ai16z Heat Score: history and how it is built

The Heat Score measures how much real human conversation a coin has compared with its own recent past. It is not price, not market cap and not raw engagement.

Heat Score now

81/100

On fire

Contributors 24h

vs 7d median 10 (1.2×)

Contributors 30d median

7d vs 30d 0.8×

Interactions 24h

45.6K

vs 7d median 12.1K (3.8×)

Spam share

12.5%

penalty above 15%

How Heat Score v0 works

Start at 50. Add points when today's unique contributors beat their 7-day median (weight 22 per doubling) and when the last 7 days beat the 30-day median (weight 12); do the same for interactions with lower weights (8 + 8). Subtract a penalty when the share of posts flagged as spam exceeds 15%. Clamp between 0 and 100. Labels: Cold <35, Warm 35-54, Hot 55-74, On fire 75+.

Why contributors first? A handful of accounts can farm millions of interactions; thousands of distinct people posting is much harder to fake. Contributor and spam data come from LunarCrush.

Heat Score — 672 days

Daily contributors

Daily interactions

Daily sentiment (0-100)

Last 14 days

Date	Contributors	Interactions	Posts	Spam	Sentiment	Heat
2026-09-04	12	45.6K	12	16.7%	67	79
2026-09-03	10	12.1K	10	20.0%	100	54
2026-09-02	8	18.1K	13	7.7%	100	49
2026-09-01	17	67.4K	40	2.5%	100	94
2026-08-31	11	9.0K	47	4.3%	100	61
2026-08-30	6	323	6	0.0%	100	1
2026-08-29	9	431	9	11.1%	100	16
2026-08-28	19	724	20	0.0%	92	45
2026-08-27	67	2.7K	105	5.7%	98	100
2026-08-26	69	19.5K	121	4.1%	98	100
2026-08-25	8	346	10	10.0%	100	18
2026-08-24	8	647	11	27.3%	88	15
2026-08-23	12	230	13	30.8%	83	13
2026-08-22	12	610	14	14.3%	100	35