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S&P Dow Jones Indices is rolling out the S&P Digital Markets 50, a mixed basket of crypto and equities built to give investors cleaner, broader exposure to digital assets, a recent report from Barron’s disclosed.
S&P Debuts Mixed Crypto–Stock Gauge to Corral a Chaotic Market
On Tuesday, S&P said the index will combine 15 major cryptocurrencies with 35 crypto-linked stocks, developed with blockchain firm Dinari, a recent report from Barron’s journalist Nate Wolf first reported. The goal: a single, rules-based benchmark for a market that rarely sits still.
“Cryptocurrencies and the broader digital asset industry have moved from the margins into a more established role in global markets,” said Cameron Drinkwater, chief product officer at S&P Dow Jones Indices, positioning the launch within an expanded index suite. Pairing stocks with crypto is a first for S&P.
Dinari plans an investable token that tracks the benchmark on its dShares platform by year-end, using tokenization to trade on blockchains rather than traditional rails. The S&P Digital Markets 50 caps any single asset at 5%, requires $100 million in market cap for new equities and $300 million for new crypto, and rebalances quarterly under S&P governance.
The timing fits: Coinbase is up 55% in 2025, bitcoin hit a record price high this week, and crypto-adjacent names have momentum too—one reason S&P tapped a tokenized partner to make the basket investable beyond conventional exchanges.
Dinari CEO Gabriel Otte said managers keep hearing, “we want some exposure to crypto,” even from clients wary of picking coins—hence the hunt for an “S&P 500 of the space.” Indexing won’t banish whiplash, but it may tame it—and hand allocators a cleaner on-ramp.