Data & limitations
What the data represents, what's real, and what's derived — so you can use it appropriately.
📡 Where data comes from
Market data (pairs, current price, price change, volume, transaction counts, liquidity, FDV, market cap, pair age) is sourced from the DexScreener public API and served through a server-side cache. These are live snapshot fields.
🕯️ Synthesized charts & trades
The public data source does not provide historical OHLC candles or a per-trade feed. To keep the UI functional, the price chart and the transactions table are deterministically synthesized from the live snapshot fields. They are plausible and stable per pair/interval (the latest candle tracks the live price), but they are not real historical candles or real individual trades.
Don't rely on them for backtesting, settlement, accounting, or as a source of truth. They're for visualization only.
✅ Real vs. derived
Real (from source)
- Current price (USD & native)
- Price change: 5m / 1h / 6h / 24h
- Volume & buy/sell transaction counts
- Liquidity, FDV, market cap
- Pair age, DEX, chain, token metadata
Derived / estimated
- OHLC candle history
- Individual trade rows
- Maker / holder counts (estimated)
- Risk score (heuristic, not an audit)
🔁 Freshness
Data updates continuously while the app or stream is open. Brief gaps or stale snapshots can occur if the upstream is momentarily unavailable; the UI degrades gracefully rather than erroring.