulatory posture (privacy coins categorically absent), listing economics, and its own custody business. The index is, in the strict sense, an advertisement for inventory. #### Survivorship, in-house edition Coinbase’s previous benchmark venture, the 2018 Coinbase Index Fund, was discontinued within months. The market’s memory is short; a benchmark’s must not be. The CCi30 has published without interruption since January 2015 through every regime that killed its competitors, including this one’s predecessor. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/coindesk-20-cmi/ Crypto index comparison, tier 2 ## CoinDesk 20 Alternative: CCi30 vs CoinDesk 20 The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the CoinDesk 20. This page reviews the CoinDesk 20 (CD20) and the CoinDesk Market Index (CMI) under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the CoinDesk 20? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the CoinDesk 20 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the CoinDesk 20? CoinDesk Indices, heir to the venerable XBX Bitcoin price reference and now owned by the Bullish exchange group, offers the CoinDesk 20, a broad-based index “built to trade,” explicitly designed around liquidity and implementation for market makers and structured products, plus the wider CoinDesk Market Index and a family of sector (“Select”) indices with industry tagging. ### How is the CoinDesk 20 built? The CD20 selects twenty large, liquid assets using CoinDesk Benchmark Rates for pricing, applies market-cap-based weighting with caps, excludes stablecoins, and, per the published multi-asset methodology, screens for factors including US-licensure of pricing venues, with categories like memecoins ruled ineligible in certain derived indices, and custody support (e.g., Coinbase Custody) built into product variants. ### Where the CoinDesk 20 falls short statistically #### “Built to trade” is the tell CoinDesk says openly what others obscure: the CD20 is optimized for market makers, derivatives, and product construction. That is a legitimate engineering goal, for a product. But an index optimized for tradability systematically differs from an index optimized for truth: it overweights venue-approved assets, excludes economically significant but institutionally awkward ones (privacy coins fail the US-licensure pricing screens categorically), and bakes implementation constraints into the definition of the market itself. The CCi30 inverts the priority: measure first, implement second. #### Editorial-exchange ownership The index family is owned by an exchange group that also owns the industry’s largest news outlet. An exchange profits from listings and flow in specific assets; a media company shapes the narrative around them; an index arbitrates which of them constitute “the market.” Concentrating all three functions under one roof is a corporate-governance case study, not a benchmark pedigree. The CCi30 has no exchange, no media arm, no order flow, no thumb available for the scale. #### Ruling out memecoins by fiat Whatever one thinks of memecoins (and the Austrian answer is: the market’s valuation is information, not error), excluding a category by editorial judgment repeats the censorship pattern. Either capitalization rules or committees do. The CD20 family chooses committees; the CCi30 chooses arithmetic. #### Twenty capped-weight constituents is closer to adequacy than the Tier 1 baskets, which makes the shortfall the more instructive. Twenty is two-thirds of the way to the statistically significant count and stops short: below n=30, the sample does not represent the market at the confidence level an allocator can defend (the CCi30’s thirty deliver 99% confidence with a 1.11% margin of error, and ~90% capitalization coverage). CoinDesk built the count its market makers could hedge, not the count the statistics require, and the caps on its weights again betray the weighting scheme’s failure. ### Can the CoinDesk 20 be replicated by an investor? Genuinely strong; this is the CD20’s design center and it shows in market-maker adoption. But recall the criterion: an index must be investable and representative. The CD20 achieves the first by sacrificing the second. The CCi30’s square-root weighting achieves comparable implementability, every constituent liquid, turnover damped by EWMA smoothing, without letting execution convenience define market truth. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/cgci/ 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/compass-ft/ Crypto index comparison, tier 4 ## Compass Crypto Indices Alternative: CCi30 vs Compass Crypto Indices The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the Compass Crypto Indices. This page reviews the Compass Financial Technologies (Compass Crypto Reference Indices, CoinShares-Compass Top 10, et al.) under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the Compass Crypto Indices? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the Compass Crypto Indices 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the Compass Crypto Indices? A Swiss index engineering firm, EU BMR-registered, supplying single-asset reference rates (the Compass Crypto Reference Index family) and client-branded baskets, most visibly the CoinShares-Compass Top 10 Crypto Market Index (ten largest assets, cap-weighted, 35% single-asset cap), plus Layer-1, smart-contract, DeFi, and equal-weighted mandates for ETP issuers. ### Where the Compass Crypto Indices falls short statistically Compass is the continental counterpart of Vinter: a professional benchmark manufacturer whose product is whatever the client specifies. The flagship basket illustrates the resulting design-by-committee: ten constituents (one-third of the statistically significant count) and a 35% cap, the tourniquet approach to Bitcoin dominance, producing a kinked weight function that forces mechanical selling of the strongest asset at every rebalance. Ten names, capped weights, issuer branding: every parameter traces to product requirements (custody menus, ETP fee economics, marketing simplicity) rather than to any theory of market representation. The reference-rate work is competent; the basket work is bespoke tailoring. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/crix/ Crypto index comparison, tier 3 ## CRIX Alternative: CCi30 vs CRIX The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the CRIX. This page reviews the CRIX, The CRyptocurrency IndeX under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the CRIX? