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Every Dequan-rendered token carries a Token Quality Score — a number from 0 to 100 that summarises the underlying risk and quality picture into one signal.

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The scale

HOT

Score ≥ 70Clean profile, real activity, low concentration. Worth closer attention.

WARM

40 – 69Mixed signals. Open the chart and check the components before deciding.

COOL

Score < 40Concentration is high, dev wallet is questionable, or the action looks manufactured. Most traders should pass.

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Where it shows up

  • The token glyph in the Pump Zone carries the TQS badge
  • The chart palette is keyed off TQS — HOT renders in gold candles, WARM in cinematic teal/red, COOL in ice-blue
  • The Sniper List shows TQS as a sortable column
  • The action tray highlights TQS changes as they happen

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Why a single number?

Most safety tooling buries you in a dozen separate metrics — top-10 holders %, dev hold %, snapshot snipers, bundlers, mint authority status. All of them are useful, none of them are decisions. A score is a decision. TQS is the decision-grade summary of that whole signal cluster, calibrated against historical outcomes. You can still inspect every component — see the Token Detail Tabs — when you want the full breakdown. TQS is the headline; the tabs are the article.

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What goes into it

We deliberately don’t publish the exact weighting. The score is one of Dequan’s research outputs and the calibration evolves as the meta evolves — what predicted “HOT” six months ago doesn’t predict it now. What we do commit to:
  • TQS is never paid promotion. There is no way to buy a higher score.
  • TQS is never adjusted on request. Not for projects, not for influencers, not for anyone.
  • TQS is not biased by venue — the score doesn’t reward tokens for using a particular DEX or launchpad.
  • TQS is based purely on observable on-chain and market data. No off-chain reputation inputs, no Twitter sentiment, no manual flagging.

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Live updates

TQS is a streaming score, not a snapshot. As conditions change — concentration shifts, dev moves, bonding curve advances, trade activity profile evolves — the score updates and the chart palette shifts with it. Watching a chart go from teal to gold while you’re on it is a real signal. Something about the token’s profile just improved.

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TQS is not a buy signal

We have to say this explicitly because someone will misread the docs otherwise. TQS is a risk assessment. A HOT token can still rug. A COOL token can still print. The score tells you what the conditions look like; it does not tell you whether to trade. Used correctly, TQS narrows the field of consideration. It does not replace the trade decision.

See the components yourself

Token Detail Tabs surface every input that goes into a token’s risk picture.