Every pair in our catalog gets the same kind of page. This article walks through one, element by element, so you know exactly what you are reading anywhere on the site. Open BTC/USD in another tab if you want to follow along live.
One page, one market
We give each pair its own page because each market has its own story. BTC trades in dozens of pools across many chains; some tokenized funds trade in one corridor on one chain. Averaging those stories into a single template with a big number on top would hide exactly the information that makes a price trustworthy. So every page answers the same three questions: what is the rate, where does it come from, how healthy is the market behind it.
The banner: a rate with a birth certificate
The top of every feed page shows the current rate next to a block time. That timestamp is not decoration; it is the difference between a measurement and a rumor. A price without a moment attached cannot be checked, compared or disputed. Ours says: this number was true of the market at this block; here is when that was.
The displayed rate refreshes roughly every ninety seconds on the public pages. The feed underneath observes the market block by block; what you see in a browser is a reading of that layer, timestamped so you always know how fresh it is.
The composition: where the number comes from
Below the banner sits the part most price sites keep to themselves: the composition. It lists the pools the rate is computed from, the chains they live on, the weight each carries. Deep pools move the number more than shallow ones; that is the entire principle, visible per pair.
Two things are worth knowing about the composition. First, it breathes. Pool counts change as venues gain or lose the liquidity that qualifies them; a page that showed a fixed number of pools forever would be describing a market that does not exist. Second, it is checkable. Every pool in the list is a public contract on a public chain. If you want to verify a reading, the composition tells you exactly where to look.
Depth: the walls around the price
Each page reports depth within one percent of the mid: how much the market can absorb before the price moves past that band. Two markets can print the same rate while one of them would slip on a five-figure order; depth is what tells them apart. Reading it is simple: the bigger the walls, the more a rate means. A thin book is not a defect, but it is a fact; it belongs next to the price it produces.
Honest statuses
Sometimes a pair simply does not trade for a while, or the live layer cannot be reached. The banner tells you which case you are looking at. Its label reads live rate or delayed rate; next to the number sits the block the price comes from with how long ago that was. A quiet market shows its age in plain sight rather than passing for a fresh reading. We consider this a feature, not an apology: a quiet market reported quietly is information; a quiet market dressed up as a live one is a small lie that compounds.
The boards: the same data, read sideways
Feed pages answer “what is this asset worth in dollars”. The boards answer a different question with the same data: how do these assets hold their promises against each other? The BTC parity board lines up wrapped bitcoin against BTC, where a parity reading of one means the wrapper exchanges evenly. The ETH ratio board shows staked ether tokens against ETH, rebasing pegs next to accruing ratios. The dollar cross board prices stablecoins in each other, the most sensitive lens there is for spotting a dollar that starts to wander. Every board row links back to the feed page behind it, so the two views are never more than a click apart.
Reading it like a professional
A practical order for any feed page: block time first (how fresh), depth second (how solid), composition third (where from), rate last. The rate is the headline, but the three lines above it are what make the headline mean something. That order is also, not by coincidence, how we built the product.
If you would rather consume all of this as JSON, the API page is the place to start; the methodology page documents the method behind every element this article walked through.
