Bridge Volume vs Net Cross-Chain Flow
Distinguish gross bridge throughput from net movement between networks, matching source and destination stages without counting both as separate economic transfers.
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TVL and Double Counting in DeFi Analytics
Define total value locked with explicit contract scope, look-through rules and prices, and avoid counting one underlying claim through several receipt layers.
Read the guideProtocol Fees vs Revenue in On-Chain Analytics
Distinguish user-paid fees, liquidity-provider earnings, protocol receipts and token-holder distributions, preserving actual recipient and allocation evidence.
Read the guideMEV and Transaction Ordering: What Data Can Show
Analyse transaction ordering and execution patterns without assuming that adjacency alone proves strategy, common ownership or harmful intent.
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Read-Only Blockchain Tools for AI Agents
Expose bounded blockchain queries to AI agents with explicit schemas, evidence references and separate authorisation for any state-changing operation.
Read the guideAvoiding Look-Ahead Bias in Blockchain Backtests
Use historically available prices, labels and state in blockchain analysis, and distinguish event time from when an application could actually observe the information.
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Prediction-Market Prices vs Implied Probabilities
Interpret prediction-market prices with fees, payout rules and liquidity context, rather than treating a displayed quote as an objective probability.
Read the guidePerpetual Funding vs Trading Profit and Loss
Separate funding transfers from price-driven profit and loss, preserving position size, settlement intervals and the exchange or protocol calculation rules.
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