The Russian Stock Exchange – monopolist said that from June 10 it would begin to publish the significance of the new Mosbirzhi PFI Bitcoin index – an indicator based on the weighted average price of futures for the first cryptocurrency.

The Moscow Exchange reported that the index (MOEXBTC code) will be updated daily at 12:30 Moscow time. To calculate the index, the prices of unlimited futures and swaps for a couple of BTC/USDT are used with crypto -tank Binance, BYBIT, OKX and BITGET.

The index is a weighted average value of prices, taking into account the weight coefficients of selected sites, which are calculated on the basis of trading volumes of tracked tools and will be reviewed on a quarterly. In the future, the indicator can be used as a basic asset for financial instruments, Mosbirzh said.

Earlier, the managing director of the derivatives market of Mosbirzhi Maria Patrikeeva said that already during the first day the volumes of bitcoin futures exceeded 420 million rubles, 8570 transactions were concluded, and the number of customers was 4137.