CRYPTO RESEARCH CENTRE

Crypto Research Centre is a research and directional-reads platform. Not a trading platform. The Layer 1 component of Implementation Manual Ch 18 (Kelly sizing, portfolio heat, VaR) is dead — only the correlation matrix survives. The site outputs reads, not trades.

It shares infrastructure with Pengu Dashboard — same Cloudflare Workers backend, same Upstash + Cloudflare KV layer, same on-chain data sources. CRC is the editorial layer above the raw data Pengu surfaces visually.

Phase 2 shipped 9 May 2026. All four Implementation Manual chapters (18-21) plus v4 #2 (signal correlation audit) and v4 #3 (drift monitor). Plus ETF Flows tab as an out-of-scope Phase 2 addition.

Phase 3 unlocks ~23 May 2026 per the discipline rule — 2 weeks of daily use after the prior phase ships. Genuinely needs ~14 days of tshistory and scorecard-history accumulation before the Bayesian layer (Ch 26) reads meaningful signal correlations.

1. No-trading reframe. Site outputs research and directional reads only. No Kelly sizing, no portfolio heat, no VaR. Only the correlation matrix from Ch 18 survives.

2. TDF → DDF surface rename. Directional Decision Framework. Internal type names and route paths kept as `tdf` for stability. UI labels and comments use DDF.

3. ETF data — hand-curated JSON, not live scraping. Farside, DefiLlama, CoinGlass free, SoSoValue, CoinDesk API — all Cloudflare-challenge-protected or paid. worker/data/research/etf-flows-manual.json is the data source. Sonnet generates commentary from it, no tools, single small call.

4. Sonnet calls take ~47 seconds for the 6-section editorial. waitUntil's 30s budget isn't enough. So POST recompute defaults to synchronous (~50s wait, returns full result). Pass ?async=1 for fire-and-forget. Cron path uses ctx.waitUntil and works because cron events have 15-minute budgets.

5. Stomp-first KV pattern. Before any slow Sonnet call that writes to KV, write a placeholder first. Stale content can never persist past one second of a recompute trigger.