FTSE Russell and Crypto Insights Group Partner to Bring Digital Asset Indices to the CIG Platform
NEW YORK, NY (July 15, 2026) – FTSE Russell and Crypto Insights Group (CIG) today announced a new collaboration to bring a selection of FTSE Russell’s institutional-grade digital asset indices onto the CIG platform. The integration expands the range of benchmark data available to allocators evaluating and monitoring digital asset strategies.
The indices now available to CIG users include:
• FTSE Crypto 10 ex Bitcoin Select Index
• FTSE Crypto US Listed Index
• FTSE Digital Asset Bitcoin Ethereum Index (4pmEST)
• FTSE Digi50 Index (4pm EST)
• FTSE Bitcoin Index (1HR 4pm EST)
• FTSE Ethereum Index (1HR 4pm EST)
• FTSE Hyperliquid Index (1HR 4pm EST)
These indices are designed to provide transparent, rules-based benchmarks across key areas of the digital asset market, supporting institutional investors, asset managers, and advisory platforms in assessing strategy performance and mandate alignment.
As the digital asset landscape continues to mature, allocators are placing greater emphasis on benchmarking frameworks that reflect how strategies are actually constructed and deployed. This integration is intended to support that shift by embedding institutional-quality reference points directly into the diligence and monitoring workflow.
“Allocators are increasingly focused on understanding not just returns, but how those returns are generated relative toa defined benchmark,” said Kristen Mierzwa, Head of Digital Assets at FTSE Russell. “By making FTSE Digital Asset Indices available through CIG, we’re helping bring greater clarity and consistency to how digital asset strategies are evaluated across the institutional landscape.”
“At Crypto Insights Group, one of the most common challenges we hear from both allocators and managers is the difficulty in identifying benchmarks that accurately reflect a strategy’s mandate,” said Andy Martinez, Founder and CEO of Crypto Insights Group. “Integrating FTSE Russell’s indices into the platform allows us to continue building out a benchmarking layer that aligns with how institutions actually allocate capital across digital asset strategies.”
The addition of FTSE Russell’s index data further enhances CIG’s broader objective of standardizing how digital asset strategies are analyzed, compared, and monitored over time. By incorporating these benchmarks directly into manager profiles and analytics, users can more effectively contextualize performance within a structured, institutional framework.
Crypto Insights Group users will be able to access the indices directly within the platform, alongside existing performance data and diligence materials. Additional details, including full index methodologies and licensing information, will be available through FTSE Russell.
For additional information, please reach out: team@cryptoinsightsgroup.com
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About Crypto Insights Group
Crypto Insights Group is a research and intelligence platform serving institutional allocators investing in digital assets. The platform provides manager discovery, due diligence, benchmarking, and ongoing monitoring across the digital asset manager universe, helping institutions evaluate, select, and oversee external investment managers. In addition to its platform, Crypto Insights Group publishes institutional research, develops performance and peer benchmarks, and provides operational due diligence services, supporting a more transparent and standardized institutional digital asset ecosystem.
For more information, get in touch here.
About FTSE Russell, an LSEG business
FTSE Russell, LSEG’s global index leader, provides innovative benchmarking, analytics and data solutions for investors worldwide. FTSE Russell calculates thousands of indexes that measure and benchmark markets and asset classes in more than 70 countries, covering 98% of the investable market globally.
FTSE Russell index expertise and products are used extensively by institutional and retail investors globally. Approximately $20 trillion is benchmarked to FTSE Russell indexes. Leading asset owners, asset managers, ETF providers and investment banks choose FTSE Russell indexes to benchmark their investment performance and create ETFs, structured products and index-based derivatives.
A core set of universal principles guides FTSE Russell index design and management: a transparent rules-based methodology is informed by independent committees of leading market participants. FTSE Russell is focused on applying the highest industry standards in index design and governance and embraces the IOSCO Principles. FTSE Russell is also focused on index innovation and customer partnerships as it seeks to enhance the breadth, depth and reach of its offering.
For more information, visit FTSE Russell.
