Start with the pillars, not the letter

The letter grade is a summary, and summaries hide things. Two coins can both grade B for opposite reasons: one with excellent market standing dragged down by a brutal week, another with mediocre standing carried by a strong month. The composite tells you where a coin landed. The four pillar scores tell you why, and that is usually the part you can act on.

So read in this order: composite for the headline, then scan the four bars for the outlier. The pillar furthest from the others is the story.

What a low pillar actually means

A weak fundamentals score means the coin sits lower in the market-cap table, carries heavy future dilution, or both. A weak on-chain score means daily turnover is small relative to market cap, which in practice means wider spreads and more slippage when you trade it. A weak momentum score means the trailing week and month have been negative. A weak risk score means either violent recent price action or a deep drawdown from the all-time high.

Note that risk is inverted: a high risk pillar score is good and means conditions look calm. This trips people up, so the bar is labelled "Risk (inverse)" everywhere it appears.

Every score is a percentile

This is the thing most likely to mislead you if nobody says it. A pillar score of 90 does not mean "90 out of 100 possible points". It means the coin ranks above 90% of the rated universe on that measure. The composite works the same way, and the grade bands map onto shares of the universe: an A is roughly the top 5%, an F the bottom 10%.

The practical consequence is that grades are comparative. They answer "how does this stack up against the alternatives I could buy right now", not "has this cleared some absolute standard". In a broadly weak market the best of a weak field still earns an A, and that is worth holding in mind.

Check the driver panel before you trust the grade

Under "How this grade was built", each pillar shows the literal measured input: the market-cap rank, the volume-to-market-cap percentage, the two momentum windows, the 24-hour move and drawdown depth. If a number there looks stale or wrong to you, the grade above it is wrong too, and you should trust your own reading over ours.

What a grade is not

It is not a price target, not a buy or sell signal, and not a prediction. It is a structured summary of public data, refreshed every fifteen minutes, that saves you from opening six tabs to answer basic questions about an asset. What you do with that summary is your decision, and it should account for things our formula cannot see.

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