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How the score is calculated

The score is derived entirely from public, on-chain activity indexed from the Stellar network — no off-chain data, no self-reported information. It measures how a wallet has actually used DeFi protocols over time.

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Two scoring paths

Every wallet is scored one of two ways, depending on what it's done on-chain. Whichever applies, only the highest-signal path is used — a wallet is never scored both ways.

Lending path

Used when a wallet has at least one completed borrow → repay cycle on a lending protocol (currently Blend). This is the strongest signal available, since repaying debt is the clearest evidence of creditworthiness — so this path can reach tier A.

Activity path

Used when a wallet has no lending cycles, but has meaningful breadth or volume of other DeFi activity (swaps, liquidity provision, yield deposits, claims, transfers). This path can reach tier A only above a high score threshold — most activity-only wallets land in tier B.

Floor

Used when a wallet has very little indexed activity (fewer than 3 meaningful events, fewer than 2 protocols, and fewer than 2 months of distribution-claim income). Score is simply capped at a low tier-C value based on event count.

Lending path breakdown

LENDING path: 3 cycles, speed 34, cyclecount 12, income 8 [participation 2, months 3 (2pts), net $61.40 realized (4pts)], distribution 0 [no distribution claims], tenure 11, raw 67

Term What it means
cycles Number of completed borrow→repay cycles found (a debt opened and later fully closed).
speed Points for how quickly debt was typically repaid, from the median cycle duration — faster repayment scores higher.
cyclecount Points for having multiple cycles: min(cycles, 5) × 4 — repeat, completed borrowing is rewarded, up to 5 cycles.
income Points for real yield income (see "Realized yield income" below) — up to 10 points here.
distribution Points for recurring payroll/mass-distribution claims (see "Distribution income" below) — up to 4 points here.
rewards Points for claiming protocol incentive rewards (see "Incentive rewards" below) — up to 3 points here.
classic A small bonus for account age and long Stellar history (see "Account age and classic Stellar history" below) — up to 3 points here.
tenure Points for how long ago the wallet's cycle activity spans — longer track record scores higher.
raw Sum of the above. If a wallet has only 1 cycle, the score is provisionally capped lower until a second cycle confirms the pattern.

Activity path breakdown

ACTIVITY path: protocols 5, events 784, days 44, breadth 15, volume 25, consistency 20, tenure 15, income 6 [participation 2, months 4 (3pts), net $128.07 realized (1pts)], distribution 2 [participation 1, months 2 (1pts), $40.00 claimed (0pts)], raw 83

Term What it means
protocols Number of distinct DeFi protocols the wallet has touched (e.g. Blend, Soroswap, Aquarius, Sushi, DeFindex).
events Count of "meaningful" on-chain events — everything except generic contract calls with no clear economic action.
days Number of distinct calendar days the wallet was active on.
breadth Points for protocol diversity: min(protocols × 5, 15).
volume Points for activity volume: min(events, 25) — capped so very high-frequency wallets don't automatically dominate the score.
consistency Points for how spread out the activity is across distinct days.
tenure Points for the time span between the wallet's first and last meaningful event.
income Points for real yield income (see "Realized yield income" below) — up to 12 points here.
distribution Points for recurring payroll/mass-distribution claims (see "Distribution income" below) — up to 6 points here.
rewards Points for claiming protocol incentive rewards (see "Incentive rewards" below) — up to 4 points here.
classic A small bonus for account age and long Stellar history (see "Account age and classic Stellar history" below) — up to 5 points here.
raw Sum of the above.

From raw score to final tier

The raw point total isn't the displayed score — it's run through a scaling curve that concentrates most wallets in the middle of the range and reserves the top end for genuinely strong track records, then mapped to a tier:

Tier A
67 – 100
Tier B
34 – 66
Tier C
0 – 33

The lending path and activity path use separate scaling curves calibrated to their own raw-score ranges, which is why the same raw number can map to different final scores depending on path.

