Reference
Metric definitions
Every figure this site publishes is defined here once: what it measures, over what period, from which source, and the specific ways it misleads. Nothing is displayed anywhere on the site that does not have an entry on this page.
| Figure | Group | Period it carries | In one sentence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market Cap / Annualized Fees | Valuation | annualized from trailing 30 days | Compares a token's market value with the fees users paid to the network over a year. |
| Market Cap / Annualized Revenue | Valuation | annualized from trailing 30 days | Market value divided by the share of yearly fees the protocol keeps rather than paying out. |
| FDV / Annualized Fees | Valuation | annualized from trailing 30 days | Like the market cap version, but values every token that will ever exist at today's price. |
| FDV / Annualized Revenue | Valuation | annualized from trailing 30 days | Fully diluted market value divided by the yearly fee income the protocol retains. |
| Market Cap / TVL | Valuation | point-in-time | Compares a token's market value with the value of assets currently deposited in its contracts. |
| FDV / TVL | Valuation | point-in-time | Fully diluted market value divided by the value of assets deposited in the protocol. |
| Market Cap per Active Address | Valuation | point-in-time value over trailing 30 days of activity | Market value divided by the number of addresses that sent or received anything recently. |
| Market Cap / Annualized Transaction Volume | Valuation | annualized from trailing 30 days | Market value compared with the total dollar value moved on the network over a year. |
| Market Cap / Stablecoin Supply Hosted | Valuation | point-in-time | A chain's market value compared with the total stablecoins issued or bridged onto it. |
| NVT (Network Value to Transactions) | Valuation | point-in-time value over a smoothed 90-day denominator | Network value divided by the daily value moved on-chain, smoothed over about three months. |
| Network Revenue Yield | Valuation | annualized from trailing 30 days | Yearly protocol revenue expressed as a percentage of the token's market value. |
| Fee Yield | Valuation | annualized from trailing 30 days | Total yearly fees paid by users, expressed as a percentage of the token's market value. |
| Holder Revenue Yield | Valuation | annualized from trailing 30 days | The share of fee income that actually reaches token holders, as a percentage of market value. |
| Dilution overhang | Valuation | point-in-time | How much larger fully diluted valuation is than market capitalization. |
| Volume to value locked | Valuation | 30-day average volume over value locked | How many times the value locked in a protocol is traded in its token each day. |
| Market cap to DEX volume | Valuation | market cap over DEX volume annualized from the trailing 30 days | Market capitalization compared with the yearly value swapped through the network or protocol's decentralized exchanges. |
| Corporate treasuries over market cap | Valuation | point-in-time | The market value of disclosed corporate holdings as a share of the asset's market capitalization. |
There are also 8 figures a reader may expect that we deliberately do not publish, because no source we use provides them in a form we would stand behind.
The list, with the reason for each →