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v0.3 — Candlestick charts, Minswap coverage, and community boosts

Wes Huber
Founder

v0.2 shipped with two honest gaps: no Minswap, no charts. v0.3 closes both — OHLCV candles on every token page that has a chartable pool, Minswap liquidity and volume merged into the screener — and adds a community layer where boosting a token costs a wallet signature, not 300 ADA.

What's live today​

  • Candlestick charts — 15m / 1h / 4h / 1d OHLCV on token detail pages, powered by GeckoTerminal's free API. The chart reads the token's top GeckoTerminal pool (in practice its main Minswap pool) and says so on the chart — it's one pool's candles, not an all-DEX aggregate. Also public at GET /api/v1/tokens/{asset}/ohlcv.
  • Minswap coverage — GeckoTerminal's Cardano index (Minswap) is disjoint from DexScreener's (SundaeSwap + WingRiders), so we merge the two without double counting. Screener and token aggregates now carry coverage: "SundaeSwap + WingRiders via DexScreener · Minswap + SaturnSwap via GeckoTerminal", and token pages show Minswap pools alongside the rest.
  • Community boosts — every wallet gets one free boost per UTC day, cast with a CIP-30 signData signature and verified server-side (CIP-8/COSE). Boost counts drive trending. For contrast: on TapTools, a Boost cost 300 ADA — visibility went to whoever paid. Here it's one wallet, one boost, zero ADA.
  • Token discussion — per-token comment threads, wallet-signed, no account. 500 chars, 10 per wallet per day.
  • Watchlist — keep your tokens one click away.
  • All of it in the API — boosts and comments are public endpoints too (/api/v1/community/*), including the signed-payload write contract, still keyless and free.

Honesty notes​

  • Charts exist only where GeckoTerminal indexes a pool. A token whose liquidity lives entirely on SundaeSwap/WingRiders gets a 404 from the OHLCV endpoint and no chart — we'd rather show nothing than fake it.
  • Candles are USD-denominated (GeckoTerminal returns USD even for ADA-quoted pools); ADA-quoted charts aren't possible from this source.
  • GeckoTerminal's free tier is roughly 10 calls/minute, so chart data is cached 60–120 s server-side. That budget — and the top-pool-only tradeoff — is written down in ADR-005; the community layer's design (Neon Postgres, signature verification, replay protection) is ADR-006.
  • Boosts and comments live in our database, off-chain. Stake addresses (public on-chain data) are the only identity stored.

What's next​

  • Own chain ingestion (Kupmios, ADR-001) — the permanent fix for all-DEX candles, ADA-quoted charts, and a per-swap trades feed.
  • x402 pay-per-query — still in development (the honest state of x402 on Cardano).
  • Moderation tooling for the discussion layer before it needs it.

Something missing or mislabeled? GitHub issues — coverage honesty is a feature, hold us to it.