Lukka
Lukka is a crypto data and software company that supplies reference data, prices and fair value calculations for digital assets. Fund administrators, asset managers, banks and exchanges use the data to value holdings and to report on them. Lukka was founded in 2014 and works with S&P Global Market Intelligence as a partner.
S&P Global, State Street, Soros Fund Management and CPA.com invested in Lukka in funding rounds in 2020 and 2021. In the Series D of 2021 Lukka raised another 53 million dollars, when Robert Materazzi was its chief executive.
Crypto reference data
Lukka Reference Data gives every asset, exchange and trading pair one identifier, so that a token carries the same name and code in all systems of a bank. Pricing and market data add prices and volumes, and the enterprise data service delivers these sets to the data platforms of clients.
Crypto valuation and benchmarks
Valuation Services calculate a fair market value for a digital asset at a given time, a price that a fund can defend to its auditor. Lukka Crypto Benchmarks and Index Calculation Services let index providers and fund issuers build reference rates, and S&P Dow Jones Indices built crypto indices on Lukka data in 2021.
Blockchain analytics and CARF reporting
Blockchain Analytics and Compliance follows transactions and addresses for anti-money-laundering checks. CARF Reporting prepares the data that crypto service providers must report under the OECD Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework, which the EU applies through the DAC8 directive.
Upcoming crypto and data events in Germany
What does Lukka do?
Lukka supplies reference data, prices, fair value calculations and blockchain analytics for digital assets to funds, banks, exchanges and their service providers.
Who invested in the company?
S&P Global, State Street, Soros Fund Management and CPA.com took part in the funding rounds of 2020 and 2021.
What is crypto reference data?
Reference data describes assets, exchanges and trading pairs with fixed identifiers, so that different systems can match the same token and the same market.
Lukka and Finance Loop
Valuation and reference data decide whether a fund can price its crypto holdings, a topic of the Finance Loop track Investment & Digital Assets. Lukka is one of the crypto price feed providers that fund administrators in Luxembourg and Germany compare.
Finance Loop is a professional network and has the goal of driving the adoption of emerging technologies in finance, such as AI, tokenization, stablecoins, and DeFi. Finance Loop helps its members build skills and personal networks in these fields: Investment & Digital Assets, Payments & Digital Money, Digital Infrastructure & Sovereignty, and Risk & Compliance.