In an interview with TheStreet Roundtable, Amberdata co-founder and chief operating officer Tongtong Gong laid out the scale of her firm’s operations and stressed that raw liquidity figures tell only part of the story.
Gong said Amberdata’s platform now powers more than two million events per second and “process about $580 billion worth of notional value transactions daily. And that’s on-chain, DeFi and centralized venue,” she said.
She noted that last year alone the company served billions of API calls and delivered petabytes of data and insights to customers. “It’s a lot of responsibility to be the backbone of the financial institutions and help them embrace and enable institutions to innovate at scale and to embrace digital assets to be the trusted backbone,” Gong said.
Building that backbone took “eight years of our life and millions of dollar building state-of-the-art architectures and scalable platform so that we can enable our customers and grow with the industry,” she added.
When asked which data points investors should focus on, Gong admitted that while “liquidity” was her first thought, it’s far from the whole picture.
She said the real priority is “context of everything” — meaning a unified view of on-chain metrics, DeFi activity, stablecoin flows and centralized-venue trading.
“It’s a very interconnected and complex world,” Gong said. “It’s transparent and opaque at the same time.” She emphasized that only by combining insights from every corner of the ecosystem can investors navigate volatile markets with confidence.
Gong highlighted that stablecoins are the “bridging currency” between DeFi and centralized venues and play a central role in overall stability.
She noted “stablecoins and everything in between,” as vital to understanding flows across the ecosystem. Investors must monitor these transfers to gauge sentiment and spot liquidity bottlenecks.
Amberdata exec shares crypto metrics to watch in volatile markets first appeared on TheStreet on Jun 18, 2025
