GitHub stars
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What is GitHub stars?
GitHub stars is a market-data metric BlackForge measures for every listed pair on nine spot exchanges, once per closed five-minute window. Stars on the project's linked GitHub repositories. It reports what the order book or trade tape showed, not what price will do next.
The facts
| Unit | count |
|---|---|
| Family | Enrichment |
| Key | githubStars |
| Quote-relative | No |
| Nullable | Yes |
| Plottable | Yes |
| Available from | Max plan |
Live across all nine venues
GitHub stars 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 | GitHub stars |
|---|---|---|
| Binance | BTCUSDT | 73,168 |
| Bitget | BTCUSDT | 73,168 |
| Bybit | BTCUSDT | 73,168 |
| Coinbase | BTC-USDT | 73,168 |
| Gate | BTC_USDT | 73,168 |
| Kraken | BTCUSDT | 73,168 |
| Kucoin | BTC-USDT | 73,168 |
| Mexc | BTCUSDT | 73,168 |
| Okx | BTC-USDT | 73,168 |
Query it
GitHub stars is one field on the wide row /v1/latest returns for a pair. Set $BF to the API base and read it at .values.githubStars:
curl -H "x-api-key: $BLACKFORGE_API_KEY" \
"$BF/v1/latest?exchange=binance&symbol=BTCUSDT"
# read the value at: .values.githubStarsRelated
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What is GitHub stars?
GitHub stars is a market-data metric BlackForge measures for every listed pair on nine spot exchanges, once per closed five-minute window. Stars on the project's linked GitHub repositories. It reports what the order book or trade tape showed, not what price will do next.
How is GitHub stars measured?
BlackForge computes GitHub stars from each venue’s own order book and trades for every listed pair, once per closed five-minute window, and records it as count. The value is stored exactly as observed.
Which plan includes GitHub stars?
GitHub stars is available from the Max plan upward, and on pay-per-call over x402. See pricing for the full plan ladder.
Does GitHub stars predict where price will go?
No. GitHub stars 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.