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Central Bank Dark Energy Tracer

Tracks total global liquidity using a wide range of central bank data.

Price
$0.10 a call
Frequency
daily
Unit
USD
Series id
cbdet

What it measures

CBDET (Central Bank Dark Energy Tracer) aggregates total assets from all major central banks into a single global liquidity measure. Shows raw USD values (in millions) of the combined balance sheet size of the Fed, ECB, BOJ, BOE, PBoC, SNB, BOC, and BOK.

Use Case: Monitor the total size of global central bank balance sheets over time.

Computed from

  • Bank of Japan Total Assets · FRED
  • JPYUSD · ECB
  • European Central Bank Total Assets · FRED
  • EURUSD · ECB
  • People's Bank of China Total Assets · BIS
  • CNYUSD · ECB
  • Bank of England Total Assets · BIS
  • GBPUSD · ECB
  • Swiss National Bank Total Assets · BIS
  • CHFUSD · ECB
  • Bank of Korea Total Assets · BIS
  • KRWUSD · ECB
  • Bank of Canada Total Assets · BIS
  • CADUSD · ECB
  • Federal Reserve Total Assets · FRED
  • Treasury General Account (Weekly) · FRED
  • Treasury General Account (Daily) · FRED
  • Overnight Reverse Repurchase Agreements · FRED
  • Foreign Official Reverse Repurchase Agreements · FRED
  • Currency in Circulation · FRED
  • Deposits with FRB: Other than Domestic Banks · FRED
  • Deposits with FRB: Foreign Official · FRED
  • Earnings Remittances Due to the Treasury · FRED
  • Treasury Credit Facilities · FRED

The call

Over HTTP: the first request returns the price; an x402 client pays and retries.

GET https://darklyenergized.com/api/v1/x402/series/cbdet

Over MCP, at /mcp: the tool returns the price; a client with x402 support for MCP pays and retries.

{
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "de_get_series",
    "arguments": {
      "id": "cbdet"
    }
  }
}

Over HTTP, a long series answers with its oldest 500 points and a cursor in meta.pagination: ask for up to 10,000 with limit, or continue with after. Over MCP, format "raw" returns the most recent 500 points, and the default is a summary.

What it returns

A paid response over HTTP. The values here are illustrative.

{
  "data": {
    "id": "cbdet",
    "name": "Central Bank Dark Energy Tracer",
    "description": "Tracks total global liquidity using a wide range of central bank data.",
    "category": "Liquidity",
    "frequency": "daily",
    "unit": "USD",
    "data": [
      {
        "time": "2026-10-01",
        "value": 1.23
      }
    ]
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z",
    "count": 1,
    "pagination": {
      "hasMore": true,
      "cursor": "2026-10-01",
      "total": 7351
    }
  }
}