Live velocity, not stale percent change
Traditional feeds show you “+47% in 24h” or “+12% in 1h.” Those numbers are useful for context, but they’re useless for decisions in a meme-token market that finishes its life cycle in 90 minutes. Dequan computes a live, smoothed velocity in real time as trades arrive. It is the rate at which a token’s market cap is currently climbing. It updates on every market tick, not on every refresh. You see velocity in three places:Vertical position on the Pump Zone field
Higher on the field = climbing faster right now.
Gold velocity line on every chart
Open any token’s chart and a thin gold line traces velocity beneath the candles. When the gold line is rising, momentum is building. When it flattens or turns, the move is done.
Kinetic state badges
Tokens carry a state: Awakening, Building, Pumping, or Mooning. The state is derived from velocity and changes live as conditions change. You don’t compute anything — you read the badge.
Acceleration: the early-warning system
Velocity tells you the trend. Acceleration — the change in velocity — tells you whether the trend is still alive. A token that has run hard for ten minutes might still be at high velocity, but if velocity is no longer increasing, the move is mature. The crowd is exhausted. The crash is more likely than the next leg up. Conversely, a token that’s been sideways but suddenly shows positive acceleration — even at low absolute velocity — is the signal you wanted. It is the inflection that experienced traders try to catch and that beginners always miss because they’re staring at price. Dequan surfaces acceleration directly in the chart and on the field cues. You don’t have to compute it. You don’t have to draw a derivative on a chart. The signal is there.The Token Quality Score (TQS)
Velocity and acceleration tell you what a token is doing. The Token Quality Score tells you whether you should care. TQS is a 0–100 score that synthesises multiple risk and quality dimensions into a single number. The components are weighted so that:- High TQS (≥70, “HOT”) — clean profile, real activity, low concentration risk. Worth a closer look.
- Medium TQS (40–69, “WARM”) — mixed signals. Worth opening the chart, not blind-buying.
- Low TQS (
<40, “COOL”) — concentration is high, dev is questionable, or the action looks manufactured. Most traders should pass.
| TQS | Chart palette | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| HOT | Gold candles | Clean, accelerating, worth attention |
| WARM | Cinematic teal/red | Mixed; trade with awareness |
| COOL | Ice blue | Risky profile; consider passing |
We deliberately don’t publish the exact TQS weighting. The score is one of Dequan’s research outputs and changes as the meta changes — what predicted quality six months ago doesn’t predict it now. What we do commit to is that TQS is never paid promotion, never tied to which DEX a token uses, and never adjusted because someone asked nicely.
Filtering by velocity band
You can hide every token that isn’t in the velocity bands you care about. The most common configurations:- The Hunter
- The Surfer
- The Sniper
- The Scanner
Show: Awakening + Building.You are trying to enter early. You don’t care what’s already mooning — you care about the next mover. The field becomes a slow ballet of pre-breakout tokens.
Why this matters
Most retail traders lose because they confuse price with trend. They buy after a token is already up 200% because the green number looks good, not realising the green number is decelerating and the move is over. Dequan gives you the slope and the slope-of-the-slope. You stop chasing prints. You start recognising shapes. That’s the entire shift.Continue → Racing Lanes
Now that you’ve entered, your position becomes a lane on the field.