Liquidity and Size

Overview

Liquidity and size metrics describe how large a protocol market is: the total value supplied, the total value borrowed against it, and what remains available to borrow. Each is published in the market's native asset units, and in U.S. dollars where available. They are part of the Protocol Metrics family. See that page for the shared entity model (protocol, chain, market), the beginning-of-interval timestamp convention, and for what an instantaneous value versus a _mean value represents at each frequency.

At a Glance

Data type	Entities	Frequency / cadence	Unit	Primary endpoint	Coverage
Total market size, total borrowed, and total available liquidity	Protocol markets (protocol + chain + market)	1d and 1m	Native units, and U.S. dollars where available	/timeseries/protocol-metrics	coming soon....

Metrics

Each of the three quantities (market size, borrowed, available liquidity) is published in four forms: native units, U.S. dollars, and the _mean of each.

Total market size

The sum of everything supplied to the market: what is currently borrowed plus what remains available.

Metric	Description	Frequency
market_size_total_ntv	Total value supplied to the market, in the market's native asset units, closing value for the interval.	1d, 1m
market_size_total_usd	Total value supplied to the market, in U.S. dollars, closing value for the interval.	1d, 1m
market_size_total_mean_ntv	The mean market_size_total_ntv value over the time interval.	1d, 1m
market_size_total_mean_usd	The mean market_size_total_usd value over the time interval.	1d, 1m

Total borrowed

The sum of everything currently borrowed from the market.

Metric	Description	Frequency
borrowed_total_ntv	Total value borrowed from the market, in the market's native asset units, closing value for the interval.	1d, 1m
borrowed_total_usd	Total value borrowed from the market, in U.S. dollars, closing value for the interval.	1d, 1m
borrowed_total_mean_ntv	The mean borrowed_total_ntv value over the time interval.	1d, 1m
borrowed_total_mean_usd	The mean borrowed_total_usd value over the time interval.	1d, 1m

Total available liquidity

The sum of everything supplied to the market that is not currently borrowed (total market size minus total borrowed).
This metric is often referred to as Total Value Locked (TVL) in the industry for many protocols.

Metric	Description	Frequency
liquidity_total_available_ntv	Value available to borrow or withdraw from the market, in the market's native asset units. For lending pools, this metric is often referred to as Total Value Locked (TVL) in the industry for many protocols.	1d, 1m
liquidity_total_available_usd	Value available to borrow from the market, in U.S. dollars. For lending pools, this metric is often referred to as Total Value Locked (TVL) in the industry for many protocols.	1d, 1m
liquidity_total_available_mean_ntv	The mean liquidity_total_available_ntv value over the time interval. For lending pools, this metric is often referred to as Total Value Locked (TVL) in the industry for many protocols.	1d, 1m
liquidity_total_available_mean_usd	The mean liquidity_total_available_usd value over the time interval. For lending pools, this metric is often referred to as Total Value Locked (TVL) in the industry for many protocols.	1d, 1m

info

Conventions.

• Metric values are returned as JSON strings to preserve precision.
• time marks the beginning of the interval a row covers (see Protocol Metrics: Conventions).
• The _ntv variants are denominated in the market's own asset (for example WETH for the Aave v3 WETH market).
• The _usd variants convert the native value to U.S. dollars, where available: a market whose underlying asset has no Reference Rate in our coverage universe has no _usd values, even though its _ntv values are published.
• market_size_total = borrowed_total + liquidity_total_available, in either unit, at the same instant.

Methodology

See Protocol Metrics: Frequency and the daily mean for how the instantaneous and _mean forms differ at each frequency, and the worked example below for how close the two forms are in practice.

Total borrowed and available liquidity by protocol type

borrowed_total and liquidity_total_available are not computed the same way across protocol types: each reads a different piece of on-chain state depending on how the protocol itself represents "what is out on loan" versus "what could still be lent."

• For Aave v3 markets, available liquidity is the market's aToken total supply minus the sum of its outstanding stable and variable debt, read live from Aave's Pool and ProtocolDataProvider contracts.
• For Morpho v1 (MetaMorpho) vaults, available liquidity is the sum, across every market in the vault's withdraw queue, of the lesser of (a) the vault's own supplied position in that market and (b) that market's idle (unborrowed) cash. This reflects that a depositor can withdraw at most the vault's own position, further capped by whatever unborrowed liquidity the underlying market actually holds.

Accessing the Data

• /timeseries/protocol-metrics

Python Client

import os
from coinmetrics.api_client import CoinMetricsClient

client = CoinMetricsClient(os.environ["CM_API_KEY"])

df = client.get_protocol_metrics(
    protocols="aave_v3",
    markets="core-weth",
    metrics=["market_size_total_usd", "borrowed_total_usd", "liquidity_total_available_usd"],
    frequency="1d",
).to_dataframe()

Shell

curl --compressed "https://api.coinmetrics.io/v4/timeseries/protocol-metrics?protocols=aave_v3&markets=core-weth&metrics=market_size_total_usd,borrowed_total_usd,liquidity_total_available_usd&frequency=1d&page_size=10000&api_key=$CM_API_KEY"

Python

import os, requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.coinmetrics.io/v4/timeseries/protocol-metrics",
    params={"protocols": "aave_v3", "markets": "core-weth",
            "metrics": "market_size_total_usd,borrowed_total_usd,liquidity_total_available_usd",
            "frequency": "1d", "page_size": 10000, "api_key": os.environ["CM_API_KEY"]},
).json()
print(response)

Full parameter reference: see the API Reference for /timeseries/protocol-metrics.

Examples

The examples below are live pulls, returned as JSON strings, and change on each pull.

Example: instantaneous vs. mean

borrowed_total_usd (closing value) alongside borrowed_total_mean_usd (mean of the day's hourly closes) for the same market and day. The two values are close but not identical, consistent with Protocol Metrics: Frequency and the daily mean (browser):

[
  {
    "protocol": "aave_v3",
    "market": "core-weth",
    "chain": "ethereum",
    "time": "2026-08-08T00:00:00.000000000Z",
    "borrowed_total_mean_usd": "3320124519.06076767475416114713670911616",
    "borrowed_total_usd": "3319583954.5182641728724592"
  },
  {
    "protocol": "aave_v3",
    "market": "core-weth",
    "chain": "ethereum",
    "time": "2026-08-09T00:00:00.000000000Z",
    "borrowed_total_mean_usd": "3310788004.28508721667503704457928648472",
    "borrowed_total_usd": "3312187009.3059277421429076"
  }
]

Example: total market size at the 1m frequency

market_size_total_usd for the same market, close to real time (browser):

[
  {
    "protocol": "aave_v3",
    "market": "core-weth",
    "chain": "ethereum",
    "time": "2026-08-10T19:57:00.000000000Z",
    "market_size_total_usd": "4067596112.53438854564029603356"
  },
  {
    "protocol": "aave_v3",
    "market": "core-weth",
    "chain": "ethereum",
    "time": "2026-08-10T19:58:00.000000000Z",
    "market_size_total_usd": "4067614906.322207655579850468638"
  }
]

Coverage

See Protocol Metrics: Coverage for how to check current availability against the catalog directly.

Related

• Protocol Metrics: the parent page, with the shared entity model and frequency semantics.
• Rates and Yield: utilization_rate, which is computed from borrowed_total and market_size_total.
• Risk Parameters: the supply and borrow caps that bound how large these figures can grow.