HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach Newswire - 26 June 2026 - IX Asia Indexes today announced the 1^st Half 2026 Review of the IX Digital Asset Industry Classification System ("DAICS^®"), aiming to provide 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 (ABTs) in a 3-tier system for each category. For Cryptocurrencies: Tier 1-Industry/ Tier 2-Sector/ Tier 3-Sub-sector; and for ABTs: Tier 1-Asset Type/ Tier 2-Branch/ Tier 3-Sub-branch. The results are as follows:

• DAICS^® coin coverage: As of 31^st May, the top 50 coins by average market capitalization across the past 90 days
• DAICS^®market capitalization coverage: 97.45%*
• The % coverage of market capitalization of the 50th ranked coin: 0.06%**
• Member changes within the Top 50 Coins in DAICS^®: seven coins added and six coins deleted
• Additions: Canton (CC), Tether Gold (XAUT), Pax Gold (PAXG), Global Dollar (USDG), Aster (ASTER), Ripple USD (RLUSD), USDD (USDD)
• Deletions: Ethena (ENA), Aptos (APT), Worldcoin (WLD), Polygon (POL), Story (IP), Arbitrum (ARB)
• 7 Green Coins labelled: Internet Computer (ICP), Binance (BNB), Hedera (HBAR), Solana (SOL), Sui (SUI), XRP (XRP), Canton (CC)

*Special currency treatment of DAICS^® applies, where any wrapped or second-level cryptocurrency is not considered in the calculation for the market capitalization of DAICS^® **Based on 31^st May 2026 G: Green Coin The rankings of additions and deletions for the DAICS^® top 50 cryptocurrencies are listed in Appendix 1. All classification changes, including the ixCrypto Infrastructure Index and ixCrypto Stablecoin index, will take effect on 24^th July 2026, with market capitalization, rankings, and weightings available at www.ix-index.com. 1. Cryptocurrencies 1.1 Structure and Definitions Tier 1: Industry Changes The industry groups remain unchanged, with 5 industries and the respective weightings as follows:

Industry	Weighting (%)
Payment (110)	77.76%
Infrastructure (120)	16.60%
Financial Services (130)	4.31%
Tech & Data (140)	0.12%
Media & Entertainment (150)	1.00%
ABT – Natural Resources (265)	0.21%

Tier 2: Sector Changes The number of sectors remains unchanged at 18. 1.2 Reclassification Changes This review doesn't have any reclassification of the existing coins. The DAICS® 1H 2026 cryptocurrencies classification is available in Appendix 2. 1.3 Green Coin Label This review identifies 7 Green Coins, classified based on their energy-per-unit-transaction, which is defined as the amount of energy consumed for a successful single unit transaction of the coin in the blockchain network. The coins selected rank in the top 15 percentile of the least energy-consuming cryptocurrencies out of the 50 DAICS^® constituents. The table below lists these low-energy coins.

Industry	Cryptocurrencies
Payment (110)	XRPG
Infrastructure (120)	ICPGHBARGCCG	SOLGSUIG
Financial Services (130)	BNBG
Tech & Data (140)	NIL
Media & Entertainment (150)	NIL

Note: G as 'Green Coin' labelling for cryptocurrencies that adhere to the principles of sustainability 2. Asset Backed Tokens (ABT) 2.1 Structure and Definitions Tier 1: Asset Type Changes The asset types remain unchanged at 6 as follows: 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 number of branches remains unchanged at 32. 2.2 Classification Changes This review doesn't have any reclassification of the existing assets. 2.3 Coverage of DAICS^® IX Asia Indexes has classified 2 ABTs in 1H 2026, which are Tether Gold (XAUT) and PAX Gold (PAXG). As of May 31, 2026, ABTs comprised 2.05% of the total market capitalization of digital assets, a rise from 0.91% in the 2025 2H review, which shows that ABT's presence in the market has become more significant. With accelerating growth and dominance of stable coins in the past two half yearly reviews, the IX Asia Tokenisation Advisory Committee has decided to expand the coverage to "50 coins + stablecoins within top 50" starting from the next review. A classification summary and definition table of both cryptocurrencies and ABTsare available in Appendices 3 and 4. 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. Additions and Deletions in DAICS^® Top 50 CryptocurrenciesAdditions

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