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v0.5 — Token logos everywhere, DexHunter-class charts, and a mobile app shell

Wes Huber
Founder

v0.4 made Basilisk conversational; v0.5 makes it feel like a terminal. Every token now has a face, charts grew from four timeframes to eight with ADA denomination and pool switching, and the whole app works one-handed on a phone.

What's live today​

  • Token logos everywhere — screener, token pages, search, portfolio, movers: every surface, every token, always an image. Logos are registry-backed: Cardano Token Registry PNGs (fetched via Koios, validated, and served from our own CDN-cached endpoint) cover the full curated registry today, with a precomputed GeckoTerminal redirect for stragglers and a deterministic monogram as the floor — so nothing ever renders a broken-image icon. Public too: GET /api/v1/tokens/{asset}/logo. The pipeline is written down in ADR-008.
  • Chart v2 — eight timeframes (1m / 5m / 15m / 1h / 4h / 12h / 1d / 1w, up from four), a USD / ADA quote toggle, a pool switcher (the OHLCV response now returns poolChoices so you can chart any of a token's GeckoTerminal pools, not just the deepest), volume bars, and auto-refresh. All of it is in the public OHLCV endpoint — new tf values, new quote=usd|ada param, per-timeframe cache TTLs.
  • Mobile app shell — a bottom navigation bar on small screens, so the core surfaces are one thumb-tap away instead of buried in a hamburger menu.
  • Screener-first IA — the screener is now the front door of the app; everything else hangs off it.
  • Portfolio → token links — every holding in a wallet view now clicks through to its token page (chart, pools, discussion), instead of being a dead row.

Honesty notes​

  • "DexHunter-class" means the chart UX, not tick-live data. Charts refresh on roughly a 30-second cadence against cached candles — they are not streaming per-trade. True tick-level, sub-minute data needs our own chain indexer; that's the Kupmios ingestion roadmap (ADR-001), not this release.
  • ADA-quoted candles are derived. GeckoTerminal only returns USD, so quote=ada re-bases USD candles against ADA's USD price. Good enough for shape and levels; not exchange-native ADA prints.
  • Charts are still one pool's candles, not an all-DEX aggregate — the pool switcher makes the choice yours, but each chart names exactly the pool it reads (unchanged since v0.3).
  • Logos are served at submitted size (~33 KB average registry PNG). A downscale/re-encode pass is deferred — noted as follow-up in ADR-008 — so screener pages pay a few hundred KB of logo bytes on a cold cache today.

What's next​

  • Logo downscale pass — pre-sized WebP variants so lists stop paying full-resolution bytes.
  • Own chain ingestion (Kupmios, ADR-001) — the permanent fix for tick-live charts, all-DEX candles, and native ADA quotes.
  • x402 pay-per-query — still in development (the honest state of x402 on Cardano).

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