Answered from live records · 2026-09-15
What does a Sato Swap verdict mean?
A Sato Swap verdict is go, caution, no or unknown, returned separately for each of four targets — token in, token out, venue and recipient — each naming the rule that fired and when it was read, as of 2026-09-15.
The four verdicts and the four targets they are returned for. A verdict describes evidence on a date. It is not a security review, a price opinion, or a statement about returns.
| Verdict | What it means |
|---|---|
| go | Every reading the lane made came back clean on the date shown. It is a reading, not an assurance about the project behind the target. |
| caution | A record exists and something in it did not clear. The rule that fired is named, with the value it compared. |
| no | A reading came back against the target. A no is always a refusal — that is not a policy setting. |
| unknown | We hold no record, or the lane could not be read. Unknown is never zero and never a finding against the target; by default it refuses. |
| target: token_in | The token lane in lib/preflightToken.ts, over keyless chain reads. A non-EVM chain or an unresolvable symbol answers unknown with the reason. |
| target: token_out | The same lane, run on the output token. The two are separate verdicts and are never merged. |
| target: venue | The endpoint lane: the directory record where Sato Hub lists the venue, a live handshake where it does not. |
| target: recipient | Decided in the gate, not by Preflight: RCPT1 the taker itself, RCPT2 a recipient the policy names, RCPT3 a wallet a listed Passport holds, RCPT4 no record. |
How this was answered
gateSwap() in lib/swap/gate.ts runs four targets through the Preflight lanes and the gate's own recipient rules, and reports one verdict per target rather than a single blended score.
Every answer on this page is produced by one named function over Sato Hub's live records on the date shown. Nothing is typed by hand, no figure is carried over from a previous day, and an answer with nothing behind it says unknown rather than zero. The Sato Score measures how open, active and verifiable a project is — it is not a safety, quality or returns grade.
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