Trading & Pricing

Spot

The "right now" market — buy or sell BTC at today's price for immediate delivery

Category: Trading & Pricing Also known as: 4 Related terms: 2

Definition

The market for immediate delivery of an asset at the current price. Opposite of "futures" (where you trade a contract for future delivery) or "perpetuals" (perpetual-futures with funding rates). When we say "BTC price" without qualifier we mean spot.

Context anchor

Global BTC spot daily volume ~$30–50B; perp-futures often 5–10× larger

Example

Spot price = what BTC costs right now for immediate delivery

Also known as

spotspot marketspot tradespot btc