Liquidity
How easily an asset can be bought or sold without moving its price — deep liquidity means tighter, safer trading.
Liquidity is how easily an asset can be bought or sold without moving its price. Bitcoin is deeply liquid — million-dollar orders barely register. A small token might drop 10% from a single modest sell order because so few buyers are waiting on the other side.
Practical signals of liquidity include 24-hour trading volume (shown in our coin tables), the bid–ask spread, and — in DeFi — the size of a token’s liquidity pools. Low liquidity cuts both ways: it amplifies price swings, makes large exits expensive (“slippage”), and is a common feature of scam tokens whose creators control most of the supply.