CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: AVAX and NEAR Lead as Index Gains 2.2%
Avalanche surged 6% and NEAR posted a 4.6% increase as all but one asset recorded gains.
Updated Aug 20, 2024, 1:44 p.m. Published Aug 20, 2024, 1:44 p.m.
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.
The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 1946.9, up 2.2% (+41.65) since yesterday's close.
Nineteen of 20 assets are trading higher.
Leaders: AVAX (+6.0%) and NEAR (+4.6%).
Laggards: LTC (-1.2%) and XRP (+0.2%).
The CoinDesk 20 is a broad-based index traded on multiple platforms in several regions globally.
Tracy Stephens
Tracy Stephens is Senior Index Manager at CoinDesk Indices, where she works to maintain the high standards of robustness and rigor of systematic trading found in traditional finance in index and data products. Before transitioning into crypto, she built systematic macro-trading strategies as a quantitative researcher at Alliance Bernstein, one of the largest asset managers in the U.S., and at Citibank. Tracy holds a Bachelor's degree in Math from Barnard College and a Master's degree in Data Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
