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Market value, exit value, cost — what the three numbers in your portfolio actually mean.

Three numbers, kept apart: market value, net exit value, and what the holdings actually cost.

01

Read-only aggregation first

Paste a public wallet address to see its value across the major EVM chains — computed, shown, forgotten.

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The first step isn’t a registration, it’s an address: pasting a public wallet address is enough to see its USD value (EUR alongside) across the major EVM chains — Ethereum, Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism and BSC among them. The result is computed, shown, and forgotten; nothing is stored.

One honesty rule shapes everything downstream: positions only count toward the headline once they are verified against a real market. Spam tokens that reuse legitimate tickers are excluded and disclosed separately — a missing number beats a lying number.

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02

Market value vs. exit value

Market value is holdings times reference price; exit value is what selling through live orderbooks nets after fee and spread.

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Market value is holdings times reference price — a clean description, but a price nobody sells a whole position at. Exit value answers the other question: what would come out, net, if the actual amounts were sold through the live orderbooks right now — after fee and spread, with the range from the best to the weakest measured venue as a second figure.

The bigger the position and the thinner the market, the further the two numbers drift apart — the same orderbook effect the hidden-fees guide describes for a single trade, applied to the whole portfolio. Both are descriptions of the present state, not a prompt to act. The per-position breakdown through the live orderbooks is part of Pro.

03

Cost basis and unrealised P/L

A moving-average cost basis from your imported history; P/L only over covered quantity — missing history says “Unknown”, never zero.

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The third number looks backward: what did the holdings cost? Skontro computes a jurisdiction-free moving-average cost basis from your imported history — buys and sells, rewards at fair market value, matched self-transfers kept neutral. Unrealised P/L is then simply current value minus that basis.

The honest part is the coverage rule. P/L is only computed over the quantity your imported history actually covers; where history is missing, the position says “Unknown — add basis” instead of pretending a cost of zero, which would inflate the full proceeds into fake profit. A partially covered position carries its coverage share visibly. The number is conservative by construction, and it says so.

04

The history line — and what the 24h number is not

Hourly snapshots (7 days Free, 365 Pro); the 24h figure is a value change incl. deposits, not a return.

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Skontro records an hourly snapshot of portfolio value — that becomes the history line on the desk. Free shows 7 days of history, Pro 365. The 24-hour figure next to it is labelled precisely, because precision is the difference between a number and a story: it is a value change, including deposits and withdrawals — not a return. Money arriving looks like a gain and money leaving looks like a loss; the label keeps you from reading performance into cashflow.

The same product-wide rule applies here as everywhere: every number carries its data provenance, and a missing number beats a wrong one.

Further reading

Portfolio numbers describe the present state, computed read-only — never a valuation opinion, never a prompt to trade.

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Not investment advice. Skontro is not a CASP under MiCAR. Market data from public exchange orderbooks; EUR reference via CoinGecko. Live measurements carry their data age; curated fees carry their verification date.