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The Moscow Exchange will commence the calculation of indices for four cryptocurrencies., 2026/05/04 12:57:47
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The Moscow Exchange plans to begin calculating and publishing indices that reflect the performance of four cryptocurrencies starting May 13: Solana (ticker MOEXSOL), Ripple (MOEXXRP), Tron (MOEXTRX), and Binance Coin (MOEXBNB).
To compute the indices for these foreign digital currencies, the exchange intends to utilize data from four cryptocurrency exchanges, taking into account their share of the total trading volume:
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50% of the data will be sourced from Binance;
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20% will come from Bybit;
- 15% each will be derived from OKX and Bitget.
In the future, these indicators may serve as underlying assets for new financial instruments, according to the Moscow Exchange.
Starting May 13, the frequency of calculations for all digital currency indices, including the existing MOEXBTC for Bitcoin and MOEXETH for Ethereum, will also change. Values will now be updated every 15 seconds throughout the trading day and during additional weekend sessions, the exchange promises. Currently, cryptocurrency indices are calculated once a day, with results published no later than 18:00 Moscow time.
The Moscow Exchange has announced plans to expand the number of cryptocurrency benchmarks to ten. The preliminary list will include indices for Dogecoin (MOEXDOGE), Cardano (MOEXADA), Hyperliquid (MOEXHYPE), and Chainlink (MOEXLINK).
All cryptocurrency instruments are available exclusively to professional investors.
Previously, Maria Silkina, the chief manager of the exchange’s derivatives product group, indicated that the exchange intends to offer perpetual futures on Bitcoin and Ethereum in the future. A futures contract is a derivative financial instrument in which the seller agrees to sell, and the buyer agrees to purchase, an asset at a predetermined price within a specified timeframe. In a cash-settled futures contract, profit or loss is determined by the difference between the contract price and the execution price.
The opportunity to trade instruments tracking cryptocurrency performance became available in Russia in May 2025, when the Bank of Russia permitted financial organizations to offer professional investors derivative financial instruments, securities, and digital assets linked to cryptocurrency prices, provided that such instruments do not entail the actual delivery of digital currencies.
By November of last year, the Moscow Exchange launched trading for several such instruments, including futures on the Moscow Exchange Bitcoin index (BTC) and the Moscow Exchange Ethereum index (ETH), as well as the iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) ETF, which tracks the price of Bitcoin, and the iShares Ethereum Trust (ETHA) ETF, which tracks the price of the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.
The leading Russian trading platform anticipates that it will commence trading in cryptocurrencies directly by the beginning of 2027.
