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How to read a tier

The tier is the headline of any TrustGate read. It compresses everything the score looked at into one label you can act on at a glance. Five tiers cover behavior, from BLOCKED at the bottom to ELITE at the top, and a sixth, VERIFIED, sits outside that ladder for a reason we get to below. A tier is a snapshot of current behavior, not a permanent grade. It moves as behavior moves.
The read found strong reasons not to trust, or nothing to trust yet. That covers two different situations. One is active red flags in the behavior. The other is an address with no real track record to stand on.Treat it as do-not-proceed without your own checks. For a brand-new or empty address, BLOCKED is not an accusation. There is simply nothing earned yet, and the tier can climb as genuine behavior builds up.
A thin or concerning history. There is some activity here, but not enough depth to lean on, or patterns that give reason to pause.Treat it as caution. Worth a closer look before you rely on it for anything that matters.
A real, ordinary history. Nothing alarming, nothing exceptional. This is the broad middle where most legitimate, everyday addresses land.Treat it as reasonable to engage with normal care.
A strong, consistent track record. Behavior that is expensive to fake and has held up over a real stretch of time.Treat it as trusted, among the better addresses you will come across.
The rare top. A sustained, exceptional history that very few addresses ever reach.Treat it as the strongest read TrustGate gives.

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VERIFIED is different

VERIFIED is not earned through behavior at all, which is why it sits apart from the ladder. It is reserved for tokens whose issuer is confirmed, an official stablecoin from a known issuer being the clearest case. It answers a different question. The behavioral tiers ask “how does this act.” VERIFIED asks “is this the real, official asset,” and when the answer is yes, that identity is the whole point. So a VERIFIED read short-circuits the behavioral path. You are not being told a token behaves well, you are being told it is authentic.
At the top of the ladder, the tier is shown on its own, without a number. Once a read is that strong, the label already says everything the number would, and we keep the quantitative detail internal.

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Signals

The categories of behavior that move an address between tiers.

Flags

The specific patterns a read can raise alongside a tier.