Bitcoin vs Gold Market Cap

Bitcoin's total market capitalization against gold's, and the share of gold Bitcoin has already taken.

Bitcoin market cap, gold market cap, and Bitcoin's market cap expressed as a percentage of gold's. Gold is the reference monetary asset Bitcoin is most often measured against, so the percentage line tracks how much of that market Bitcoin now represents.

How to call

Request format

GET
curl -X GET "https://newhedge.io/api/v2/metrics/bitcoin-vs-gold-market-cap/METRIC_NAME?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN"
Query params

api_token (required) — 24 character token.

resolution (optional) — day1 (default), hour12, hour4, hour1, 30mn, 10mn. Finer buckets are served to Advanced and Enterprise accounts; see Resolutions.

before (optional) — exclusive cursor, returns observations older than this timestamp_ms. Finer resolutions only.

limit (optional) — page size for finer resolutions. Default 2500, maximum 5000. Ignored for day1.

Path params

:metric_name — one of the metric names listed below.

Responses

200 with JSON payload, 401 for missing/invalid token, 404 for missing resources.

Metrics

Each metric is fetched independently. Responses are trimmed samples to show structure.

3 metrics
Metric

BTC Marketcap

Data used by the Bitcoin vs Gold Market Cap chart.

Endpoint
https://newhedge.io/api/v2/metrics/bitcoin-vs-gold-market-cap/btc_marketcap?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN

Replace `YOUR_TOKEN` with your API token.

Sample response
200 Successful response
[
  [
    1786838400000,
    1260993184914.375
  ],
  [
    1786924800000,
    1294526301990.25
  ],
  [
    1787011200000,
    1298516372524.844
  ]
]
Metric

Gold Marketcap USD

Data used by the Bitcoin vs Gold Market Cap chart.

Endpoint
https://newhedge.io/api/v2/metrics/bitcoin-vs-gold-market-cap/gold_marketcap?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN

Replace `YOUR_TOKEN` with your API token.

Sample response
200 Successful response
[
  [
    1786838400000,
    31643558527673.86
  ],
  [
    1786924800000,
    31649166820295.48
  ],
  [
    1787011200000,
    31619071432137.12
  ]
]
Metric

BTC Mcap Pct Of Gold

Data used by the Bitcoin vs Gold Market Cap chart.

Endpoint
https://newhedge.io/api/v2/metrics/bitcoin-vs-gold-market-cap/btc_mcap_pct_of_gold?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN

Replace `YOUR_TOKEN` with your API token.

Sample response
200 Successful response
[
  [
    1786838400000,
    3.984991712646901
  ],
  [
    1786924800000,
    4.090238170693696
  ],
  [
    1787011200000,
    4.106750494908755
  ]
]