Burnt Supply

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• Total Base Fees Burnt

Total Base Fees Burnt

Definition

The total Base Fees paid for transactions during a time interval (e.g. 1 day).

The concept of a Base Fee was introduced as part of EIP-1559 and it represents the portion of the total transaction fees that is destroyed and taken out of circulation (i.e. burnt). Ethereum post-1559 requires users to pay for a Base Fee as a prerequisite to include transactions in a block. The Base Fee can go up or down on the basis of the size (in gas units) of the previous block. In times of congestion, where blocks are sequentially increasing in size, paying a Base Fee does not guarantee that a transaction will be included in a block. In such events, users can optionally pay an additional Miner Tip to nudge miners to include their transactions in their block.

Name	MetricID	Unit	Interval
Total Base Fees Burnt (USD)	SplyBurntUSD	USD	1 day, 1 hour
Total Base Fees Burnt (Native Units)	SplyBurntNtv	USD	1 day, 1 hour

Details

• EIP1559 was a highly anticipated proposal that changes how transaction fees are priced in Ethereum, as well as the dynamics of block sizes.

• The proposal activated on the Ethereum Network in August of 2021 and marks one of the biggest changes in monetary policy in the history of cryptoassets.

• Instead of the legacy gas price, 1559 splits transaction fees into two distinct fields: a Base Fee and an optional Tip (also known as a Priority Fee).

• This metric calculates the total Base Fees paid in transactions that have occurred in the network over the measuring period (e.g. 1 day).

• For a thorough review of EIP1559 and the design of its pricing mechanism, please refer to this paper.

Asset Specific Details

• For SOL, this metric is calculated as the sum of the burnt portion of fees paid (50% of all fees paid in the time period) and all incinerated coins/tokens. Does not include coins/tokens sent to ownerless addresses.

Interpretation

• Base Fees fluctuate on the basis of network utilization. If there is high demand for transaction settlement, Base Fees go up, and as demand fades, Base Fees go down.

• The pricing of Base Fees is inextricably connected to size of blocks in the blockchain. Upon the the activation fo EIP-1559, the maximum size of blocks in Ethereum (measured in units of gas) was more than doubled to 30M.

• Although blocks are larger, this pricing mechanism attempts to target an average of 15M gas units per block, and an exponential function is used to increase or decrease Base Fees so that this target is hit.

• If, for example, the previous block was above 15M units of gas, the base fee is increased. If there are several sequential blocks above the 15M target, Base Fees increase exponentially which disincentivizes users from transacting.

• Changes in Base Fees over time can depict changes in demand for block space. When miner tips have to be used due to Base Fees not being enough, this is a sign of network congestion.

Release History

• Released in the 5.0 release of NDP (August, 2021)

Availability for Assets

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API Endpoints

Burnt Supply metrics can be accessed using these endpoints:

• timeseries/asset-metrics

and by passing in the metric ID's SplyBurnt* in the metrics parameter.

Asset metrics

get

Returns requested metrics for specified assets. Results for block by block metrics (1b frequency) are ordered by tuple (asset, height, block_hash), all other metrics are ordered by tuple (asset, time). You can change the sorting using sort query parameter. Supported output formats are json (default) and csv, use format query parameter to override it. To fetch the next page of results use next_page_url JSON response field or x-next-page-url CSV HTTP header if present. If multiple metrics are requested in the same time the strict policy for partially available metrics among requested ones is applied:

Authorizations

Query parameters

assetsstring[]required

Comma separated list of assets. Use the /catalog-all/assets endpoint for the full list of supported assets or specify asterisk (*) in order to get metrics for all supported assets.

metricsstring[]required

Comma separated metrics to request time series data for. Information on all available metrics can be found on page https://coverage.coinmetrics.io/asset-metrics-v2. Use the /catalog-all/metrics or /catalog-all/assets endpoint for the full list of supported metrics per asset.

Example: ["AdrActCnt","BlkHgt"]

frequencystring · default: "1d"optional

Frequency of the metrics. Supported values are 1b (block by block), 1s (one second), 1m (one minute), 5m (five minutes), 10m (ten minutes), 1h (one hour), 1d (one day), 1d-ny-close (one day at New York close time). Please refer to the /catalog/metrics endpoint for the full list. Use the /catalog-all/assets endpoint for the full list of supported frequencies per asset-metric pair.

Example: 1b

statusstring · enum · default: "all"optional

Which metric values do you want to see. Applicable only for "reviewable" metrics. You can find them in the /catalog/metrics endpoint.

Available options:

start_timestringoptional

Start of the time interval. This field refers to the time field in the response. Multiple formats of ISO 8601 are supported: 2006-01-20T00:00:00Z, 2006-01-20T00:00:00.000Z, 2006-01-20T00:00:00.123456Z, 2006-01-20T00:00:00.123456789Z, 2006-01-20, 20060120. Inclusive by default. Mutually exclusive with start_height and start_hash. UTC timezone by default. Z suffix is optional and timezone parameter has a priority over it. If start_time is omitted, response will include time series from the earliest time available.

end_timestringoptional

End of the time interval. This field refers to the time field in the response. Multiple formats of ISO 8601 are supported: 2006-01-20T00:00:00Z, 2006-01-20T00:00:00.000Z, 2006-01-20T00:00:00.123456Z, 2006-01-20T00:00:00.123456789Z, 2006-01-20, 20060120. Inclusive by default. Mutually exclusive with end_height and end_hash. UTC timezone by default. Z suffix is optional and timezone parameter has a priority over it. If end_time is omitted, response will include time series up to the latest time available.

