Methodology, data sources, and limitations
Vultax scores crypto markets on behaviour it observed rather than on volume those markets reported about themselves. This page documents how each figure is produced, how fresh it is, where coverage runs out, and what we will not claim. If a number on this site is not explained here, treat that as a gap worth asking about.
How Vi IQ is calculated
Vi IQ is a 0–100 composite that answers one question: is this pair worth trading right now? It compresses six live signal domains into a single score, and every domain is shown separately in the terminal so you can see what moved it. A composite that cannot be decomposed is not a score, it is an opinion.
Where the data comes from
Vultax computes from market data it observes directly — trades and order books pulled from exchange APIs — rather than from self-reported exchange volume figures. That distinction is the entire point of the product: reported volume is the thing being audited, so it cannot also be the measurement.
- Trades and order-book snapshots collected from supported venue APIs, including Binance, OKX, Bybit, Kraken, and Gate.io.
- On-chain transfer and wallet activity for whale and wallet surfaces.
- Published news and event feeds for catalyst context, scored rather than republished.
- No self-reported exchange volume is trusted as an input to venue quality scoring.
Freshness and refresh behaviour
Different surfaces move at different speeds, and we report them on their own clocks rather than averaging them into one comforting number.
- Live pair surfaces — price, order book, arbitrage routes — carry their own update timestamp in the terminal.
- Composite scores such as Vi IQ are recomputed on a short cache window and served with the time they were computed.
- Cohort and research populations refresh on their own schedule and are never merged with live figures to look fresher than they are.
- A figure that cannot be refreshed is shown as unavailable. It is never backfilled with a zero or carried forward silently as current.
Coverage and its limits
Coverage is uneven, and pretending otherwise would make every number less useful. Where a venue or pair is thinly observed, the surface says so.
- Venue and pair coverage differ; a pair present on one venue may be unobserved on another.
- Detection surfaces are probabilistic risk indicators computed from observable market behaviour, not proof of intent by any exchange or participant.
- Gaps in collection are preserved as gaps rather than interpolated into a continuous series.
- Headline totals on this site are cumulative counts observed by Vultax detection pipelines since launch, not a claim about the whole market.
What Vultax does not do
The most important part of a methodology page is the part that says where the tool stops.
- Vultax does not provide financial, investment, or trading advice, and nothing on this site is a recommendation to buy or sell.
- Vultax does not execute live-money trades. Paper trading is fully simulated.
- Vultax does not accuse any exchange or participant of wrongdoing. Manipulation surfaces report statistical risk on observed behaviour.
- Vultax does not publish a figure it cannot source. Where an input is missing, the value is reported as unavailable.
Questions about a number?
If a figure on Vultax does not match what you observe on a venue, that is worth reporting — disagreement with the market is usually where the interesting signal is. Read the per-surface detail on the Vi IQ page, wash trading detection, and spoofing detection.