Question 1

What is the Fear & Greed Index?

Accepted Answer

The Crypto Fear & Greed Index is a daily score from 0 to 100 that summarizes overall market sentiment using volatility, momentum, social media activity, dominance, and search trends. Values near 0 indicate "Extreme Fear" (investors are panicking), while values near 100 indicate "Extreme Greed" (investors may be overly optimistic). It is a sentiment gauge, not a trading signal.

Question 2

What is a funding rate?

Accepted Answer

Funding rate is a periodic payment (typically every 8 hours) exchanged between long and short traders on perpetual futures contracts. A positive rate means longs pay shorts, signaling bullish leverage demand; a negative rate means shorts pay longs, signaling bearish leverage demand. It keeps the perpetual contract price anchored to the spot price.

Question 3

What are Bitcoin network fees (sat/vB)?

Accepted Answer

Bitcoin transaction fees are priced in satoshis per virtual byte (sat/vB) and represent how much you pay miners to include your transaction in a block. Fees rise when the mempool (the queue of unconfirmed transactions) is congested. The "fastest" tier targets next-block confirmation, while "30 min" and "1 hr" tiers accept slightly longer waits for lower fees.

Question 4

What is the Bitcoin halving?

Accepted Answer

The Bitcoin halving is a protocol event that occurs every 210,000 blocks (roughly every four years) and cuts the block reward paid to miners in half, reducing new BTC issuance. It is a core part of Bitcoin's fixed 21 million supply schedule. The countdown here estimates the remaining blocks and date based on the current block height and average block time.

Question 5

What is open interest?

Accepted Answer

Open interest is the total notional value of outstanding (not yet closed) futures or perpetual contracts on an exchange. Rising open interest alongside rising price often signals new money entering a trend, while falling open interest can indicate position unwinding or reduced leverage in the market.

Question 6

How often does this page update?

Accepted Answer

The dashboard automatically refreshes every 60 seconds while the tab is active, pulling from cached upstream data (mempool.space, Binance Futures, Alternative.me, CoinGecko, and DefiLlama). Some metrics, like the Fear & Greed Index and halving progress, only change once per day upstream even though the page checks more frequently.

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