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the CRIX 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the CRIX? CRIX, developed at Humboldt University Berlin (Härdle, Trimborn et al.) and later commercialized with Royalton Partners, is the academic community’s flagship crypto index: a market-cap-weighted composite whose distinguishing feature is a dynamic constituent count, selected by statistical information criteria (AIC-family model selection) so that the number of members expands and contracts with market structure. ### How is the CRIX built? At each reconstitution, CRIX chooses how many constituents to include by testing which index size best approximates the total market according to an information criterion, then cap-weights those members. The design is published in the econometric literature and is, by academic standards, exemplary in transparency. ### Where the CRIX falls short statistically #### The most intellectually serious competitor, and a revealing contrast CRIX and the CCi30 were born in the same intellectual moment (2014–2015), both from academic mathematics, both asking the right question: how does one represent an entire novel asset class with a tractable portfolio? They diverged on a deep philosophical point, and the divergence teaches something. CRIX optimizes statistical fit to the total market, accepting whatever constituent count and turnover that requires. The CCi30 optimizes statistical fit subject to investability: a fixed count of 30, derived as the point where both constraints bind, the minimum for statistical significance (the top 30 represent the whole market at 99% confidence with a 1.11% margin of error, capturing ~90% of true-crypto capitalization) and the maximum before the liquidity cliff, beyond which added constituents generate fees without performance. Square-root weighting maximizes effective diversification within that portfolio; EWMA smoothing acknowledges that real rebalancing happens in real markets vulnerable to real manipulation. CRIX’s information-criterion machinery is elegant, but it re-derives at every reconstitution what the CCi30 solved once, in closed form, in public, and a fixed answer is what replication requires. The consequences of CRIX’s choice: a fluctuating membership count that makes replication a moving target; cap-weighting that leaves the “optimal fit” dominated by Bitcoin anyway (fitting a BTC-dominated total market with a BTC-dominated portfolio is not difficult, merely uninformative); and, because the total market it fits includes whatever the data vendor counts, the pegged-asset contamination problem enters through the target itself. An index calibrated to approximate a total-market series that contains stablecoins is calibrated, in part, to approximate fiat. #### Where CRIX deserves respect: it includes assets by data, not by custody committee, privacy coins have appeared in its membership as their capitalization warranted. On the censorship criterion it stands with the CCi30 against the entire commercial field. ### Can the CRIX be replicated by an investor? This is where the academic design fails outright. Variable constituent counts, cap-weight turnover, and indifference to execution cost make CRIX a superb object of study and a poor object of investment. No significant investable product tracks it, the market’s own verdict on theoretical elegance without implementation discipline. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/mortality-ledger/ Crypto index comparison, appendix ## Crypto Index Mortality Ledger: Discontinued Crypto Indices Discontinued crypto indices outnumber the survivors. This ledger records every crypto index that stopped publishing, with its provider and its lifespan, because survival is itself a benchmark property. The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index has published continuously since 1 January 2015. Across four tiers, the census totals roughly thirty distinct index families launched since 2015. Sort them by fate rather than methodology and the pattern is stark: the discontinued (Bletchley, CIX100, HB10, OK06, Bitmain, Coinbase Index Fund v1, BNC’s franchise, most tokenized thematics), the pivoted-and-rebranded (MVIS, CoinDesk’s family under successive owners), the perpetually young (every TradFi entrant, 2021 or later, marketing back-tested history), and the survivor. One broad-market index has published continuously, under one unchanged methodology, through every winter since January 2015. Longevity under fixed rules is not a marketing claim. It is the only index property that cannot be back-tested. ### Method and sources Entries are compiled from provider announcements and archived publications. The full comparison set is on the crypto index comparison hub. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/crypto20/ Crypto index comparison, tier 3 ## Crypto20 Alternative: CCi30 vs Crypto20 The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the Crypto20. This page reviews the Crypto20 (C20) under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the Crypto20? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the Crypto20 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the Crypto20? Crypto20, launched by Invictus Capital via 2017 ICO, was a tokenized autonomous “index fund”: a top-20 market-cap portfolio whose fund shares were themselves a tradeable token (C20), with smart-contract mechanics for NAV-based liquidation. ### How is the Crypto20 built? Top 20 assets by market cap, cap-weighted with a 10% single-asset cap, weekly rebalancing, stablecoins excluded, the entire structure wrapped in a token whose market price could, and chronically did, diverge from NAV. ### Where the Crypto20 falls short statistically #### The instrument ate the index C20 collapsed benchmark and product into a single token, which means it never produced the one thing an index must produce: a reference independent of anything’s trading price. When the C20 token traded below NAV, as it did for long stretches, what did the “index” say the market had done? The portfolio said one thing, the token another. A measurement instrument that disagrees with itself is not an instrument. Beyond the structural collapse: a 10% cap with 20 constituents forces the weight function into the corner solution where multiple top assets sit at the cap, effectively an arbitrary hybrid of capped and equal weighting whose statistical properties were never the design’s concern. Weekly rebalancing of a cap-weighted top-20 generated turnover that a fee-bearing token structure passed to holders. And ICO-era governance (a fund contract, a management team, no regulated administration) placed the entire construct outside any benchmark discipline. #### Historical significance, rules-basedly stated: C20 demonstrated real demand for passive whole-market crypto exposure years before Wall Street noticed, the same demand the CCi30 was built to measure properly. It was a correct market intuition executed as a product stunt. ### Can the Crypto20 be replicated by an investor? The token was investable; the index was not separable from it. Post-ICO structures of this kind (C20 and its successors) also carry issuer, smart-contract, and jurisdiction risk that no serious allocator can benchmark against. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/exchange-baskets/ Crypto index comparison, tier 4 ## Exchange Basket Indices Alternative: CCi30 vs Exchange Basket Indices The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the Exchange Basket Indices. This page reviews the Exchange In-House Baskets: Huobi HB10, OKEx OK06, Bitmain Big Coin Index, et al. under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the Exchange Basket Indices? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the Exchange Basket Indices 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What they were The 2018 fashion: every major Asian exchange and miner launched an index, Huobi’s HB10 (a tradeable basket product), OKEx’s OK06 series, Bitmain’s Big Coin Index. Effectively all are discontinued or dormant. ### Analysis These products compressed the entire pathology into single instruments: universes limited to the sponsor’s own listings, tradeable-product-first design, opaque governance, and lifespans measured in market cycles, usually one. Their collective disappearance is the empirical demonstration of the independence criterion: an index that exists as a marketing expense dies with the marketing budget. No allocator can benchmark a mandate to an instrument whose continued existence depends on a listings department. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/f5/ Crypto index comparison, tier 4 ## F5 Crypto Index Alternative: CCi30 vs F5 Crypto Index The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the F5 Crypto Index. This page reviews the F5 Crypto Index under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the F5 Crypto Index? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the F5 Crypto 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the F5 Crypto Index? A German index (F5 Crypto Capital) with a customized weighting scheme incorporating momentum, the sole member of the “customized weighted” category in the academic index-evaluation literature (Springer, Digital Finance, 2022), where its momentum tilt was noted to deliver relatively high mean returns while “lacking theoretical foundation.” ### Where the F5 Crypto Index falls short statistically The academic verdict is the analysis: a momentum-weighted index is an empirical bet, a strategy that happened to work in-sample, with no theory of why it must continue to. Strategies belong in funds, where their bets are priced and their managers accountable. A benchmark that embeds a bet cannot measure the market, because its deviations from the market are the bet. The CCi30’s weighting derives from a representation argument (square root as the optimum between cap-weight concentration and equal-weight illiquidity), not from a return forecast, which is why it can serve as the yardstick momentum strategies like F5 should be measured against. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/ft-wilshire-digital-assets/ Crypto index comparison, tier 1 ## FT Wilshire Digital Assets Alternative: CCi30 vs FT Wilshire Digital Assets The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the FT Wilshire Digital Assets. This page reviews the FT Wilshire Digital Asset Index Series under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the FT Wilshire Digital Assets? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the FT Wilshire Digital Assets 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the FT Wilshire Digital Assets? Wilshire Indexes, creator of the Wilshire 5000, the canonical “total market” US equity index, offers, with the Financial Times brand, a digital asset series: a Broad Market index, a Top 5, a Top 5 ex-Bitcoin, a Bitcoin+Ethereum pair index, and a large library of single-asset price indices, governed by a Digital Assets Advisory Group and covering a classification universe of 1,300+ assets. ### How is the FT Wilshire Digital Assets built? Transparent rules, exchange-quality screens (“genuine price discovery from highly rated exchanges”), and constituent selection restricted to “the most investable, liquid assets,” cap-weighted. ### Where the FT Wilshire Digital Assets falls short statistically #### The Wilshire 5000’s creators shipped a Top 5 The irony writes itself. The firm that taught equities the meaning of total market offers, as its flagship multi-coin crypto products, baskets of five coins, and a two-coin index. Five is one-sixth of the statistically significant count: at n=5, the “index” is a concentrated bet whose confidence interval as a market estimator is meaningless, versus the CCi30’s documented 99% confidence and 1.11% margin of error at n=30. A five-asset, cap-weighted crypto basket is BTC and ETH with three decorative passengers; its tracking correlation to Bitcoin alone renders its “market standard” branding statistically vacant. The Broad Market index exists, but the emphasis of the product line reveals the design center: sellable simplicity over representational truth. #### Advisory-group governance substitutes credentialed discretion for fixed rules. The CCi30’s founders published a formula; Wilshire convened a committee. Formulas can be audited in advance; committees can only be trusted in retrospect. #### Classification without inclusion Covering 1,300 assets in a taxonomy while indexing five in the flagship is measurement theater: the breadth lives in the brochure, not the benchmark. ### Can the FT Wilshire Digital Assets be replicated by an investor? Five liquid mega-caps are trivially investable, and trivially replicable without paying an index license. A basket an investor can assemble in four trades offers no informational or operational service; the CCi30’s 30-asset, square-root-weighted portfolio is the point at which an index starts earning its existence. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/ftse-russell-digital-assets/ Crypto index comparison, tier 1 ## FTSE Digital Asset Indices Alternative: CCi30 vs FTSE Digital Asset Indices The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the FTSE Digital Asset Indices. This page reviews the FTSE Global Digital Asset Index Series (FTSE Russell / Digital Asset Research) under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the FTSE Digital Asset Indices? