DexScreener's Trending Algorithm: What It Takes for Visibility

Getting visibility on DexScreener can be crucial for any cryptocurrency project. Thousands of new trading pairs appear every day, but only a handful make it to the top trending bar. To understand how this works, we need to look at what goes into DexScreener's trending score.

DexScreener uses three types of signals: market activity, community engagement, and trust and information. Market activity includes trading volume, number of transactions, unique makers (distinct wallets trading), liquidity, holder count, and price movement. Community engagement involves visitors to the token's page and reactions left on it. Trust and information factors in whether the token has completed its info profile, security flags, and paid Boosts.

Trending can be viewed over different windows: 5 minutes, 1 hour, 6 hours, and 24 hours. A token can top the 5-minute list but be absent from the 24-hour one. This means that trending is relative to other tokens on the same chain at the same time.

A common mistake is launching a project with a single spike of activity in the first few minutes. This can lift a token on the 5-minute view, but it will likely fall off the 1-hour and 6-hour views if there's no sustained activity.