How the instrument reads.
VIRGIL converts a launch's public, on-chain configuration into a single grade using a fixed rubric. There is no model, no sentiment, no discretion. The same launch always yields the same reading — and you can recompute it yourself from the same public data.
Three weighted signals
Every launch is measured on three categories, each scored 0–100, then combined by weight into a composite:
- Launch configuration — 40%. The choices a founder makes on-chain: the anti-sniper tax, the 60-day founder commitment, the capital-formation module, launch radar, allocation. Choices that cost a serious founder little and a fleeting one everything.
- Creator history — 35%. The deployer wallet's age, transaction record, and how many tokens it has launched before. A fresh wallet on its four-hundredth launch reads nothing like a real builder's.
- Presence — 25%. Whether a real, claimed identity stands behind the launch: a linked account, a substantive description, documentation.
composite = (config × 0.40) + (creator × 0.35) + (presence × 0.25)
Fixed grade thresholds
An A is deliberately hard: it requires, among other things, the 60-day founder commitment — a founder locking their own allocation. The bar is not the rubric being harsh; it is the rubric refusing to be impressed by anything less than real commitment.
Worked example — reproduce it yourself
Take OrbisAPI ($ORBIS), a real graded launch. Its three readings:
= 18.0 + 26.25 + 22.5
= 66.8 → ≥ 55 and < 70 → grade C
Nothing here is a judgment call. Apply the same weights to the same public inputs and the grade reproduces exactly — which is the entire point: a reading anyone can check is a reading both sides of a transaction can trust.
What a grade is not
A grade is not a price prediction and not advice. A high reading means a founder enabled the honesty signals available at launch — not that the token will rise. Most launches that grade well still fail. VIRGIL measures one thing: the integrity shown at the gate.