# Boostio

> Boostio is a crypto alpha research platform by Marketing Hog. It surfaces and researches promising crypto candidates, explains why each may matter, publishes daily market stories, and lets you inspect the underlying signal stack and confidence. The same research stack is tested in public by Wave, an AI paper trader on a simulated 100,000 dollar bankroll. All trading is paper (simulated); real money is off. New signal sources are captured at weight zero and must prove out-of-sample edge before they earn any scoring influence.

## What it is
Research first: candidate discovery (Scout), daily market stories (Market Pulse), sector and narrative breadth (Narratives), and a consolidated digest (Digest). Trading second: Wave takes the same signals and trades them on a simulated bankroll, publishing every simulated open and closed position, win and loss, at a five-minute delay. The design is shadow-first and honest about uncertainty: strategies and signals prove themselves forward, out of sample, before anything earns a live path.

## Key pages
- [AI Crypto Trading Bot, answered](https://boostio.com/ai-crypto-trading-bot): what Boostio is and is not. It is an AI-assisted research platform with public paper trading; it does not execute real-money trades.
- [AI Crypto Research Platform](https://boostio.com/ai-crypto-trading-platform): the research workflow from daily market story to candidate to public paper test.
- [Crypto Paper Trading](https://boostio.com/crypto-paper-trading-platform): the simulated bankroll, the five-minute delay, open and closed positions, and why paper results do not predict real-money results.
- [How It Works](https://boostio.com/how-it-works): the scoring engine, the execution gates, the risk model, the strategy suite, and a full changelog of every change.
- [Wave Dashboard](https://boostio.com/wave): simulated open and closed paper trades, active signals, the current regime, and the trading scoreboard.
- [Scout](https://boostio.com/scout): deep-value candidates scored on value, quality, structure, narrative and entry.
- [Market Pulse](https://boostio.com/market-briefings): daily data-driven market briefings and analysis posts.
- [Narratives](https://boostio.com/narratives): sector rotation and narrative breadth.

## Data stack
Nansen (smart-money flow capture; currently capture-only at weight zero), LunarCrush (social signals), altFINS (technical signals), DexScreener (DEX pricing), Binance Futures (market and derivatives data), CoinGecko (market data and fallback pricing), DefiLlama (TVL and context), plus X, YouTube and news flow for narrative context. Not every feed affects scoring: sources start capture-only at weight zero and are promoted only after out-of-sample evidence and explicit review.

## Important context
- Everything is paper / simulated. real_money_enabled is off. No real-money launch date is promised. Nothing on the site is financial advice.
- Boostio surfaces research candidates, never guaranteed winners. Paper results do not predict real-money results.
- Numbers shown are honest and sourced from one canonical equity helper; subsets are always labeled.
- Site: https://boostio.com