Methodology

Every figure on VeVe Alpha traces back to something verifiable: a blockchain state, a settled transaction, or a live marketplace observation. When a number cannot be verified to our standard, we would rather show a smaller number, a gap, or nothing — a conservative figure that holds up beats an impressive one that does not.

When we get something wrong, we correct it and keep the corrected history. Historical series are never rewritten to flatter the present.

Holder counts are built from on-chain ownership records, token by token, not from marketplace profiles or self-reported data. We track the beneficial owner: when a collectible sits in a marketplace's custody because its owner has listed it for sale, it still counts as theirs — a listing is not a sale. The ownership map follows the chain continuously, so trades and transfers are reflected within minutes, and independent verification passes run on top of the live feed to catch anything the fast path misses.

Active means at least one market trade (buy or sell) in the last 90 days. Transfers without a sale don't count.

Sales are recorded from both marketplaces — VeVe and StackR — with the price, time and parties as reported at settlement. Obvious outlier trades (for example, prices wildly inconsistent with an item's entire trading history) are excluded from analytics so that a single joke transaction cannot distort a chart. Floors are observed live from each marketplace and shown per venue; we do not blend venues into one number, because a venue switch is not a price move.

Store drops are the one place the chain confirms a purchase but not the amount paid. Where we know the drop price — one constant per collectible — every store sale of that item is priced exactly. Where we do not yet, store volume is estimated from the item's market floor at the time of purchase, with a sanity ceiling that excludes troll-priced asks from the estimate. Per-transaction store prices are never shown, and store activity never influences whether a floor is judged credible: those gates measure only the secondary market, where prices are settled facts.

A market cap is floor × edition supply — but only when the floor is credible. A floor counts if it is at a modest price level, belongs to a curated grail, or is backed by the item's real trading history. Never-traded items with aspirational asks contribute nothing: a collectible listed at a fantasy price that nobody has ever paid adds zero to every market cap on this site. Supply always means the edition size of the specific rarity being priced, never the whole collection. This makes our market caps deliberately conservative — treat them as a defensible lower bound on optimism, not a promise of realizable value.

The fundamentals rating grades what a collectible is, not what it costs — price is deliberately not an input. For most items the grade comes from a weighted blend of character strength, rarity tier and first-appearance status. Comics are graded by their standing on our ranked key list. On top of the formula sits a small, disclosed editorial layer: landmark items whose significance no formula captures carry a curated grade, and the site marks them as such wherever the grade appears. Ratings are opinions built on data — strict by design, and most of the catalog does not score highly.

When we value a collection or wallet, each holding is priced at its credible floor under the same market-cap standard above — holdings whose floors fail the credibility checks contribute zero. The result is an upper bound, not a realizable price: selling into a floor moves the floor. Where we show a raw per-marketplace floor total instead, it is labeled as exactly that.

Found a number that looks wrong? Tell us — the fastest way this data gets better is collectors auditing it. Confirmed errors are corrected openly.

You are welcome to cite VeVe Alpha data with attribution and a link. Nothing on this site is financial advice; it is market data, presented as honestly as we know how.