State of the Network

In pursuit of our objective to characterize the economic nature of all major public blockchains, we have sought to understand the centrality of exchanges. Some serve as de-facto banks while others allow traders to get exposure to the long tail of [...]

Today, 96% of all of the 26 million Ether addresses with a balance hold one or fewer units of ETH. It wasn’t always this way. At the time of the crowdsale, 85% of ETH addresses held between 100 and 10,000 [...]

As part of Coin Metrics standard due diligence process when adding new assets/nodes to our Pro data services, we noticed an abnormality with Ripple’s escrow system reporting of XRP. Key findings from our research include the following: Two quarterly market [...]