start_heightinteger · int64optional

The start height indicates the beginning block height for the set of data that are returned. Inclusive by default. Mutually exclusive with start_time and start_hash.

end_heightinteger · int64optional

The end height indicates the ending block height for the set of data that are returned. Inclusive by default. Mutually exclusive with end_time and end_hash. This parameter is disabled for Community users.

start_hashstringoptional

The start hash indicates the beginning block height for the set of data that are returned. Inclusive by default. Mutually exclusive with start_time and start_height.

end_hashstringoptional

The end hash indicates the ending block height for the set of data that are returned. Inclusive by default. Mutually exclusive with end_time and end_height.

start_inclusiveboolean · default: trueoptional

Inclusive or exclusive corresponding start_* parameters.

end_inclusiveboolean · default: trueoptional

Inclusive or exclusive corresponding end_* parameters.

min_confirmationsinteger · int32 · max: 99optional

Specifies how many blocks behind the chain tip block by block metrics (1b frequency) are based on. Default for btc is 2 and 99 for eth. For example, a min_confirmations of 0 means metrics are being calculated for the block at the tip of the chain (the latest block received by our node) whereas a min_confirmations of 6 means that metrics are being applied to the block that is 6 blocks behind the chain tip (i.e., the 7th block if the chain tip is block 1).

timezonestring · default: "UTC"optional

Timezone name for start_time and end_time timestamps. This parameter does not modify the output times, which are always UTC. Format is defined by TZ database.

Example: America/New_York

page_sizeinteger · int32 · min: 1 · max: 10000 · default: 100optional

Number of items per single page of results. The value of this parameter is ignored if the endpoint supports the format parameter and its value is set to json_stream.

paging_fromstring · enum · default: "end"optional

Where does the first page start, at the start of the interval or at the end. The value of this parameter is ignored if the endpoint supports the format parameter and its value is set to json_stream.

Available options:

sortstring · enum · default: "asset"optional

How results will be sorted. Metrics with 1b frequency are sorted by (asset, height, block_hash) tuples by default. Metrics with other frequencies are sorted by (asset, time) by default. If you want to sort 1d metrics by (time, asset) you should choose time as value for the sort parameter. Sorting by time is useful if you request metrics for a set of assets.

Available options:

limit_per_assetinteger · int32optional

How many entries per asset result should contain. For example, this combination of parameters assets=btc,eth&metrics=ReferenceRate&limit_per_asset=1 returns the latest ReferenceRate values for btc and eth.

prettyboolean · default: falseoptional

Human-readable formatting of JSON responses.

formatstring · enum · default: "json"optional

Format of the response.

Available options:

null_as_zeroboolean · default: falseoptional

Nulls are represented as zeros in the response.

next_page_tokenstringoptional

Token for receiving the results from the next page of a query. Should not be used directly. To iterate through pages just use next_page_url response field.

ignore_forbidden_errorsboolean · default: falseoptional

Ignore "forbidden" errors for the items you currently don't have access to.

ignore_unsupported_errorsboolean · default: falseoptional

Ignore "unsupported" errors for not currently supported by Coin Metrics items.

Responses

application/jsontext/csv

application/json

application/json

application/json

cURL

JavaScript

Python

HTTP

cURL

curl -L \
  --url 'https://api.coinmetrics.io/v4/timeseries/asset-metrics?assets=text&metrics=AdrActCnt'

200

400

401

403

414

200

application/json

text/csv

application/json

Example of a message with daily metrics.

Example of a message with block by block metrics.

Example of a message with 1s metrics.

Example of a message with daily metrics.

{
  "data": [
    {
      "asset": "btc",
      "time": "2020-02-29T00:00:00.000000000Z",
      "PriceUSD": "8582.09029964933",
      "SplyBMXNtv": "283220.10827406",
      "SplyBMXNtv-status": "reviewed",
      "SplyBMXNtv-status-time": "2020-03-01T09:59:13.847251000Z"
    },
    {
      "asset": "btc",
      "time": "2020-03-01T00:00:00.000000000Z",
      "PriceUSD": "8541.77389392169",
      "SplyBMXNtv": "284691.32323907",
      "SplyBMXNtv-status": "reviewed",
      "SplyBMXNtv-status-time": "2020-03-02T14:00:02.622168000Z"
    }
  ],
  "next_page_token": "0.MjAyMC0wNi0wN1QwMDowMDowMFo,MjAyMC0wNi0wN1QwMDowMDowMFo",
  "next_page_url": "https://api.coinmetrics.io/v4/timeseries/asset-metrics?api_key=<your_key>&pretty=true&assets=btc&metrics=SplyBMXNtv,PriceUSD&page_size=2&next_page_token=0.MjAyMC0wNi0wN1QwMDowMDowMFo,MjAyMC0wNi0wN1QwMDowMDowMFo"
}

Time series of metrics for an asset.

Shell

curl --compressed "https://api.coinmetrics.io/v4/timeseries/asset-metrics?metrics=SplyBurntNtv&assets=eth&pretty=true&api_key=<your_key>"

Python

import requests
response = requests.get('https://api.coinmetrics.io/v4/timeseries/asset-metrics?metrics=SplyBurntNtv&assets=eth&pretty=true&api_key=<your_key>').json()
print(response)

Python Client

from coinmetrics.api_client import CoinMetricsClient

api_key = "<API_KEY>"
client = CoinMetricsClient(api_key)

print(
    client.get_asset_metrics(
        metrics="SplyBurntNtv", 
        assets="eth",
    ).to_dataframe()
)