The dashboard was laid out for stocks and then had a crypto terminal bolted on: seven views that grew by accretion, a light/dark toggle that now wraps, and no identity of its own. This is a proposal to reorganize it around what a crypto trader looks at and in what order, to give Steel a visual system that is not Flint's, and to add a public page and a whitepaper that read differently from Flint's.
Steel is the desk's second opinion: it watches every venue around the clock, forecasts the next hour as a distribution, shows its work, pays every real cost in simulation, and never trades unless armed. The interface should be built on the trader's routine, not on where the code lives.
Views regrouped as Desk, Chart, Flow, Book, Model, Venues, Ops. A cold-steel identity with one accent and a heat scale taken from tempering colours. A public page that opens on the live tape. A whitepaper organised around measurement and cost honesty.
The engine, the API, the panels as widgets, the chart engine, the seven-key navigation. Nothing here changes a forecast or a fee; it changes where things sit and how they look.
Independent material on what professionals prioritise is thin; most of what is published is vendor positioning. What does recur, across the educational guides and the quant desks' own daily notes, is a routine, run before the session and repeated through the day:
| Step | What they read | Steel today | Proposal |
|---|---|---|---|
| The clock | Scheduled events (FOMC, CPI, jobs, expiries); decide in advance whether to trade through them. | Next events panel, event_hours feature. | A countdown in the status strip on every view. |
| Funding sweep | Funding across many pairs; extremes read as a fragility map, not a signal. | Per pair in the screener and the derivatives panel. | A market-wide funding and OI strip on Flow; the screener sorted by it in one click. |
| Open interest | Whether price moved with OI rising (new positions) or falling (closing), by side. | Positioning pane, OI pane, 4-venue aggregate incl. Hyperliquid. | Lead with the OI-confirmed net positioning, not raw OI. |
| Liquidation map | Where leverage would be force-closed; forced orders are market orders, so price overshoots clusters. | Modeled map with a calibration score against real liquidations. | Keep the honesty label everywhere the map appears; show the score beside it. |
| CVD bias | Spot vs perp delta; a persistent imbalance has to rebalance. | Tape CVD by size band, spot/perp venue toggles. | Spot CVD and perp CVD as two lines by default, the divergence named. |
| Levels | Day, week, month opens and the previous ranges; VWAP; the volume profile. | All present on the chart. | Unchanged. |
| Positioning of others | Whale positions, the crowd (funding, F&G, Reddit), the options dealers. | Crowd overlay, GEX, Polymarket. | One "who is positioned where" row on Desk. |
Market Monkey: footprint, book heatmap, TPO, CVD, liquidations, dockable widgets, saved layouts, scripting. Coinglass: the free liquidation heatmap and OI/funding tables, derivatives-first, little spot. Velo: derivatives charting with deep history and a clean chart. Laevitas: options-first, institutional. Bookmap and TradingLite: book heatmap on the chart with footprint clusters. aggr.trade: open-source multi-venue tape with audio and large-trade grouping.
None of them forecasts. None of them keeps a paper book that pays fees, funding and on-chain transfer waits. None of them says how its liquidation map was made or scores it against the real forced orders. That is the identity.
Dark, number-first, hairline-separated dense panels, tabular figures so values do not shift as they update, green for longs and red for shorts always paired with a label, one accent for live data and primary actions. Hyperliquid's reading of this is a blue-shifted near-black canvas with a single mint accent and white text at stepped opacities. Light themes exist mainly for bright rooms and screenshots.
Steel follows the conventions and differs in the accent and the heat scale, which are its own.
Sources: BloFin, liquidation heatmaps and order flow · a 15-minute order-flow routine · CryptoQuant on funding and OI · a futures-indicator primer · Market Monkey features · a Market Monkey review · Coinglass alternatives (vendor) · Velo (vendor comparison) · Laevitas (vendor comparison) · Bookmap · TradingLite and others · aggr (GitHub) · a reading of Hyperliquid's design system · on light themes (vendor).
Flint is warm: a warm black, fire orange, gold, a system sans. Steel is its cold sibling. The canvas is a blue-black; the accent is tempered-steel blue; and the one detail only this subject has is the tempering scale, the oxide colours steel takes as it heats (straw, bronze, purple, blue), which becomes the heat scale for every map and the pulse under the wordmark.
