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What is Cindicator? A Beginner's Guide to Hybrid Intelligence Forecasting
Article Written by Colin Harper

What is Cindicator?

Cindicator fuses together machine learning and market analysis for asset management and financial analytics. The Cindicator team dubs this human/machine predictive model Hybrid Intelligence, as it combines artificial intelligence with the opinions of human analysts "for the efficient management of investors' capital in traditional financial and cryptomarkets."

Cindicator's ecosystem consists of over 50,000 financial analysts with expertise that span across currency, stock, and cryptocurrency markets. These analysts are asked questions through the project's platform, and their answers are weighted and evaluated using machine learning. The AI then formulates market analysis which members of the Cindicator community can then benefit from through a variety of trading tools.

Community members and forecasters manage their operations using the platform's app, and the Cindicator company manages asset pooling and funds to compensate its contributors fairly. The company had its ICO in September, which excluded US investors due to regulatory reasons, but its app has been live since 2015.

Currently, Cindicator's model is only used for market trends and predictions, but as the project's whitepaper outlines, it has theoretical applications for scientific analytics, corporate and business solutions, and political event predictions.

Now that you're primed with the bare-bones info, let's pack on some meat.

How it Works

As we briefly reviewed above, Cindicator's model consists of two main components: human analysis and artificial intelligence. Taken together, Cindicator's artificial intelligence processes analysts' predictions to provide its users with more precise event forecasts. In essence, its Hybrid Intelligence looks to harness the intellectual power of man with the computing power of machine learning to deliver more accurate market analytics.  


Part 1: Man

Cindicator's platform boasts a decentralized community of roughly 52,000 professional and non-professional analysts. These analysts comprise the backbone of Cindicator's anatomy, without whom the entire body could not function.


In order to collect responses, Cindicator's app produces a series of daily questions for its analysts. Each analyst is asked questions based on their area of interest/expertise. For example, if you're a stockbroker using

Cindicator, you may see questions like "What will the S&P 500's price be at the end of the week?" or "Will Netflix's stock fall below $250 before reaching $255?". If you're an active cryptocurrency trader, however, you may get questions like "Will Ethereum's price fall or rise 10% over the next two days?" or "Will Stellar Lumens enter the top 5 currencies by market cap by the end of the month?".


Part 2: Machine


To do so, the AI measures what's called the confidence weight of each analyst. This measurement is taken from the collective accuracy and track record of an analyst's predictions, the profit or loss margin from each forecasted "trade," and a predictive model that compares prediction likelihood compared to other forecasters. The platform's machine learning is also dynamic and constantly evolving its models to make the best use of the raw data it collects. This includes testing multiple trading strategies and hypotheses, as well as constantly testing various models to adapt to the ever-changing market.

Essentially, the models that Cindicator's ML and AI produce can be divided into two categories: superforecasting models and the wisdom of the crowd model.



Part 3: The Community

After Cindicator's AI processes the raw data into its machine learning models, Cindicator token holders can take advantage of the fruits of the Hybrid Intelligence's labor.

Depending on how many Cindicator tokens a community member holds, s/he can access the platform's analytical products, indicators, trading signals, and rating system. This includes probability indicators for market events, market indices, market analysis, and trading resources like bots and APIs.



Token holders are able to access more complex services based on their stake in Cindicator via the CND token. Token holders pay a performance fee relative to the success of Cindicator's predictive analysis. These fees are then allocated to funding pools that go towards the payment of the Collective Intelligence Platform's forecasters. Additionally, these pools are replenished from the company's investment portfolio based on its machine learning models as well as user payments for specific trading tools and analytics.

Cindicator Markets



It bounced back quickly, though, and it's sitting at a comfortable $0.23 at the time of this writing after touching a new all-time high of $0.33.  This price spike has the asset encroaching on the top 70 after breaking into the top 100 just last week.

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Final Thoughts

By and large, Cindicator is one of the few unique projects in the crypto-sphere to date. There isn't much like it, and its Hybrid Intelligence model is so novel that it's surprising it hasn't gotten more exposure in the community.

What's more, the project isn't vapourware-you can start using its platform today if you want. Cindicator's app has been live since 2015, and community members are actively capitalizing on its market analytics and trading bots.  


Cindicator is trying to streamline a $50bln industry in market data services and analytics.  They have a working product and plans to improve this product. As cryptocurrency trading continues to mature, expect Cindicator to mature with it.  Financial promises aside, it's an innovative project, and it's always refreshing to find something so interesting in a space that, at times, can reek of redundancy. 


This article by Colin Harper was originally published at

About the Author

Colin Harper is a freelance writer and crypto-enthusiast based in Nashville, TN. When he's not speculating crypto futures, he's probably letting his hair down and/or brewing kombucha--because stereotypes exist for a reason.
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