Bitcoin & the Rest: Measuring the First Cryptocurrency’s Hold on the Market
Measuring bitcoin's dominance in the digital assets ecosystem.
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Bitcoin: A Novel Economic Institution
Below is an excerpt of a research report authored by ARK Invest and Coin Metrics. In Part 1 of this research, we described how we believe Bitcoin satisfies the four assurances that maximize the probability of a robust and predictable financial system. In Part 2, [...]
Measuring Bitcoin’s Decentralization
Over the last eleven years, Bitcoin has managed to function relatively seamlessly in the face of a large number of threats, largely due to its lack of a single controlling entity. This trait, known as decentralization, encompasses a large number [...]
An Overview of the Basis Trade
One of the most popular trades for any commodity futures is the basis trade. This is when traders build a strategy around the difference between the spot price and futures contract price of a commodity. This exists in corn, soybean, [...]
The Privacy Issue
The early 1990’s saw the dissemination of two great forces that would come to shape the next decades: the Internet, and strong cryptography. In a seminal manifesto written in 1993, Eric Hughes condensed the ethos of a young movement born at the [...]
The Business Trends of Crypto Exchanges
State of the Network has predominantly focused on the network and market data happenings of the crypto industry. In this issue, we zoom out a bit to discuss the business trends and strategies of the exchanges building atop these decentralized [...]
How YAM’s Collapse Drove Ethereum Fees to New Heights
On August 12th Ethereum’s total daily transactions fees topped $6.87M, shattering the previous all-time high of $4.55M set in January 2018. The following day, Ethereum had $8.61M worth of fees, once again breaking the daily record. Blockchain transaction fees are [...]
Introducing the Coin Metrics Quarterly Supply Transparency Report
Part of Coin Metrics’ mission is to provide the community with transparent cryptoasset market and network data that allows investors to make the most informed decisions. One of our most recent metrics, Free Float Supply, has provided Coin Metrics with the [...]
Surveying the Bitcoin Perpetual Swap Market
The crypto market is still young and the contract structure of derivatives varies across exchanges. Derivatives lack a standard methodology by which to calculate indexes and funding payments, and documentation in this space is generally difficult to follow. While these [...]
Introducing Coin Metrics’ Trusted Volume Framework
Fake trading volume is a persistent problem on crypto exchanges. With little regulatory oversight, it can be difficult to determine whether reported volume numbers are accurate or exaggerated. At Coin Metrics we’ve taken a data driven approach to the problem [...]