Moscow Exchange Launches Bitcoin Index Calculation and Publication

Starting from June 10, 2025, the Moscow Exchange will introduce the calculation and publication of a new Bitcoin MOEX Index, identified by the code MOEXBTC. This index will be based on the prices of perpetual futures and swaps for the BTCUSDT pair sourced from four major cryptocurrency platforms: Binance, Bybit, OKX, and Bitget.

«The index will be determined as a weighted average of prices, accounting for the weight coefficients assigned to the selected trading platforms. These coefficients will be calculated based on the trading volumes of the monitored instruments and will be updated quarterly,» the Moscow Exchange stated on its website.

The index will be computed daily at 12:30 PM Moscow time. The calculation methodology is available on the Moscow Exchange’s website.

Last month, the Central Bank of Russia notably included Bitcoin among other financial market instruments in terms of their returns in its April ‘Financial Market Risk Overview’.

According to Frank Media and data from the Central Bank of Russia, Bitcoin exhibited the highest returns compared to other assets, achieving 11% in April 2025, 38% over the past year, and 121% over three years since 2022. However, Bitcoin’s performance since the beginning of this year has been among the lowest: it has dropped by 18.6%, with only dollar deposits (-19.4%) and the American S&P 500 index (-24.1%) performing worse.