What is scheduled, and how certain it is.
The crypto calendar is free on Basis with no account. It lists the next funding settlements, the halving projected from live block height, difficulty retargets, monthly options expiry, CME settlement and non-farm payrolls — and states where each date came from.
What you get
- Next funding settlements for the contract you are looking at, not a generic schedule
- The Bitcoin halving, projected from live block height rather than from a fixed guess
- Difficulty retargets, also derived from block arrival
- Monthly options expiry and CME settlement, which are fixed by convention
- A provenance label on every row: live, a published rule, an estimate, or your own entry
Why this is usually paid for
Economic calendars are a standard free web feature, and most of them are the same equities calendar with a crypto tab bolted on. They carry FOMC and CPI and little that is native to this market.
The events that actually reprice crypto are mostly derivable — funding settles on a schedule, the halving arrives at a block height, expiry falls on a convention — which means the useful calendar is one that computes them rather than one that republishes a feed.
How to use it
- 1
Check funding before holding a perpetual overnight
Funding settles several times a day and the rate is known ahead of it. A position held across settlement pays or receives; on a crowded side that is a real cost, and it is the most frequently ignored item on this list.
- 2
Read the provenance, not just the date
A halving projected from block arrival and an expiry fixed by convention are not equally certain. The label on each row says which it is, so a date can be treated as a fact or as an estimate rather than all of them being treated alike.
- 3
Expect expiry to matter more than the news
Monthly options expiry and CME settlement create mechanical flow regardless of sentiment. They are on the calendar for the same reason funding is: they happen on a schedule and they move price.
- 4
Do not plan around what is not here
FOMC and CPI are announced rather than derivable, so this calendar does not carry them. If your thesis depends on one, get the date from the issuing body instead of assuming an absence means nothing is scheduled.
Questions
Is the crypto calendar free?+
Yes, with no account. Nearly all of it is computed from data already loaded — block height, contract funding schedules, and published conventions — so there is no feed to license and nothing to meter.
Why are FOMC and CPI missing?+
Because their dates are announced by an institution rather than derivable from anything, and a calendar that guesses at them would present an assumption with the same confidence as a computed date. They are left out deliberately rather than by omission.
How is the halving date calculated?+
From live block height and the average rate at which blocks are arriving, projected to the halving block. That makes it an estimate that moves as hash rate changes, which is why it is labelled as one instead of being shown as a fixed calendar date.
Does it cover every exchange’s funding schedule?+
It shows the schedule for the contract you are looking at, which is the one that matters for a position you actually hold. Different venues settle at different times, so a generic funding schedule would be wrong for most readers most of the time.
Can I add my own dates?+
Yes, and entries you add are labelled as yours so they are never confused with a computed or published date. That distinction is the whole point of showing provenance on every row.
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