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Methodology

Forward verification

Anyone looks like a genius in hindsight. We make wallets prove it going forward.

Why backtests lie

Pick any winner after the fact and you can build a story for why they were obviously great. That's hindsight, and it's how every "top trader" list overfits to luck. A backtest can't tell skill from a hot streak that already ended.

What we do instead

  • When a wallet passes the initial screen, it doesn't get a badge — it enters a watchlist.
  • From that moment we track it forward, in real time — on paper, no money, no execution.
  • A wallet is only marked vetted after it clears a bar on fresh trades: a minimum number of forward days and forward trades with net ROI (after slippage) above threshold.
  • Wallets whose edge burns out get culled — automatically, without sentiment.

We publish the funnel

The pipeline is public: found → analyzed → watchlist → vetted → culled. The cull rate is the honest part. Most wallets that look great on day one do not survive forward testing — and that's exactly the signal we're here to give you.

We'd rather show you three wallets that survived live than a hundred that only looked good in the past.

See it live: the pipeline · current candidates.