Data & methods

How Coinmico measures what it publishes, and what the numbers cannot say.

Two histograms of trade sizes side by side, one a dense low pile of small trades and one a sparse row of tall bars at large sizes

Trade-size fingerprints: what volume rankings miss, including ours

In six hours on 23 September, Binance printed 30,407 bitcoin trades at a median of $6. Another venue that out-ranks it on weekly volume printed 4,031 trades at a median of $1.55 — and an average of $12,851. The shape of the trades tells you more than the total, and it is the reason our index weights venues the way it does.

Shafira·Sep 23, 2026·7 min read