To most readers it makes little difference whether data in a figure is sourced from Dune Analytics or Coin Metrics. However, for an analyst the two platforms are nearly incomparable.

The data you see in figures from Dune doesn’t exactly exist—to be more precise, it isn’t decoded. For example, if you want daily Bitcoin transaction fee data from Coin Metrics, you type `fee` in the search bar and the dataset has been curated by paid employees.