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the FTSE Digital Asset Indices 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the FTSE Digital Asset Indices? FTSE Russell (LSEG), in partnership with Digital Asset Research (DAR), operates a modular series spanning large-cap to micro-cap segments, sector indices, single-asset series, and the Digi 50, with reference pricing engineered to EU Benchmark (BMR) standards. It supplies indices for Eurex futures and Hashkey ETFs, with a few billion dollars tracking its products. ### How is the FTSE Digital Asset Indices built? The series is built on a double vetting engine: exchanges are screened across 21 qualifying criteria, and assets are individually screened for eligibility and trading viability before entering the universe. Indices are weighted by circulating (float) capitalization across capitalization bands. ### Where the FTSE Digital Asset Indices falls short statistically #### Superb machinery, misdirected FTSE/DAR’s exchange-vetting apparatus genuinely addresses a real problem, fake volume and unreliable venue prints. Credit where due. But the same machinery becomes a filter of a different kind when its 21 criteria embed regulatory-licensure requirements: assets that trade deeply on venues outside the approved club are demoted or excluded regardless of their economic weight. Vetting prices is science; vetting assets by venue permission is politics. The CCi30 solves the price-quality problem differently, through smoothing (EWMA of market capitalization), which statistically suppresses the very anomalies FTSE’s committees adjudicate manually, while leaving the universe defined by market capitalization alone. #### Modular fragmentation A series that offers large-cap, mid-cap, micro-cap, sector, and single-asset slices offers no single answer to the only first-order question: what did the crypto market do? The proliferation of cuts is a licensing strategy, not a measurement philosophy. The CCi30 is one number with one meaning. #### Cap-weighting within bands inherits the concentration critique; the large-cap segment is, as everywhere, a Bitcoin sidecar. ### Can the FTSE Digital Asset Indices be replicated by an investor? The flagship broad series extends into micro-caps that no institutional portfolio can hold at meaningful size, while the investable cuts are narrow. FTSE thus sells representation and investability as separate products; the CCi30 delivers both in one instrument. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/galaxy-indices/ Crypto index comparison, tier 2 ## Galaxy Crypto Index Family Alternative: CCi30 vs Galaxy Crypto Index Family The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the Galaxy Crypto Index Family. This page reviews the Galaxy Crypto Index Family under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the Galaxy Crypto Index Family? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the Galaxy Crypto Index Family 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the Galaxy Crypto Index Family? Beyond co-branding the BGCI with Bloomberg, Galaxy Digital operates its own index suite (benchmark and thematic crypto indices) supporting Galaxy funds and third-party products. ### Analysis Every argument made against the BGCI applies here without the mitigation of Bloomberg’s independent index governance. Galaxy is a principal trading firm, venture investor, and asset manager in the assets its indices select and weight. Its funds’ marketing benefits from its indices’ composition; its trading desk holds inventory in index constituents; its research arm publishes views on them. This is vertical integration of the measurement function into the market-participation function, the precise arrangement the concept of an independent benchmark was invented to prevent. Narrow universes, cap weights, custody-gated eligibility, and post-2020 vintages complete the familiar profile. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/marketvector-mvis/ Crypto index comparison, tier 2 ## MarketVector Indices Alternative: CCi30 vs MarketVector Indices The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the MarketVector Indices. This page reviews the MarketVector / MVIS Digital Assets Indices under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the MarketVector Indices? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the MarketVector Indices 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the MarketVector Indices? MarketVector (formerly MVIS), the index subsidiary of ETF issuer VanEck, runs one of the broadest crypto index families in traditional finance: the Digital Assets 100 and its large/mid/small-cap segments, the Digital Assets 25 and 10, sector and “leaders” indices, and newer fundamental-weighted experiments (e.g., with Token Terminal data). ### How is the MarketVector Indices built? Cap-weighted (with caps) selection from a screened universe of pricing-eligible assets; segment indices carve the 100 by size band; rules published in MVIS’s equity-derived methodology framework. ### Where the MarketVector Indices falls short statistically #### Breadth conceded, principles not MarketVector deserves recognition as the TradFi-affiliated provider that took breadth seriously, a 100-asset universe implicitly ratifies the CCi30’s founding argument that narrow baskets misrepresent the market. But the execution imports the familiar defects: capped cap-weighting (Bitcoin dominance managed by tourniquet rather than transform), a vendor-screened universe (privacy coins excluded from investable products for the usual custodial reasons), and a proliferation of segments that fragments the market into licensing SKUs. #### One hundred is past the point of investable truth The CCi30 documentation states the frontier precisely: constituents beyond thirty generate higher fees with no significant improvement to performance, because the top 30 already represent the market at 99% confidence (1.11% margin of error) and ~90% of capitalization, while liquidity collapses below the cutoff. The Digital Assets 100 is the empirical demonstration: positions 60 through 100 are a sliver of weight spread across assets whose order books cannot absorb institutional flow without material impact, basis points of information purchased with real transaction costs. Index design is an optimization, not a maximization; MVIS maximized. The CCi30’s thirty constituents sit at the efficient point where added breadth stops paying for added friction, MVIS demonstrates the far side of the frontier, as the five-coin baskets demonstrate the near side. #### Issuer ownership VanEck sells crypto ETPs benchmarked to MarketVector indices. The Bitwise critique applies with corporate distance but identical logic: the measure and the merchandise share a P&L. ### Can the MarketVector Indices be replicated by an investor? The DA 10/25 cuts are implementable but concentrated; the DA 100 is representative but frictional. Again the market is asked to choose between truth and tradability, the choice the CCi30’s design specifically refuses. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/msci-digital-assets/ Crypto index comparison, tier 1 ## MSCI Digital Assets Indexes Alternative: CCi30 vs MSCI Digital Assets Indexes The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the MSCI Digital Assets Indexes. This page reviews the MSCI Global Digital Assets Indexes under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the MSCI Digital Assets Indexes? