What’s an Index Made Of? Now You Can Actually See
Understand exactly what drives the indexes you trade and build with.
Day 91 of 100 Days of TRUF
Indexes move billions, yet for decades they’ve been sealed black boxes. With TRUFscan, that changes; now you can now see exactly how each index is built, stream by stream, weight by weight, and source by source, bringing full transparency to the truth that powers financial markets.
Take the Hedge Index as an example. It blends five streams - Gold, Silver, Crude Oil, Bitcoin, and the S&P 500 - each with transparent weights and certified data provenance from Truflation. You don’t just see the number, you see the anatomy of truth.
How does the TRUF token align incentives across the network?
Transparency is step one. What makes this infrastructure powerful is how the TRUF token aligns incentives across the entire network.
- Data Providers get paid when their feeds are used in certified queries.
- Index Creators earn when their custom indexes are requested.
- Data Consumers pay only for certified queries that settle prediction markets or power financial products.
That creates a feedback loop where data quality is rewarded, and manipulation is disincentivized. In other words: a self-correcting trust engine.
How can I run my own TRUF.NETWORK node?
And you don’t have to wait. Anyone can spin up a TRUF.NETWORK node today and start leveraging live data streams directly.
Running a node means:
- True independence - you’re not asking for permission, you’re part of the network of truth.
- The ability to participate in the incentive loop.
- Direct access to certified, queryable truth.
👉 Follow the Node Operator Guide to get started and running in minutes.
Why does transparent index composition matter for builders, traders, and investors?
- Builders → new classes of financial products: DeFi mortgages tied to rental indexes, weather-based insurance, AI trading agents that hedge with verified data.
- Traders → confidence that every index is transparent and auditable.
- Investors → markets where incentives line up and the data itself becomes an asset class.
This is the foundation of programmable truth; markets built on data you can see, verify, and trust.
Start Building With Transparent Indexes
Explore live data streams and composed indexes now on TRUFscan.io.
Build your own indexes with on Index.fun.
Or spin up a TRUF.NETWORK node and join the incentive engine directly.
Don’t just consume truth, become part of the network that creates it.