Velocity
Liveliness
How rapidly the supply circulates. Higher velocity = more transactional economy.
Current Value
0.7034
As of
2026-10-16
Z-Score
—
Signal
No threshold
Current Velocity reading
As of 2026-10-16, Bitcoin’s Velocity is 0.703, compared with 0.851 one year earlier (2025-10-16). The series has 6,491 daily readings from 2009-01-03 to 2026-10-16, computed from our own full-archive Bitcoin node and refreshed every day.
Historical extremes
The highest Velocity on record is 12.08 on 2026-07-02; the lowest is 0.000 on 2009-01-03. Readings near either end of that range have historically coincided with cycle turning points — use the chart above to see where today sits relative to past extremes.
Read it with
- Liveliness — Ratio of cumulative CDD to cumulative coin-days created.
- Velocity 7d — 7-day smoothed velocity.
- Velocity 30d — 30-day smoothed velocity.
- Velocity 90d — 90-day smoothed velocity.
- Velocity Momentum — Rate of change in velocity.
Data & method
Source: computed from raw UTXO data on OnChainLab’s own Bitcoin node — no third-party data vendor. Category: Liveliness. Last updated 2026-10-16. The full series is free to download as JSON or as part of the full daily CSV, and the published dataset is cryptographically committed — you can verify it yourself. Browse all metrics.