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Explain It

Explain the evidence after the decision.

Operator Summary: Use learning after a signal, trust note, governance item, or news change raises a question. Definitions should clarify the evidence, not replace the judgment.

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Signals

Signal Score, momentum, volume, liquidity, volatility, watchlists, and breakouts.

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Trust

Wallets, DeFi, lending, APR, APY, TVL, staking, fees, and risk terms.

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Change Evidence

Governance, validators, dReps, treasuries, hard forks, and ecosystem update terms.

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Midnight

Privacy, interoperability, shielded data, selective disclosure, ZK proofs, and partner-chain ideas.

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Contextual Learning

Learning terms

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Signals

Signal Score

A 0-100 attention read.

A plain-English confidence score that summarizes momentum, trend, volatility, and market context so users can quickly see which assets deserve a closer look.

Top Watchlist Signal

The strongest asset in your tracked list.

The highest-scoring signal from the assets the user is already watching. It is designed to answer: what in my watchlist deserves attention right now?

Top Ecosystem Signal

The strongest signal in the selected universe.

The leading signal across the selected market universe, such as Top 100 by market cap. It gives users a broader market comparison beyond their own watchlist.

Watchlist

Assets a user chooses to track.

A focused list of assets the user wants Midnight Signal to monitor more closely. Watchlists help personalize snapshots and reduce market noise.

Momentum

How strongly price is moving.

Momentum looks at whether an asset is moving with strength compared with recent conditions. Strong momentum can be useful, but it can also fade quickly.

Market Basics

Market Cap

Token price times circulating supply.

A common size measure for crypto assets. It is calculated by multiplying token price by circulating supply, and is often used to define universes like Top 25, Top 50, or Top 100.

Volume

How much traded over a period.

Volume measures how much of an asset traded during a specific period. Rising volume can confirm interest; thin volume can make moves less reliable.

Liquidity

How easy it is to trade without slippage.

Liquidity describes how easily an asset can be bought or sold without moving the price too much. Higher liquidity usually means cleaner execution and lower slippage risk.

Volatility

How much price moves around.

Volatility measures how sharply price changes. High volatility can create opportunity, but it also increases risk and can distort short-term signals.

Trust Watch

Apps evaluated with trust evidence.

The app intelligence surface for wallets, DeFi apps, lending platforms, privacy tools, and infrastructure. It combines trust state, risk notes, builder activity, recent changes, and live evidence so users can decide what deserves review before connecting.

Trust Record

An app confidence dossier.

A Trust Record brings together what an app does, whether it deserves review before connecting, trust state, confidence, freshness, builder activity, recent changes, governance or CIP context, risk notes, and live evidence.

Community Evidence

User-submitted review signals.

Community evidence includes structured user reports about app usage, issues, rebrands, shutdowns, exploits, link changes, or source updates. It can raise review attention, but it does not make an app trusted or unsafe without source confirmation.

Trust Entity Database

The monitored app source of truth.

The Trust Entity Database is the Supabase-backed registry for apps and protocols. It tracks current names, former names, lifecycle status, incident status, sources, source-confirmed events, and monitoring freshness. The static registry is only seed or fallback data.

Trust Score

A confidence read for apps and protocols.

A score that summarizes trust evidence such as maturity, ecosystem presence, risk flags, available data, security signals, and product category context. It is not an endorsement or guarantee.

Builder Activity

Evidence that a team is shipping.

Builder activity looks for source-backed signs that a project or team is still active, such as mapped repositories, releases, tracked updates, or curated registry evidence. It is a trust input, not a guarantee of low risk.

Recent Changes

Source-backed movement since the last brief.

Recent changes are stored ecosystem events that can affect attention, trust, governance, or builder momentum. In Trust Watch, they help explain whether an app or protocol deserves a closer review.

Governance / CIP Context

Standards and coordination evidence.

Governance and CIP context can show whether a project, feature, or recent build aligns with a recognized Cardano process or standard. It is supporting evidence, not proof that an app is low risk.

Wallets

Wallet

An app for holding and using crypto.

A wallet lets users hold assets, connect to dApps, sign transactions, and sometimes swap tokens. Wallet choice matters because it controls the user experience and key-management risk.

DeFi

Financial apps built on blockchains.

DeFi means decentralized finance: apps for swapping, lending, borrowing, staking, liquidity provision, and yield strategies that operate through smart contracts.

News Concepts

Governance

How a network or protocol makes decisions.

Governance covers voting, proposals, budgets, parameter changes, and community decision-making. It can shape how a network evolves over time.

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Privacy Layer

Infrastructure for selective data protection.

A privacy layer helps apps protect sensitive data while still enabling useful verification, compliance, or interoperability depending on the design.

Interoperability

Systems working across networks.

Interoperability describes how assets, data, identities, or applications can operate across multiple blockchain ecosystems rather than staying isolated on one chain.