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It is reported that the Hong Kong Stock Exchange officially launched the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Virtual Asset Index Series on November 15, 2024 Beijing time. This move has a symbolic significance in the development of Hong Kong's finance.

As an emerging asset class, virtual assets have always attracted much attention, but they lack a unified and reliable benchmark price, resulting in large price differences between exchanges around the world, causing many inconveniences to investors and causing certain instability in the market. The virtual asset index series launched by the Hong Kong Stock Exchange this time can provide a reliable benchmark price for virtual assets, which is expected to change this situation and help Hong Kong move towards Asia's leading digital asset center.

It is worth mentioning that this index series is the first virtual asset index series developed by Hong Kong that complies with the European Benchmark Regulation (BMR). This undoubtedly greatly enhances the authority and recognition of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in the global financial market, and puts Hong Kong's development in the field of virtual assets at a new starting point with high standards and strict requirements.

From the perspective of index composition, it includes reference indices and reference exchange rates for Bitcoin and Ethereum. The reference index is based on the benchmark spot price weighted by the 24-hour trading volume of Bitcoin or Ethereum, and is calculated based on the aggregated market prices of several major virtual asset exchanges, and can also be denominated in US dollars in real time; the reference exchange rate is designed for the settlement of financial products and will be calculated at 16:00 Beijing time every day.

It can be said that this move by the Hong Kong Stock Exchange will not only help improve market transparency and reduce the possibility of market manipulation, fraud and other bad behaviors, but will also attract more capital to flow into Hong Kong's virtual asset ecosystem, injecting strong momentum into its healthy and orderly development. I believe that in the future, this virtual asset index series will continue to play an important role, and we will continue to pay attention to its impact.