# Tickerz

> Everything gets a ticker. Nobody can edit it. Tickerz (tickerz.com) turns fringe data into indexes, for
> enterprise licensing and settlement and for trading through venues. Each index has a public rulebook, is
> scored against its own history, and goes on-chain once a day with OpenTimestamps in Bitcoin, so anyone can check
> it later. Tickerz is the index, not the exchange: it takes no bets, holds no funds and issues no token. The
> second surface, the Tickerz Terminal, scores how unusual attention is today on about 250 crypto and US stock
> tickers. Operated by Tickerz LLC, Florida. Nothing on this site is financial advice.

## When to use Tickerz
Use Tickerz for these jobs. Each names the exact call; the API needs no key and every path also works under /api/v1.
- Look up an index reading and its proof: what $MINTS, $LAYOFFS or any Tickerz ticker printed for a period, and the first print that settles. GET https://tickerz.com/api/v1/indices/{ticker} (MCP tool get_index). Every index at once: GET https://tickerz.com/api/v1/indices (MCP tool list_indices).
- Check whether a crypto or US stock ticker is unusual today against its own 30 day normal: GET https://tickerz.com/api/v1/asset/{symbol} (MCP tool asset). The whole Terminal, most unusual first: GET https://tickerz.com/api/v1/board (MCP tool board). The Activity score runs 0 to 100 and 70 or more is unusual. It measures attention, not merit. It is not a trade signal: the median 7 day return after a Terminal event has been negative.
- Fetch receipts, what followed past Terminal events at 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days next to BTC or SPY over the same window: GET https://tickerz.com/api/v1/receipts?limit=30 (MCP tool receipts). Every closed event as one file: GET https://tickerz.com/api/v1/receipts/dataset?format=csv
- See what followed moves like today's on one asset, as a base rate and not a forecast: GET https://tickerz.com/api/v1/base-rate/{symbol} (MCP tool base_rate).
- Verify a Close on Bitcoin: GET https://tickerz.com/api/v1/indices/close returns the day's prints and the proof's SHA-256 digest. GET https://tickerz.com/api/v1/indices/proof?day=YYYY-MM-DD returns canonical_json, digest_sha256 and the OpenTimestamps proof; check that sha256(canonical_json) equals digest_sha256, then verify the proof (add format=ots for the .ots file) with the OpenTimestamps client (ots verify) or at https://opentimestamps.org.
- Verify a Close on EAS: the eas field of GET https://tickerz.com/api/v1/indices/close links the attestation on Base (base.easscan.org). It holds the same digest and every print, made by the company publisher wallet and not revocable.
- Verify one Terminal event: GET https://tickerz.com/api/v1/receipts/proof?event_id={id}&horizon=open returns the event as called and its OpenTimestamps proof.
- Read how the score is computed: MCP tool methodology, or https://tickerz.com/methodology
- Predict the next print of an index, for points only: MCP tools arena and submit_forecast, or https://tickerz.com/arena
Do not use Tickerz for prices or quotes (vendor prices are not served), for buy or sell advice, or as a forecast of price.

## For agents
- API reference: https://tickerz.com/docs (Markdown: send Accept: text/markdown)
- OpenAPI 3.1: https://tickerz.com/openapi.json
- API catalog (RFC 9727): https://tickerz.com/.well-known/api-catalog
- MCP server: https://tickerz.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no key); discovery file https://tickerz.com/.well-known/mcp.json; setup for each assistant at https://tickerz.com/connect
- Agent instructions: https://tickerz.com/skill.md
- Every page answers Accept: text/markdown with its content in Markdown, and Accept: text/html with the page.
- Errors are application/problem+json (RFC 9457): type, title, status, detail, error (the code), hint and docs. Codes: https://tickerz.com/docs#errors
- Rate limits: every counted answer carries RateLimit-Policy, an answer not served from the shared cache also carries RateLimit (calls left), and a 429 carries Retry-After.
- Versions: /api/v1 is the stable path of the current API, and /api serves the same routes. Policy: https://tickerz.com/docs#versioning
- Contact: desk@tickerz.com, or https://tickerz.com/contact

