Ripple (XRP) Adoption Surges in Russia: What Investors Should Know

According to a recent local report from Bits Media, Russia’s largest securities exchange plans to begin calculating and publishing indexes that track the performance of several popular altcoins, including XRP, SOL, TRX, and BNB.

Pricing data for the new indexes will be sourced from multiple crypto exchanges: 50% from Binance, 20% from Bybit, and 15% each from OKX and Bitget.

Russia’s Largest Securities Exchange to Launch SOL, XRP, TRX and BNB Crypto Indexes

The Moscow Exchange will begin publishing four crypto indexes tracking SOL, XRP, TRX and BNB from May 13, using pricing data from Binance (50%), Bybit (20%), OKX (15%) and Bitget (15%).

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The Bits Media update notes that existing indexes such as MOEXBTC and MOEXETH will begin showing time-sensitive pricing information every 15 seconds during trading sessions. Until now, those indexes were updated only once per day, with results published no later than 18:00 Moscow time.

The Moscow Exchange intends to expand its crypto benchmark suite to ten indexes in the near future. Candidate assets mentioned in reports include Dogecoin, Cardano, Hyperliquid, and Chainlink. The report emphasizes that these instruments will be available only to professional investors.

Maria Silkina, the exchange’s head product manager, recently confirmed that the company also plans to launch derivatives tied to the performance of the two largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization.

The launch of indexes for SOL, XRP, BNB, and TRX arrives amid a broadly positive period for the digital asset market. Prices have risen in recent weeks, with Bitcoin reaching multi-month highs above $80,000, and several altcoins attempting to follow that upward trend.