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Asset Quotes

/timeseries-stream/asset-quotes
Definition
Coin Metrics collects quotes representing the best bid order and best ask order residing at the top of the order book for individual markets like coinbase-btc-usd-spot. To calculate our asset quotes, we aggregate the quotes across a selection of high-quality constituent markets to derive quotes for an asset like btc. 
Our asset quotes are conceptually similar to the National Best Bid Offer (NBBO), a regulation issued by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission that requires brokers to execute customer trades at the best available price.
Details
Our /timeseries-stream/asset-quotes endpoint supports multiple aggregation methods to aggregate the quotes data from individual constituent markets for a given asset. The different aggregation methods can be specified using the aggregation_method parameter. 
Currently, only the aggregated_spread method is implemented, and alternative methods will be implemented in the future.
Aggregated Spread
The aggregated_spread method uses the following methodology:
For a given asset, select major spot markets where the given asset is the base asset. For each market i, calculate the bid ask spread in percentage terms and the midprice:
MidpointPricei=BestAskPricei+BestBidPricei2MidpointPrice_i = \frac{BestAskPrice_i + BestBidPrice_i}{2}MidpointPricei​=2BestAskPricei​+BestBidPricei​​
Spreadi=BestAskPricei−BestBidPriceiMidpointPriceiSpread_i = \frac{BestAskPrice_i - BestBidPrice_i}{MidpointPrice_i}Spreadi​=MidpointPricei​BestAskPricei​−BestBidPricei​​
Calculate the weighted-average bid-ask spread and weighted-average midprice where the weight is determined by Volume_i, the cumulative volume over some time period [t-1, t] on market i. The advantage of using a trailing volume as opposed to other volume measures, such as order size at the top of the book, is that volume indicates the real contribution of a given exchange to the market. Using order sizes from the book would allow for the random behavior of market participants to bias the aggregate in a way that does not represent the actual contribution of an exchange to the broader crypto market. Using these weights will measure the trading activity actually realized on a market at a given spread. In this way, the volume-weighted spread (as opposed to size-weighted spread) will indicate the spread that is realized via real volume for a given asset or asset-pair.
AvgMidpointPrice=∑i=1nVolumei×MidpointPricei∑i=1nVolumeiAvgMidpointPrice = \frac{\sum_{i=1}^{n} Volume_i \times MidpointPrice_i}{\sum_{i=1}^{n} Volume_i}AvgMidpointPrice=∑i=1n​Volumei​∑i=1n​Volumei​×MidpointPricei​​
AvgSpread=∑i=1nVolumei×Spreadi∑i=1nVolumeiAvgSpread = \frac{\sum_{i=1}^{n} Volume_i \times Spread_i}{\sum_{i=1}^{n} Volume_i}AvgSpread=∑i=1n​Volumei​∑i=1n​Volumei​×Spreadi​​
Using weighted-average midprice and weighted-average spread, calculate the aggregated bid and aggregated ask. The aggregated bid amount and aggregated ask amount are the sum of bid amounts and ask amounts from major markets, respectively.
AggBidPrice=AvgMidpointPrice−0.5×AvgSpread×AvgMidpointPriceAggBidPrice = AvgMidpointPrice - 0.5 \times AvgSpread \times AvgMidpointPriceAggBidPrice=AvgMidpointPrice−0.5×AvgSpread×AvgMidpointPrice
AggAskPrice=AvgMidpointPrice+0.5×AvgSpread×AvgMidpointPriceAggAskPrice = AvgMidpointPrice + 0.5 \times AvgSpread \times AvgMidpointPriceAggAskPrice=AvgMidpointPrice+0.5×AvgSpread×AvgMidpointPrice
AggBidAmount=∑i=1nBestBidAmountiAggBidAmount = \sum_{i=1}^{n} BestBidAmount_i
AggBidAmount=i=1∑n​BestBidAmounti​
AggAskAmount=∑i=1nBestAskAmountiAggAskAmount = \sum_{i=1}^{n} BestAskAmount_iAggAskAmount=i=1∑n​BestAskAmounti​
Example
{
  "time": "2020-06-08T21:15:45.771742000Z",
  "asset": "btc",
  "ask_price": "24343.725954328216",
  "ask_size": "2.96375165",
  "bid_price": "24342.036360171896",
  "bid_size": "12.00588437",
  "mid_price": "24342.881157250056",
  "spread": "0.0000694081421754166",
  "cm_sequence_id": "0"
}
time:  The exchange-reported time in ISO 8601 date-time format. Always with nanoseconds precision.

asset: The id of the asset.

ask_price: The price of the ask order in units of the quote currency as determined by the aggregation method.

ask_size: The size of the ask order in units of the base asset as determined by the aggregation method.

bid_price: The price of the bid order in units of the quote currency as determined by the aggregation method.

bid_size: The size of the bid order in units of the base asset as determined by the aggregation method.

mid_price: The average of the ask_price and bid_price.

spread: The bid-ask spread in raw units.

cm_sequence_id: The sequence id number of the websocket message.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the constituent markets used in the calculation?
Coin Metrics uses our Trusted Exchange Framework v2.0 to seelct a set of high-quality and trustworthy exchanges in selection of our constituent markets. The set of exchanges includes Bitstamp, Coinbase, Bitfinex, Binance, Gemini, Kraken, OKEx, Huobi, Binance.US, KuCoin, LMAX, and Bybit. 
Coin Metrics performed an analysis of the distribution of volume across markets with different quote currencies and selected all major quote currencies such that we capture over 95 percent of the available volume for each asset. The selected quote currencies are: usd, usdt, usdc, busd, eur, try. 
All markets from trusted exchanges for which the given asset is the base asset and the quote asset is listed above are selected.
How often is the data updated?
Our websocket API will send a new message once every 250 milliseconds.
Release History
CM Market Data Feed v2.8 on May 2023.
Availability
The asset quotes are currently available for the following assets: btc, eth, ltc, xrp, bnb, usdt, trx link, doge, usdc, ada, atom, matic, dai, sol, dot, avax, uni.
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