Visualization
Heat map
Every covered asset, sized by market capitalization and shaded by its price change. Area is size; color is direction. Neither is a judgment about the asset, and a large green tile is not a better asset than a small grey one.
On a narrow screen this shows the eight largest assets, ungrouped. Market capitalization is a power law — bitcoin alone is around two thirds of the market — so a fuller map only stays legible on a wider screen. Area here is each asset’s share of these eight.
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price change over 7 days
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How to read it. Each rectangle is one asset. Its area is that asset’s share of the market capitalization on screen, so the biggest rectangles are simply the biggest assets. The shade is the price change over the period you picked — deeper color means a larger move, in either direction. Sector bands group assets we classify the same way.
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What a heat map cannot show you
Whether a move is meaningfulNo
Whether the capitalization is backed by real liquidityNo