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# Methodologies

This section holds the published methodology documents that govern how Coin Metrics evaluates the exchanges behind the Market Data Feed.

## Talos Exchange Scorecard

The Talos Exchange Scorecard is the quantitative evaluation Coin Metrics applies to trading venues. It scores exchanges on the quality and integrity of their reported activity, and that score is an input wherever a data product needs a vetted rather than an exhaustive set of venues. It determines which exchanges count toward trusted volume, and it feeds the candidate market selection behind the [Coin Metrics Prices](/coin-metrics-prices/coin-metrics-prices.md).

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[Talos Exchange Scorecard](/market-data/methodologies/talos-exchange-scorecard.md)
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## Related

* [Market Data Overview](/market-data/market-data-overview.md): the data types and metric families the scorecard is applied within.
* [Volume Metrics](/market-data/market-data-overview/volume-metrics.md): the trusted volume series that uses the scorecard to define its exchange set.
* [Coin Metrics Prices](/coin-metrics-prices/coin-metrics-prices.md): the reference rates and principal market prices, whose own governing methodology and policies live in that section.


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