Where every number comes from

Cashboard does not produce market data. Each widget asks a public provider for it, and the route that request takes depends on the build you use and on the provider. The line under the title of each widget names the source, so you can always see whose number you are reading.

Live streams are separate. A few widgets open a WebSocket from the window itself, in both builds: Binance prices in Prices and Watchlist, Hyperliquid marks and trades in Hyperliquid markets, Lighter marks in Robinhood perps, new launches from PumpPortal and Robinhood Chain events in Launchpad radar, and the exchange streams in Liquidations. A green Live badge means the stream is connected. An amber Reconnecting badge shows while a stream connects and whenever it drops, and the waits between retries start at 1 second and double up to 30 seconds. Where a widget also polls, the polling carries on under the stream.

Some providers do not let a web page on another site read their answers. That is a browser rule, usually called CORS. For those providers the web app asks cashboard.live, which fetches the feed and returns it unchanged.

The relay is not an open proxy. It serves a fixed list of feeds, each with its provider address written into it, and it accepts only the few values a feed needs, such as a stock symbol or a row count. It answers GET requests only, waits up to 8 seconds for the provider, and refuses answers larger than 2,000,000 characters. A good answer is reused for 30 seconds. A provider's error status passes through unchanged, so a paywall or an outage reaches the widget as it is.

On desktop the relay is not used. The app calls these providers itself.

Every provider Cashboard reads is listed below. The Key column says what you have to supply, if anything, and Cashboard itself needs no account. The Route column describes the web build: Direct is your browser calling the provider, Relay is the relay above, and Function is one of Cashboard's own functions. On desktop the app calls every provider itself. Keys are explained in Connections, and the Blockscout setup in Blockscout. The web build has nowhere to store a key.

Prices, stocks, discovery and prediction markets

Perps, funding and liquidations

Stablecoins, flows and network health

Solana

Base and Robinhood Chain

Wallets and keys you supply

Every reading carries two times. The observed time is the provider's own timestamp for the number, when it publishes one: when CoinGecko last updated a price, or when Yahoo Finance recorded the last trade. The received time is when Cashboard got the answer. Blockscout and Solana wallet reads carry no provider timestamp, so for them both times are the moment Cashboard read the wallet.

The source line and the freshness pill

Every data widget names its source on a line under its title, and shows how fresh its data is in a pill at the right of its header. A reading up to two minutes old reads Live with the age, such as Live · 12s. An older one reads Updated with the age, such as Updated 3m, Updated 5h or Updated 2d. A connected stream stays Live while nothing new prints. The pill turns amber with Stale and the age when a refresh failed and the widget kept its last data, and rose with Source down while the widget shows an error card. Loading, Connecting and Paused cover the other states, and some widgets show a fixed status instead, such as Live embed on an embedded dashboard. The i button beside the pill opens How to read this widget, a note on formulas, caveats and limits.

While a widget waits for its first reading, the pill usually reads Loading, so an age means something only when numbers are on screen. The Jupiter swap and EVM swap pills always read Live, because those widgets hold no market data of their own.

Stale tags and their thresholds

Beyond the pill, a few widgets flag a reading that has aged. The limits are fixed, and several of the clocks run on a timer, so a tag can appear without any request having failed.

Widgets that keep the last reading on screen after a failed refresh usually say so:

• Prices: Update delayed. Showing the latest available prices.
• Price chart: Update delayed · showing the last candles. Price alert: Update delayed · showing the last reading.
• Portfolio: Refresh failed · showing the reading from <age> ago. Perps positions: Hyperliquid did not answer the last refresh · showing the snapshot from <age> ago.
• Base launches and Narratives: the provider name, then did not answer the last refresh · showing the previous snapshot.
• Token terminal: The last refresh failed · showing the previous snapshot, followed by the reason.
• Smart money graph: Refresh failed. Showing the last received observations. Liquidity X-ray: Refresh failed. Showing the last received snapshot. Dune query: Refresh failed · showing the read from <age>, with an age such as 5m ago.
• Solana edge adds · update delayed to its source line.

Other widgets, such as Solana radar, keep the last data and show no line at all. The age in their freshness pill keeps growing, so compare it with the interval in Refresh cadence.

