Data sources

Where the numbers come from.

Every figure on the Terminal traces to a named provider. Two feeds enter the Sigma-1 Heat Index; the rest are context, shown for the reader and reserved as features for future models. When a feed halts, the board says HALTED rather than dressing stale data as fresh.

CoinGecko ↗Scoring
FeedsCrypto spot: price, 24h volume, market cap for the top 100 assets
CadenceEvery 15 min
Used forSigma-1 inputs for crypto. Primary feed for the board.
Alpaca (IEX) ↗Scoring
FeedsUS equities: price and volume for 16 culture names
CadenceEvery 10 min in market hours
Used forSigma-1 inputs for equities, on the identical mechanism.
Coinbase Exchange ↗Context
FeedsUS spot volume, 24h
CadenceEvery 15 min
Used forContext strip. Candidate feature for Sigma-2. Not in Sigma-1 scoring.
DefiLlama ↗Context
FeedsStablecoin supply and DeFi TVL
CadenceEvery 15 min
Used forContext strip: sideline cash and deployed capital. Not in Sigma-1 scoring.
Binance Futures via CoinGecko ↗Context
FeedsPerpetual funding rates and open interest for BTC, ETH, SOL, DOGE, XRP
CadenceEvery 15 min
Used forContext on the asset pages. Not in Sigma-1 scoring. Sourced through CoinGecko’s derivatives feed; direct Binance is the fallback where reachable.

Attribution. Crypto market data is provided by CoinGecko. US equity data is provided by Alpaca via IEX. Context metrics are aggregated from the providers named above. Tickerz is not affiliated with any of them.

Storage and resolution. Snapshots are stored in our own database. Receipts resolve from stored history, never refetched, so nothing can drift after the fact. Read the methodology for how the score is built.

Roadmap. A second derivatives source (Kraken Futures), a social ladder (StockTwits, then Reddit, then X) as Sigma-2 features only, and consolidated SIP equities data when a live tape becomes a product. Sources are added in pairs where the metric matters, so no single vendor can bend a published number.