Indexing Innovation: Defining and Measuring the Digital Asset Market
summary
CoinDesk’s Digital Asset Classification Standard DAX maps the top 500 tokens into 36 industries, 23 industry groups and six sectors and updates assignments on the 15th monthly; market-cap weights concentrate the market (Bitcoin + Ether >60%, top 10 = 80%, top 50 = 93%, top 100 = 96%). FTSE Russell vets 318 eligible tokens with 21 criteria (resulting in 318 eligible / 43 EU BMR compliant), Bloomberg rebalances monthly with a three-month stability buffer, and practical problems flagged include taxonomy blurring, exclusion lists (XRP removed during SEC action), contango on futures ETFs, and multi-index data discrepancies.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:00Why choosing the right benchmark matters
- 2:13Sector exposures
- 4:11Sector funds
- 5:06Sectors and media
- 5:33What drove it
- 6:35Risk profile
- 8:51Takeaways
- 10:55Governance and Policy
- 15:18Asset Classes
- 16:58Challenges
- 21:52Underlying indices
- 26:29Disaster scenarios
- 27:50Lessons learned
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