Build a Live Ticker in Minutes

A vBase live ticker is a tool that displays a live price level for your portfolio, along with associated charts and analytics. Think of it like a stock or ETF ticker, but for any trading strategy.

vBase calculates the index value for a particular ticker based on the underlying portfolio and publicly available prices.

Our tools also publish a digital fingerprint of each portfolio snapshot to a public blockchain, making all vBase calculations independently verifiable.

vBase tools create a unique digital fingerprint of your data and then publish that fingerprint (aka cryptographic hash) to a public blockchain.

Thanks to the nature of blockchains, in which blocks are added via a decentralized consensus mechanism which must follow a strict set of rules, it’s impossible to go back in time and secretly alter these published fingerprints or their timestamps.

For more information on how and why blockchains are tamperproof, see here and here

There are many reasons to prefer vBase track records to audits.

1. Timeliness. Audits are typically performed once a year, while a vBase Live Ticker updates at least daily.
2. Cost. An audit for a trading track record generally costs $15,000/year/strategy, a verified vBase track record costs a very small fraction of this, and is free in many cases.
3. Credibility. Audits mostly show an income statement and a balance sheet, they can’t answer the question of why a strategy made money. vBase Live Tickers offer transparent auditable analytics of your results, creating far stronger assurance than an audit could
4. Engagement. Audits can be a little dry. vBase turns your investment strategy into a live verifiable scorecard that both you and the people you do business with will love to check.

Brokerage statements mostly fail for sharing investment performance for several reasons:

1) One Account. They only show performance for a single account. There’s no good way for an allocator to see if there are accounts you’re not showing.
2) Difficult to Validate. Brokerage statements take a long time to interpret and validate, most allocators won’t bother.
3) Cumbersome to Analyze. Calculating meaningful analytics or sharing reliable dashboards from brokerage statements is borderline impossible. Statements also don’t interoperate well with any systems allocators may be using.
4) Asset Restrictions. Your brokerage account may not give you access to the instruments you want to trade. vBase works with any assets for which there is a publicly available price.
5) Misleading. If your portfolio is sub-scale, your brokerage performance will be under-reported due to unrepresentative rebalancing costs and trading fees.

Bottom line: Many allocators will not trust or utilize brokerage statements.

For now, we encourage new users to reach out via our contact form or via hello@vbase.com to ensure you are setup correctly.

You don’t need to share your data, trades, or portfolios to create a vBase track record. With validityBase, you can prove your performance without exposing any IP—not even to vBase.

Instead, vBase records a fingerprint (SHA3 hash) of your data—a 256-bit code that can’t be reversed to reveal your information. This industry-standard technology is used in digital signatures, banking, and national security for secure verification.

If you create a vBase Live Ticker dashboard, you can choose to share it—or keep it private. The choice is yours.

If you create a vBase Live Ticker dashboard, you can choose to share the webpage on which it’s displayed with others.

Depending on your use case, you can also share verifiable zips of your historical data. See our collection verification documentation for more information on how this works.

vBase Track Records are built on immutable cryptographic commitments, making backdating or “time travel” impossible. However, without safeguards, someone could try to game the system by using vBase to stamp 100 strategies and only revealing the best one.

To prevent this, vBase enforces:

• Auditable activity records – Every stamped strategy, backtest, or dataset is publicly verifiable on the blockchain. vBase organizes and displays all submissions linked to a user.
• Verified accounts – Users can verify their identity through corporate or personal ID. ID verification prevents a single identity from creating multiple verified accounts to selectively present data.
• Press releases – For clients who request it, vBase issues public announcements for new strategies or datasets.

These measures can ensure that track records cannot be cherry-picked or manipulated.

Our free plan offers 100 stamps per month, meaning that 3 daily strategies can be stamped free of charge. See our pricing page for more details.