S&P Global launches Digital Markets 50, a groundbreaking index combining 15 cryptocurrencies and 35 blockchain-related company stocks, marking the official integration of crypto into Wall Street standards.
In partnership with Dinari, the index reflects the joint performance of traditional and digital financial markets, with a strict methodology and quarterly rebalancing.
Dinari plans to tokenize the index on its dShares platform by the end of 2025, paving the way for a new generation of hybrid financial products combining stocks and crypto assets.
50 assets to represent the new digital economy
The index brings together 15 major cryptocurrencies and 35 stocks of companies involved in blockchain infrastructure, financial services, and decentralized applications. Each asset is limited to 5% of the total, ensuring a balance between industry giants and emerging players. To be included, companies must exceed $100 million in market capitalization, and cryptos $300 million, eliminating overly volatile projects to retain only the strongest ones.
S&P applies the same governance and quarterly rebalancing rules here as for its traditional indices. In other words, crypto officially enters the big league, with the same standards as Wall Street.
A gateway between financial markets and digital assets
This new index was developed with Dinari, a company specializing in tokenized securities. The goal is to offer investors a clear measure of the combined performance between the crypto market and the companies driving it.
Crypto assets have left the sidelines to establish themselves in the global economy.
Cameron Drinkwater, Chief Product Officer at S&P Dow Jones Indices
From New York to Singapore, investors are incorporating them into their growth and diversification strategies.
With this launch, S&P Global completes its range of digital tools, already composed of the S&P Cryptocurrency Indices, laying the groundwork for a lasting bridge between traditional finance and on-chain markets.
Towards a tokenized index
Dinari plans to make the index investable via a token on its dShares platform by the end of the year. This product will offer, for the first time, direct and transparent access to a basket combining US stocks and crypto assets.
We are not just tokenizing an index: we are showing how blockchain can modernize financial standards.
Anna Wroblewska, Chief Business Officer at Dinari
This statement illustrates the convergence between traditional infrastructures and decentralized finance.
Tokenization: the train moving at full speed
Coinbase, Gemini, Kraken, and Robinhood are already developing their offerings of tokenized stocks. For Vlad Tenev, CEO of Robinhood, the movement is unstoppable: “Tokenization is a train moving at full speed. It will eventually engulf the entire financial system.”
With the S&P Digital Markets 50, the most symbolic index in global finance confirms one thing: the boundary between stocks and crypto is becoming increasingly blurred.