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the MSCI Digital Assets Indexes 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the MSCI Digital Assets Indexes? MSCI, the dominant global equity index franchise, launched digital asset indexes (initially with Menai Financial Group’s data support) covering broad and thematic cuts, e.g., smart-contract platform baskets, aimed at institutional allocators who already run MSCI equity benchmarks. ### How is the MSCI Digital Assets Indexes built? Screened universes of the largest liquid digital assets, cap-weighted, with MSCI’s characteristic classification overlay (thematic/sector taxonomies) and governance by index committees under its established benchmark policies. Stablecoins excluded. ### Where the MSCI Digital Assets Indexes falls short statistically #### A cautious derivative of everything above MSCI arrived late, with a methodology assembled from the same parts as its rivals: permissioned universe, cap weights, committee oversight, thematic slicing for licensing breadth. It thus inherits every critique already established, Bitcoin-proxy concentration, privacy-coin censorship, backfilled history, while adding its distinctive equity-world habit: classification as product. Thematic indexes (smart contracts, DeFi, etc.) presuppose a stable industrial taxonomy in a market whose categories are two engineering cycles from obsolescence. The CCi30 makes no taxonomic bets; market capitalization is the market’s own classification, revealed by capital rather than declared by analysts. #### Committee risk at scale MSCI’s equity indices have repeatedly shown that committee-governed inclusion (country reclassifications, discretionary treatment) moves billions on judgment calls. Importing that governance into crypto, a market with no securities-law anchor for its judgments, maximizes discretion exactly where discretion is least accountable. ### Can the MSCI Digital Assets Indexes be replicated by an investor? Adequate for the narrow flagship baskets; untested at breadth. MSCI’s crypto assets under tracking remain immaterial next to its equity empire, so index maintenance is a side project of a franchise whose incentives point elsewhere. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/nasdaq-crypto-index/ Crypto index comparison, tier 1 ## Nasdaq Crypto Index Alternative: CCi30 vs Nasdaq Crypto Index The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the Nasdaq Crypto Index. This page reviews the Nasdaq Crypto Index (NCI) under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the Nasdaq Crypto Index? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the Nasdaq Crypto 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the Nasdaq Crypto Index? Launched in February 2021 with Brazilian asset manager Hashdex, the NCI is Nasdaq’s flagship crypto benchmark, designed, in Nasdaq’s own words, to be dynamic, broadly representative, and readily trackable. It now also underpins the Nasdaq CME Crypto Index offering distributed through CME Group, and serves as the benchmark for Hashdex ETFs. ### How is the Nasdaq Crypto Index built? The NCI’s defining feature is its investability screen: an asset qualifies only if it is supported by approved core exchanges and core custodians, institutionally acceptable, largely US-facing infrastructure. Within that filtered universe, weighting is by market capitalization, with periodic reconstitution. ### Where the Nasdaq Crypto Index falls short statistically #### A compliance filter marketed as a methodology The NCI’s central innovation is to let custodians define the asset class. Whatever Coinbase Custody and its peers will hold is the index universe; whatever they won’t, privacy coins above all, does not exist. This is the purest expression of the category error running through all Tier 1 indices: the confusion of what US institutions are permitted to touch with what the cryptocurrency market is. Monero’s exclusion is not a data problem; Monero has deep global liquidity. It is a policy decision, outsourced to custodians, and it means the NCI structurally understates exactly the property, censorship resistance, that gives cryptocurrency its economic meaning. #### Circularity Nasdaq sells listings and market services to the crypto industry; Hashdex sells funds benchmarked to the index it co-created. The benchmark is embedded in the product pipeline it is supposed to measure, a thermometer manufactured by the fever. #### Cap-weighted concentration , again: BTC plus ETH have persistently constituted the overwhelming majority of index weight, making the NCI’s “diverse pool of digital assets” a rounding error away from a two-coin portfolio. ### Can the Nasdaq Crypto Index be replicated by an investor? Excellent, by construction, since the universe is defined by custodial availability. But note what this proves: investability constraints belong in the implementation of a portfolio, not in the definition of a market. The CCi30 keeps these layers separate, the index measures the market; the tracking portfolio handles execution. The NCI collapses them and thereby measures neither well. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/nyxbt-legacy/ Crypto index comparison, tier 3 ## NYXBT and Legacy Indices Alternative: CCi30 vs NYXBT and Legacy Indices The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the NYXBT and Legacy Indices. This page reviews the NYSE Bitcoin Index (NYXBT) and the Single-Asset Legacies under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the NYXBT and Legacy Indices? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the NYXBT and Legacy Indices 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the NYXBT and Legacy Indices? Launched May 2015, NYXBT was the New York Stock Exchange’s daily Bitcoin-USD price index, the first crypto benchmark from a legacy exchange, introduced with the observation that Bitcoin values were becoming a data point institutional customers wanted to follow. It has since faded into irrelevance, superseded by the CME CF and other reference-rate machinery. ### Analysis NYXBT matters as a historical marker, and the marker cuts in the CCi30’s favor. Consider what each institution built in the first half of 2015. The NYSE, with every resource of global finance, produced a once-daily price for a single asset. The CCi30’s founders produced a thirty-asset, smoothed, square-root-weighted, rules-based composite of the entire cryptocurrency market, live from January 1 of that year. One institution treated crypto as a curiosity requiring a quote; the other treated it as an asset class requiring a benchmark. A decade later, the market has ratified the second judgment, and every Tier 1 incumbent now scrambling to assemble broad crypto indices is conceding it. The broader legacy category (early exchange tickers, defunct media indices, the assorted “total market cap” charts on data aggregators) shares two defects worth naming for completeness. First, single-asset series are prices, not indices, see the reference-rate analysis. Second, and worse, the popular aggregator total-market-cap charts (CoinMarketCap, TradingView TOTAL) include stablecoins: hundreds of billions of tokenized fiat sit inside the number people cite as “the crypto market.” A measure of crypto that swells when Tether prints dollars is measuring dollar issuance, the exact monetary phenomenon cryptocurrency exists to escape. It is the one contaminant the CCi30 excluded by principle from day one, and the reason its index level, not an aggregator chart, is the correct time series for the asset class. