How Cyclesolved works
The thesis
Crypto is volatile, and there is way too much to watch. Prices move because of technical setups, on-chain flows, dev activity, investor sentiment, and broader market conditions — all at once, all in different directions. Most people either spend hours a day watching charts or give up and trade on vibes.
Cyclesolved condenses twenty signals across five categories into one transparent score per coin — so you can make an informed decision in 30 seconds, not 3 hours. No hype, no shilling. Every score shows its work.
How to read a score
Every coin gets a composite score from 0 to 100. It's the weighted average of five category subscores. Higher is a stronger buy signal at this moment in time.
Scores are bucketed:
- 80+ Strong buy — rare, only shows up when multiple categories align
- 65–79 Buy — solid setup worth considering
- 45–64 Neutral — no clear edge in either direction
- 30–44 Caution — signals are leaning negative
- <30 Avoid — material weakness in multiple areas
A score is a signal, not a command. Even a 90 is not "buy this, guaranteed." It means our scoring framework sees unusual alignment across categories. Your own research, risk tolerance, and position sizing still matter.
Click any coin on the scanner to see the full breakdown — every metric, its current value, its individual score, a plain-English explanation, and a 30-day history sparkline showing how the composite has moved.
The colored dot next to each score
Not every coin has the same data coverage. Smaller coins sometimes lack on-chain or fundamentals metrics from our data providers. Rather than hide this fact and pretend every score is equally trustworthy, we mark each score with a small dot showing how complete the underlying data is:
Data coverage varies by coin — different chains have different levels of available data. We're continuously sourcing more and better data, filling gaps as we find what's worth integrating.
Fourteen or twenty? Fourteen of our twenty signals are coin-specific metrics that depend on third-party data and can be missing for smaller coins — the dot tracks how many of those fourteen we have for a given coin. The other six are market-wide sentiment and macro signals, plus market-data-derived ratios, that are available for essentially every coin, so they don't factor into the coverage dot.
- Full coverage — all 14 coin-specific metrics available. Score is as reliable as our framework gets.
- Partial coverage — most metrics available but a category or two is missing. Usable signal, read with a pinch of salt.
- Limited coverage — most coin-specific data is missing. The score still reflects what we do know, but weigh it lightly.
On the coin drill-down page you'll see a badge under the header spelling out exactly which categories were available and which were missing. Low-coverage coins are not hidden or ranked down — they still sort by composite score alongside everything else. The dot is just transparency so you can decide how much weight to give it.
The five signal categories
Technical — short-term timing
Reads price action. RSI tells us if a coin is overbought or oversold. MACD shows momentum building or fading. Moving averages define the trend.
Why it matters: Even when fundamentals are strong, buying at the top of a run costs you. Technical signals catch the timing.
On-chain — what holders are actually doing
Most crypto investing is flying blind. On-chain data isn't. We track whether coins are flowing onto exchanges (selling pressure) or off (accumulation), whether wallet activity is growing, and whether whales are buying or selling.
Why it matters: On-chain is the clearest window into the supply/demand balance. When whales are quietly accumulating, price usually follows.
Fundamentals — is the project alive, and what's the supply picture?
A few angles: are developers still shipping? How far has the price fallen from its peak? Are holders in profit or pain? And how much locked supply is still waiting to hit the market?
Drawdown from ATH — how far a coin has fallen from its peak. We treat this as a probability tilt, not a verdict: deeper drawdowns lower the odds of a strong recovery, but they don't rule it out. A coin down hard with real activity behind it can still set up well.
Dilution — MC/FDV and token unlocks — two views of supply overhang. MC/FDV (circulating market cap ÷ fully-diluted value) shows how much of the total supply is still locked. Token unlocks show the timing — what percentage of circulating supply is scheduled to unlock in the next 30 days. Low float with heavy pending unlocks is a structural sell-pressure headwind (the low-float / high-FDV launch problem); we auto-discount it.
Why it matters: the biggest returns come from quality projects bought in weakness — but "cheap" and "diluting fast" are different things, and we separate them.
Sentiment — the contrarian's tool
When the Fear & Greed Index hits extreme greed, tops usually follow. When it hits extreme fear, bottoms usually follow. Social volume extremes work similarly — when everyone is suddenly talking about a coin, the easy upside is often already priced in.
Why it matters: Being fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful is older than crypto. This category quantifies it.
Macro — is the tide with you, and how is this coin weathering it?
Bitcoin trend and BTC dominance set the market-wide backdrop: if BTC is in a downtrend, most alts struggle no matter how good their individual setup is; if BTC dominance is falling, alt season may be starting.
