Research Reports

Exchange Review - February 2025

CoinDesk Data's monthly Exchange Review captures the key developments within the cryptocurrency exchange market. The report includes analyses that relate to exchange volumes, crypto derivatives trading, market segmentation by fees, fiat trading, and more.

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Stablecoins & CBDCs Report - February 2025

CoinDesk Data's Stablecoins & CBDCs Report analyzes recent developments with market cap, trading volumes, peg deviations and regulatory insights.

Stablecoins & CBDCs Report - February 2025

MiCAR: The Institutional Playbook for Europe’s Digital Asset Market

This report from CoinDesk Data explores key trends shaping the European digital asset market and the harmonisation of crypto-asset policies across the EU with MiCAR.

MiCAR Institutional Playbook sponsored by Zodia

Exchange Review - January 2025

CoinDesk Data's monthly Exchange Review captures the key developments within the cryptocurrency exchange market. The report includes analyses that relate to exchange volumes, crypto derivatives trading, market segmentation by fees, fiat trading, and more.

Exchange Review - January 2025

Stablecoins & CBDCs Report - January 2025

CoinDesk Data's Stablecoins & CBDCs Report provides readers with a comprehensive analysis of the latest developments surrounding stablecoins and CBDCs, featuring data-driven insights into market capitalisation, trading volumes, peg deviations, regulatory changes, and more.

Stablecoins and CBDCs - January 2025

Exchange Benchmark - November 2024

CoinDesk Data's Exchange Benchmark is the industry standard for ranking the risk associated with the digital asset exchange sector. The report is backed by thousands of hours of research and encompasses more than 100 qualitative and quantitative metrics.

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CoinDesk 2021 Annual Crypto Review

Thanks to 2021, most people have at least heard of crypto by now – not just Bitcoin and Ethereum, but altcoins like DOGE and SHIB, as well as terms like NFTs and the metaverse. In CoinDesk Research’s 2021 Annual Crypto Review, we aim to summarize some of the key themes and metrics that marked the past year’s progress in cryptocurrency markets.

The CoinDesk 2021 Annual Crypto Review looks back on how crypto markets fared last year.

An In-Depth Look Into the Lightning Network as a Bitcoin Scaling Solution

CoinDesk Research presents its latest Bitcoin report on the aspirations of the Lightning Network to scale Bitcoin.

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A Deep Dive Into Lightning as a Bitcoin Scaling Solution

The Lightning Network is often cited as a potential solution for the Bitcoin scaling problem - this report provides a summary of Lightning, outlines the metrics that can give insight and dives into potential vulnerabilities which might hinder broader adoption. The report culminates in providing the thoughts of multiple Lightning developers on what needs to happen to best push Lightning adoption in the future.

A Deep Dive Into Lightning Network