Glossary

Documentation Index

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Short definitions for the terms and acronyms used throughout these docs. Where a concept has a deeper treatment, the entry links to it.

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Platform terms

Agentic-first — Every response carries a machine-readable _agentic block (freshness, confidence, quality gate) so an automated consumer can decide whether to act on the data without a human in the loop. See Agentic envelope. Archive-node-deep — Data sourced from a full Ethereum archive node, which retains historical state at every block. This makes block-level historical queries — a price, peg, or liquidity value at a specific past block — possible, rather than just the latest value. Quality gate — The pass / warn / fail verdict in the agentic envelope that says whether a response is fit for unsupervised automated use. See Freshness & staleness. Freshness — How recent a response’s underlying data is (realtime / fresh / stale / unknown), reported as a first-class field. See Freshness & staleness.

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DeFi & risk terms

Oracle classification — Categorizing a price feed by how it is sourced and updated (and its staleness state), so consumers know how to trust it. See Oracle classification. Curator — The party that manages a vault’s strategy and risk parameters (which markets it lends into, caps, fees). Curator track records are a core Alterscope dataset. Vault — A managed pool of deposits (e.g. a MetaMorpho vault) that allocates across underlying lending markets according to its curator’s strategy. Factor — An attributable component of risk or return. Alterscope decomposes a position’s risk into factors so you can see what drives it. See Risk factors. Regime — A classification of the current market environment (e.g. calm vs. stressed). See Graph intelligence and the market-regime endpoints. Cascade — Contagion analysis: how a shock to one asset or protocol could propagate to others through the knowledge graph. See Graph intelligence. VaR (Value at Risk) — An estimate of the loss a position could face over a horizon at a given confidence level. Alterscope computes it via Monte-Carlo simulation. See VaR & Monte Carlo. DSR (Dynamic Stability Ratio) — An Alterscope measure of how stable a position or market is under stress. See VaR & Monte Carlo. HRP (Hierarchical Risk Parity) — A portfolio-construction method that allocates risk across clustered assets rather than relying on a single covariance inversion. See Risk factors.