BTC Metrics Documentation

Full reference of metrics currently available in the service: source, update cadence, interpretation, and practical use.

MVRV

Compares market value to realized value of BTC supply.

Source
CoinMetrics
Cadence
Daily

Practical use: Cycle valuation anchor to detect overheated and undervalued zones.

NUPL

Net unrealized profit/loss estimate across network participants.

Source
CoinMetrics
Cadence
Daily

Practical use: Contextual sentiment gauge for euphoria and capitulation phases.

SOPR

Tracks whether spent coins realize profit or loss on average.

Source
Derived with fallback chain
Cadence
Daily

Practical use: Momentum persistence and trend health confirmation.

WALCL

Federal Reserve balance sheet size proxy.

Source
FRED
Cadence
Weekly

Practical use: Liquidity regime context for medium-term risk-on moves.

DXY

US Dollar index versus major fiat basket.

Source
FRED
Cadence
Daily

Practical use: Headwind/tailwind check for BTC trend continuation.

US10Y Real Yield

Inflation-adjusted 10Y US Treasury yield.

Source
FRED
Cadence
Daily

Practical use: Opportunity-cost layer for non-yielding risk assets.

Funding Rates

Perpetual funding bias across major exchanges.

Source
Bybit + Binance
Cadence
Intraday

Practical use: Crowding and squeeze-risk signal.

Open Interest

Aggregate open contracts in perpetuals/futures.

Source
Binance Futures
Cadence
Intraday

Practical use: Leverage buildup confirmation before volatility expansion.

Liquidation Levels

Estimated clustering zones of leveraged positions.

Source
Exchange liquidation streams
Cadence
Near real-time

Practical use: Volatility path planning and stop/target scenario mapping.

Exchange Reserve

Estimated BTC holdings on exchanges.

Source
Dune / DeFiLlama / CoinGlass fallback
Cadence
Daily

Practical use: Supply pressure and long-term accumulation context.

Stablecoin Liquidity

Stablecoin supply proxy for available crypto liquidity.

Source
DeFiLlama
Cadence
Daily

Practical use: Risk appetite proxy during expansion and contraction phases.

Fear & Greed Index

Composite market sentiment score.

Source
Alternative.me
Cadence
Daily

Practical use: Contrarian signal layer around emotional extremes.

Metric guides

A dedicated page for each metric: what it is, how it is calculated, how to read it, and its honest limits.

Bitcoin Funding Rate

What the Bitcoin funding rate is, how perpetual funding is calculated, and how to read positive vs negative funding as positioning pressure.

Bitcoin Open Interest

What Bitcoin open interest measures, how it is aggregated across venues, and how rising or falling open interest confirms or questions a price move.

Bitcoin Perp Basis

What Bitcoin perpetual basis is, how the gap between perpetual and spot price is measured, and how it reflects leverage demand and market stress.

Bitcoin MVRV Ratio

What the Bitcoin MVRV ratio is, how market value and realized value are compared, and how to read it as an on-chain valuation gauge.

Bitcoin NUPL

What Bitcoin NUPL measures, how net unrealized profit and loss is derived on-chain, and how to read its sentiment bands across a cycle.

Bitcoin SOPR

What Bitcoin SOPR measures, how the spent output profit ratio compares sale price to cost basis, and how to read it around the value of one.

Bitcoin Puell Multiple

What the Bitcoin Puell Multiple measures, how daily issuance value is compared to its yearly average, and how to read miner-side pressure.

Stablecoin Supply

What aggregate stablecoin supply measures, why it is a proxy for crypto buying power, and how to read its trend as dry powder for Bitcoin.

Crypto Fear & Greed Index

What the Crypto Fear & Greed Index measures, how the sentiment score is built, and how to read extreme fear and extreme greed as contrarian context.

Spot Bitcoin ETF Flow

What spot Bitcoin ETF flow measures, how net creations and redemptions are read, and why ETF flow is a proxy for institutional demand.

Bitcoin Exchange Reserve

What Bitcoin exchange reserve measures, why the amount of BTC held on exchanges matters, and how to read a rising or falling reserve.

Bitcoin Exchange Netflow

What Bitcoin exchange netflow measures, why it is the daily change in exchange reserve, and how to read inflows versus outflows.