Annual On-Chain Transaction BTC Volume: Vital But Missing Statistic!

[caroasi]

Money velocity metrics are important measures of a currencies underlying value as a medium of exchange. So, knowing the on-chain exchange volume measured in BTC is important for Bitcoin as it is for every cryptocurrency, but I don't see that data anywhere.

I looked for 2025 on-chain BTC transaction volume and failed at finding that data. I was able to find one chart of BTC transaction volume but it included the change to the sending address, which makes the data wildly misleading. It was also only a daily chart without apparent links or methods for annual data.

[Yamane_Keto]

Glassnode has all onchain BTC data. A little of this data is available for free, and you can get everything you want with a paid subscription (Professional and Research Professional Subscription Plans). Its prices are a little high, so you will not get this data for free.

[caroasi]

Glassnode has all onchain BTC data. A little of this data is available for free, and you can get everything you want with a paid subscription (Professional and Research Professional Subscription Plans). Its prices are a little high, so you will not get this data for free.

I do see they have weekly data measured in USD, but not annual data measured in BTC. So, how can you be so sure they have that data?

I was able to find this: https://studio.glassnode.com/charts/transactions.TransfersVolumeSum?a=BTC&resolution=24h&s=1760102235&u=1775827035&upgradePlan=advanced&zoom=182

But, it isn't clear if they subtract out the returning change or not, which is essential for the accurate number.

[rat03gopoh]

I do see they have weekly data measured in USD, but not annual data measured in BTC. So, how can you be so sure they have that data?

There must be a way to aggregate it into annual data.

Another resource you can use for free is blockchair, making database adjustments with the chart constructor feature before downloading the file (I haven't explored it comprehensively)

https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/charts/transaction-volume-usd

[arzuo]

It's true that viewing the data is a bit complicated!
Due to the internal workings of onchain,
especially in the case of change output or self-transfers, there is a lot of inflation, which is why the total transaction volume is often omitted, which is instead shown in the adjusted matrix.

But you can collect your data series from
Glasnode,
Coin Matrix and
CryptoQuant!

But you have to use the right filters, as far as I know Coin Matrix displays adjusted data transfers here!

[buwaytress]

I think this even used to be easier to look for, but just trying now I see many have put this behind paywalls. Glassnode as I recall used to be able to filter out change address txs (or sweeping also), but yeah, quite difficult at least on cursory glance. Something I didn't see before is Bitbo looks interesting, but also paywalled (lots of free charts but trading focused).