Indicator Overview

Liveliness is a quantitative measure that provides insights into shifts in HODLing behaviour. It highlights when old (dormant) coins are being moved, versus newer coins being moved.

Liveliness trends down for crypto assets with dormant units (i.e. HODLing behaviour), while an increase in this metric often represents liquidation of long-term positions.

The liveliness metric can also be used to assign weight to the value of market cap valuations, as it will be close to zero for assets with low liquidity or adoption but high market cap (either through pre-mined coins or wash trading the same units).

• ​View Liveliness in Glassnode Studio​

• ​View Liveliness in Glassnode API Docs​

How is it measured?

Liveliness is defined as the ratio of the cumulative Coin Days Destroyed and the sum of all coin days ever created.

About

Created By

​Tamas Blummer​

Date Created

December 2018

Further Resources

Tamas Blummer - Liveliness of Bitcoin​