Crypto economic calendar

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Everything after this week, month by month.

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Token unlocks

Covered: the vesting contracts whose release terms are on chain for Uniswap (UNI), Aave (AAVE), Lido (LDO), Curve (CRV), ENS, The Graph (GRT), Sky (SKY) and Worldcoin (WLD), read from our own Ethereum node with each contract's own formula. Most vest a little every second, so the calendar shows one total a week; releases on set dates (cliffs and periodic steps) are listed below. Releasable is not sold: recipients claim when they choose. Unlocks of other tokens, and vesting held outside these contracts, are not shown.

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What the events are

FOMC rate decision

The Federal Open Market Committee sets the US policy rate at eight scheduled meetings a year. The statement comes at 14:00 Washington time on the meeting's second day, which is 18:00 UTC while the US is on summer time and 19:00 UTC in winter, and the Chair's press conference starts half an hour later. Four meetings a year add the Summary of Economic Projections, the committee's own rate path (the dot plot). Crypto trades the surprise: a path higher than markets expected tends to lift the dollar and weigh on Bitcoin, a lower one the reverse. Official dates: the Fed's meeting calendar. Our chart: effective federal funds rate Pro.

FOMC minutes

The minutes of each meeting come out three weeks after the decision, at 14:00 Washington time. They show how divided the committee was and what it is watching, so they can move rate expectations between meetings. Official dates: the Board's calendar.

US CPI (Consumer Price Index)

The monthly measure of US consumer price inflation from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, normally in the middle of the following month at 08:30 Washington time (12:30 UTC in summer, 13:30 UTC in winter). Markets watch the core index (without food and energy) most, because it shapes what the Fed does next. Official dates: the BLS release schedule. Our chart: US core CPI inflation Pro.

US PPI (Producer Price Index)

Prices received by US producers, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at 08:30 Washington time. It often moves before consumer prices and feeds into some components of the Fed's preferred PCE measure. Official dates: the BLS release schedule.

US jobs report (Employment Situation)

Nonfarm payrolls, the unemployment rate and wages for the previous month, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, normally on the first Friday of the month at 08:30 Washington time. A weak report raises the odds of rate cuts; a strong one with fast wage growth lowers them. Official dates: the BLS release schedule.

US GDP

The Bureau of Economic Analysis publishes each quarter's gross domestic product three times: the advance estimate about a month after the quarter ends, then the second and third estimates a month apart, each at 08:30 Washington time. Official dates: the BEA release schedule. Our chart: US real GDP, annual.

US PCE inflation (Personal Income and Outlays)

The monthly Personal Income and Outlays release carries the PCE price index, the inflation measure the Fed targets at 2%, with household income and spending. It comes out at 08:30 Washington time, usually late in the month. Official dates: the BEA release schedule.

ECB rate decision

The European Central Bank's Governing Council sets euro area rates about every six weeks. The decisions are published at 14:15 Frankfurt time and the press conference starts at 14:45, which is 13:15 and 13:45 UTC in winter and an hour earlier in summer. Official dates: the ECB's meeting calendar. Our chart: ECB refinancing rate Pro.

Bank of England rate decision

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee announces Bank Rate eight times a year at 12:00 London time, which is 12:00 UTC in winter and 11:00 UTC in summer; four of the announcements come with the Monetary Policy Report. Official dates: the Bank's MPC dates.

BTC and ETH options expiries

Bitcoin and Ether options on Deribit, OKX and Bybit expire at 08:00 UTC: daily, every Friday, on the last Friday of each month and on the last Friday of each quarter. Monthly and quarterly expiries carry the most open interest. Max pain is the settlement price at which the open options of an expiry would pay their holders the least; some traders watch it into large expiries. Details: Bitcoin options expiry and Ethereum options expiry.

Bitcoin difficulty adjustments

Every 2,016 blocks, about every two weeks, Bitcoin resets its mining difficulty so that blocks keep coming about every ten minutes. The change moves miners' revenue per machine. The next one's estimate and every past one: next difficulty adjustment; the halving: Bitcoin halving countdown.

Method and sources

Official dates and times come from each institution's own schedule, read four times a day: the Federal Reserve's FOMC meeting calendar and the Board's event calendar (statement and press conference times, minutes); the Bureau of Labor Statistics release calendar and the schedule pages of the CPI, the PPI and the Employment Situation; the Bureau of Economic Analysis release calendar; the ECB's Governing Council schedule and weekly schedule; and the Bank of England's MPC dates and news feed. Local times are converted to UTC with the IANA time zone database, so the US, European and UK clock changes, which fall on different dates, are applied exactly. Where a source does not give a time yet, the event says so and uses the time of the institution's recent announcements, marked Expected. Meeting dates can still change: the Fed confirms each one at the meeting before.

Crypto events come from our own data. Options expiries: our ten-minute snapshots of every BTC and ETH option on Deribit, OKX and Bybit, with the front expiry's max pain, notional and open interest as on the options expiry pages, and later Friday expiries by their open interest; daily expiries are left out. Bitcoin: the next difficulty adjustment's estimated change and time at the current epoch's pace, later adjustments and the halving at the pace of the last 2,016 blocks, all from our own node. Token unlocks: what the vesting contracts our unlock tracker reads make releasable, by their own on-chain terms.

Past releases link to our charts of the same series; charts on Plus and Pro plans are linked without their values. The calendar as compiled here is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0, crediting CryptoKeyhole with a link to this page (licence and reuse); the official dates belong to their publishers.