Glossary

A per-account weighting that discounts bot-like and low-history accounts so a handful of noisy posters cannot move a reading.

One hundredth of a percentage point. Rate moves are quoted in basis points: a 25 bp hike is a quarter of a percent.

The share of classified mentions scored positive, neutral and negative, summing to one hundred percent over the sample.

A ticker written with a dollar prefix, such as $NVDA. The lowest-ambiguity signal the pipeline extracts.

A central bank digital currency — government-issued money in digital form, run on rails the central bank controls rather than a public blockchain.

A composite, calibrated score for each extracted entity, combining source, format, financial context and reference validation.

A flagged spike in mentions driven by a small set of authors posting heavily — the pattern of a pump attempt rather than organic attention.

CPI with food and energy stripped out — the steadier read the Federal Reserve watches for underlying inflation.

The Consumer Price Index — the headline US inflation gauge, tracking the price of a fixed basket of goods and services. We chart it year over year.

The work of validating proof-of-work blocks by spending compute; miners earn newly issued coins plus fees for each block they win.

A decentralized autonomous organization — a project governed by token-holder votes executed through smart contracts instead of a boardroom.

Decentralized finance — lending, trading and yield built from smart contracts, with no bank or broker in the middle.

The Ethereum standard most fungible tokens are built on; wallets and exchanges can support any ERC-20 token the day it launches.

The sentiment model that scores each mention from negative one to positive one. Most reliable on formal financial text, weaker on sarcasm.

The SEC filing a company insider must submit after buying or selling their own stock. Our insider-trades tables are built from these.

The fee paid to have a blockchain transaction processed; on Ethereum it rises and falls with network congestion.

The scheduled event that cuts bitcoin's new-coin issuance in half, roughly every four years.

A smart-contract reserve of paired tokens that traders swap against — pricing comes from a formula, not an order book.

The total value of a company's shares — share price times shares outstanding. The default sort for our market tables.

The count of classified mentions of an entity over a window, summed across the tracked subreddits.

Named-entity recognition. The model that identifies tickers, company names, ETFs and commodities in raw Reddit text.

The mention-weighted average sentiment for an entity over the window, on a negative one to positive one scale.

A non-fungible token — a unique on-chain record of ownership for one specific digital or real-world item, unlike interchangeable coins.

Activity recorded directly on a blockchain — transfers, balances, contract calls — public and verifiable by anyone.

The Producer Price Index — inflation measured at the factory gate, before it reaches consumers. Often moves ahead of CPI.

A consensus design where validators lock up tokens for the right to confirm blocks — misbehave and the stake is slashed.

The number of classified mentions behind a figure, shown as n= on every reading so you can weigh it.

The ordered list of words that regenerates a crypto wallet's keys. Whoever holds the phrase holds the funds.

The share of a company's tradable stock currently sold short — a rough gauge of how many traders are positioned against it.

The gap between the price you expected and the price you got — the cost of moving size through thin liquidity.

Code deployed on a blockchain that executes automatically when its conditions are met — the building block of DeFi, NFTs and DAOs.

An exchange-traded fund that holds the asset itself — such as bitcoin — rather than futures on it, so the share price tracks the spot market.

A crypto token designed to hold a fixed value, usually one US dollar, backed by reserves of cash and short-term debt.

The exchange symbol for a security, such as NVDA. The canonical key the pipeline normalises every mention to.

A token's economic design: supply, issuance, unlock schedule and how value is meant to accrue to holders.

A reading compared against the same month a year earlier — the standard way inflation prints are quoted, and how our macro charts are drawn.

Treasury yields plotted from short to long maturities. When short yields sit above long ones — an inversion — recessions have often followed.