Why Hound
The problems this terminal exists to solve, and where to verify each fix.
Most tools in this category answer one question, which is how to trade faster. Hound answers the question that comes before it. Who on this chain is actually worth watching, and can you prove it.
This page lists the problems the terminal was built against. Each one is a real condition on Robinhood Chain today, each fix is live, and each section links to the page that shows how the fix works. Nothing here asks to be taken on trust.
Finding a smart wallet is a research project
The explorer shows transfers, because that is what an explorer is for. Turning transfers into an answer means working out which transfer was a swap, which side was the buy, what the position cost before it was sold, and whether that sell was a win or just an exit. All of it by hand, one wallet at a time, and only for addresses you already knew to look up.
Wallet tools mostly inherit the same direction. They can tell you about an address you paste in, or about the traders inside a token you already found. The step they skip is the first one, which is finding the wallet at all.
Hound starts there. The board ranks every wallet the engine has watched close a position, across the whole chain, before you know a single address. There is nothing to sign up for and no wallet to connect. Open the terminal and it is already running.
A number you cannot check is a claim
The usual shape of wallet analytics is a figure on a screen and a suggestion to verify it yourself on the explorer. The verification is real work, so almost nobody does it, and the figure gets repeated instead of checked.
Hound keeps the receipt next to the number. Pick a wallet and its history lists the last closes one line each, and the autopsy rebuilds the full record with every close linking to the transaction that produced it. The check is one click, inside the product, at the moment of doubt.
Paper gains lie
A leaderboard led by unrealized PnL is a ranked list of positions that have not survived an exit yet, and the gains on a thin token are a number the holder can manufacture. Hound ranks on realized PnL only, both sides of every trade watched, cost basis included. A wallet is not up until it sells.
Venue lists go blind
New venues launch on this chain constantly, and a tool that finds trades by recognising known DEX contracts is blind at every venue its list does not carry yet. The blind spot opens exactly when a new venue starts moving money, which is exactly when you want to be watching it.
Hound's engine does not read a venue list. It finds trades by following value flow, so a venue that launched this morning is covered the moment money moves through it. Measured against signature ground truth, that method reaches 97.4% of the chain's position moving swap transactions, and the measurement is published on that page.
The perfect wallet might be ten wallets
An operator running one script across ten addresses can hand each of them a flawless record, and the guides for catching this describe a manual checklist. Funding origin, shared counterparties, timing, concentration. Real work, per wallet, that almost nobody does before copying a trade.
The engine runs that inspection continuously. Behavioral clustering folds wallets that trade as one hand into one row, so the board shows you the operator, not ten strangers with suspiciously identical records.
The NFT market is moving unranked
NFT trades on this chain were being read and thrown away by every tool, including, for a while, ours. The terminal now ranks collections beside the wallets, priced the way the methodology describes, one switch away on the same screen.
The shape of all of it
Each fix above is the same decision applied somewhere new. Show the whole population, not a curated slice. Rank on what survived, not what is claimed. Keep the receipt one click from the number.
If a figure on the terminal ever looks wrong, How it works says exactly how it was built, including what each method misses. That page existing is the point.