CF Benchmarks Brings TradFi Index Pricing Onchain via CFB Oracle

CF Benchmarks, the Kraken parent Payward-owned firm whose indices underpin BlackRock‘s bitcoin exchange-traded fund and CME Group’s crypto futures, has launched CFB Oracle, a service that makes its benchmarks for cryptocurrencies, stocks, bonds, commodities and currencies available to blockchain-based applications. The service is live on Ethereum, HyperEVM and Robinhood Chain, with additional networks planned.

The practical case for CFB Oracle rests on infrastructure that tokenised finance currently lacks at scale: authoritative, tamper-evident reference prices for assets held or traded onchain. A tokenised equity fund needs reliable net asset value calculation; a lending platform accepting tokenised bonds as collateral needs liquidation triggers it can trust. CF Benchmarks already supplies this type of data to products representing more than 120 billion dollars in assets across traditional markets, and CFB Oracle ports that same pricing layer to decentralised applications without requiring developers to build their own systems.

Payward itself has a named use case in the pipeline: it intends to use CFB Oracle to power a US perpetual futures product built on Hyperliquid, though that offering is still awaiting regulatory approval. The launch places CF Benchmarks in direct competition with established onchain data providers including Chainlink and Pyth. CF Benchmarks differentiates on two points: digital signatures that let applications verify data provenance and integrity, and a uniform publication frequency across all customers rather than a tiered speed model.