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BITCOIN SPOT TRADING VOLUME

How much Bitcoin actually changes hands?

What people bought and sold on the exchanges we record, day by day, back to Bitcoin's first years.

Usually daily
Money traded in Bitcoin each day, by date chartmaketomaketo.com/bitcoin/market-activity$0.1$1$10$100$1,000$10.0K$100.0K$1.00M$10.00M$100.00M$1.00B$10.00B$100.00B20112013201520172019202120232025Sep 4, 2026$3.08B

Money traded each day. Bought and sold on the exchanges we record, every settled day since Aug 18, 2011, on a scale that rises by powers of ten so the early years stay visible. Days with nothing recorded are gaps, never zeroes.

Latest displayed reading: $3,079,260,054.46 on Sep 4, 2026. This view shows 5,464 dated readings from Aug 18, 2011 to Sep 4, 2026. The latest displayed reading is higher than the first. The displayed low is $0.34 on Aug 22, 2011. The displayed high is $23,320,487,803.9 on May 19, 2021. 33 days in this range have no reading.

Pick two to four dates and read this chart's values side by side.

  1. How much changed hands?

    $3.08 billion

    On Sep 4, 2026, $3.08 billion of Bitcoin was bought and sold across the 5 exchanges this page records.

    Coins first, then valued at the price they traded at. A busy day says people were trading, not which way they were leaning.

  2. Is that busy or quiet for Bitcoin?

    That is 1.65 times a normal recent day, which makes it busier than usual.

    Quietest day of the yearBusiest day of the year

    Busier than 61% of the past 365 days

    $1.87 billion on a normal recent day30 days is what normal means here

    Those two readings can disagree, and often do. Trading days are lopsided: a handful of enormous ones drag the average up while most days sit well below it, so a day can be comfortably above a normal day and still be an unremarkable one for the year. The multiple tells you about this week. The bar tells you about the year.

  3. Which exchanges carry the trading?

    Coins traded each month, by exchange

    Usually daily
    Monthly Bitcoin traded at each exchange chartmaketomaketo.com/bitcoin/market-activity101001,00010.0K100.0K1.00M10.00M20112013201520172019202120232025NOW12.2K BTC
    BitstampCoinbaseBinanceOKXKraken

    Coins, not dollars. Each line starts the month that exchange began reporting, so a line that is absent from the early years had not started trading yet rather than traded nothing. Counting coins keeps a month in Bitcoin’s early years comparable with one now, which dollars would not.

    Bitstamp. Latest displayed reading: 9,220 BTC on Sep 1, 2026. This view shows 182 dated readings from Aug 1, 2011 to Sep 1, 2026. The latest displayed reading is higher than the first. The displayed low is 7 BTC on Aug 1, 2011. The displayed high is 965,987 BTC on Nov 1, 2013. 5,329 days in this range have no reading.

    Coinbase. Latest displayed reading: 30,259 BTC on Sep 1, 2026. This view shows 134 dated readings from Aug 1, 2015 to Sep 1, 2026. The latest displayed reading is lower than the first. The displayed low is 30,259 BTC on Sep 1, 2026. The displayed high is 1,136,924 BTC on Jan 1, 2021. 3,916 days in this range have no reading.

    Binance. Latest displayed reading: 66,207 BTC on Sep 1, 2026. This view shows 110 dated readings from Aug 1, 2017 to Sep 1, 2026. The latest displayed reading is higher than the first. The displayed low is 10,016 BTC on Aug 1, 2017. The displayed high is 9,838,931 BTC on Sep 1, 2022. 3,209 days in this range have no reading.

    OKX. Latest displayed reading: 26,279 BTC on Sep 1, 2026. This view shows 105 dated readings from Jan 1, 2018 to Sep 1, 2026. The latest displayed reading is lower than the first. The displayed low is 26,279 BTC on Sep 1, 2026. The displayed high is 2,855,289 BTC on Mar 1, 2020. 3,061 days in this range have no reading.

    Kraken (selected). Latest displayed reading: 12,168 BTC on Sep 1, 2026. This view shows 4 dated readings from Jun 1, 2026 to Sep 1, 2026. The latest displayed reading is lower than the first. The displayed low is 12,168 BTC on Sep 1, 2026. The displayed high is 63,313 BTC on Aug 1, 2026. 89 days in this range have no reading.

    Pick two to four dates and read this chart's values side by side.

  4. How is that split right now?

    47.9%
    21.7%
    17.4%
    7.0%
    6.1%
    47.9% Binance
    21.7% Coinbase
    17.4% OKX
    7.0% Kraken
    6.1% Bitstamp

    Coins traded over the past 30 days, from Aug 6, 2026. A month rather than a single day, because one exchange taking a few hours off would otherwise rewrite the whole picture. Shares are only worth reading from Aug 2015 onward, which is when a second exchange started reporting.

  5. Do weekends look different?

    $2.59 billion
    on an average weekday
    $1.51 billion
    on an average weekend day
    58%
    of a weekday, on a weekend day
    Mon
    Tue
    Wed
    Thu
    Fri
    Sat
    Sun

    Bitcoin itself never closes. The people trading it mostly keep office hours, and the five weekdays are near enough identical while both weekend days drop away. Measured from Aug 17, 2015, the first day at least two exchanges were reporting.

  6. What about bets on the price?

    Not counted here yet. Alongside coins genuinely changing hands there is a much larger market in side bets on the price, and we do not measure its size at present. So treat this page as the floor of Bitcoin's trading activity rather than the whole of it.

  7. What does this mean for you?

    Read it as attendance, not as a verdict. A big number means a lot of people showed up to trade, which is worth knowing when a price move happens: the same move on a quiet day and a busy day are not the same event. It will not tell you which way anybody was leaning.

    Two things to keep in mind. This counts 5 exchanges we record ourselves, not every venue in the world, so it is a floor rather than a total. And the number of exchanges behind it has grown over the years, which is why the count sits beside the reading instead of being quietly folded in.

Understanding Bitcoin Spot Trading Volume

Where it stands today

Bitcoin Spot Trading Volume is $3.08 B traded in a day as of .

Spot trading is the plain kind of buying and selling. Money for coins, the coins are yours, nothing is borrowed and nothing settles later. This page counts how much of that happened in a day. It counts the coins first and values them at the price they traded at, which is why the same day can be a big one in coins and an ordinary one in dollars.

It is not the whole market, and the page says so on purpose. Bitcoin trades on hundreds of venues, many of them reporting figures nobody can check, and a total that quietly folds those in is a total nobody should trust. What is counted here is a set of large exchanges we record ourselves every day, and how many of them stand behind a number travels with it.

That set has grown. It began with a single exchange in Bitcoin's early years and takes in more as each one starts trading and starts publishing figures worth reading. So a day in the early years and a day now are not quite the same measurement, which is why the count is shown rather than smoothed away. The share each exchange carries is drawn only for the stretch where at least two were reporting, because a lone exchange is always all of itself.

Two things this is not. It is not a direction. A busy day tells you people were trading, not which way they were leaning, and heavy buying and heavy selling look identical here. And it does not count side bets on the price, only coins genuinely changing hands. Those bets trade in far larger amounts than the coins do, so this page is deliberately smaller than the market's full activity.