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How we observe

Sealfloat is an observation desk, not a signal service. This page explains how qualifying observations reach the public Tide.

What Sealfloat is

Sealfloat surfaces notable market and on-chain activity in a calm, evidence-aware feed. It does not recommend trades, predict prices, or rank “smart money.”

Observations describe what was seen — amount, category, chain, source class, and (when evidence-backed) entity context.

Why observation, not signals

Institutions need a durable record of what happened — size, venue, chain, and evidence class — without conflating that record with a trade recommendation.

Sealfloat publishes qualifying observations. It does not score “smart money,” forecast price, or tell anyone what to buy or sell.

Display thresholds

Minimum public floors (USD) — below these, events stay out of Tide, Tide Intel, and Telegram

Latest vs Top

Latest Tide — recent qualifying observations after editorial eligibility and diversity shaping, ordered chronologically.

Top Observations — the same eligible set, ordered by significance score (amount, entity context, market representation, and diversity balance).

Neither view is trading advice. Top is not a “buy list.”

How confidence is determined

Confidence is assigned from registry evidence quality — not from transaction size or token popularity.

  • Confirmed requires strong provenance (official disclosure, verified explorer label, or reviewed registry entry with reference).
  • Likely is used when evidence is credible but incomplete; public copy may stay hedged.
  • Heuristic-only sources cannot be marked confirmed.

Why unknown wallets stay unidentified

If Sealfloat lacks sufficient evidence for a named identity, the wallet remains unidentified. Token symbols, counterparties, or informal nicknames are never promoted into institutional labels.

This preserves desk credibility: absence of a name is intentional, not incomplete rendering.

Entity confidence

Entity labels come from an evidence-backed registry. Public confidence levels:

  • Confirmed — strong evidence (official source, verified explorer label, or reviewed registry entry).
  • Likely — credible but not fully confirmed; hedged wording may appear on cards.
  • Unknown — no sufficient evidence; wallets stay unidentified. Sealfloat does not invent identity from token names or counterparties alone.

Missing evidence URLs or references suppress named identity. Heuristic sources cannot be marked confirmed.

Provenance on cards

Each observation shows a compact provenance row: chain · source class · confidence (when known) · relative time.

Market cards may show Dexscreener or GeckoTerminal as the discovery source. Wallet flows show On-chain. Entity-linked flows may include View entity / View transaction when an address is resolvable.

Telegram vs web

Telegram channel posts use stricter curation than the full web feed (hourly caps, spacing, and higher floors for some categories). The homepage shows a live desk snapshot, one featured observation, and up to ten recent observations.

Open Tide Entity directory Tide Intel