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Movers & Shakers September 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 September edition [...]
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CM Real-Time Reference Rates Research Summary
Coin Metrics has conducted substantial research and backtesting to develop the methodology used in the CM Real-Time Reference Rates. Like [...]
An Analysis of Fork Legitimacy
This study is designed to aid in the determination of whether an exchange, index provider, investment manager, or any market [...]
A Comparative Analysis of Bitcoin Forks
Bitcoin (BTC) has had many forks over the years, most of which have faded into obscurity. But one fork in [...]
An Analysis of Kin’s On-Chain Activity
In the following post, we investigate Kin’s on-chain activity compared to other blockchains. […]
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 [...]
Special Insights
The Rise of Stablecoins
The idea of having a stable digital currency has existed for a long time, and even predates Bitcoin. But for all intents and purposes, the rise of stablecoins started in early 2015 when cryptocurrency exchanges began listing Tether for trading. [...]