The crypto calendar

Macro releases come from the publishers’ own schedules: the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Census Bureau, the Federal Reserve, the ECB and the Bank of England. Token unlocks are worked out from each project’s own published vesting rules, with the sources linked on every token page. Options expiries follow Deribit’s rule (08:00 UTC on the last Friday of the month), and the halving date is estimated from the current block height.

For macro releases it reflects how much bitcoin has tended to move afterwards: CPI and FOMC days moved it more than an ordinary day since 2022, so they are marked high, as are jobs reports, which the market watches as closely. For token unlocks it is the size against the circulating supply: 2% or more is high, 0.5% to 2% medium. It is a rough guide to attention, not a forecast.

To the day, not the hour. Vesting schedules are usually set by the day of the month, and teams sometimes release tokens hours earlier or later, or change a schedule. Check the project’s own announcement before acting on a date.

Your own: the calendar reads your device’s time zone and converts every release to it, and you can switch to UTC. Each release page also gives the publisher’s local time, such as 8:30 a.m. Eastern for US data.

Yes. Subscribe in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook with the links on this page, and new dates arrive on their own. Each release page has its own feed if you only want, say, CPI.

No. Unlocked tokens can be sold, which is why traders watch large ones, but many recipients hold, stake or have sold forward already. The price effect, if any, depends on who receives the tokens and on the market at the time. In our study of more than 300 past unlocks, the week after an unlock looked like an ordinary week against bitcoin; only unlocks above 2% of the max supply stood out, mostly in the week before.