Cashboard tries a failing provider quickly, falls back where it has a second source, and then says plainly what it has. A dead provider does not freeze a board.

Retries and timeouts

On top of these steps, most widget queries retry twice before they show an error, after 0.75 seconds and then 1.5 seconds. Prices, Watchlist and Price chart retry three times, after 1, 2 and 4 seconds. Smart money, Smart money graph, Swap fees, Liquidity X-ray and the Whales view of Prediction markets retry once. Token terminal retries once, and not at all after a rate limit or an unknown token. Dune query retries once, unless Dune rejected the key, has no cached result or is rate limiting the key. Returning to the window does not trigger a refresh.

Fallbacks

• Prices, Watchlist and Price chart: for 12 major coins (BTC, ETH, SOL, BNB, XRP, ADA, DOGE, AVAX, LINK, DOT, LTC and TRX), Binance's spot price in USDT stands in when CoinGecko does not answer. In Prices and Watchlist the source line says CoinGecko · Binance fallback, or CoinGecko · Binance live while streamed prices are on screen, and its info note then names the fallback. Price chart says Binance fallback followed by the candle width. Fallback rows have no market cap, volume, day range or sparkline, and the fallback candles are 15 minutes, 1 hour or 4 hours wide for the 1D, 7D and 30D ranges.
• Trending on-chain: when GeckoTerminal does not answer or returns an error, DexScreener's boosted tokens fill the list, but never the New sort. The source line then reads DexScreener boosted, and these are paid placements. The DexScreener fallback does not cover Robinhood Chain or Gnosis, so those two show the error card instead.
• Tokenized stocks: the xStock price comes from the Jupiter token index when Backed does not answer in time.
• Portfolio on an EVM network, desktop only: when Blockscout fails and you saved a Coinbase RPC for that network, the widget shows the native balance alone, with no price and no tokens, and the source line reads Coinbase RPC.
• Liquidations: if Bybit's ranking of its busiest contracts cannot be read, Cashboard follows a fixed list of 20 large USDT perps instead.
• Robinhood stock tokens measures a premium against Robinhood's own quote for the token. Where Robinhood has none, the top 8 rows use the Yahoo Finance cash price. Base stock tokens uses Coinbase's Chainlink NAV when Robinhood has no share quote, and that NAV can be hours old.

Last-good values

When a provider drops one coin or one stock from an answer, or fails on a chart, Cashboard re-serves the last reading it had for that item, with its original timestamp, instead of a blank. This covers coin quotes, candles and stock quotes. On desktop the last-good values live in memory until you quit the app, or until you save or clear a connection in Connections. On the web they live in memory on the function that answered, so they can disappear when it restarts. The timestamp is not renewed, so the age in the pill keeps growing and an old chart gets its stale tag.

The unavailable state

A widget with nothing to show says so instead of inventing a number. The error card names the problem and, unless the widget has a more specific line, adds The data source did not respond. Your board is still saved. A Try again button reads Retrying… while it works. Many cards add that nothing is cached, for example No cached list is shown. An empty answer from a working provider is a different card, such as No tokens returned. A single missing figure inside a working widget reads n/a.

A widget built from several providers drops only the part that failed:

• Perps risk marks a venue Limited or Unavailable while the other venues stay Live.
• Launchpad radar says pump.fun did not answer · showing LaunchLab only, or Raydium LaunchLab did not answer · showing pump.fun only.
• Solana yields hides Kamino's lending rates with Kamino did not answer. Lending rates are hidden instead of reused.
• Tokenized stocks shows n/a for a leg that did not answer, and the premium that needs that leg reads n/a too.
• Robinhood stock tokens says Robinhood quotes did not answer · premiums use the Yahoo Finance cash price for the top 8 rows, or Robinhood registry did not answer · logos and multipliers are limited, so premiums show n/a. Base stock tokens says Robinhood share quotes did not answer · premiums use Chainlink's NAV, which can be hours old.
• Net worth tags a source unavailable, counts the rest, and adds a line such as Partial total · 1 source did not answer.

The approximate marker

≈ marks an estimate. It appears in only five places: the Net worth total, the dollar value of the burn in Ethereum pulse, the lamport cost and the hours to rewards in Solana pulse, the share of unclaimed fees that is yours in Swap fees after Jupiter keeps its 20% at claim, and the Cost ≈ or Proceeds ≈ column of Liquidity X-ray. Other calculated figures, such as a premium or an annualised funding rate, carry no ≈. The How to read this widget note behind the i button usually gives the formula.

