Data sources & methodology

General educational information drawn from readily available public sources—issuers, funds, regulators, and official publications. Cache with timestamps; respect terms of use and rate limits; never invent series. Issuer figures last retrieved Oct 8, 2026 (PT).

Publish rules

Label approximate or secondary figures; use “approx — verify live” chips for VERIFY-LIVE stats.
Show as-of dates in America/Los_Angeles (PT) for editorial snapshots.
Quote issuer and fund figures with the issuer’s own label, the source, and its as-of date.
Never add issuers or funds together into a market total, and don’t compare figures with different dates as if they were the same.
Show tokenized-RWA figures fund by fund; Crypency does not publish a market-wide tokenized-RWA total.
Republish figures only from issuers, funds, regulators, and official publications, or from data providers whose terms allow it, with attribution.
Named firms are illustrative—not endorsements.

Market data

• CoinGecko / CoinMarketCap — prices, mcap, dominance
• Exchange official APIs — venue spot checks

On-chain / DeFi / L2

• Protocol dashboards & docs — deposits / TVL as each protocol publishes them, with as-of dates
• L2BEAT — L2 security models & risk framing
• Dune / Token Terminal — custom & fundamentals
• DefiLlama — referenced for methodology and background reading only; its figures are not republished on Crypency

Stablecoins & RWAs

• Issuer transparency pages & attestations (Circle, Tether, Paxos) — stablecoin supply and reserves
• Fund & issuer pages (Franklin Templeton, Ondo, Securitize investor relations) — tokenized fund figures, fund by fund
• Visa / Mastercard newsrooms — settlement milestones
• RWA.xyz — referenced for methodology and background reading only; its figures are not republished on Crypency

ETF & institutional

• SoSoValue / Farside / issuer sites — ETF flows & AUM
• CoinShares Digital Asset Fund Flows

Policy & CBDC

• BIS / BIS Innovation Hub
• ECB digital euro hub
• Federal Reserve (FedNow ≠ CBDC)
• Atlantic Council CBDC tracker (verify vs primary)
• CRS reports

Regulation

• EUR-Lex / ESMA — MiCA
• Congress.gov / Federal Register — GENIUS & rules
• FCA, MAS, SFC — national regimes