Frequently Asked Questions
Find RootData’s official product guidance in one place, including data updates, information corrections, field definitions, index methodology, API access, points, and other common usage questions.
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Ordinary market platforms mainly provide price data, while RootData covers the entire chain of investment decision-making: project fundamentals, financing context, on-chain tracking, tokenized asset dashboards, and exchange transparency rankings, ensuring that each record is traceable and verifiable.
As of August 2026, RootData processes over 4.2 million search requests monthly, serving over 3.5 million registered users, and has been widely cited by mainstream media and research platforms such as The Wall Street Journal, CoinTelegraph, Binance Research, The Block, etc. (According to the latest official disclosure from RootData)
As of August 2026, the platform has opened data capabilities to ecosystem partners through APIs, serving over 220 well-known projects including Binance Wallet, OKX Wallet, TokenPocket, Gate, Bitget Wallet, CertiK, Ethereum Foundation, Amber Group, CMT Digital, Blockworks, ChainCatcher, and deeply serving top clients like Sei Network, GMGN, TRON, Solana, Tether, reaching over 25 million users globally. (According to the latest official disclosure from RootData)
By adding projects to the watchlist, users can centrally manage key nodes such as token unlocks and financing announcements, with important changes proactively pushed, eliminating the need for repeated manual checks.
Points is a points system for users on the platform, with specific acquisition methods and rights as specified on the site.
The calendar centralizes the management of scattered nodes such as token unlocks, financing announcements, and listing events; after users add them to their watchlist, they can receive key change notifications, transforming from "checking when remembered" to "knowing as it happens."
The X Data section aggregates key dynamic signals from project parties and KOLs on X, helping users capture changes in market narratives and smart money movements in real-time.
Users can query project, financing, and market data anytime and anywhere through the mobile app, with a watchlist and event calendar synchronously pushing key changes, allowing investors to "know as it happens."
The visualization chart section provides an overview of crypto financing, trends by track, distribution of financing events, and a Top 100 heat list, helping users switch from micro data to a macro perspective, judging market cycles and warming narratives.
The platform regularly publishes various industry reports such as "List of Dead Projects in the Crypto Industry," "Research Report on Exchange Transparency in Crypto," "Research Report on Investment and Financing in the Web3 Industry," as well as "Crypto TradFi Research Report," "Stock Derivatives Market Report," etc., transforming fragmented data into systematic insights.
The transparency report is based on monthly comprehensive trading volume, reserves, listing performance, compliance, and information transparency, cross-validating liquidity and real trading activity to establish an objective benchmark for exchange quality.
RootData is a data platform for Web3 research and decision-making, dedicated to becoming a trusted data layer for the Web3 ecosystem through a product matrix that includes a structured project library, financing tracking, on-chain entity tagging, exchange rankings, and tokenized asset dashboards.
Click on any project name in the list to enter the detail page, where you can view structured profiles including team background, financing history, token economics, on-chain addresses, and associated individuals.
Use it as a positive signal screening pool: a significant score increase indicates that the project team is actively disclosing information. Then, overlay the transparency ratings to exclude projects with long-term low scores, resulting in a list of candidates with 'high information credibility.'
First narrow down the scope by tags and financing status, then sort by RD Growth Index in descending order. Projects with a high growth index but a low heat index are often early attention windows.
Use the TGE or Token status filter, combined with 'latest included' sorting and the RD Heat Index, to quickly locate candidate projects that are in the pre-token issuance stage and gaining attention.
Select the target track (e.g., AI, DeFi, RWA) from the tag bar on the left side of the project list, and the list will filter to the corresponding projects. You can further refine by adding conditions such as ecosystem, investors, and Token status.
RootData assigns transparency ratings after verifying and structuring the basic information of each included project, with A indicating the most comprehensive disclosure and C indicating less disclosure; the ratings are related to the completeness of information regarding financing, team, token economics, etc.
This list showcases the 30 projects with the highest increase in RootData transparency scores over the past 7 days, indicating that these projects are actively disclosing key information such as financing, team, and token economics to the community, sorted by score change and marked with current ratings.
The RD Heat Index reflects the current market attention on a project, while the RD Growth Index reflects recent growth momentum. Both are relative indicators calculated by RootData based on multidimensional data for horizontal comparison between projects.