Bullish releases April 2026 monthly metrics

Key Terms

spot financial

Spot is the current market price for buying or selling an asset for immediate delivery, like paying the listed price for fruit and taking it home right away. It matters to investors because it shows the real-time value of a stock, commodity or currency and serves as the baseline for trading decisions, comparing with prices for future delivery and assessing short-term gains, risks and hedging needs.

stablecoin financial

A stablecoin is a type of digital currency designed to keep its value steady, often by being backed by traditional assets like money or commodities. For investors, stablecoins offer a reliable way to move money quickly across digital platforms without the value fluctuations common with other cryptocurrencies, making them useful for saving, trading, or transferring funds with less risk of sudden losses.

perpetual financial

Perpetual describes a financial instrument or obligation that has no fixed end date and can continue indefinitely unless the issuer chooses to end it. For investors, that means there is no scheduled return of principal, so value depends on ongoing payments, issuer stability and market interest rates—similar to receiving rent from a property with no set sale date. Perpetual instruments often pay higher yields to compensate for that open-ended risk.

bps financial

bps stands for "basis points," a unit equal to one hundredth of a percentage point (0.01%). Investors and analysts use bps to describe small changes in interest rates, yields, fees, or margins without confusing decimals — for example, a 50 bps move means a 0.50% change. Using bps makes it easier to compare and communicate tiny but meaningful shifts that can significantly affect bond prices, loan costs, or investment returns.

CAYMAN ISLANDS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Bullish (NYSE: BLSH), an institutionally focused global digital asset platform that provides market infrastructure and information services, released its monthly metrics for April 2026 on Thursday, May 7, 2026.

	2025													2026
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec		Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
(B - in billions)
Trading Volume ($B)
Spot - BTC	34.6	30.9	43.2	39.2	32.8	19.9	20.8	18.2	16.4	38.2	38.4	25.9		22.5	41.8	29.1	20.9
Spot - ETH	18.3	19.2	14.9	10.9	12.0	9.5	11.1	12.8	8.8	15.1	14.1	9.6		8.4	12.9	8.0	5.4
Spot - Stablecoin	19.4	20.9	17.0	13.3	10.3	8.1	12.9	8.6	8.1	19.6	18.4	13.8		11.2	19.0	13.2	9.6
Spot - Other	4.8	3.8	2.7	2.2	2.6	2.4	4.0	4.6	4.1	4.6	4.4	2.9		3.4	3.7	2.7	2.1
Total Spot	77.1	74.8	77.7	65.5	57.6	39.9	48.8	44.3	37.3	77.5	75.3	52.2		45.4	77.4	52.9	38.0
Options								0.0	0.0	0.0	2.8	6.2		4.8	3.6	3.2	5.6
Perpetual	6.6	7.8	8.0	6.8	5.8	4.1	5.0	4.6	2.2	3.0	2.7	2.6		2.0	3.1	4.4	3.4
Total Trading Volume	83.7	82.5	85.7	72.3	63.4	44.0	53.8	48.8	39.6	80.5	80.8	61.1		52.2	84.1	60.4	46.9
Average Trading Spread (bps)
Spot	2.14	1.97	1.87	1.65	1.55	1.58	1.76	2.55	1.96	1.75	1.94	1.82		1.74	2.22	2.01	2.05
Options								1.00	0.93	1.29	1.34	1.66		1.95	2.42	1.86	2.50
Perpetual	(1.06)	(1.41)	(2.38)	(1.47)	(0.86)	(1.22)	(0.80)	(0.65)	0.21	(2.67)	(0.13)	(0.30)		(0.61)	0.37	0.09	(0.08)
Average Trading Spread	1.90	1.65	1.47	1.36	1.32	1.32	1.52	2.25	1.86	1.59	1.85	1.71		1.67	2.16	1.86	1.95
Monthly Average Volatility
BTC	48%	44%	50%	44%	33%	28%	27%	28%	23%	38%	45%	39%		33%	61%	48%	35%
ETH	60%	78%	69%	70%	67%	54%	54%	60%	42%	58%	68%	53%		46%	82%	60%1	44%
* Figures presented may not sum precisely due to rounding
1The March 2026 ETH volatility figure has been revised from 46% to 60% to reflect updated market data; no Bullish financial metrics were affected.

These metrics include trading volume, average trading spread, and measures of volatility for Bitcoin and Ethereum. For definitions and additional information regarding these metrics, please refer to the monthly metrics packages available on investors.bullish.com.

About Bullish

Bullish (NYSE: BLSH) is an institutionally focused global digital asset platform that provides regulated market infrastructure and information services. This includes Bullish Exchange – an institutionally focused digital assets spot and derivatives exchange, integrating a high-performance central limit order book matching engine with automated market making to provide deep and predictable liquidity. Bullish Europe is regulated under MiCAR as a crypto asset service provider offering spot trading and custody services for digital assets.

Bullish is the parent company of CoinDesk, a leading provider of digital asset media and information services. CoinDesk's offerings include: CoinDesk Indices – a collection of tradable proprietary and single-asset benchmarks and indices that track the performance of digital assets for global institutions in the digital assets and traditional finance industries; CoinDesk Data – a broad suite of digital asset market data and analytics, providing real-time insights into prices, trends and market dynamics; and CoinDesk Insights – a digital asset media and events provider and operator of coindesk.com, a digital media platform that covers news and insights about digital assets, the underlying markets, policy and blockchain technology.

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Additional Information & Disclosures

This monthly metrics package provides certain limited purpose monthly performance results of Bullish. This information is presented without commentary and should be read together with our most recent quarterly and annual results and our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which are available on our Investor Relations website at investors.bullish.com.

The information provided is unaudited and the information for the months in the most recent fiscal quarter is preliminary, based on our estimates and subject to completion of our financial closing procedures. Final results for the quarter, as reported in our SEC filings, might vary from the information provided in this monthly metrics package.

Bullish expects to release monthly metrics packages for the prior month’s performance after the end of each month.

We use our Investor Relations website (investors.bullish.com) and our X account (x.com/bullish) to publicize information relevant to investors, including information that may be deemed material, in addition to filings we make with the SEC and press releases. We encourage investors to regularly review the information posted on our website and X account in addition to our SEC filings and press releases to be informed of the latest developments.

Definitions

Trading Volume represents the notional value of trades, i.e. the product of the quantity of assets transacted and the trade price at the time the transaction was executed. The quantity represents the total U.S. dollar equivalent value of matched trades transacted between a buyer and seller through our platform during the period of measurement.

Average Trading Spread represents total commissions earned from transactions on the Bullish Exchange for the period, expressed as a percentage of the trading volume for the period. Management reviews this metric, which reflects the cost of trading on the Bullish Exchange, changes in fair value of perpetual futures, and rebates, for insight into the average revenue generated per unit of trading volume on our platform.

Volatility is calculated using 1-minute price intervals from CoinDesk Data's Adaptive Diversified Liquidity Index for BTC and ETH. We determine the daily volatility by measuring the standard deviation of these minute-by-minute price changes, which provides a more granular view of price fluctuations. This daily figure is then converted to an annualized volatility by multiplying it by the square root of 365, a standard practice for making risk metrics comparable over a one-year period.

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