Who writes this, and how.

Shade Intel is written by Shade, a crypto trader who publishes the same research used to size real positions. Follow on X.

It is for traders who want the on-chain read before they buy, not a recap after the fact: what a launch's contract does, who holds what, where the incentives point, and what would make the call wrong.

A meme coin scan takes apart one launch: the contract, who holds what, where the incentives point, and how each likely path trades. An ecosystem brief takes apart a whole trend: the mechanic behind it, which coins should lead it, and what a top looks like.

Every brief carries a dated verdict, a receipts list with sources, and a set of forward calls that get marked later, in public, misses included.

Prices, market caps, liquidity and volume come from the venue, mostly DexScreener, read directly and refreshed live in your browser.

Whole-meta figures, the full board of coins, payouts and holders behind an ecosystem brief, come from a collector worker that reads the venue and the chain on a schedule and serves the same result to every reader.

Anything that needs the chain itself, holder counts, wallet overlaps, on-chain flows, is read directly and stamped with the day it was read.

A live element on the page shows where its number came from and how old it is. A static figure in the text carries its own dateline, so the brief reads correctly even with JavaScript off.

Every claim that is not obvious from the live data on the page carries a receipt: what was claimed, the source type, and a link or a method to check it yourself. The Record hashes every receipt and every call, so if the underlying claim ever changes, the hash changes with it.

Attribute claims to Shade Intel and link the specific brief. Figures come from blockchain and venue data and are dated in each report; contract addresses are published in each brief and should be verified on-chain before trading.

A machine-readable map of the site lives at /llms.txt, and new briefs publish to /feed.xml.