Baselight has officially partnered with CoinDesk Indices and CoinDesk Data to bring trusted digital asset benchmarks, rates, and market pricing data into a fully composable analytics environment.

This integration provides users with transparent, structured access to the crypto market’s most referenced indices, token trading data, and onchain financial rates.

CoinDesk Indices is a recognized leader in digital asset indices and pricing, relied upon by fund managers, exchanges, trading desks, and structured product issuers across the globe. With Baselight, these indices are now accessible through a live, query-native interface, allowing users to explore, analyze, and integrate benchmark data into custom strategies, dashboards, and workflows.

This collaboration simplifies how analysts and investors engage with digital asset benchmarks. Instead of relying on closed feeds or siloed tools, users can now interact with CoinDesk Data using a modern, permissionless analytics layer that supports data exploration, cross-dataset joins, and AI-driven insight generation.

Powering Institutional Workflows with Proven Benchmarks

Baselight now supports the full suite of CoinDesk Indices and pricing tools, each designed to serve specific use cases in investment research, product design, and market monitoring.

Data included in the integration:

• Top 200 Assets by Market Cap: Daily asset pricing, volume, and supply data for the most widely held cryptocurrencies in the market.
• CoinDesk 5 (CD5): Tracks the performance of the largest and most liquid five digital assets included in the CoinDesk 20 Index. 
• CoinDesk 20 (CD20): A broad-based index that measures the performance of top digital assets. CoinDesk 20 serves a growing universe of investment and trading products that help promote liquidity and portfolio diversification.
• CoinDesk 80 (CD80): Measures the next tier of large and liquid assets outside of the top 20. Ideal for evaluating emerging momentum and liquidity rotation.
• CoinDesk 100 (CD100): A composite index representing the broader market by combining CD20 and CD80 at a fixed weight. Useful for benchmarking diversified exposures.
• CDOR (CoinDesk Overnight Rates): Converts Aave lending activity into standardized overnight rates for USDC and USDT. Suitable for modeling DeFi-native interest rate products.
• CESR (Composite Ether Staking Rate): Benchmarks annualized staking yield for Ethereum validators. Accounts for both consensus rewards and transaction fees.
• ETXTR (Ethereum Total Return Index): Combines ETH price performance with staking rewards to reflect the full return of a staked ETH position.

All data is available in structured tables with clean, relational schemas. This allows institutions to access CoinDesk Data the same way they would work with SQL-native market intelligence platforms or internal data warehouses.

Built for Performance, Strategy, and Composability

The addition of CoinDesk Indices enhances Baselight’s ability to support institutional research and decision-making. Analysts, quants, and portfolio managers can now:

• Benchmark custom portfolios against CD5, CD20, CD80, or CD100 with full visibility into composition and rebalancing frequency
• Track asset flows, volatility trends, and pricing anomalies using the top 200 asset table
• Model staking and yield-based strategies with CESR and ETXTR as foundational reference points
• Analyze historical lending rates and stablecoin activity through CDOR, a benchmark interest rate that draws upon Aave’s lending pools to provide standardized overnight rates for major stablecoins

This integration enables both tactical and strategic use cases. From performance attribution and risk modeling to product design and regulatory reporting, users can now run sophisticated queries and build multi-layered views across CoinDesk and non-CoinDesk datasets.

Transparent Data for a Transparent Market

CoinDesk Indices has been a trusted provider of digital asset indices since 2014 and has over $40 billion in benchmarked assets.

Baselight builds on this foundation by removing the friction associated with data access, integration, and transparency. Everything is available through Baselight’s permissionless interface, which supports both data exploration and scheduled workflows.

Users can explore CoinDesk’s data within Baselight’s data ecosystem that includes over 52,000 datasets and more than 230 billion rows of structured data. Baselight supports tens of thousands of datasets across chains, sectors, and research domains, all discoverable through a shared catalog and query engine.

Explore What is Now Possible

This partnership reflects a shared vision. CoinDesk provides compliant, robust and trusted data and benchmarks. Baselight offers the infrastructure to make it programmable, interoperable, and available to every analyst, allocator, and builder.

Whether you are building a dashboard for your trading desk, creating a model for a new structured product, or validating market behavior across asset classes, this integration puts the tools and data in your hands.

CoinDesk Indices & Data are now live on Baselight. Start exploring today.

For early access to Baselight AI, advanced dashboards, custom bundles, or premium features, contact hello@baselight.ai

About Baselight

Baselight is the permissionless data hub powering the next era of intelligent computation and AI-driven discovery. Founded by experts in distributed systems, cryptography, and large-scale data infrastructure, Baselight enables anyone to publish, discover, query, and monetize structured datasets through a unified platform. It eliminates the friction of fragmented tools and locked-down data silos by combining data discovery, analytics, and transparent monetization in one composable protocol. With native support for AI agents and large language models, Baselight makes it easy to integrate structured data into autonomous workflows and real-time analysis. Designed for analysts, developers, researchers, and intelligent systems alike, Baselight brings structure, auditability, and collaboration to data workflows at scale.

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