Velocity Momentum
Liveliness
Rate of change in velocity. Accelerating velocity = growing network usage.
Current Value
-0.0275
As of
2026-10-16
Z-Score
—
Signal
No threshold
Current Velocity Momentum reading
As of 2026-10-16, Bitcoin’s Velocity Momentum is -0.027, compared with -0.052 one year earlier (2025-10-16). The series has 6,462 daily readings from 2009-02-06 to 2026-10-16, computed from our own full-archive Bitcoin node and refreshed every day.
Historical extremes
The highest Velocity Momentum on record is 1.473 on 2010-05-15; the lowest is -0.633 on 2010-06-02. 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 — How rapidly the supply circulates.
- Velocity 7d — 7-day smoothed velocity.
- Velocity 30d — 30-day smoothed velocity.
- Velocity 90d — 90-day smoothed 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.