Index methodology · v1
W.E.T. Bitcoin Path Index: methodology
How richly the market prices Bitcoin upside targets.
The W.E.T. Bitcoin Path Index is a daily 0–100 reading of how richly prediction markets price Bitcoin’s dated upside targets.
Components
Active dated Bitcoin markets — price thresholds, all-time-high questions, reserve and adoption milestones — resolving on a months-out calendar.
Value
The volume-weighted mean implied probability across those targets, 0–100. No single market may exceed its weight cap (excess redistributed), so one whale contract can't be the index. Each real-world event contributes once, through its leading qualifying market. When too few qualifying markets are live, the index reports insufficient data rather than a number.
Publication & freshness
Computed and published daily to a durable, dated snapshot; the "last moved" date advances only on a real move, drivers attribute each daily change to the markets that caused it, and every point is appended to a permanent, citable history.
What this index is not
This is a benchmark reading of market prices, not a W.E.T. forecast and not advice. A high value does not predict that the event happens — it reports what prediction-market traders are collectively pricing right now. Prices move continuously and can be wrong.
An accuracy record for a benchmark requires resolved outcomes accumulated over time. W.E.T. publishes this index daily with a dated, immutable history from first publication — that published series is the audit trail. Calibration analysis will ship strictly when the resolved-outcome corpus supports it, never before. See the site methodology for the same discipline applied to the W.E.T. Score.
Maintained by Corbin King. Methodology version v1. See the live value on the index page or all W.E.T. indices.