A clearer map.
Every exclusion explained.
Anyone can create a token, a pool, and an impressive dollar figure. The default map screens for pricing support and unusual activity before those numbers set the scale.
One screen. Consistent numbers.
The same eligible pools power the graph, totals, routes, and venue shares. Switch to Reported to see the provider’s original estimates. No values are silently capped, no prices are rewritten, and screening never changes the observation time.
How a pool gets excluded
- Too little liquidity or missing prices. Less than $10,000 current liquidity, or either token’s price missing or nonpositive.
- Extreme turnover. At least $100,000 daily volume and more than 100× current liquidity. Historical volume and current reserves describe different periods; a legitimate drained or highly efficient pool can fail.
- Large volume with very few trades. At least $100K daily volume with fewer than 10 trades. Pairs of two recognized reference assets are exempt from this specific rule to allow legitimate whale trades.
- Repeated activity among few participants. At least $100K daily volume and 100 trades, with buyers + sellers ≤5; or at least 50 trades per buyer/seller count combined with ≥10× turnover. Buyers and sellers can overlap, so their sum is an upper bound on distinct participants. Missing counts disable this check.
- Two tokens without sufficient external support. When neither side is a reference asset, each token needs at least $25,000 in other eligible direct-reference pools. Each supporting pool needs $25K liquidity and 20 daily trades. Circular token pairs cannot support one another, and a pool cannot support itself.
- A valuation much larger than its support. A non-reference pair cannot exceed 5× the smaller of its two tokens’ external support totals. Support uses reported total pool reserves, not independently verified reference-token balances.
- Price disagreement. A price more than 30% from an available reference. USD reference tokens are compared with $1. ETH and WBTC use eligible reference markets; other tokens use median quotes from other eligible direct-reference pools. This is a comparison within the provider’s sample, not an independent oracle.
Addresses establish identity.
Tickers and token names never grant reference status. The small registry below is reviewed manually against issuer and protocol sources. Other assets can qualify automatically through their reference markets.
Robinhood · 2 contracts + native ETH
Ethereum L1 · 7 contracts + native ETH
0xc02aaa39b223fe8d0a0e5c4f27ead9083c756cc2ETH0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb0ce3606eb48USD0xdac17f958d2ee523a2206206994597c13d831ec7USD0x6b175474e89094c44da98b954eedeac495271d0fUSD0xdc035d45d973e3ec169d2276ddab16f1e407384fUSD0x6c3ea9036406852006290770bedfcaba0e23a0e8USD0x2260fac5e5542a773aa44fbcfedf7c193bc2c599BTC
Base · 2 contracts + native ETH
Contract sources: Robinhood, Circle, Base, Tether, Sky, Paxos, and WBTC.
Resistance, not certification.
These are transparent initial heuristics, not calibrated fraud probabilities. Excluded dollars are not proven wash volume or fake TVL. Legitimate markets can fail, and sophisticated manipulation can pass. No wallet-ownership analysis or independent reserve audit is performed.
The sample remains up to 80 pools per chain, selected by reported volume. Screening does not refill excluded slots. Manipulated rankings can crowd out genuine pools, and reference support outside this sample is invisible. These totals are not chain-wide clean volume or TVL.
All checks use the same existing data batches: zero additional API requests. The complete reported values, pool-level reasons, and screened totals remain available in the JSON feed and the site’s Git repository.