Strength vs BTC — the coin-specific piece. We measure how each coin holds up against Bitcoin over 30 days. When a coin makes higher lows while BTC makes lower lows — or simply falls less than the market — it's showing relative strength, historically one of the better early signals of which coins lead the next move.
Why it matters: the macro tide lifts or sinks all boats — but the boats that ride highest in a storm are the ones to watch.
Four ways to use the app
If you have 30 seconds a day
Open the Scanner. Look at the top 5 by composite score. Open anything that jumps out. That's it. You'll catch the strongest setups with almost zero time investment.
If you have 5 minutes a day
Add your favorite coins to your Watchlist so you can focus on what you actually care about. Enable the daily briefing email from your Account — we'll send you what changed overnight, what's in your watchlist, and any strong new signals. Act on what matters, ignore the rest.
If you trade actively
Live on the Heatmap. Use the 1h and 4h timeframes to spot short-term momentum. Use the Technical view to find oversold reversals or overbought tops. Confirm setups on the drill-down page before entering.
If you want to spot projects before they break out
Open High Dev. We track developer activity across the top 500 coins — commit volume, contributor growth, GitHub breadth — and combine them into a Dev score weighted heavily toward growth. The "Rising stars" card surfaces projects outside the top 50 by market cap with high dev activity: the same pattern that preceded SOL and SUI's breakouts years before they were household names.
Sometimes coins outside the top 100 are showing real promise. When our methodology flags a coin for sustained high developer activity, we add it to the scanner so users get the full data — it shows up in the Top 100+ view, ranked by its true market-cap position. Once promoted, a coin stays for at least two weeks so the scanner doesn't flicker day to day. It's a mechanical rule, not an editorial pick.
Watchlist
Pin up to 10 coins to your Watchlist so you can track them independently of where they sit in the broader top-100 rankings. Star a coin from the Scanner row, the Heatmap tile, or the coin's drill-down page — it shows up on your Watchlist immediately.
Use it to: track positions you already hold, stage a short list of "thinking about it" candidates, or build a focused universe that matches your style (e.g. only L1s, only DeFi). The watchlist view applies your composite weights, so the same coins can rank differently depending on how you've tuned the scoring.
What we don't do
- We don't tell you what to buy. Scores are signals. Decisions are yours.
- We don't pump coins. If a coin scores low, we show it low — regardless of our relationship with the project. There is no relationship.
- We don't give financial advice. Cyclesolved is an analysis tool, not a licensed advisor. Do your own research. Never risk money you can't afford to lose.
Data sources
We show our work. Every signal is computed from third-party data we pull on a refresh cycle — CoinGecko, Santiment, DefiLlama, exchange proof-of-reserves, and more — then run through our own scoring curves. The full provider list, what each one feeds, and the attribution each requires is on the dedicated data sources page.
FAQ
How often do scores update?
Every 30 minutes in the background. The "updated Xm ago" label on the scanner tells you exactly how fresh the data is.
What's a good score threshold to act on?
Depends on you. Many users filter for 70+ as their "worth a deeper look" threshold. Strong buys (80+) are rare and deserve a closer read. But a high score alone is not a plan — position sizing, entry strategy, and risk management are still your job.
What data sources does Cyclesolved use?
CoinGecko for market and technical data, Santiment for on-chain and sentiment metrics, Dune Analytics for active-address, whale-transfer, exchange-supply and supply-in-profit signals, DefiLlama for DeFi protocol metrics and token-unlock schedules, Alternative.me for the Fear & Greed Index, and Alpha Vantage for the traditional-market data on the Macro page — plus exchange proof-of-reserves (OKX, Binance) and chain explorers (CoinStats, Koios, Stellar, Nodely, Subscan) for supply and on-chain fallbacks. The complete list with attribution is on the data sources page. All scoring curves and weightings are proprietary.
How is Cyclesolved different from other crypto tools?
Most tools give you data and expect you to interpret it. Cyclesolved gives you a single composite score that synthesizes five categories of data, plus a plain-English explanation of every underlying signal. The goal is a decision-ready view, not an analysis surface.
Is this financial advice?
No. Cyclesolved is a data and analysis tool. Nothing here is financial advice and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell any asset.
Can I customize the scoring weights?
Yes. Visit the weights page to adjust the weighting of each category to match your own investing thesis. Your weights persist across sessions and are applied everywhere you see a composite score.
Do I need a card to start the trial?
No — the trial is card-free. To keep trials fair (one per person), we verify your phone number once at signup. You add a payment method only when you choose to subscribe.
How do I sign in?
Passwordless. Enter your email and we send a one-time sign-in link — no password to set or remember.
How do I manage or cancel my subscription?
Go to your account → Manage subscription to update your card or cancel. If you cancel, you keep full access through the end of the period you've already paid for.
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