Route Quality Index · Edition #3

2026-W30 — frozen weekly edition

Merit-only venue scoring within (chain × trade-size) cohorts, rolled into one weekly artifact. Frozen at publish: this page's numbers and hashes never change after release.

pay_to_rank: false
Observation source

Live warehouse — the current feed is cohort-level (venue-NULL), so there are no venue-attributed observations to rank yet. Nothing is fabricated.

Headline

Headline RQI — not verified

Headline RQI · 2026-W30
Not verified
source not verified as live warehouse — not presented as real
Venue-attributed obs
—
per-venue realized outcomes in-week
Cohorts ranked
—
not verified
Venues ranked
—
within chain × size cohorts
Provenance

Where the observations came from

observation_source warehouse_cohort_level_only — live warehouse — cohort-level labels only (no venue-attributed observations yet)
source_manifest source-manifest-v1 / sha256:22b5c1b4b79191c68cc344d6ab3237b4af804f07789bcce9ae6c827df1b60cc9
generated_at 2026-07-20T03:12:46.977507Z
Cohorts

Per-cohort states — ranked and below-floor alike

No cohorts were observed this week.

Coverage

What was excluded, counted

insufficient_sample_cohorts 0
insufficient_sample_observations 0
degraded_source_periods none
Methodology

Version + hashes

methodology_version route_quality_index.v1 · venue-quality-index-v0
methodology_hash sha256:7524b117d588fadd01a0054ff49d7f9b411b92cb2134dbf8e4341738fa4e2aaf
sample_floor 30

Changing any weight, ceiling, or floor flips the methodology hash — and with it the artifact hash — so a cited edition can never be silently re-scored. Full approach on /methodology.

Cite this edition

Standing citation block

edition #3
iso_week 2026-W30
methodology_version route_quality_index.v1
artifact_hash sha256:b097c3391b5cf77f302640c9a26ff9790ded118f333191c7a551641622881867
canonical_url https://www.routescore.io/rqi/2026-W30
Known limitations

Read before quoting

  • The Route Quality Index is merit-only: it is a pure function of observed execution evidence with no sponsorship, partner-tier, or boost input. Concentration is a PENALTY, so a venue cannot buy rank by routing more volume through itself.
  • Cohorts with fewer than the sample floor of observations are flagged 'insufficient_sample' and are EXCLUDED from the headline index — they are counted, not hidden, and never ranked into a public number.
  • Realized-outcome coverage is sparse during launch; most cohorts will read 'insufficient_sample' until they pass the per-cohort sample floor, so the headline RQI may be null in early weeks.
  • Scores are always computed WITHIN a cohort = (chain, route_size_bucket). A venue that is strong for small stable swaps on one chain is a different claim from the same venue on large trades on another chain; we never blend them.
  • Stale observations (older than the freshness ceiling) are reported as degraded source periods and dampen the freshness component; they do not silently inflate a quality score.
Modeled, point-in-time decision-support metadata. Not investment advice, not execution. All editions: /rqi