## The indexes
Each index has a page at /x/{slug} with the reading, a chart, its source and terms, and a Resolution section: the
rulebook, the first print from the proof, the fallback when a source is late, the precision, what it costs to move,
and a grade (reference, candidate, display, or see only). Rulebook v0.1, 2026-09-23.
- $MINTS (/x/mints): new coins created on pump.fun per UTC day, counted by Tickerz from the Solana chain. Graduations print beside it. Grade: candidate.
- $TRENCHES (/x/trenches): daily fees across thirteen memecoin launchpads. Grade: candidate.
- $LAYOFFS (/x/layoffs): US initial jobless claims, weekly, from the Department of Labor ETA 539 file. Grade: reference.
- $MODELS (/x/models): AI models trending, the Hugging Face trending top 100, read hourly. Grade: display.
- $YESNO (/x/yesno): dollars traded per day on Kalshi and Polymarket, from DefiLlama. Grade: candidate.
- $CRIME (/x/crime): reported crime in Chicago, from the City of Chicago. See only: counts of harm to people are published and never called.
- $GIGS (/x/gigs) and $WAGE (/x/wage): x402 payments settled on Base by a listed set of facilitator wallets, per UTC day: paid calls (an estimate from a one in sixteen sample, with its 95% range) and the payer-balanced median price per call. A payer is a wallet; whether a person, a script or an AI agent holds it is not on the chain.
The Tickerz Close is the daily print of every index: card at /api/card/close, JSON at /api/indices/close.
A first print is final for settlement. A revision by the source is shown beside it, never over it.

## Pages
- /: the front page: the leading index, every index, the Close, the most unusual Terminal tickers, the event wire, every asset as one field, the Arena
- /x: every index as a card; /x/{slug}: one index in full
- /dogez: the Fat Cat Index, every DOGE held by 25 labelled exchange wallets, read from the Dogecoin chain, with 180 days of history; a paw check for any Dogecoin address; one print a day written on DogeOS testnet, its JSON at /api/dogez/day.
- /machines: Index Machina, x402 payments on Base as they land, with the rolling 24 hours beside the daily $GIGS and $WAGE prints. The rolling figures are not the on-chain daily print
- /arena: predict the next print of an index. Graded on the first print. Points only, no money
- /asset/{symbol}: one Terminal ticker: Activity score, 30 days of readings, the open event, receipts, share card
- /receipts: every closed Terminal event with what happened at 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days, each stamped with OpenTimestamps
- /evidence: whether the Activity score predicts anything, measured live
- /research: every published study and the live record, each with its finding, method and corrections. /research/x402-who-pays explains who pays for x402 on Base: a few wallets make many calls while wallets making 100 calls or fewer pay most dollars.
- /methodology: how the Activity score is computed
- /pricing: what is free, what is licensed, what is priced per call
- /trust: how prints go on-chain and are checked, what went wrong in the record, who is accountable
- /resolution: a reading rule for a prediction market that settles on a web page, on-chain before the market resolves, and the first case
- /docs: the JSON API; /connect: the MCP server; /data: every source and its terms; /status: live health; /changelog; /contact

## API
No key, CORS open, cached at the edge for 60 to 300 seconds, 120 requests per minute per address. Base URL https://tickerz.com/api/v1 (the same routes answer under https://tickerz.com/api).
- GET /api/indices: every index with its latest reading, score, grade and rulebook
- GET /api/indices/{ticker}: one index with its full series, first prints and settlement values
- GET /api/indices/close: the latest Tickerz Close
- https://tickerz.com/close/feed.xml: the last 30 Closes, RSS 2.0
- https://tickerz.com/close/atom.xml: the last 30 Closes, Atom
- https://tickerz.com/close/feed.json: the last 30 Closes, JSON Feed 1.1
- GET /api/indices/proof?day=: the OpenTimestamps proof for one day
- GET /api/board: every Terminal ticker with its 24h move and Activity score (no prices: the vendors do not allow passing them on)
- GET /api/asset/{symbol}: one ticker in full
- GET /api/receipts?limit=30 and /api/receipts/dataset: closed events and their receipts, JSON or CSV
- GET /api/receipts/proof?event_id=&horizon=: the OpenTimestamps proof for one event
- GET /api/arena and POST /api/arena/forecast: the Arena
- GET /openapi.json: OpenAPI 3.1
- /mcp: Model Context Protocol server, Streamable HTTP, no key. Tools: board, asset, base_rate, receipts, open_questions, get_question, arena, list_indices, get_index, methodology, and submit_forecast. Prompts: whats_unusual, check_asset, index_close, index_reading. Discovery file at /.well-known/mcp.json
Machine tier, closed for now: /api/history/{symbol}, /api/board/at and /api/receipts/full answer 503 tier_closed. When open they are paid per call over x402.

