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

44/100

Warm

Contributors 24h

vs 7d median 18 (1.0×)

Contributors 30d median

7d vs 30d 1.1×

Interactions 24h

4.3K

vs 7d median 7.0K (0.6×)

Spam share

20.0%

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 — 701 days

Daily contributors

Daily interactions

Daily sentiment (0-100)

Last 14 days

Date	Contributors	Interactions	Posts	Spam	Sentiment	Heat
2026-10-03	18	4.3K	26	19.2%	94	44
2026-10-02	18	4.6K	19	21.1%	94	44
2026-10-01	20	12.9K	22	27.3%	79	55
2026-09-30	17	10.0K	19	15.8%	100	53
2026-09-29	18	11.7K	18	16.7%	100	54
2026-09-28	19	7.0K	20	15.0%	100	52
2026-09-27	14	6.2K	14	14.3%	100	41
2026-09-26	21	6.8K	22	27.3%	100	48
2026-09-25	28	5.5K	30	20.0%	96	61
2026-09-24	30	8.2K	36	16.7%	96	75
2026-09-23	31	28.7K	48	6.3%	100	94
2026-09-22	26	45.1K	40	17.5%	100	94
2026-09-21	21	6.7K	23	17.4%	94	68
2026-09-20	17	3.4K	19	21.1%	88	52