> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.trustgated.xyz/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Confidence and states > A read has two dimensions, not one. How strong it is, and how sure it is. Plus how brand-new tokens are handled. ## Two different questions It is easy to read a tier as the whole story. It is not. A read actually answers two separate questions. The tier and score say how the behavior looks. Confidence says how much that read is standing on. They move independently. A token can look fine on early signals while the read still sits at low confidence, because there is just not much history to judge yet. The two together are far more honest than either alone. ## Confidence Confidence is a measure of how much there is to go on. An address or token with a long, rich history gives a read plenty to work with, so confidence is high. Something brand new, or thinly used, gives the read very little, so confidence is lower no matter how the early signals point. Low confidence is not a bad mark. It is the read being upfront that the picture is still forming. The right move when confidence is low is to lean harder on your own checks, not to treat the tier as settled. As real behavior accumulates, confidence climbs and the read gets sturdier. Think of the tier as what the behavior says, and confidence as how loudly it is saying it. A confident BLOCKED and a low-confidence BLOCKED mean different things, and TrustGate tells you which one you are looking at. ## How new tokens are handled Tokens that launch through a launchpad pass through a lifecycle, and where a token sits in that lifecycle changes how much real behavior there is to read. TrustGate marks this with a state. The early phase, before a token has a real open market. There is activity, but not the kind of genuine trading behavior a full read depends on. Scores at this stage are necessarily provisional, and they come with that caveat attached rather than pretending to a certainty they cannot have yet. The token has moved on to open trading. Now there is real market behavior to read, who is buying, how it trades, who holds it, so the read gets richer and confidence rises. This is where a token score carries its full weight. The state matters because it stops a read from overpromising. A graduated token and a mining token can show the same early tier, but they are not the same bet, and the state is what makes that difference visible. ## That completes the scoring core Where the score becomes something you can actually use. Revisit the concept now that the full picture is in place.