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Analyst Update – Ethereum
Coin Metrics explores how Digital Asset Treasuries, stablecoin legislation, and Layer-2 scaling are driving Ethereum’s surge above $4,000 and shaping
Analyst Update – Bitcoin
Our initial Bitcoin Asset Analysis in September 2024 highlighted the increasing scarcity of BTC, its benefits in modern portfolio theory,
Layer 1s – Vertical Analysis
Layer-1 blockchains have continually reshaped the digital asset landscape. Bitcoin set the foundation in 2009 with decentralized peer-to-peer money, followed
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
Introducing our adjusted transaction volume estimates
As we have exhaustively covered, getting accurate estimates of the actual economic throughput of public blockchains is not a trivial
An analysis of batching in Bitcoin
On May 6th, 2017, Bitcoin hit an all-time high in transactions processed on the network in a single day: it
On data and certainty
Being certain is a lovely thing. Despite what many would allege about the poor finality of proof of work, the
On the difficulty of estimating on-chain transaction volume
We are happy to report that this site is getting quite a bit of attention these days. We never anticipated
An important network value to transaction ratio caveat
If you’ve been following coinmetrics closely, you might be convinced of the usefulness of our network value to transactions metric
Mean-reversion and reflexivity: a Litecoin case study
Litecoin is a remarkable cryptocurrency. Of the seven currencies we profiled, its MTV ratio is among the steadiest (in our
Why should I pay attention to the NVT ratio, anyway?
Our very first contribution to the body of research on cryptoassets is one we think will become mainstream as this
An introduction to MTV
Currency serves as a medium of exchange, store of value, and unit of account. The Market to Transaction Value metric