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/sp-cryptocurrency-indices/ Crypto index comparison, tier 1 ## S&P Crypto Indices Alternative: CCi30 vs S&P Crypto Indices The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the S&P Crypto Indices. This page reviews the S&P Cryptocurrency Indices (Broad Digital Market, LargeCap, Top 10) and the S&P Pantera Digital Asset Index (launched July 2026) under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the S&P Crypto Indices? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the S&P Crypto Indices 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### CCi30 vs S&P Crypto Indices Whole-market representation S&P Crypto Indices Broad on paper; censored universe CCi30 Top 30 by rule, ~90% of true-crypto cap Privacy coins S&P Crypto Indices Excluded in practice CCi30 Included when market cap qualifies Stablecoins S&P Crypto Indices Excluded (adopting CCi30’s founding principle) CCi30 Excluded from inception Weighting S&P Crypto Indices Cap-weighted → BTC-dominated CCi30 Square root of smoothed cap → diversified Smoothing S&P Crypto Indices Point-in-time reviews CCi30 EWMA of market cap Independence S&P Crypto Indices Data-vendor and committee dependence CCi30 Fully rules-based, independent Track record S&P Crypto Indices Live 2021; back-tested before CCi30 Live since Jan 2015 Investability S&P Crypto Indices Tail illiquidity (BDM) or over-concentration (Top 10) CCi30 30 liquid constituents, monthly rebalancing Verdict S&P brought equity-index bureaucracy to crypto and reproduced its worst habit, committee discretion, while importing a censored universe from its vendors. As a brand it is formidable; as a statistical representation of the cryptocurrency market it is a Bitcoin tracker with a compliance filter. The CCi30 dominates it on universe integrity, diversification, and length of live record. The July 2026 S&P Pantera Digital Asset Index, analyzed in the addendum below, extends every one of these failures. ### What is the S&P Crypto Indices? S&P Dow Jones Indices entered crypto in 2021 with a family spanning single-asset indices (Bitcoin, Ethereum), a Top 10 basket, LargeCap and MegaCap cuts, and its broadest measure, the S&P Cryptocurrency Broad Digital Market (BDM) Index. Pricing is supplied by Lukka; governance follows the committee-plus-methodology model S&P uses in equities. In July 2026 the family was joined by the S&P Pantera Digital Asset Index, a revenue-screened product co-branded with active manager Pantera Capital, analyzed in the addendum below. ### How is the S&P Crypto Indices built? Constituents must satisfy eligibility screens that go well beyond market capitalization: they must trade on approved venues, meet liquidity thresholds, and, decisively, be supported by S&P’s pricing partner and satisfy custody and compliance considerations. Weighting is by float-adjusted market capitalization. Stablecoins are excluded from the headline market indices. ### Where the S&P Crypto Indices falls short statistically #### Universe censorship is the fatal flaw The BDM’s universe is defined not by the market but by what Lukka prices and what S&P’s committee deems suitable. Privacy coins are conspicuous casualties: Monero, persistently a top-tier cryptocurrency by capitalization and the most-used private digital cash in existence, does not appear, because US-facing data vendors and custodians have blacklisted it. The result is an index of approved crypto. Whatever that measures, it is not the cryptocurrency market. A measurement instrument that inherits the political preferences of its data vendor has surrendered its claim to objectivity before the first data point is published. #### Cap-weighting produces a Bitcoin proxy With BTC routinely 55–70% of eligible capitalization, the BDM and its LargeCap siblings move almost one-for-one with Bitcoin. An investor who wants Bitcoin exposure can buy Bitcoin at lower cost and zero methodology risk; an investor who wants market exposure gets, in a cap-weighted index, mostly Bitcoin anyway. The index answers a question nobody asked. #### Backfilled history The indices launched in 2021 with hypothetical back-tested data, and S&P’s own disclosures state that back-tested performance is constructed with hindsight and “may be considered to reflect survivor/look-ahead bias.” The CCi30 needs no such disclaimer: its record from January 2015 forward is live calculation under pre-committed rules, through the 2018 and 2022 winters. #### The Dow irony S&P Dow Jones Indices is the custodian of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the 30-component benchmark that has defined market measurement since 1896. Thirty is the number its own house validated across a century of regimes, and it is the number the CCi30 independently derived as the statistical optimum for crypto: the minimum count for statistical significance (99% confidence, 1.11% margin of error), the maximum before the liquidity cliff. Yet S&P’s crypto shelf leads with a Top 10, a count its own flagship’s history implicitly rejects, and a BDM whose breadth extends past the point where added constituents add anything but friction. The firm that owns the precedent declined to apply it. ### Can the S&P Crypto Indices be replicated by an investor? The BDM contains a long tail of small constituents whose inclusion serves completeness of headline coverage but makes full replication costly, while the Top 10 is too narrow to diversify. Neither strikes the balance the CCi30’s 30-constituent design achieves: ~90% capitalization coverage of true cryptocurrencies with every position liquid enough to trade. ### What is the S&P Pantera Digital Asset Index? (Addendum, July 2026) On 21 July 2026, S&P Dow Jones Indices and Pantera Capital, an active digital-asset manager with more than $3 billion under management, launched the S&P Pantera Digital Asset Index, promoted as a “fundamentals-driven, economics-based” benchmark. The launch announcement positions the index against benchmarks focused on “popular tokens (including meme coins or Bitcoin).” Read that