Updated 2026-07-23
Two different jobs, both useful
Velo and Hunter Killer get compared because both live in the crypto derivatives data space, but they are built to answer different questions. Velo is an institutional-grade market-data terminal: clean, exportable series for funding rates, basis, open interest, and options data, aimed at analysts and desks who want raw data they can pull into their own models. Hunter Killer is narrower and more specific: it is built around one surface, the liquidation Money Map, plus a public accuracy scorecard that shows exactly how well its own levels have held up historically.
If you already know how to build funding/basis/OI models and just want a clean feed, that's Velo's lane. If you want a ready-made read on where leveraged positioning is likely to get squeezed, and you want that read backed by a number you can actually check, that's what Hunter Killer focuses on.
What Velo does well
Velo has a genuine reputation for data quality and polish. Its funding-rate, basis, and open-interest series are widely used by quant desks and researchers because they are clean, consistently normalized across exchanges, and easy to pull via API. For anyone doing their own cross-exchange basis trades or building custom funding models, that consistency saves real engineering time.
Velo's options data coverage is also a differentiator: strike-level and expiry-level structure that most retail-facing tools don't surface at all. The overall positioning is institutional terminal, not retail dashboard, and for the audience it targets (quants, prop desks, researchers who want raw series over a curated read) that's the right tradeoff. If your workflow is "pull the data, build my own signal," Velo is a reasonable place to source it.
Where Hunter Killer focuses differently
Hunter Killer doesn't try to be a general-purpose data terminal. It concentrates on one question: where is leveraged positioning concentrated, and where does it break? The core surface is the Money Map, a live liquidation heatmap that shows where long and short liquidation clusters sit relative to current price, so you can see where a move might accelerate.
The other half of the approach is honesty about accuracy. Instead of a marketing claim, Hunter Killer publishes a public accuracy scorecard: walk-forward testing, broken out per symbol, with sample sizes and 95% confidence intervals shown next to each number. That means a number with a small sample looks uncertain because it is, and nothing gets rounded up to sound more impressive than the data supports. The framing throughout is descriptive, not predictive. It shows where positioning has clustered and how those levels have historically played out. It does not claim to forecast price.
Feature and philosophy comparison
- Primary surface: Velo is a multi-asset data terminal with API access; Hunter Killer is a liquidation-focused Money Map plus a supporting proof page.
- Depth of coverage: Velo covers funding, basis, open interest, and options structure broadly across exchanges; Hunter Killer goes deep on one thing, liquidation positioning and levels.
- Accuracy framing: Velo presents raw, verifiable series without a forecasting claim attached; Hunter Killer attaches a specific, checkable accuracy scorecard to its own liquidation-level output, including sample sizes and confidence intervals rather than a bare percentage.
- Audience fit: Velo suits people who want to build their own models on clean data; Hunter Killer suits people who want a ready-to-read liquidation map without building the pipeline themselves.
- API-first vs dashboard-first: Velo leans API-first for quant workflows; Hunter Killer leans dashboard-first, built to be read directly on the Money Map page.
Who each is for
Velo fits quant researchers, prop desks, and anyone building their own funding, basis, or options models who wants clean upstream data and doesn't want a curated interpretation layered on top. If your edge comes from your own modeling and you just need reliable series, Velo's terminal approach is built for that.
Hunter Killer fits traders who want a direct, visual read on where liquidation pressure is sitting right now, without building that analysis themselves, and who want the underlying accuracy claims to be checkable rather than taken on faith. If you'd rather look at a heatmap and a scorecard than query an API and build your own liquidation model from raw OI and funding data, that's the gap Hunter Killer is built to close. Some traders reasonably use both: Velo for the broader macro/funding picture, Hunter Killer for the liquidation-specific read.
The honest bottom line
Velo and Hunter Killer aren't really competing for the same click. Velo is a data terminal built for people who want raw inputs; Hunter Killer is a liquidation-specific read built for people who want the analysis already done, with the accuracy behind it shown in the open. Neither replaces good risk management, and neither claims to predict price. The honest way to choose is by what you actually need: raw exportable series, or a liquidation map with a public track record attached.