Results of the ixCrypto Index Series Quarterly Review (2024 Q3)

HONG KONG, CHINA, October 11, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Today, IX Asia Indexes announced the 2024 3rd quarter review of ixCrypto² Index Series and IX Digital Asset Industry Index Series. The constituent changes will be effective on 18th October 2024 (Friday). The results of the constituent review and exchange review are as follows:

1. Constituent Review – ixCrypto Index Series

1.1. ixCrypto Index (“IXCI”)
The number of constituents decreased to 19 with no addition and 6 deletions.

Addition
No addition

Deletion
1. Internet Computer
2. Ethereum Classic
3. Render
4. Hedera
5. Mantle
6. Cosmos

After the change, the free float adjusted market capitalization coverage is 81.26%*, while the 90-day-average volume is 78.68%* (excluding stable coin which has 7.39% of the total crypto¹ universe). The constituents change above and recapping at 40% will be effective on 18 October 2024 (Friday).

Since the last review, there has been a decrease in the crypto total market capitalization from USD2.42tn to 2.17tn (-10.24%)#, and a decrease in the daily volume from USD78.56bn to 71.42bn (-7.34%)#. Bitcoin remains as the largest crypto in the constituent list, with its price has increased by 7.80% since the last review.
 
1.2. ixCrypto Portfolio Indexes

1.2.1. ixCrypto 5 Equal Weight Index (“IXEW5”) and ixCrypto 5 Square Root Index (“IXSR5”)

Addition
No addition

Deletion
No deletion

1.2.2. ixCrypto 10 Equal Weight Index (“IXEW10”) and ixCrypto 10 Square Root Index (“IXSR10”).

Addition
No addition

Deletion
No deletion

1.2.3. ixCrypto Altcoin 10 EW Index (“IXAEW10”) and ixCrypto Altcoin 10 SR Index (“IXASR10”).

Addition
No addition

Deletion
No deletion

1.3. ixCrypto BTC/ETH Indexes

There has been no constituent change to ixCrypto BTC/ETH 5050 Index (“IX5050”) and ixCrypto BTC/ETH Proportional Index (“IXPI”) since their launch on 9th May 2024

2. Constituent Review- IX Digital Asset Industry Index Series
2.1 ixCrypto Stablecoin Index

The number of constituents will remain unchanged. Stable coin comprises 7.39% of the total crypto universe, and ixCrypto Stablecoin Index covers around 98.80% of the 90-day average market capitalization in stablecoin universe.

Addition
No addition

Deletion
No deletion

2.2 ixCrypto Infrastructure Index

The number of constituents will remain unchanged as 21 constituents.

Addition
No addition

Deletion
No deletion

3. Exchange Review

As a result of exchange review, 10 exchanges passed the review process, which are as follows:

Passed Exchanges*
1. Binance
2. WhiteBIT (New)
3. Huobi Global
4. OKX
5. Coinbase Advanced##
6. Gate.io
7. P2B
8. BitGet
9. DigiFinex
10. Upbit

*While MEXC passed the volume coverage criteria and ranked 23, Hong Kong SFC has issued a warning against MEXC, so MEXC was excluded.
##Coinbase changed its name to Coinbase Advanced in Q2 2024

Removed Exchanges
1. Bitrue

The selected 10 exchanges will be taken to generate each of the fair average prices for the IX indexes’ constituents. The exchange review covers volume rankings, exchange background checking, founders’ background checking, USDT/USDC/BTC pairs coverage, overconcentration rules, exchange API coverage checking and stability etc for an exchange.

For more details about our exchange selection criteria, please email info@ix-index.com

More details about the ixCrypto index, including their constituents, constituents’ weight are provided in the Appendices, or refer to the website https://ix-index.com/

*Exclude stable coins and exchange coins (based on conflict of interest rule methodology effective Oct 2, 2020)
#As of 30 September 2024, based on past 90 days average

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For further enquiries, please contact:

Irene Wong +852 3595 3631
irene.wong@ix-index.com

Owen Zhao +852 3595 3638
owen.zhao@ixfintech.com

About IX Asia Indexes and IX Asia Index Advisory Committee

IX Capital International Limited is an award-winning index and investment advisory company. The index business arm- IX Asia Indexes, providing real-time digital asset and innovative indexes, disseminated 24x7 globally and built on robust infrastructure. Since the launch of the first crypto benchmark index (“IXCI”) launched in Hong Kong in December 2018, the ixCrypto index series expand into 29 indexes designed for exchange futures product, mark to market and fund managers’ portfolio construction purposes. To ensure the professionality and impartiality of the index methodologies and operations, IX Asia Indexes has established its index advisory committee with representation from different industries, including fund management, exchanges, brokerage, financial blockchain experts, crypto service providers, etc. The committee will meet quarterly a year to discuss matters relating to the IX Asia Indexes, including to review and to comment the data sources, methodologies, and operations of IX Asia Indexes, to provide guidance to the future development of new IX Asia Indexes and to handle other issues and decisions on an as-needed basis.

IX Asia Indexes was awarded the Fintech Award (wealth investment and management) 2019 and 2021 organised by ETNet. It as well won an award for Startup of the Year and Basic Technology (Big Data) from Hong Kong Fintech Impetus Awards 2022 by Metro Broadcast and KPMG. It also won Asia Pacific Enterprise Achievement Award 2024 by Echolade. IX Asia Indexes completed its IOSCO compliance statement and obtained ISO/IEC 27001:2013 UKAS certification.

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Advisory Committee: https://www.ix-index.com/committee.html

About IX Crypto Indexes

The ixCrypto index (“IXCI”) is the first crypto index launched in Hong Kong. It was launched on 12 December 2018. It is denominated in USD with a base value of 1000 and a base date on 3 December 2018. Designed to be easy to understand while providing a good representation of the crypto market, ixCrypto index aims to cover the top 80% of the cumulative free-float adjusted market capitalization in the crypto universe and, at the same time, the crypto currencies should fall within the top liquid cryptos ranked by trading volume in the 90 days preceding the review date. The index is to be reviewed quarterly and with a fast entry rule. Real time indexes are disseminated every 5-second for 24x7 since 23 June 2022. Real time index data together with ixBitcoin Index and ixEthereum Index can be obtained from IX Asia Indexes Data Services and Bloomberg terminal on IXCI <GO>. For IXCI, IXBI and IXEI, the indexes are also available through Nasdaq Global Index Data Service (GIDS) with the tickers “IXCI”, “IXBI”, “IXEI”, with dissemination interval kept at 15-second unchanged.

 

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