Bid liquidity added
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What is Bid liquidity added?
Bid liquidity added is a market-data metric BlackForge measures for every listed pair on nine spot exchanges, once per closed five-minute window. Buy-side liquidity placed into the book during the window. It reports what the order book or trade tape showed, not what price will do next.
The facts
| Unit | quote |
|---|---|
| Family | Book churn |
| Key | bidLiqAdded |
| Quote-relative | Yes |
| Nullable | No |
| Plottable | Yes |
| Available from | Max plan |
Live across all nine venues
Bid liquidity added for BTC-USDT, as measured in the latest closed window on each venue. Observed . A venue with no reading for this window shows an em dash — nothing is invented.
| Venue | Symbol | Bid liquidity added |
|---|---|---|
| Binance | BTCUSDT | 282,986,470 |
| Bitget | BTCUSDT | 256,305,714 |
| Bybit | BTCUSDT | 139,332,058 |
| Coinbase | BTC-USDT | 14,718,170 |
| Gate | BTC_USDT | 49,918,740 |
| Kraken | BTCUSDT | 47,626,158 |
| Kucoin | BTC-USDT | 167,018,028 |
| Mexc | BTCUSDT | 15,460,334,592 |
| Okx | BTC-USDT | 419,732,309 |
Query it
Bid liquidity added is one field on the wide row /v1/latest returns for a pair. Set $BF to the API base and read it at .values.bidLiqAdded:
curl -H "x-api-key: $BLACKFORGE_API_KEY" \
"$BF/v1/latest?exchange=binance&symbol=BTCUSDT"
# read the value at: .values.bidLiqAddedRelated
Liquidity added and removed, price levels changed, and how long a level survives before it is pulled.
Defined in the glossary: Liquidity added and removed, Resting order lifetime.
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What is Bid liquidity added?
Bid liquidity added is a market-data metric BlackForge measures for every listed pair on nine spot exchanges, once per closed five-minute window. Buy-side liquidity placed into the book during the window. It reports what the order book or trade tape showed, not what price will do next.
How is Bid liquidity added measured?
BlackForge computes Bid liquidity added from each venue’s own order book and trades for every listed pair, once per closed five-minute window, and records it as quote. Because it is quote-relative, it is expressed in the pair’s quote asset. The value is stored exactly as observed.
Which plan includes Bid liquidity added?
Bid liquidity added is available from the Max plan upward, and on pay-per-call over x402. See pricing for the full plan ladder.
Does Bid liquidity added predict where price will go?
No. Bid liquidity added is a measurement of what the order book or trade tape showed in the window. It carries no view on future price, and BlackForge scores nothing — every metric is a measurement, not a call.