Heat and APR
How Chatito Heat ranks CEX, DEX, and LP boards, and how Fee APR differs from Volume Fee APR. Exact weights stay internal.
Heat is the CEX, DEX, and LP research board. It’s a 0-100 attention score: “worth watching,” not a raw top-gainers list, and not a promise of edge.
APR numbers (when you see them) are a different instrument. Heat ranks attention. APR describes fees. Do not treat a hot row as a fat yield, or a fat pool APR as a trade.
Product language only: score, liquidity, move, activity, freshness. We don’t name data vendors here or in the app.
What Heat Is For
| Use | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Focus | Surface markets/pools that look tradeable and interesting, not only loud |
| Scout / invent | Heat rows can feed AI Lab Scout and invent context |
| Modes | Re-weight the same factors for different research goals |
| Not | A guaranteed alpha signal, a price prediction, or financial advice |
Practice still needs sample. Heat is step 1. Discover in the research loop.
How a Score Is Built (Both Venues)
- Collect a universe of candidates (thin books/pools filtered or penalized).
- Normalize several factors to a 0-1 range.
- Combine them with mode weights.
- Apply penalties (for example manic chaos on a weak book).
- Map to heat 0-100, sort, show the board.
Exact weights and floors are product internals and can change. What stays stable is the factor vocabulary and mode intent.
CEX Heat
Where: CEX terminal → Heat.
What is ranked: Spot-style symbols for CEX research.
Factors (Public)
| Factor | In plain English |
|---|---|
| Liquidity | How much volume the book carries. Thin books rank poorly. |
| Move | Size of recent price change. |
| Activity | How busy the market is (when we have trade intensity). |
| Range quality | Prefer a real path through the session, not empty noise. |
| Freshness | Newer listings or volume surges can lift heat when enriched. |
| Breadth | Reserved for multi-venue signals later; may sit near zero today. |
Modes (CEX)
| Mode | Intent |
|---|---|
| Balanced | Default blend |
| Liquid | Prefer deep books |
| Active | Prefer move + activity |
| Fade | Prefer downside energy over pure upside rockets (still needs liquidity) |
Penalties You May Feel
- Huge moves on a weak book can be down-ranked (not celebrated).
- Famous large caps with almost no move are not hot just because they’re famous.
- Candidates below a product minimum may drop off the board.
UI “why” chips explain the story in product language.
DEX Heat
Where: DEX terminal → Heat.
What is ranked: On-chain pools / tokens (with chain chips and search).
Factors (Public)
| Factor | In plain English |
|---|---|
| Liquidity | Pool depth (and a soft blend of volume). |
| Move | Recent percentage energy. |
| Activity | Trade count intensity when present. |
| Path quality | Multi-horizon structure instead of a single noisy spike. |
| Freshness | Newer pools (stronger under Fresh mode). |
| Buy pressure | Buy vs sell balance (energy, not a moral “buy” signal). |
Modes (DEX)
| Mode | Intent |
|---|---|
| Balanced | Default blend |
| Liquid | Prefer deeper pools |
| Active | Prefer move + activity |
| Fresh | Prefer newer listings |
| Fade | Prefer downside energy posture (still needs depth) |
DEX-Specific Notes
- Floors are lower in absolute dollars than CEX (pools ≠ exchange books), but thin junk is still filtered.
- Chain filters limit the universe (for example Solana, Base, Ethereum, and other supported chains).
- Invent and Scientist on DEX stay DEX-only.
LP Heat
Where: LP terminal → Heat.
What is ranked: Concentrated-liquidity pools (Uniswap v3, Aerodrome Slipstream, PancakeSwap v3, HyperSwap), not token rockets.
LP Heat is the cousin of DEX Heat: same tab name, LP-native score (volume APR, turnover, calm path). Scanner books can walk this list. The LP terminal is open for Practice if you have app access.
Heat vs Raw Gainers
| Raw % gainers | Chatito Heat |
|---|---|
| Sorts by one move number | Blends liquidity, quality, activity, freshness, … |
| Celebrates thin rockets | Often penalizes manic thin books |
| Easy to game with noise | Built for strategy-usable attention |
| Same list for everyone | Modes change research posture |
How to Use Heat Well
- Pick a mode that matches what you’re hunting.
- Open a row into Charts or Scout when you want depth.
- Invent or create practice strategies - rank #1 is not a trade instruction.
- Boards refresh; compare over time.
Fee APR vs Volume Fee APR
These show up in LP research and on the LP terminal. They are not Heat, and they are not the same as each other.
| Number | What it is | What it is not |
|---|---|---|
| Fee APR | Your realized fees, divided by size, divided by time in years. | A forecast. A pool headline. |
| Volume Fee APR | A pool-wide estimate: last-day volume × fee tier / TVL × 365, as if the position were full-range. | What your range will earn. |
Short samples are thin. Prefer positions that have been open long enough to mean something (hours, not a minute). The app may say Building sample.
Paper books can accrue a target while in range. That is still Practice, not a live fee stream.
A high Heat score can sit on a thin Fee APR. A fat Volume Fee APR can still miss if you are out of range. Exact Heat weights and fee curves stay internal.
What We Keep Private
- Exact mode weights and scoring curves
- Exact floors and manic thresholds
- Feed provider names
- Internal A/B of heat formulas
Related
- Edge and Research
- Trading Engines
- Wallets
- Automation Levels
- In-app Help (What Heat Is · Fees and APR)
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