Retail Attention Index

Two years of attention

Which coins people are looking up

How the index is built

Each day we take the views of the Wikipedia article of every coin CryptoKeyhole counts, in the ten editions with the most readers, with crawlers and automated agents excluded. We add the coins whose article has the whole last 90 days, so a coin joining never makes a jump.

Momentum is the average views of the last 7 days over the average of the last 90. The index is that momentum’s percentile among the last 730 days’ readings (at least 365): the share of those days whose momentum was at or below today’s, times 100. Each coin’s score is the same calculation on its own article.

A day appears once Wikimedia has published it for every coin, about a day after it ends, so a reading never moves afterwards.

Coverage and limits

• It reads Wikipedia only for now. Coinbase’s App Store rank is shown beside the index, not in it; it joins as a second component once it has 90 days of its own history to be scored against (hourly collection began on 8 November 2026).
• It measures change, not size: after a burst of attention the index falls even while readership stays high, because the last 7 days are set against a busy 90.
• Article views are a proxy for curiosity. They do not show who is reading, or whether they go on to buy; nothing here is about any individual.
• A coin needs a Wikipedia article about itself: coins without one are not counted.