phrase twice: the world leading index provider has placed Bitcoin, the monetary base of the entire asset class, in the same category as meme coins. The methodology document, read alongside the marketing, is a case study in every failure this page has catalogued, now committed to writing. #### The category error is the foundation Eligibility requires “positive aggregate revenue over the two most recently completed fiscal quarters,” with selection ranked by protocol revenue. This applies equity valuation logic to monetary assets. Money does not generate revenue; that is not a defect of money, it is the definition of money. Gold has produced no cash flow in five thousand years, and no serious analyst concludes gold lacks fundamentals; its fundamentals are scarcity, durability, and neutrality: monetary properties, not income statements. A framework under which Bitcoin and Dogecoin land in the same disqualified bucket is not measuring fundamentals; it is confessing it cannot recognize them. Note also the phrase “fiscal quarters”: blockchain protocols do not have fiscal quarters. Companies do. The vocabulary betrays the transplant. #### The methodology disclaims its own thesis In the words of S&P itself, protocol-level revenue “does not imply assumptions about investor returns or cash flows.” The index selects on a metric its administrator formally warns means nothing for investors. The marketing says fundamentals; the fine print says indicator of activity, no more. Both cannot be true. #### The constituent count is unbounded downward Selection proceeds by revenue rank until 99% of aggregate universe revenue is captured, and because protocol revenue follows a steep power law, that threshold is reached with a handful of names. The methodology itself contemplates the floor: “If fewer than five constituents qualify under this rule, select the five eligible constituents with the highest aggregate revenue.” An index designed in the knowledge it may hold five assets, one-sixth of the statistically significant count, published by the custodian of the 30-component Dow. #### Weighting: two tourniquets where one formula belongs Adjusted-cap weighting with an iterated capping algorithm: largest constituent capped at 35%, then every other constituent capped at 20%, redistributing repeatedly until the caps hold. This is a discontinuous, path-dependent weight function whose kinks are set by committee taste. The CCi30 square-root transform achieves diversification with one continuous, published function and zero arbitrary thresholds. #### The censorship criterion, finally in writing The Index Committee, composed solely of S&P employees and whose “discussions are confidential”, “reserves the right in its sole discretion” to remove any asset over “legal, regulatory or practical concern,” with an enumerated example: “inclusion of privacy features that may pose anti-money laundering concerns.” For years, providers excluded privacy coins through vendor and custody screens and called it methodology. S&P has now printed the policy: privacy is grounds for expulsion, decided in secret. We are grateful for the candor. An index that reserves the right to eject assets for the crime of functioning as cash is not measuring the cryptocurrency market; it is administering it. #### Conflicts, layered Pantera is an active manager in the assets the index selects, and the launch materials state the index is designed as a reference “for managers who actively pick digital assets,” a benchmark engineered to flatter active selection. S&P Global, meanwhile, discloses that it is an investor in Lukka, the pricing vendor of the index, whose representatives “may provide consultative services to the Index Committee.” The administrator holds equity in its data source, which advises the committee, which meets in confidence. That is not a governance framework; it is a closed loop. #### Backfill, again Launch date 20 July 2026; first value date 18 June 2021: five years of hypothetical history, accompanied by the standard S&P admission that back-tested rules “may be relaxed” and results “may be considered to reflect survivor/look ahead bias.” The CCi30 record contains zero back-tested days. #### The detail that says everything “The indices calculate Monday through Friday, with no market holidays.” A benchmark for an asset class that trades every hour of every day of the year, yet closed on weekends. The equity-index template was not adapted to crypto; crypto was amputated to fit the template. One further inconsistency: the launch announcement says the index includes “tokens and companies,” while the methodology defines a universe of digital assets only, drawn from the S&P Broad Digital Asset Index. Either the marketing describes an instrument the methodology does not define, or an equity hybrid is planned but undocumented. For a firm whose brand is measurement discipline, the sponsors appear not to have benchmarked their press release against their own rulebook. #### Verdict on the S&P Pantera Digital Asset Index The S&P Pantera index is not a market benchmark and does not claim to be one under examination: it is a sector strategy, “the productive blockchain economy” in the Pantera phrase, co-branded with an active manager, governed by a confidential committee, priced by a vendor its administrator part-owns, and premised on the doctrine that money without cash flow is indistinguishable from a joke token. As a strategy index it will find licensees. As a measurement of the cryptocurrency market it refutes itself on page one. The CCi30 remains what this index conspicuously is not: whole-market, uncensored, mathematically weighted, conflict-free, and live since 2015. ### 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. For the S&P Pantera Digital Asset Index, see the launch announcement (spglobal.com, 21 July 2026) and the index methodology (S&P Dow Jones Indices, July 2026). --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/single-asset-reference-rates/ Crypto index comparison, tier 2 ## Single-Asset Reference Rates Alternative: CCi30 vs Single-Asset Reference Rates The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the Single-Asset Reference Rates. This page reviews the Single-Asset Reference Rates (CME CF BRR, Nasdaq CME Crypto rates, XBX, ETHX, et al.) under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the Single-Asset Reference Rates? