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Why the same subnet shows different numbers on different sites
Same chain, different definitions: which price, which supply, which window, and whether a blank is allowed to stay blank.
Published 2026-09-17 · updated 2026-09-28
Which price, which supply
"Price × supply" hides two choices. Price can be spot — the pool's reserve ratio now — or the chain's own moving average, SubnetMovingPrice, which the runtime uses for emission and the deregistration queue. Supply can be everything minted, α in pool + α staked out, or that less α burned. Taosis's market cap is EMA price × (α in pool + α staked out − α burned); spot × everything minted reads higher on a burn-heavy subnet.
Taosis's own Supply column still counts burned α, so supply × price sits above market cap on the same page. Both are correct; they answer different questions.
Which window, which sample
Percentage changes are spot against Taosis's own sample taken that long ago. A site that sampled at a different minute, or from a different node, gets a different "24h" because both ends of its window are different ticks.
Yields here come as two labelled figures from the same rate: APR (simple) and APY (compounded). On a subnet they are in α — one epoch annualised on the subnet pages, a 24-hour median in the validators directory; on root they are in τ, over about 24 hours of the chain's BasketTwr series. Another site's APY over seven or thirty days is a different window, not a different chain. Volume sums every buy and sell fill Taosis indexed; the chain writes stake moves and transfers as such fills too, so they are in it, on both sides — including same-subnet ones that never touch the pool — and a site that leaves them out reads lower.
Which holders, which formula
Holders are coldkeys, not people, above a 0.000001 α dust floor, published only when the scan covered at least 98% of the α and reconciled with the chain. HHI is min-normalised, (HHI − 1/N) ÷ (1 − 1/N), owner and the protocol's root-basket escrow excluded, so not comparable to a raw HHI. The takeover threshold is the runtime's 18%, not the 10% published elsewhere.
Rates are the other trap. Chain buys per day is the excess τ on one block × 7,200 blocks per day — a rate at one instant, not a measured day. Emission % counts τ injected into the pool plus τ spent on chain buys; the injection alone is a different quantity.
How to settle a difference yourself
Every figure is on the Definitions page with its meaning, formula, chain storage and caveat; each screener column header carries the short version. The Status page shows the age of each source it tracks.
Two last causes. USD figures use an external TAO/USD rate (CoinGecko), never used in pool, stake or yield math, and another site's provider quotes a slightly different rate. And a dash is never a zero: where another site prints 0 for a value it did not read, Taosis leaves a blank, which can itself look like a difference.
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Market cap, FDV and supply
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What Taosis can and cannot know
The one page to read first: why a blank is never a zero, and why some questions are refused outright.
How the screener columns are computed
Three kinds of column — read, derived and sampled — under two rules: a blank is never a zero, and root is not a market.