version: "1.0.0" name: web3-news-signal description: Build or improve no-key Web3 news, RSS, GDELT, announcement, security-event, governance, and social-sentiment data pipelines, then convert those message-side inputs into cached dashboard signals, trading research features, factor-mining inputs, or backtest annotations. Use when the user asks for Web3 message-side data, crypto news, sentiment, event data, no-key news sources, or turning Web3 news into factors or skills.

Web3 News Signal

Workflow

1. Inspect the existing data path before adding sources:

• Backend: src/dashboard/api.py, src/dashboard/http_client.py, src/dashboard/snapshot.py, src/dashboard/catalog.py.
• Frontend: src/web/src/api.ts, src/web/src/types.ts, and the target page under src/web/src/pages/trading/.
• Offline data: data/dashboard/*.json and data/dashboard/snapshots/*.json.

1. Prefer no-key public sources first. Use keyed services only as optional enhancers.
2. Normalize every item into a stable event row:

• source, source_id, title, url, published_at, summary.
• Derived fields: assets, topics, sentiment, risk_event.

1. Convert news rows into research signals:

• news_heat_24h
• risk_event_count_24h
• positive_news_ratio_24h
• asset_mention_count_24h
• Optional: topic_counts, source_counts, event_decay_score.

1. Cache and snapshot the aggregate payload. The feature must still work with no network.
2. Expose a small API and UI surface before wiring signals into trading logic:

• API example: /api/dashboard/web3-news?limit=50&refresh=1.
• UI should show article count, sentiment, risk events, top assets/topics, and recent items.

1. When adding factors, keep message-side features point-in-time:

• Use only items published at or before the candle timestamp.
• Use rolling windows and decay; do not leak future articles into historical bars.

Source Selection

Read references/no-key-web3-news-sources.md when choosing sources, field mappings, or signal definitions. Read references/implementation-summary.md when summarizing what has been implemented, explaining tradeoffs, or planning the next expansion.

Default no-key stack:

• RSS: Cointelegraph, The Block, Decrypt.
• Global search/news index: GDELT DOC API.
• Optional public project sources: protocol blogs, GitHub releases, governance forums, status pages, and security blogs.

Implementation Rules

• Use standard parsers where possible: XML parser for RSS/Atom, JSON parser for GDELT.
• Do not scrape arbitrary HTML pages unless RSS/API is unavailable and the target is stable.
• Use a clear User-Agent.
• Deduplicate by canonical URL first, then normalized title.
• Treat sentiment as a weak feature. Prefer simple, auditable scoring unless a configured LLM is explicitly available.
• Store live failures as source health metadata, not as hard page failures.
• Add fixtures and tests for parser, enrichment, and API shape.

Verification

Run focused tests first:

py -m pytest tests/test_dashboard.py tests/test_dashboard_news.py

Then run the project verifier:

py scripts/course.py verify