The wordmark is Archivo at its narrow width, wide-tracked. The temper line under it is the live-data pulse: it drifts while feeds tick and freezes on a stall. Tagline: the market never closes; neither does the model.
Text is white at 94, 72 and 50 percent; hairlines at 9 and 16 percent. Radii 6 on controls, 10 on panels. The light theme keeps the same roles on a cool grey ground (shown if your viewer is set to light). Green and red are semantic and never the accent. Modeled things carry a dashed outline and the word "modeled"; measured things carry a solid one.
Voice. Short sentences, the number first, the source named, no adjectives about the market. "Modeled" and "measured" are always said. It never says what to do.
Seven views stay (the keys 1 to 7 work the same), but they are renamed and regrouped so each one answers one question. Every panel remains a widget: drag, collapse, export.
| Key | View | The question | What moves here |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Desk | What is the market doing right now, and what does Steel think? | The status strip (regime, breadth, funding, OI change, liquidations 1h, next event, dislocations open, trust), the screener heatmap, the model's live calls with their why, the alerts feed, dislocations, news and the brief. Replaces Market and the Names cards. |
| 2 | Chart | What is happening in this pair? | The chart with a right rail: tape, book, derivatives, options for the pair; the docked ticket with its rays; replay. The pair detail folds into this view. |
| 3 | Flow | Where is the leverage, and who is positioned where? | Market-wide OI, funding, liquidations and net positioning by pair; the liquidation maps with their calibration; the options surface; the prediction markets; the crowd. New: these are scattered across three views today. |
| 4 | Book | What do I hold, what did it cost, what is in flight? | Paper and live positions, fills with their fees, funding paid, transfers and their waits, the exchange balances, the algorithm runs, exports. |
| 5 | Model | Can the forecasts be trusted, and why? | The scorecard, calibration by pair, feature drift and net weight, the backtest and sweep, the universe, the indicator editor. Replaces Research. |
| 6 | Venues | What is feeding, and with which keys? | Sources and their health, the simulator switch, the signal providers, keys and fee tiers, the probe. |
| 7 | Ops | What is Steel allowed to do? | Controls, the execution gate and kill switch, series alerts, the GPU handoff, backups, the consoles. |
One row on every view: the routine's numbers (next event in h, funding median, OI 1h, liquidations 1h by side, breadth, F&G, dislocations open, trusted or not). It is the 15-minute checklist made permanent.
Tape, book, derivatives and options for the selected pair live beside the chart, not in a modal. Selecting a pair anywhere (screener, calls, book) moves the rail and the chart with it; the link is on by default.
Desk and the alerts work at phone width: the strip stacks, the heatmap goes four wide, the calls list is the page. The rest stays desktop.
Built from the tokens above, with numbers from the 2026-10-13 smoke run so the density is real. These are layout studies, not final pixels.
Flint's page explains: what it does, how it works, run it. Steel's should show: it opens on the market itself, and the sections follow the trader's day. Hosted like Flint's, from docs/ on GitHub Pages, at steel.thingg.co (a CNAME beside Flint's flint.thingg.co).
Steel's current paper mirrors Flint's outline (problem, data, model, learning, calibration, policy, pricing, evaluation, system). The proposal is to reorganise it around the two things that make Steel different: it measures a market that never closes from many venues at once, and it refuses to pretend. The outline:
Tokens, type, wordmark, the temper line; the header fixed. The dashboard's palette and fonts move to the new tokens (one stylesheet change; every panel inherits), the theme toggle and the Layout menu stop wrapping, the wordmark and the pulse land in the header. About a day. Visible at once on the smoke instance.
docs/index.html with the live-tape hero, the routine sections, the honesty section and the run-it section, plus the CNAME and the Pages workflow. Screenshots rendered from the restyled dashboard. One to two days.
Desk, Chart with the rail, Flow, Model. Panels move between views (they are widgets already), the status strip becomes global, the pair detail folds into Chart, the derivatives panels gather on Flow. Old hashes keep working through the legacy map. Two to three days.
The restructured paper with run data in every section and the generated appendix. One to two days, after the views settle so the screenshots are final.
Desk and alerts at phone width, a web-app manifest, and the sound and notification toggles that make a phone useful. One day.
Answer these four and the build starts with the identity on the running smoke instance, so each step can be checked in a browser as it lands.