Verified and unverified prices

In Cashboard a price is verified when a provider returned one for that asset. It is not a judgement that the market is deep or the token is safe. A holding without such a price is left out of totals and shown as n/a, never valued at a guess.

• EVM wallets: the price is Blockscout's own price for the token. A token Blockscout cannot price shows n/a, with the tooltip No verified price, so it is left out of the total.
• Solana wallets: price and logo come from the DexScreener pair with the most liquidity for that token. A token with no pair is listed as Unverified SPL token with n/a. Cashboard lists at most 20 of them and counts the rest. A token that does have a pair counts at that pair's price however thin the pool is. If DexScreener does not answer at all, no token has a price and the total reads n/a.
• Hide dust hides holdings under $1 and tokens without a price from the list. An unpriced native coin stays in the list, and the total still counts every priced holding.
• Net worth counts only priced balances. A manual portfolio counts only once every asset in it has a price. The subtitle reads <counted>/<total> sources · verified values only, followed by the number unavailable when a source failed.
• The Coinbase RPC fallback returns a native balance with no price, so it adds nothing to a total.

Promoted items

Some providers sell placement. DexScreener boosts are paid, and Cashboard keeps them in their own view or behind their own label. In Narratives, the Promoted view lists boosted tokens under the banner Paid placements: teams buy DexScreener boosts. A boost is advertising, not a signal. Each row carries an amber Promoted tag. In Trending on-chain, a list built from boosts instead of GeckoTerminal's ranking says DexScreener boosted in its source line, and the widget note calls it paid placement.

A rendered widget polls its provider on its interval while it is on screen; widgets outside the view are not drawn. While your B Cash access is active and its watch is on, B Cash also requests the sources of watched saved boards outside rendering, roughly every 30 seconds while Cashboard runs, with browser throttling possible and no cloud watch. The refresh icon forces a widget fetch.

These are limits of the data, not faults. Where a widget cannot show a figure, it says so instead of filling the gap.

Blockscout limits

• Cashboard calls Blockscout for two things only: watch-only EVM balances in Portfolio (and Net worth through it), and Smart money on Base, Ethereum and Robinhood Chain. Elsewhere a widget only links to a Blockscout explorer.
• Rate limits belong to Blockscout and to your plan with it, so check Blockscout's own site for the current plans. Each Blockscout call waits up to 12 seconds, and only the first page of results is read, so a very long list can be cut short.
• A saved Blockscout connection covers one network for Portfolio, and every other network keeps using the public Blockscout hosts. The key you save is also used by Smart money on all three of its networks, whatever network the connection names.
• Smart money on Robinhood Chain works only with a key, so only on desktop. Without one the widget shows Needs a Blockscout key.
• When checked on 1 October 2026, the PRO gateway at api.blockscout.com answered for Ethereum, Base, Robinhood Chain, OP Mainnet, Arbitrum One, Polygon PoS, Gnosis, Scroll and ZKsync, and did not serve HyperEVM, Linea, Avalanche or BNB Chain. A key adds nothing on those four.

At the bottom of the left tool panel an amber line can read Source status unavailable with a red dot, or N of M data sources unavailable with an amber one. Hover the second form and it lists the names. It looks like a health indicator, and it is not one.

Behind the line sits a list of providers, each with a fixed flag that says whether it is configured. Every public provider is flagged as available by definition. The optional ones, CoinGecko, Blockscout Pro, Coinbase RPC, DefiLlama's paid plan and Alpaca, are never counted. Because the flags do not change, the count message cannot appear today. The only text you can see is Source status unavailable, and it means the desktop app could not load the list. On the web build the list is built into the page, so the line never shows.

A provider that is down does not light this line. To see an outage, look at the widget and its freshness pill, which reads Stale or Source down. The badges on the Connections tab (Connected, Preconfigured and Optional) say only whether a key is saved, and only the Test button on a card contacts the provider. For Cashboard's own service, the status page runs two live checks, a Bitcoin quote and an AAPL stock quote, and reports everything else as configuration, not health.