Signals and Flags

Every analysis produces a signal breakdown — a list of every individual factor that influenced the score, with the impact (positive or negative), the value, and an explanation.

Signals fall into categories:

Counterparty — relationships with known entities (exchanges, protocols, mixers, sanctioned addresses).

Behavioral — patterns in how the wallet transacts. Velocity, entropy, fan-out distribution, concentration.

Lifecycle — age of the wallet, recency of activity, dormancy.

Coverage — the quality and completeness of the data the engine could fetch.

Each signal has a direction (positive, negative, neutral), a numeric impact, and a written rationale. This is what makes CredScore explainable: there is no signal you cannot trace back to its source.

Flags are a separate concept. Flags are boolean adverse markers like "mixer_pattern", "sanctions_exposure_pattern", "circular_funding_pattern", etc. They fire when specific conditions are met and contribute directly to scoring caps and decision postures.

The signal breakdown is shown in the "Signals" tab of every analysis result.