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S&P + KAIKO JUST GAVE CRYPTO A BIGGER WALL STREET STAMP.

S&P Dow Jones Indices and Kaiko have just announced the S&P Kaiko Digital Asset Indices — a set of digital asset indices with a shared brand.

Notable points:

• Combines S&P DJI’s existing crypto indices with Kaiko’s benchmarks and multi-asset indices.
• Covers more than 4,000 reference levels and indices related to digital assets.
• Kaiko handles crypto data infrastructure + market expertise.
• S&P DJI handles licensing, global distribution, and benchmark administration.
• Financial products that currently use Kaiko benchmarks can switch to the S&P Kaiko brand.

But the most important thing isn’t the addition of yet another index set.

This is a sign that crypto is being pulled deeper into benchmarking and TradFi’s financial infrastructure.

From:

Crypto index → Institutional benchmark → Financial products → Wall Street rails.

I think the next step is what’s really worth watching: as these benchmarks see wider adoption, crypto will increasingly look less like a “off-system” market and more like a standardized asset class for institutional capital flows.

Wall Street didn’t ape into crypto.
They just gave it a spreadsheet and called it a benchmark. 💀

Do you think S&P Kaiko could become the standard benchmark for institutional crypto products in the next few years?

#crypto #bitcoin #Kaiko #SPDJI #DigitalAssets