How every figure is measured

Where each number on this site comes from, what it covers, how often it is read, and when it is not shown at all.

Three rules

1
Every figure names its source and its window
A number with neither cannot be checked, and a number that cannot be checked is not worth repeating.
2
A dash is honest, a guess is not
A dash means the site has no figure. A grey bar means one is on its way. A figure the site cannot stand behind is not shown as if it could.
3
Reading asks nothing of you
No price, chart or portfolio needs a wallet connected, an account or an email. The bridge connects a wallet because it moves your coins, and only when you choose to use it.

Prices

What a token costs, and how far it has moved.

The price of a PulseChain token

Source: Its deepest pool on PulseX, read through DexScreener.
How: The price a trade in that pool would get. An asset has one price everywhere on the site: its card, a wallet that holds it and a share card all quote the same pool.
Refreshed: Every minute.
Not shown when: Where the pool does not answer, the figure is shown as missing. It is never filled in from somewhere else.

The change over a window

Source: The pool itself for 1h and 24h. The site’s own stored closes for a week, a month and longer.
How: From the first close in the window to the last. The window is named beside every figure, because a move with no window cannot be checked.
Refreshed: With the price.
Not shown when: A window the site has no source for reads as unknown. A figure for a different window is never put in its place.

All-time high, all-time low and “to the high”

Source: Daily closes from PulseX’s own subgraph, over the token’s whole traded life.
How: “To the high” is how far the price stands under its highest daily close ever. That is a different figure from the move over the window on screen, and both are shown because they are easily confused.
Refreshed: Once a day.
Not shown when: A day the pool was too thin to price is dropped. An almost empty pool produces a nonsense price, and left in it would be the all-time high.

Liquidity

Source: DexScreener, which returns a token’s thirty deepest pools.
How: The value in those pools, added up. A token that trades in more than thirty pools holds more than this, so the figure is a floor and not a total.
Refreshed: With the price.

How a very small price is written

Source: The site’s own formatting.
How: A long run of zeros is folded into a small number: $0.0₄1266 means $0.00001266. The small number counts every zero after the point, the way DexScreener and CoinGecko write it.

The chain

How big PulseChain is and how busy it is.

Total value locked

Source: DefiLlama.
How: A figure for the whole chain comes from a source that measures the whole chain. It is not added up from the pools the site tracks, which would come to a fraction of it.
Refreshed: Daily, as DefiLlama publishes it.

Exchange volume, 24h

Source: DefiLlama.
How: The last complete day. Other sites show a rolling twenty-four hours, or today so far, and the three differ by design. Which one a figure is has to be said, or it cannot be checked.
Refreshed: Daily.

Transactions a day

Source: The PulseChain explorer for the last full day, and a PulseChain node for today.
How: Today’s figure is an estimate from the pace of the most recent blocks, and is labelled as one. The last full day’s count is shown beside it with its date.
Refreshed: The estimate every minute; the full day once a day.

Gas price, block time, latest block and the cost of a transfer

Source: A PulseChain node and the PulseChain explorer.
How: The cost of a transfer is 21,000 gas, which is what sending PLS takes, at the current gas price and the current price of PLS.
Refreshed: Every minute from the node; every few minutes from the explorer.
Not shown when: If the node does not answer, the page says so. It does not show the last figure as if it were current.

The wider market

What PulseChain trades against.

PulseChain against bitcoin and ether

Source: PulseChain’s own pools; bitcoin and ether from Binance’s candles.
How: Every line starts at zero where the window opens and shows the move since, so coins at very different prices share one scale. Hourly up to a month, daily closes beyond. A line begins where its asset does.
Refreshed: Hourly.

Bitcoin dominance, total market cap and total volume

Source: CoinMarketCap.
How: Dominance is bitcoin’s share of all crypto value. Every provider counts a different set of assets, so two sites can sit points apart on the same day. This is CoinMarketCap’s set, the one most sites quote.
Refreshed: Hourly.

