HONG KONG, CHINA, July 5, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- 4th July 2024

Results of the IX Digital Asset
Industry Classification System (“DAICS^®”) 2024 1H Review

Today, IX Asia Indexes announced the 1st Half 2024 Review of the IX Digital Asset Industry Classification System (“DAICS^®”), aiming to provide the professionals worldwide with a transparent and standardized classification scheme to determine sector and exposure of particular digital assets. DAICS^® classifies digital assets into 2 main categories: a) Cryptocurrencies and b) Asset Backed Tokens and a 3-tier system for each category. For Cryptocurrencies: 1-Industry/ 2-Sector/ 3-Sub-sector; for Asset Backed Tokens: 1-Asset Type/ 2-Branch/ 3-Sub-branch (Appendix 1). The results are as follows:

a) Cryptocurrencies
i) Structure and definitions
Tier 1: Industry Changes
The industry groups remain unchanged with 5 industries.
1) Payment (110)
2) Infrastructure (120)
3) Financial services (130),
4) Tech & Data (140) and
5) Media & Entertainment (150).

Tier 2: Sector Changes
The number of sectors remain unchanged with 16 sectors. There is modification in Sector name under Media & Entertainment (150)/ Social Media & Community Sector. The definition of Social Community sector remains unchanged.

Modification in sector name.
Before After
Social Media (15010) Social Media & Community (15010)

ii) Classification Changes
VeChain (VET)
Before After
Industry: Tech & Data (140) Industry: Infrastructure (120)
Sector: Storage & Sharing (14010) Sector: Application Development Protocol &
Smart Contract (12010)

iii) Green coins label
There are 9 Greens coins in this review:

Infrastructure (120)
Media & Entertainment (150)

Energy Efficient
Consensus Mechanism
(PoS, PoH, PoA,
DAG, Hashgraph)
1. ETHG
2. ATOMG (New)
3. NEARG
4. DOTG (New)
5. ADAG
6. HBARG
1. IMXG
Renewable Energy Use
1. SOLG (New)
2. VETG (New)
NIL

iv) Coverage of DAICS^®
DAICS^® coin coverage: top 50 coins by market capitalization
DAICS^® market capitalization coverage: 87.493%*
The % coverage of market capitalization of the 50th ranked coin: 0.092%
Member changes within the TOP 50 coins in DAICS^® : 6 coins in and 7 coins out

(For more details about the industry weighting and the 6 changes, please see Appendix 4).

*As of 22nd May 2024, based on past 90 days market capitalization ranking including all coins* (exclude stable coins and pure DAO governance tokens)
Note: G as ‘Green’ labelling for cryptocurrencies that adhere to the principles of sustainability

* * (For details on Industry & Sector definitions under DAICS^®, please refer to Appendix 2 & 3)

b) Asset Backed Tokens (ABT)
i) Structure and definitions
Tier 1: Asset Types Changes
The asset types remain unchanged at 6
1) Culture (205),
2) Real Estate (215),
3) Financials (235),
4) Entertainment (255),
5) Natural Resources (265), and
6) Green Economy (275)

Tier 2: Branch Changes
The branches remain unchanged at 31.
(For details on Asset types and Branches, please refer to Appendix 3).

ii) Classification Changes
Nil

iii) Coverage of DAICS^®
IX Asia Indexes has not started to classify any ABT. ABTs will be added to DAICS^® in the next stage when a fair amount of popular asset-backed tokens are available in the market. A new ABT registry will be made available to the public. Although there has been an increase in the number of ABTs, ABTs only comprised 0.106% of the total market capitalization of digital assets. A classification summary and definition table are available at Appendix 5 & 6.

For further information regarding the methodology of the DAICS^®, please refer to the “IX Digital Asset Industry Classification System”- principle and guiding methodology on the company website https://ix-index.com/daics.html.

All classification changes including the ixCrypto Infrastructure Index and ixCrypto Stablecoin index will take effect on 19th July, 2024.

For more details on our DAICS^® qualification criteria, please email daics@ix-index.com.

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For further enquiries, please contact:

Irene WONG +852 3595 3631
irene.wong@ix-index.com

Hayden PUN +852 3595 3638
hayden.pun@ix-index.com

About DAICS^®

DAICS^® covers both cryptocurrencies and asset-backed tokens (“ABT”), to be reviewed semi-annually at the end of June and December. On cryptocurrencies side, it is a three-tier system that groups cryptocurrencies into 5 main industries: 1) Payment, 2) Infrastructure, 3) Financial services, 4) Technology & Data and 5) Media & Entertainment. These industries are further divided into 16 sectors and sub-sectors to be introduced in the future. Under asset-backed tokens, there are 6 asset types: 1) Culture, 2) Real Estate, 3) Financials, 4) Entertainment, 5) Natural Resources, 6) Green Economy. These asset types are further divided into 31 branches and sub-branches to be introduced in the future.

About IX Asia Tokenization Advisory Committee and Working Group
The establishment of the IX Asia Tokenization Advisory Committee ("Advisory Committee”) is to pursue the goal and vision to formulate a standard for global tokenization framework in a compliant and transparent way. The key role of the Advisory Committee is to formulate the guideline and reference for tokenization in terms of infrastructure, business financial stability, sustainability, internal control and classification. The Advisory Committee is comprised of industry recognised leaders from blockchain consultancy, sustainable projects and field in Art industry.

The establishment of the Working Group is to identify, evaluate and recommend key directions and founding principles according to their specific industry knowledge and expertise in relating to the creation of the specified token. It will examine and propose improvements to the guidelines and references for tokenization. The working group is formed of a diverse group of market experts representing relevant sectors and markets, to provide input and discuss case studies for creation of tokenization framework, best practices and development of real-world projects.

For more information about IX Asia Tokenization Advisory Committee & Working Group, please visit https://ix-index.com/tokenization-committee.html .

Irene Wong/ Hayden Pun
www.ix-index.com
+852 3595 3638
email us here