The 12 reference assets
A reference asset is only useful if its price can be checked by someone who does not trust you. Here is what each one tracks, in what unit, and where the level comes from.
01What qualifies
A thing becomes a reference asset when it clears three tests:
- It has a unit. Not "sneakers" but "one index point of a sneaker resale composite". A quote asset without a unit cannot be priced.
- It has a public price. Someone outside Weirded publishes the number, so the feed can be audited rather than asserted.
- People argue about it. A reference nobody has an opinion on makes a pair nobody wants to trade.
02The current set
| Token | Tracks | Unit | Level | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TOILET | Toilet paper | 12-pack, 2-ply | $14.62 | Consumer |
| EGGS | Grade-A dozen | dozen | $2.19 | Consumer |
| COFFEE | Retail ground coffee | lb | $9.32 | Consumer |
| LABUBU | Labubu resale | blind box | $87.40 | Culture |
| SNKRS | Sneaker composite | index points | $312.55 | Culture |
| POKE | Graded card index | index points | $148.20 | Culture |
| GPU | H100 rental rate | GPU-hour | $2.06 | Hardware |
| DDR5 | DDR5 spot | GB | $26.97 | Hardware |
| NAND | NAND flash | 512Gb wafer | $21.21 | Hardware |
| IPHONE | iPhone buyback median | unit | $612.00 | Hardware |
| DOTAI | .ai domain median | domain | $1,840.00 | Digital |
| HOTEL | Manhattan weeknight | night | $327.50 | Travel |
03Why the ticker is DOTAI
The .ai domain reference is called DOTAI rather than AI because AI is a name creators want for their own coins. A reference token and a launched coin sharing a symbol would make AI/AI a legal pair, which is nonsense. Reference tickers are reserved and cannot be claimed by a launch.
04Pricing a pair
Pair prices are quoted in reference units. Everything shown in dollars is derived, never stored:
market_cap = usd_price × total_supply
24h change = (pair_price / pair_price_24h_ago − 1) × 100
Note that the 24h change is measured against the reference. A coin flat in dollars while eggs fell 10% shows +10% here, because it gained ten percent of a dozen eggs. That is the number the pair exists to express.