Realized yield income

Beyond lending and activity, the score looks at real yield/savings income — deposits and withdrawals on yield products like DeFindex vaults, Stellar DeFi Hub, and Upshift/Gami. This only counts realized income: USD a wallet actually withdrew above what it had deposited into that position, not paper gains from a balance that's still parked. A wallet that deposits and never withdraws gets a small flat credit for participating, but the bulk of the income score comes from cashing out more than was put in.

Amounts across different assets (USDC, EURC, XLM, and tokenized bonds like CETES, TESOURO, USTRY) are converted to USD using live prices, refreshed every 6 hours.

Term What it means
participation A small flat bonus just for having any yield deposit/withdraw history at all, whether or not income has been realized yet.
months (Npts) Number of distinct calendar months in which the wallet realized net-positive income — rewards income spread over time, not one lucky cash-out.
net $X realized (Npts) Total USD withdrawn above total USD deposited, across all yield positions. Scored as a rate relative to how much was deposited, so a small active saver and a large passive one are compared fairly.

Distribution income

Some wallets receive income a different way: a recurring claim from a mass-distribution / payroll-style contract (e.g. Fundable), rather than depositing and withdrawing from a yield position. A single claim has no deposit side to measure a "return" against, so it can't be scored the same way as yield income — instead it's weighted heavily toward consistency over magnitude. A wallet claiming something every month looks like real, recurring income; a single claim ever looks like a one-time windfall and is scored accordingly low. Claiming activity is deliberately excluded from the breadth/volume/consistency numbers above — passively receiving an allocation doesn't demonstrate protocol sophistication the way actively swapping or depositing does — but it can still qualify a wallet for the activity path on its own if claims span 2 or more distinct months.

Term What it means
participation A small flat bonus just for having any claim history at all.
months (Npts) Number of distinct calendar months with a claim — the main driver of this score.
$X claimed (Npts) Total USD value claimed across all distributions — a smaller, secondary factor.

Incentive rewards

Protocols also pay out reward tokens: AQUA to Aquarius liquidity providers (plus Aquarius gauge rewards, paid in assets like USDC and XLM) and BLND to Blend lenders and backstop depositors, and reward tokens to Phoenix liquidity providers who stake their LP tokens (Phoenix doesn't record the amount of a reward claim, so those count toward the months-claimed factor only, never the dollar one). These are scored as their own signal, and deliberately the smallest of the three income signals (at most 3 points on the lending path and 4 on the activity path). Rewards are incentives, not organic income: they scale with how much a wallet has staked, they are volatile, and some wallets simply rotate between incentive programs. So, as with distribution income, consistency (distinct months with a claim, saturating at 8) counts for more than size (total USD claimed, saturating at $50). Reward tokens are converted to USD with live prices, refreshed every 6 hours. A claim that can't be priced still counts as participation but adds no dollars. Liquidity-provider fee claims are a different thing and are not counted here.

Term What it means
participation 1 point for having claimed any reward.
months (Npts) Distinct calendar months with a reward claim — up to 1 point (lending) or 2 (activity).
$X in rewards (Npts) Total USD value of rewards claimed — up to 1 point.

Account age and classic Stellar history

The score is built from Soroban DeFi activity, which we index from mid-2024. A wallet can have a much longer history than that, with years of ordinary Stellar payments and trades. That history says something real about a wallet, so it earns a small bonus, but only alongside DeFi activity: a wallet with no DeFi history isn't scored on classic history alone.

Term What it means
age How long the account has existed: 90 days +1 point, 1 year +2, 2 years +3, 4 years +4. Age is hard to fake, so it carries the most weight here.
payments, trades +1 point for a real classic footprint (1,000 or more payments, or 100 or more trades) that is still active this year. Payments and trades cost almost nothing to create, so volume counts for one point at most.

The bonus is capped at 5 points on the activity path and 3 on the lending path, where repayment history already carries the score. The data comes from public sources (stellar.expert and Horizon); if neither answers, the wallet is simply scored without the bonus.

A few notes

How holdings are calculated

The Holdings card under the score shows what a wallet owns right now — tokens and DeFi positions — priced in US dollars. It is separate from the score: the score looks at history, holdings look at today's balances.

