How the impact score works

The formula (v1)

impact = round(100 × (0.5 × votes_norm
                     + 0.35 × holdings_norm
                     + 0.15 × longevity_norm))

votes_norm     = 0 if no approved project has votes yet
                 else log10(1 + votes) / log10(1 + max_votes_across_approved)

holdings_norm  = log10(1 + clamp(ansem_value_usd, 0, 100,000))
                 / log10(1 + 100,000)

longevity_norm = clamp(days_since_launch, 0, 180) / 180

The three terms

Community votes — weight 0.5

Upvotes from verified X accounts, normalized against the most-voted approved project. Log-scaled so a vote-lord can’t dominate linearly: going from 10 to 100 votes helps, but not 10× as much.

$ANSEM holdings — weight 0.35

The USD value of $ANSEM held across the project’s linked wallets, from the latest snapshot. Log-scaled and capped at $100,000— beyond the cap, more tokens don’t move the score. Floored at $0, so no wallet data simply scores 0 for this term.

Longevity — weight 0.15

Days since the project’s launch date, maxing out at 180 days. Rewards sticking around; a missing or future launch date scores 0 rather than going negative.

Where the data comes from

An hourly snapshot job reads wallet balances and activity from Helius and token market data from Dexscreener (Birdeye as fallback), then recomputes every approved project’s score. Pages only ever read those snapshots — if the pipeline stalls, the site keeps showing the last-known numbers with a “stale” badge instead of guessing. The formula version (currently v1) is stored next to every score, so any future tuning of the weights is visible in the data.

Known limitations

• Votes are sybil-influenceable. One verified X account casts one vote, which raises the bar — but accounts are cheaper than wallets.
• Holdings are gameable: a project can park $ANSEM in a linked wallet before a snapshot. Wallets are also self-reported claims until a moderator confirms them.
• Holdings are denominated in USD, so token price swings move every score without anyone doing anything.
• Off-chain value — memes, content, community work — is invisible to the formula.

Treat the score as a signal, not a ranking of worth — and never as financial advice.