Degen picks · altseason candidates
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The year in a chart
Top 10 by upside — how their year went
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Project1 year
The year in a chart
Top 10 by upside — how their year went
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Chain1 year
If altseason started now
What amplifies the market and what is already running
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Apps are rated by revenue, chains by adoption (stablecoins × DEX volume).
One fixed lens: 30 days, 12 months, 6-month trend, 1-year trajectory.
No token = not listed, but counted in the sectors.
About this version: what we changed and why, and what it does not do
What we changed and why
- Rules and backtest: unchanged, on purpose (same gates_version as upstream). The pre-registered backtest is inconclusive and the gate-passing rows did worse than the rest over six months. Without a new pre-registered hypothesis, any "improved" gate would be fitted to the same six months of data, so we kept the ranking exactly as published and the forward picks ledger stays comparable.
- Collection moved to our servers and made continuous. Upstream's 6-hour CI never ran (GitHub Pages needs a public repo). Here the collector runs every 6 hours in its own process under a host-wide lock, and any reader that finds a stale snapshot starts a refresh.
- A snapshot that fails an audit is never published, and upstream's known gap is closed: a failing snapshot used to become the next run's baseline; now the last published snapshot is copied back as the baseline.
- Live push instead of reloads. A socket delivers each new audited snapshot and the page re-renders in place. No polling.
- Presentation. English only, standards mode (upstream ran in quirks mode), the platform's dark palette with the chart series recoloured to it, wide charts that scroll inside their box on phones, and a Chains table that fits its box (stacked Trajectory cell, one row of chips per project).
- Data. The same DeFiLlama, CoinGecko and DexScreener endpoints and the same universe rules. Nothing added, nothing dropped.
- Source revision. Rebuilt from
github.com/zakutana/gem-screenerat commit2c365a7(2026-09-23 06:35 UTC, the last commit before the request was filed). The one later upstream commit,69d7253(2026-09-24), changes only the picks-ledger data file, so every source file the build started from is that revision's; ARCHITECTURE.md is carried verbatim. Repeat visits revalidate with an ETag and get a 304 until a new snapshot is published. - Flags next to the name became icons with a tooltip, so the Project / Chain column stays narrow — the trust, no-holder-share and risk flags beside a project or chain name are now small icons; hover or Tab to one for the reason. Category, market share and theme stay text chips in one row, so the sector reads at a glance.
What this version does not do
- It does not predict prices or tell you to buy. The pre-registered backtest on the Start tab came out inconclusive, and the gate-passing rows did worse than the rest over 6 months. Read the shortlist as a research starting point, not a signal.
- It does not trade, hold funds or connect a wallet. Nothing on this page places an order.
- It does not show tick-by-tick prices. Market caps and revenue come from the last audited snapshot. A new snapshot is collected every 6 hours and pushed to this page the moment it passes its audits.
- It never publishes a snapshot that fails an audit. The page keeps the last one that passed and shows its time in the header.
- It does not rank by trust, float or unlocks. Those are tags you can read, never part of the order.
- It covers only tokenized projects that DeFiLlama tracks. Apps without a token are counted in the sector totals but are not listed.
Data: DeFiLlama, CoinGecko and DexScreener public APIs. The screening engine is MIT-licensed open-source code, collected and audited on EventTrader servers. Not investment advice.