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the Single-Asset Reference Rates 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What they are The institutional plumbing of crypto: once-daily or real-time fixings for individual assets, CME CF’s BRR settling CME futures, Nasdaq CME Crypto Indices’ asset rates and ratio indices (e.g., the Ether/Bitcoin ratio), CoinDesk’s XBX, FT Wilshire’s blended and settlement price library. ### Analysis These are prices, not indices of a market, and the persistent institutional habit of calling them “indices” manufactures confusion this page exists to dispel. A reference rate answers what is one bitcoin worth? with admirable rigor. It cannot answer what did the cryptocurrency market do?, the question every allocator, risk model, and performance report actually needs answered, and the question only a broad, weighted, rules-based composite like the CCi30 addresses. The two instruments are complements: the CCi30 could consume any of these fixings as inputs. They are not competitors, and any institution benchmarking a diversified mandate to a single-asset rate has substituted a component for the system. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/six-cmi10/ Crypto index comparison, tier 4 ## SIX Crypto Market Index 10 Alternative: CCi30 vs SIX Crypto Market Index 10 The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the SIX Crypto Market Index 10. This page reviews the SIX Crypto Market Index 10 under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the SIX Crypto Market Index 10? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the SIX Crypto Market Index 10 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the SIX Crypto Market Index 10? The Swiss stock exchange’s in-house benchmark: the ten largest, most liquid crypto assets, cap-weighted, serving as underlying for structured products listed on SIX. ### Where the SIX Crypto Market Index 10 falls short statistically An exchange that lists crypto ETPs, collects their listing fees, and operates the venue where they trade also defines the benchmark many of them track. The conflict is structural and familiar by now (Kraken/CF, Bullish/CoinDesk, Binance/CMC, Nasdaq); the Swiss regulatory wrapper changes the jurisdiction, not the incentive. At n=10 the index fails statistical significance as a market estimator, and its universe is bounded by SIX’s own product-approval pipeline, permission, again, masquerading as measurement. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/tokenized-thematics/ Crypto index comparison, tier 4 ## Tokenized Thematic Indices Alternative: CCi30 vs Tokenized Thematic Indices The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the Tokenized Thematic Indices. This page reviews the Tokenized On-Chain Thematic Indices: DeFi Pulse Index (Index Coop), Metaverse Index, PieDAO, sDEFI, et al. under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the Tokenized Thematic Indices? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the Tokenized Thematic Indices 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What they are DeFi-native “index” tokens: smart-contract portfolios (the DeFi Pulse Index being the most successful) whose composition is set by governance-token vote or methodologist proposal, tradeable as single ERC-20 tokens, covering themes, DeFi, metaverse, yield strategies. ### Analysis Three compounding disqualifications. Thematic, not market: a DeFi basket measures a sector narrative, not the asset class. Governed, not ruled: composition decided by token-holder vote is discretion with extra steps, the electorate holds the assets it votes on, formalizing the conflict of interest other providers at least conceal. Token-wrapped: the C20 problem again, instrument and benchmark collapsed, with the token’s market price free to diverge from portfolio value, plus smart-contract risk no mandate can underwrite. As DeFi experiments in packaging, some are genuinely clever; as benchmarks they were never candidates. Most have bled assets and relevance since 2021. ### 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. --- # Page: https://cci30.com/crypto-indices-comparison/vinter/ Crypto index comparison, tier 2 ## Vinter Indices Alternative: CCi30 vs Vinter Indices The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index is the rules-based alternative to the Vinter Indices. This page reviews the Vinter Indices under the eight-criterion CCi30 test and compares both indices on universe, weighting, independence, track record, and investability. ### What is the alternative to the Vinter Indices? The CCi30 Cryptocurrency Index replaces the Vinter Indices 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 See the CCi30 basket for any amount · All comparisons ### What is the Vinter Indices? Vinter is a Swedish regulated index provider (“the #1 choice for ETF and ETP issuers in Europe,” by its own description) supplying single-asset and multi-asset indices, Vinter 10 variants, equal-weighted baskets, and co-branded strategy indices such as the Vinter CF Crypto Momentum (weighting by active addresses and momentum, 15% caps, 2% floors) and Web3 indices (weighting blending market cap, momentum, and social-media interest) built with Crypto Finance (Deutsche Börse). ### How is the Vinter Indices built? Client-driven: Vinter manufactures bespoke rule sets to issuer specification, equal weight, momentum, on-chain activity, social sentiment, thematic screens, each rebalanced on its own schedule under Swedish/EU benchmark regulation. ### Where the Vinter Indices falls short statistically #### An index factory is not an index Vinter’s business model is the manufacture of benchmarks to order. Whatever the professionalism of execution, a made-to-measure benchmark inverts the epistemic relationship: the product defines the measure, rather than the measure disciplining the product. When an issuer wants a “Web3 momentum social-interest index,” Vinter builds one, and its back-test, chosen during design, will flatter it (Vinter’s own analysts candidly note that including the in-sample design period would make performance “look too good”). Rules-basedy about the problem does not dissolve it. #### Weighting by social-media interest deserves specific attention as the reductio of discretionary index design. Market capitalization is the aggregated judgment of everyone risking capital; social-media volume is the aggregated output of everyone risking nothing. Building portfolio weights on the latter converts an index into a sentiment-chasing strategy, legitimate as a strategy, disqualifying as a benchmark. The CCi30 weights by a fixed transform of the market’s own valuation and nothing else. #### Strategy indices are hypotheses, not measurements Momentum and active-address weightings encode falsifiable bets. Bets belong in funds. An index that embeds a bet cannot serve as the neutral yardstick against which the bet is judged, the function the CCi30 has performed, unchanged, since 2015. ### Can the Vinter Indices be replicated by an investor? Fine at the product level; that is the business. But each bespoke index lives only as long as its sponsoring ETP, so the family offers no durable market standard, the survivorship graveyard of custom crypto indices is already large. ### 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.