Stonks

Stonks publishes market-data pulse into the GameCult CultMesh Verse.

It polls public equity/ETF and crypto endpoints, normalizes the result into CultCache state, and exposes a provider-owned Eve/CultUI surface for Odin and renderers such as Nightwing.

Valuable here: a small, complete example of a provider-owned GameCult daemon. src/stonks-daemon.cjs polls public market endpoints, normalizes them into typed CultCache documents with provenance and freshness (scratch/stonks/stonks-state.cc), and publishes its own Eve/CultUI surface for Odin to aggregate. src/idunn-rudp.cjs is the Idunn daemon-health publisher over CultNet RUDP.

Problem it solves: gives operators and agents ambient market context (gaming and tech names, plus a few crypto assets) through the Verse, without any renderer or dashboard owning market state.

Entry points: src/stonks-daemon.cjs; docs/architecture.md (mechanism and authority); AGENTS.md (authority map); npm run check and npm run start (Node 20 or newer; the cultcache-ts, cultmesh-ts and cultnet-ts dependencies resolve to a sibling CultLib checkout, ../CultLib/packages/*).

Live versus planned: live is public-endpoint polling (Finnhub equities and ETFs, CoinGecko crypto, mention feeds that only steer sampling order), the Eve surface and provider records, and Idunn health. Planned: replacing public polling with a typed CultMesh market feed (docs/architecture.md, Future Cut), and real data for private watch names such as SpaceX, xAI/X, Neuralink and Boring, which need provider-owned feeds first. It is not a trading bot and gives no financial advice.

Current Body

• Provider id: stonks.market
• Eve deck: ws://127.0.0.1:8802/eve/deck
• Provider manifest: http://127.0.0.1:8802/eve/deck/providers
• Health: http://127.0.0.1:8802/health
• Idunn daemon health: idunn.daemon_health over cultnet.transport.rudp.v0, defaulting to 127.0.0.1:17870 with daemon id stonks and contract stonks.cultnet-rudp-market-health.
• Snapshot: http://127.0.0.1:8802/market/state
• CultCache state: scratch/stonks/stonks-state.cc
• Provider records: the same CultCache store now contains gamecult.eve.provider_advertisement.v1, stonks.command_boundary.v1, and stonks.transport_profile.v1 beside the market snapshot and Eve surface.
• Request events: persisted as keyed stonks.request_event.v1 CultCache documents and summarized in the Eve dashboard. Raw request ledgers are not shown as dashboard truth.
• Default focus: gaming and tech public names such as Ubisoft, EA, Take-Two, Roblox, Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, NVIDIA, AMD, Google, Meta, Apple, TSMC, Tesla, ASML, Corsair, Logitech, and Sea.
• Private watch names: Musk Complex is represented explicitly as mixed public/private exposure: TSLA is tracked through the public TSLA.US quote, while SpaceX, xAI/X, Neuralink, and Boring need provider-owned news, disclosure, or secondary-market feeds before Stonks treats their movement as data.

Start

.\scripts\start-stonks.ps1 -StateDir .\scratch\stonks -FinnhubTokenFile .\finnhub-oauth.txt

The script's -StateDir and -FinnhubTokenFile defaults point at an E:\Projects\Stonks checkout that does not exist on current workstations, so pass both explicitly as above (or -Foreground to watch it run).

Data Sources

• Equities/ETFs: Finnhub quote endpoint. Set FINNHUB_API_KEY or STONKS_FINNHUB_TOKEN; the daemon defaults to 48 quote calls/minute so it stays below the free-plan 60 calls/minute ceiling.
• Crypto: CoinGecko simple price endpoint.
• Mention radar: Hacker News Algolia search, IGN RSS, and Eurogamer RSS. These feeds steer which configured symbols Finnhub samples first; they do not own market state.

The daemon is for operator visibility and ambient market context. It is not financial advice and does not place trades.

Configure defaults with:

$env:FINNHUB_API_KEY="..."
$env:STONKS_EQUITY_CALLS_PER_MINUTE="48"
$env:STONKS_MENTION_REFRESH_MS="600000"
$env:STONKS_EQUITIES="ubi.fr,ea.us,ttwo.us,rblx.us,ntdoy.us,nvda.us,amd.us,tsla.us"
$env:STONKS_CRYPTO="bitcoin,ethereum,solana,dogecoin"
$env:STONKS_PRIVATE_WATCH="Musk Complex"

You can also put the Finnhub token in finnhub-oauth.txt at the repo root or pass --finnhubTokenFile/STONKS_FINNHUB_TOKEN_FILE.

At the default 15 second poll interval and 48 calls/minute budget, Stonks pulls up to 12 Finnhub equity quotes per refresh. It prioritizes recently mentioned watch symbols, uncached symbols, and then a round-robin pass across the configured watchlist.

Idunn health publishing is enabled by the launcher with:

--idunn-rudp-health 127.0.0.1:17870
--idunn-daemon stonks
--idunn-health-contract stonks.cultnet-rudp-market-health

The /health, /market/state, and /eve/deck endpoints remain compatibility/status or renderer projections. They are not the owners of Stonks daemon liveness or provider truth once Idunn has fresh RUDP health and Odin can read the typed provider records from scratch/stonks/stonks-state.cc.