Where the numbers come from

What is counted

Item How it is valued
Tokens Balance × price, for tokens we can price (see below).
Blend Supplied and collateral amounts, and borrowed amounts, converted to the underlying asset using the pool's current rates.
Aquarius pools The wallet's share of the pool's reserves (constant-product and stable pools).
DeFindex vaults What the vault shares redeem for in the vault's underlying asset, not the share count.
Untangled USDyc II USDyc shares converted to USDC at the vault's current share price.

Portfolio value is tokens plus DeFi positions. Debt (what the wallet has borrowed) is shown separately, and Net value is portfolio value minus debt.

Vault and pool amounts are what the shares are worth. A wallet with 240,000 vault shares can show $260,000 because the vault has earned yield since the shares were issued.

How tokens are priced

A token only gets a price if we can be sure which token it is. Prices are matched by contract address, never by name or ticker, so a scam token calling itself "USDC" is never valued at $1.

The tags on each row

Tag What it means
LP token The holding is a share of a pool or vault (an Aquarius pool, a DeFindex vault, Untangled USDyc II).
Unpriced We can't price it, so it isn't counted in the totals.
Partly priced One side of a pool can be priced and the other can't. Only the priced side is counted, so the figure shown is a minimum; the real value is higher.
Transferable The wallet can move this holding to another address.
Not transferable The wallet can't move it directly, for example a Blend deposit (it sits inside the pool until withdrawn) or a token whose issuer hasn't authorized the wallet to move it.
Transfer unconfirmed We couldn't confirm either way, usually an unlisted token.
Clawback The token's issuer has the power to reclaim the balance. Worth knowing before relying on it.

The Transferable total adds up the priced holdings the wallet can actually move. It is what could be handed over or pledged, which can be smaller than portfolio value.

What is not covered yet

Holdings are an estimate for information only. They are not a valuation, an offer of credit, or financial advice.

How the indicative credit line is calculated

After you verify a wallet you can see an indicative credit line and APR under three lending models. It is an estimate from your score and holdings, not an offer: nothing is lent and nothing is committed.

Three lending models

Model How the limit is set
Secured From the holdings the wallet could pledge. 75% of the lendable collateral value (see below), minus anything already borrowed. The score doesn't change the limit.
Unsecured From the LCRD score alone, with no collateral. Tier A: $2,500 to $10,000 as the score rises from 67 to 100. Tier B: $250 to $2,500 from 34 to 66. Tier C and wallets with too little history aren't eligible.
Score + collateral The score sets a ceiling (tier A up to $30,000, tier B up to $5,000, tier C up to $500) and the holdings cap it: a better tier may borrow against more of its lendable collateral (100% for A, 85% for B, 60% for C). The lower of the two applies.

Each model has an overall maximum ($250,000 secured, $10,000 unsecured, $100,000 for score + collateral) and a minimum line of $50 for the models that use collateral.

What counts as collateral

Only holdings the wallet can actually move (marked Transferable in Holdings) and that have a trusted USD price count. Blend deposits, tokens the issuer hasn't authorized the wallet to move, and unpriced tokens are left out. Each kind of asset is then discounted for how risky it is to hold as security:

Asset Counted at
USDC, PYUSD95% of value
EURC90%
Etherfuse bonds (CETES, USTRY, TESOURO)75%
XLM65%
AQUA, BLND (reward tokens)40%
Other tokens priced from stellar.expert's list30%

Pool and vault shares (Aquarius, DeFindex, Untangled) are valued by what they redeem for, discounted again by 10% for exit risk. A token whose issuer can claw it back counts at half. The total after these discounts is the lendable collateral.

How the APR is priced

The APR is built from a base rate, a risk charge from the score, and an adjustment for how well the loan is secured. The card shows each part.

Part What it means
Base rate 8%, our assumed cost of funds.
Score risk Falls steadily as the score rises: 20% at a score of 0 down to 3% at 100.
Collateral discount Only part of the score risk applies when there is security: 35% of it for secured, 70% for score + collateral, all of it for unsecured.
Unsecured surcharge +3% for unsecured credit.
Volatile collateral +2% when the collateral's average discount is above 30%, meaning it is mostly volatile assets.

The final APR is kept between 6% and 36%.

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