How to read a FORTUNA SIGNAL dossier
Every dossier follows the same contract — a verification chip, a plain-language utility line, five verdicts, and the evidence behind them. Here is the ninety-second read.
Observation
Open any of the 146 dossiers in the Asset Library and you will find the same anatomy, in the same order, every time. That sameness is deliberate: it is a template hard rule, not a habit. If a page cannot carry the full contract, the build refuses to publish it.
The contract has four parts:
1. 🔖 The verification class chip — Class A through D, derived from the five FORA-01 verdicts below. A few assets carry a NATIVE chip instead: for bearer-native assets, the chain itself is the backing, so the five questions about custodians and redemption do not apply the way they do to a claim token.
2. 🔧 The utility line — one plain sentence saying what the token actually does. "Pays Chainlink node operators for delivering real-world data to blockchains." No poetry, no pitch.
3. ✅ The five verdicts — each of the FORA-01 questions answered VERIFIED, PARTIALLY VERIFIED, UNVERIFIED, or CONTRADICTED, with its own chip. This is the heart of the dossier.
4. 📈 The market line — price and 24h change, refreshed daily. It appears only when a confident CoinGecko mapping exists for the token. A ticker without a mapping gets no market line at all — a missing line is never filled with a guessed price.
Below the verdicts sits the evidence: the sources each answer rests on, and — just as important — the places where independent evidence could not be found.
Interpretation
Read the dossier backwards from how most crypto content is written. Most content starts with the story and buries the evidence. The dossier starts with the verdict chips and the utility line, and the story — if there is one — has to survive them.
Two honest sentences you will meet often: "researched, no independent evidence found." That is not a gap in the dossier. It is the dossier doing its job. An UNVERIFIED verdict is a published finding, not an unfinished page. (More on what that word means here.)
The dossier is not a recommendation. It does not tell you to buy, hold, or avoid. It is a record of what could be independently confirmed about a token on the day it was researched — and the record stands until new evidence moves it.
What would change this view
New primary documents change verdicts: an audit appears, a custodian is named, redemption terms are published. The verdicts move; the template does not. That is the whole design — the contract stays fixed so the evidence can stay honest.
The five questions themselves are explained here, and the standard behind them lives on the methodology page.