CoinMarketCap liquidity
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What is CoinMarketCap liquidity?
CoinMarketCap liquidity is a market-data metric BlackForge measures for every listed pair on nine spot exchanges, once per closed five-minute window. The effective liquidity for the pair from CoinMarketCap. It reports what the order book or trade tape showed, not what price will do next.
The facts
| Unit | usd |
|---|---|
| Family | Enrichment |
| Key | cmcLiquidity |
| Quote-relative | No |
| Nullable | Yes |
| Plottable | Yes |
| Available from | Pro plan |
Live across all nine venues
CoinMarketCap liquidity 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 | CoinMarketCap liquidity |
|---|---|---|
| Binance | BTCUSDT | 1,116 |
| Bitget | BTCUSDT | 939 |
| Bybit | BTCUSDT | 875 |
| Coinbase | BTC-USDT | 719 |
| Gate | BTC_USDT | 924 |
| Kraken | BTCUSDT | 793 |
| Kucoin | BTC-USDT | 904 |
| Mexc | BTCUSDT | 857 |
| Okx | BTC-USDT | 905 |
Query it
CoinMarketCap liquidity is one field on the wide row /v1/latest returns for a pair. Set $BF to the API base and read it at .values.cmcLiquidity:
curl -H "x-api-key: $BLACKFORGE_API_KEY" \
"$BF/v1/latest?exchange=binance&symbol=BTCUSDT"
# read the value at: .values.cmcLiquidityRelated
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What is CoinMarketCap liquidity?
CoinMarketCap liquidity is a market-data metric BlackForge measures for every listed pair on nine spot exchanges, once per closed five-minute window. The effective liquidity for the pair from CoinMarketCap. It reports what the order book or trade tape showed, not what price will do next.
How is CoinMarketCap liquidity measured?
BlackForge computes CoinMarketCap liquidity from each venue’s own order book and trades for every listed pair, once per closed five-minute window, and records it as usd. The value is stored exactly as observed.
Which plan includes CoinMarketCap liquidity?
CoinMarketCap liquidity is available from the Pro plan upward, and on pay-per-call over x402. See pricing for the full plan ladder.
Does CoinMarketCap liquidity predict where price will go?
No. CoinMarketCap liquidity 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.