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Movers & Shakers December 2023
Coin Metrics is committed to building the crypto economy on a foundation of truth, providing authentic and accurate data with the highest standards of clarity and precision. With this mission in mind, we are proud to share our October edition [...]
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Q2 2020 Supply Transparency Report
The Coin Metrics Cryptoasset Supply Transparency Report brings visibility and insight into the actions of the key categories of a [...]
Derivatives’ Disparities: Surveying the Bitcoin Perpetual Swap Market (Full Length)
Key Takeaways The derivatives market is fragmented and contract terms differ dramatically across exchanges. The quality of documentation in the [...]
Introducing Coin Metrics’ Trusted Volume Framework (Full Length)
Key Takeaways Fake trading volumes have been a dark mark on the industry - it is difficult to find a [...]
Analyzing The Early Uses of Bitcoin (Full Length)
This feature is adapted from Antoine Le Calvez’ presentation at the MIT Bitcoin Expo 2020. Since its inception in 2009, [...]
When Markets Misalign: Mispricings and Reference Rates (Full Length)
Key Takeaways Price discrepancies between exchanges can emerge for a variety of reasons, including market manipulation, exchange downtime, and trader [...]
Introducing Free Float Supply (Full Length)
Key Takeaways Until now, a standardized approach to determining the free float supply (the supply that is available to the [...]
Digital Alchemy: Do Coinbase Listings Turn Altcoins Into Gold? (Full Length)
A review on the impact of Coinbase’s Listings and “Exploration” announcements on the markets of those assets included in the [...]
Analyzing Stablecoin Supply and Activity Distribution (Full Length)
Key Takeaways The supply and activity distribution of a stablecoin can help us understand how it is used. The ERC-20 [...]
Spotting and Exploiting Market Volatility
Cryptoasset data has been increasingly amassing the interest of researchers and investors looking to build an edge in the market [...]
Special Insights
The Rise of NFTs
Since the dawn of the Internet people have been creating content and sharing it online. From videos, to music, to memes, the web is full of digital objects. But for most of the Internet’s history there hasn’t been a way [...]
The Crypto Futures Data Primer
Derivatives are complex investment products, often used as part of advanced trading strategies. Understanding futures fundamentals can give you deeper insight into market dynamics and price movement. In this piece we explore the basics of crypto futures data. In particular, [...]
On-Chain Indicators
Bitcoin represented (among other things) a huge step forward in terms of financial data transparency. Since all transactions are publicly recorded on-chain, a whole new set of fundamental indicators is available to crypto investors. We take a look at some [...]