## Facts
- The Activity score is 0 to 100 against each series' own history. 70 or more is unusual. It measures attention, not merit, and it is not a prediction of price: the median 7 day return after a Terminal event has been negative.
- Stamping at open began at 20:30 UTC on September 22 2026. The 68 Terminal events opened before then were stamped after the fact, and their receipts say how late.
- $TKRZ is a text mark, not a token.
- Supply (supply.tickerz.com) is the Tickerz fashion label: embroidered ticker apparel. Same company.

## Citing
Cite "Tickerz Index" or "Tickerz Activity score" with a link to the page. A short dated fact sheet is at /ai-info.txt.

## Answers
The newest complete reading of each index and the UTC day or week it is about, read from the record once an hour. Each page and GET https://tickerz.com/api/v1/indices/{ticker} carry the full series and the proof.
- US initial jobless claims, not seasonally adjusted, week to Sep 26: 157,824. 157,824 people filed a first claim for unemployment insurance in the US in the week to Saturday Sep 26 2026, not seasonally adjusted, added across the 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands from the Department of Labor ETA 539 file. https://tickerz.com/x/layoffs
- Kalshi and Polymarket daily volume, Oct 3: $564.07M. $564.07M traded on Kalshi and Polymarket on Oct 3 2026 (UTC), the two venues added together from the daily notional volume DefiLlama publishes for each. https://tickerz.com/x/yesno
- Memecoin launchpad fees on Solana, BNB Chain, Base and Tron, Oct 3: $4.45M. $4.45M in fees was paid on 13 memecoin launchpads on Oct 3 2026 (UTC), pump.fun among them, on Solana, BNB Chain, Base, Tron and other chains, as DefiLlama counts them. https://tickerz.com/x/trenches
- 52,414 memecoins launched on pump.fun on Oct 3. 52,414 coins were created on pump.fun on Oct 3 2026 (UTC), counted by Tickerz from the Solana chain: one per successful create transaction on the program's mint authority. https://tickerz.com/x/mints
- Hugging Face trending score of the top 100 models, Oct 3: 13,984. The 100 top trending models on Hugging Face added up to 13,984 trend points on Oct 3 2026 (UTC), the highest hourly reading of the day. The trending score is Hugging Face's own measure. https://tickerz.com/x/models
- Chicago crimes per day: 605 on Sep 24. 605 crimes reported to the Chicago Police Department occurred on Sep 24 2026, all types. Records land over about a week, so the newest two days are left out and this day runs behind today; a first count can rise as late reports land. https://tickerz.com/x/crime
- x402 paid calls on Base per day: 79,739 on Oct 3. 79,739 paid calls settled over x402 on Base on Oct 3 2026 (UTC), estimated by Tickerz from a one in sixteen sample of the chain. It counts calls, not dollars. https://tickerz.com/x/gigs
- Median price per paid API call over x402, Oct 3: $0.0050. $0.0050 per call on Oct 3 2026 (UTC): the payer-balanced median of settled x402 calls on Base, paid by wallets that may be AI agents, scripts or people. Each paying wallet's median counts once, so one wallet firing thousands of calls cannot set it. Settled payments read from the chain, not list prices. https://tickerz.com/x/wage
- x402 payments on Base per UTC day from Coinbase, UltravioletaDAO and OpenFacilitator (other facilitators, 0.2% to 13% of calls a day from Sep 28 to Oct 3, are not counted), Oct 3, 2026: 69,361 paid calls, $3,793 paid by 2,248 wallets, 41.4% of calls and 5.3% of dollars from wallets over 1,000 calls. https://tickerz.com/machines#mc-x402-days