Glossary

Plain-English definitions for the terms used across Crypheat.

Heat score
A deterministic, relative indicator (0–100) of how hot an asset is running versus its own recent baseline, within the current market regime. Not a price forecast or a valuation.
Regime
A market-wide gate derived from Bitcoin's 30-day trend and dominance, applied to every asset as a multiplier.
Momentum
An asset's own 7-day and 30-day price trend.
Liquidity
The absolute level of 24-hour traded volume — a measure of whether there is enough trading for a price move to be one you could act on.
Fundamentals (in this context)
Total value locked on the chain relative to market cap — a rough usage-versus-valuation test.
Supply lightness
Circulating supply divided by total supply. Lower means more dilution still to come.
Geometric mean
A way of averaging where one weak input drags the whole result down and no single strong input can carry it — used here so heat fires only when several conditions align.
TVL (total value locked)
The dollar value of assets deposited into a chain's protocols. A usage proxy; can be double-counted.
Market cap
Price multiplied by circulating supply.
FDV (fully diluted valuation)
Price multiplied by total supply — the market cap if every token were already circulating. A large gap versus market cap signals future dilution.
Circulating supply
The number of tokens currently on the market, versus total or maximum supply.
Unlock / vesting
A scheduled future release of locked tokens, which increases circulating supply and can add sell pressure.
Wash trading
Trades that do not change beneficial ownership, used to inflate reported volume.
Dominance
Bitcoin's share of total crypto market cap; a common read on risk appetite.
Risk-on / risk-off
Market conditions favoring (risk-on) or fleeing (risk-off) volatile assets such as altcoins.

Updated 2026-08-14 · rebuilt daily
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