Whale Spike
Whale Activity
Magnitude of whale transaction spikes. Larger = more significant whale activity.
Current Value
1.0956
As of
2026-10-16
Z-Score
—
Signal
No threshold
Current Whale Spike reading
As of 2026-10-16, Bitcoin’s Whale Spike is 1.096, compared with 0.735 one year earlier (2025-10-16). The series has 6,084 daily readings from 2010-02-19 to 2026-10-16, computed from our own full-archive Bitcoin node and refreshed every day.
Historical extremes
The highest Whale Spike on record is 30.00 on 2012-01-18; the lowest is 0.000 on 2010-02-19. 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
- Whale Awakening — Detection of very old coins (5yr+) moving.
- Ancient Moved — Total BTC moved from ancient (very old) UTXOs.
- Ancient % — Percentage of daily volume from ancient coins.
- BTC Price — Bitcoin price (USD)
- MVRV — Market Value to Realized Value.
Data & method
Source: computed from raw UTXO data on OnChainLab’s own Bitcoin node — no third-party data vendor. Category: Whale Activity. 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.