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Analyst Spotlight Tether (USDT) Overview
Discover why Tether (USDT) is the leading stablecoin in Coin Metrics’ latest analysis, highlighting its deep liquidity, peg stability, and
Stablecoin Sector Analysis
Stablecoins—digital assets designed to maintain a stable value, typically pegged to the U.S. dollar—have rapidly evolved from niche trading tools
Analyst Spotlight Solana Overview
Solana’s focus on high transaction throughput and cheap fees has allowed developers to deploy products that may not have been
Litecoin Will Test the Block Reward Reduction Theory in August 2019
Litecoin’s block reward halving, anticipated to occur in August 2019, will test the effect that halvings have on prices and
Examining The First Week of Libra Testnet Data
Transactions In order to serve as a global currency, Facebook is designing Libra to be scalable (i.e. high throughput). Libra
Tether’s Lead Grows as Facebook Looms
But it will be entering a crowded market, that as of today is still dominated by Tether. We compared data
Comparing exchange volume to on-chain deposits
In pursuit of our objective to characterize the economic nature of all major public blockchains, we have sought to understand the
Thoughts on Supply Distribution
Today, 96% of all of the 26 million Ether addresses with a balance hold one or fewer units of ETH.
Research Highlight: Ripple
As part of Coin Metrics standard due diligence process when adding new assets/nodes to our Pro data services, we noticed
An on-chain analysis of Ripple’s escrow system
Coin Metrics recently released version 3.0 of our CM Network Data Pro product. This release includes many new assets, including
Evaluating Bitcoin forks with network data
Determining the success of a UTXO fork is a fraught exercise. There is no agreed-upon standard for measuring adoption. Establishing
Granular mining pool mapping with Bitcoin’s coinbase outputs
How concentrated is block formation in Bitcoin? Which mining pools are dominant, and how long have they held that position?
Don’t trust, verify: A Bitcoin Private case study
Bitcoin Private (BTCP) is a fork-merge of Bitcoin and ZClassic (ZCL, a fork of ZCash that removed the founders’ reward).
Introducing Realized Capitalization
The motivation for the creation of Realized Cap was the realization that “Market Capitalization” is often an empty metric when
What should we expect from Bitcoin’s block size in the coming years?
tl;dr: under full SegWit adoption you should expect blocks in the 1.6-2 mb range, with larger outliers. How big will
