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Indicators/TAO Tensor Law
Cycle · Power-law fair value Updated daily · 00:00 UTC

TAO Tensor Law.

TAO's price fitted to a power law of network age. Fair value plus discount-to-bubble bands show where this cycle sits in the long arc.
Mode
Smart DCA
Asset
τ TAO
Backtest
1 year
Buy zone ≤ Buy zone When the indicator drops to or below this threshold, the strategy doubles its weekly buy (Smart-DCA) or opens a long (Trade). It's the "cheap" regime — time to accumulate.
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Trim zone ≥Sell zone ≥ Trim zoneSell zone When the indicator climbs to or above this, the strategy skips the weekly buy and trims 5% of the stack. Stretched regime. When the indicator climbs to or above this, the strategy exits to cash. Distribution regime.
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Signal
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Smart-DCA edge Trade P&L
— more coins vs Flat DCA cumulative return
Capital saved Alpha vs hold
less capital required per coin outperformance vs Buy & Hold
Activations Time in market
— signals in — weeks —% in cash
Price Fair value Price ÷ fair
τao/minal
COMPUTING
τao/minal · onchain · daily aggregates
Allocation rule Now · in — zone
0
Buy
When price ÷ fair ≤ lower threshold → deploy 2× weekly budget (discount band — well below the power-law line).
Hold
When lower < price ÷ fair < upper → deploy 1× weekly budget (baseline DCA, value-to-expensive).
Trim Sell
When price ÷ fair ≥ upper thresholdskip buy and trim 5% (bubble band — stretched above fair value).
Price Latest close
Fair value Power-law midline
Price ÷ fair 1.00× = on the line
Risk score 0 (discount) → 1 (bubble)
Alpha vs Hold Strategy − hold
Bubble
Above the expensive band.

Price is trading well above the power-law fair value, inside the bubble band. In the one cycle TAO has printed so far, this zone has marked stretched valuations. Distribute into strength; expected forward return from here is poor.

Discount
Below the value band.

Price is trading well below fair value, inside the discount band. These are the cheapest readings the model produces. Accumulation conditions — expected forward return is strongest from this zone.

How to read it
A power-law valuation model for TAO, in the same family as Bitcoin's "power law." The idea: over the long run an asset's price tracks a straight line in log-log space — log(price) against log(network age). That line is "fair value"; multiplicative bands above and below it mark cheap and expensive.

The math: Price = C · (days_since_genesis + offset)α. This implementation fixes the two shape parameters at the values decodejar published — exponent α = 0.707 and offset = 32 days — and solves only the scale C by ordinary least squares on TAO's full daily price history. The discount / value / expensive / bubble bands are log-symmetric multiples of the fitted line.

How to read it: the chart shows price, the fair-value midline, and the value and expensive band edges. Price below the lower edge is a discount; above the upper edge is a bubble. The ratio pane is simply price ÷ fair value — 1.00× sits exactly on the line. The sidebar lists the four bands in today's dollars.

Honest caveat: TAO has roughly one cycle of tradable history, so the fit is loose — decodejar reports an R² near 0.51, far below the ~0.95 a mature power law like Bitcoin's shows. The fair-value line is a directional anchor, not a precise price target, and the bands are wide. It earns most of its keep as a long-term context read and a Confluence input rather than a standalone trigger.

Model and parameters by decodejar (decodejar.com · taotensorlaw.com). As more price history accumulates the fit tightens; until then, treat the bands as a map of the terrain, not a timer.