Methodology
What Tredecim actually verifies.
A badge is only worth trusting if you can see exactly what produced it. This page describes the real rules the tier engine runs — not a marketing summary of them.
What a signed wallet proves
Connecting a wallet asks you to sign a message with it. That proves control of the wallet at that moment — nothing more. It doesn't prove real-world identity, and it doesn't give Tredecim any access to funds. A tier is a claim about one wallet's trading history, not a claim about a person.
Chain coverage
Solana only, right now. If a trader also trades on Ethereum, a CEX, or anywhere else, none of that activity is seen or counted — not because it doesn't matter, but because it isn't connected. A high tier is real evidence of Solana performance; it is not a claim about someone's entire trading life.
What counts as a realized gain
Tredecim only counts a trade once it's actually closed — sold into a stablecoin or a blue-chip asset (SOL, ETH). Selling one volatile token directly into another volatile token is treated as a rollover, not a realization: no PnL is booked, and the original cost basis just carries forward into the new token. This matters — without that rule, every token-swap-for- token-swap trade would silently "realize" a gain that was never actually locked in, which is exactly the kind of paper-gains inflation a naive PnL sum would let through.
The same swap, two different outcomes
Token
USDC / SOL
Realized — PnL booked
Token A
Token B
Rollover — cost basis carries forward
Only the top path ever adds to realized PnL. A token-for-token swap never gets counted as a gain on its own — it just changes what you're holding, with the original cost basis still attached.
The trailing window and anti-gaming guard
Every metric is computed over a trailing 365-day window, recalculated nightly — a wallet's tier reflects recent performance, not a lifetime high score. Before any tier is assigned at all, a wallet must clear a minimum bar: 50+ transactions spread across 3+ distinct calendar months. A wallet with one lucky trade, or fifty trades crammed into a single afternoon, doesn't qualify — this specifically targets one-off luck and short-window gaming.
Drawdown and win rate
Max drawdown is the largest peak-to-trough decline in the wallet's running equity curve over that same 365-day window, expressed as a percentage. Win rate is the share of closed trades that were profitable, also over the trailing 365 days. Both are recalculated from scratch every night, not cached from whenever a tier was first earned.
Tier thresholds, exactly as the engine enforces them
| Tier | Min. PnL | Max drawdown | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silver | $1,000 | < 40% | — |
| Gold | $10,000 | < 30% | Fast-Track (90–364 days): win rate ≥ 60% and drawdown < 20% |
| Platinum | $50,000 | < 25% | ≥ 365 days of history |
| Diamond | $200,000 | < 20% | ≥ 365 days, and top 1% by risk-adjusted score |
Diamond's risk-adjusted score is realized PnL divided by max drawdown (expressed as a real percentage, not a fraction) — a wallet with $200k realized at 9% drawdown ranks higher than one with $200k at 19% drawdown. There is no fixed target for this score; it's a live ranking against every other wallet on the platform, recalculated nightly.
A real limitation worth knowing about
If a wallet's ingested history starts mid-position — it already held a token when Tredecim first observed it, from an airdrop, an earlier transaction outside the tracked window, or a gap in the data source — that leftover amount is treated as zero-cost-basis when it's eventually sold. This can overstate realized PnL for tokens whose true acquisition happened before tracking began. Ingesting a wallet's full history is the real fix; this is a known fallback for gaps in that history, not something to treat as exact.
Paid tiers vs. earned tiers
Performance tier and paid tier are tracked completely separately in the underlying system. Paying for a membership can unlock the full cosmetics and marketplace placement for a tier a wallet has already earned — it can never manufacture a tier a wallet hasn't actually earned. A wallet with zero real trading history stays at "NONE" no matter what's been paid for.
What Tredecim does not verify
- Other wallets a person might control but hasn't connected
- Any activity on chains other than Solana
- Centralized exchange accounts or activity
- Real-world identity — a wallet, not a person, is what's verified
- Future returns — a tier describes the past, not a prediction
- Intentional manipulation conclusively — the anti-gaming guard filters obvious one-off luck and short-window gaming, but it cannot prove intent
Something look wrong?
If a badge or a number looks incorrect, reach out. There's no automated appeal system yet — until there is, a review means someone actually re-checking the underlying on-chain data by hand.