Metric Methodologies
CoinMarketCap provides up-to-the-minute updates for all market data found on the site. Every minute, the various exchanges are queried for their most recent market data. All data is run through several data cleaning and verification algorithms to ensure data integrity. Here is a summary of how each metric is calculated:
- Price (Market Pair, Cryptoasset)
- Volume (Market Pair, Cryptoasset, Exchange, Aggregate)
- Supply (Circulating, Total, Max)
- Market Capitalization (Cryptoasset, Aggregate)
- Ranking (Market Pair, Cryptoasset, Exchange)
- Liquidity Score (Market Pair, Exchange)
- Web Traffic Factor (Exchange)
- Confidence Indicator (Market Pair)