Route Quality Index — a weekly benchmark you can cite.

The Route Quality Index is a merit-only composite of per-venue execution quality, computed within (chain × trade-size) cohorts from observed per-venue route outcomes. It is modeled and point-in-time. Concentration is a penalty, there is no sponsorship or boost input, and only genuine warehouse-provenance venue-attributed labels are ranked.

Today’s realized-outcome feed is cohort-level (cross-venue dispersion, on-chain settlement cost) — not attributable to a single venue — so the per-venue index has no rankable data yet. Those cohort-level signals ARE measured and live on /benchmark and /ecosystem; the approach is documented on /methodology.

The weekly Basis edition extends this cadence to tokenized assets: observed token/reference basis, off-hours spreads, and reference-price staleness, with caveats in-band. The series and its citation contract are declared at /rqi/basis; its observation source is not live yet, so no Basis editions are published — nothing is backfilled or simulated.

Each edition page carries a standing “cite this edition” block with the edition number, ISO week, methodology version, artifact hash, and the canonical URL. Because the artifact is frozen, the hash you cite today resolves to the same bytes later — a regeneration can never move a number you already quoted.