The altcoin index

Source: CoinGecko, measured here.
How: How many of the fifty largest coins other than bitcoin outran bitcoin over ninety days. At three quarters and above the market is conventionally called alt season.
Refreshed: Every six hours.
Not shown when: Not shown when fewer than thirty coins could be measured. It once read “100, alt season” from a single coin.

Fear and greed

Source: Alternative.me.
How: Their index of market mood, from 0 for extreme fear to 100 for extreme greed. Shown as they publish it.
Refreshed: Daily.

S&P 500, the 10-year yield, gold and the dollar index

Source: The St. Louis Fed for the S&P 500 and the yield; Twelve Data for gold and exchange rates.
How: The S&P 500 and the yield are the last close, with its date, and so a day old. Gold is live. The dollar index is computed here from live exchange rates on ICE’s own formula.
Refreshed: The closes daily; gold and the dollar index through the day.

The countdowns

Source: The Federal Reserve’s calendar, the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ schedule, and mempool.space.
How: The next rate decision and the next inflation release, each with its date and time in UTC. The bitcoin halving is estimated from the current block height at ten minutes a block.
Refreshed: The dates when they are published; the halving estimate through the day.

Biggest movers

What rose and fell most on the chain today.

The movers list

Source: PulseChain pools, through GeckoTerminal.
How: Ranked by the move over the last twenty-four hours.
Refreshed: Every minute.
Not shown when: Pools holding under $25,000, and pools that barely trade, are left out. One small trade moves such a pool by several percent.

Portfolios

What a wallet holds and what it is worth.

Balances

Source: A node for the chain’s own coin and the tokens the site knows by name. The block explorer for every other token.
How: A node answers for the chain as it is now. The explorer indexes balances after the fact and can run a few minutes behind. Where the two differ on a token the node was asked about, the node’s figure stands.
Refreshed: Every minute.

What a holding is worth

Source: The same pool quote the asset’s own card shows. For other PulseChain tokens, their deepest pool. For other Ethereum tokens, the explorer’s listing.
How: An asset the site quotes has one price wherever it appears. A token with no price is listed as unpriced and left out of the total.
Refreshed: Every minute.

A wallet’s change

Source: Today’s balances, at the price of each asset then and now.
How: It is called a price move, never a return. Nothing records what a wallet held last week, so the balance is assumed unchanged. The share of the wallet the figure covers is stated where some of it cannot be priced.
Refreshed: With the prices.

The value chart

Source: Today’s balances at each hour’s price, added up.
How: A reconstruction, and labelled as one. It shows how the prices moved, not what the wallet did.
Refreshed: Hourly.
Not shown when: Holdings the site cannot price are left off the line. They are not drawn flat.

The tokens set aside

Source: A rule, applied to every wallet the same way.
How: A holding worth under a dollar with no pool above $25,000, anything worth under a cent, and anything unpriced go on a separate tab, each with the rule it fell under. They are not called scams. You can move any row either way.

HEX stakes

Source: The HEX contract itself, on each chain.
How: Interest is what the contract has paid the stake for the days served, worked out with the contract’s own arithmetic. It is collected only when the stake ends, and ending early forfeits part of it. The figure at maturity is a projection and is labelled an estimate.
Refreshed: Every minute.

The bridge

What you are told before and after a transfer.

What you receive

Source: The bridge’s own quote, asked for your wallet and your amount.
How: The figure already has every fee taken off. While the quote is on its way the form shows an estimate at the site’s own price, marked with ≈ and as before the fee. Only the bridge’s figure is ever handed to a wallet.
Refreshed: Asked again before you sign if it is older than 45 seconds.
Not shown when: If the bridge has no fresh quote to give, nothing is sent.

“Arrived”

Source: A node on the network the coins land on.
How: The page reads the receiving address’s balance and says the transfer has arrived when it has grown by what was promised. That is the receiving chain’s own word for it, not the bridge’s.
Refreshed: Every ten seconds while you wait.

The sources, in one list

Every service the site reads. None of them is paid to be here, and the site is not affiliated with any of them.