The vault screener toolbox — part 7: everything, side by side with Altcopy
Six kinds of tools to screen and compare Hyperliquid vaults — and the one job almost none of them do. The full comparison table, and where the Altcopy leaderboard actually fits.
We've walked the whole toolbox: the native page, VaultVision, ASXN, the open-source Analyzer, the wallet & whale terminals, the builder layer, and hl.eco. Here they all are next to the Altcopy leaderboard — and the pattern that emerges.
The whole field, in one table
| Tool | Category | Best at | Use it for | How Altcopy differs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Native HL page | Source of truth | Complete, free, neutral | Verify against it | Curated layer on top of it |
| VaultVision | Vault screener | Risk sort + 2–4 overlay | Narrowing the field | Curates + flags + Index, not just screens |
| ASXN | Data dashboard | Breadth + ecosystem context | Macro + raw vault stats | Depth on vault curation vs breadth |
| Vault Analyzer | Optimizer (OSS/ML) | Build-your-own weights | Coders/quants | Transparent rules vs ML prediction |
| Wallet/whale terminals | Trader trackers | Vetting a leader's wallet | Due diligence on the human | One layer up: the vault as a product |
| Builder layer | Raw API/scrapers | Total control | Builders | The finished product we built from it |
| hl.eco | Ecosystem hub | Macro map + profile buckets | Field shape & trending | Descriptive buckets vs gated Fit + flags + Index |
The pattern
Sort the toolbox and almost everything falls into a few buckets: screeners that show you the field (the native page, VaultVision, ASXN), wallet trackers that vet a trader (Hyperdash, HyperTracker, Nansen & co.), builder kits for rolling your own (the API, scrapers, the Analyzer), and ecosystem hubs that map the landscape (hl.eco). Each is excellent at its specialty — VaultVision's overlay, ASXN's breadth, Hyperdash's whale flow, hl.eco's profile buckets, the API's total control — and at that one thing, several beat us. hl.eco is the closest in spirit, since it also thinks in risk profiles.
What almost none of them do is the curation job: take the field, strip the dormant and funded-illusion traps, ask who you are (and gate, not just label), separate the benchmark and the dead, and hand you a flagged, profile-aware, monitored basket with the rules shown. That's the gap the Altcopy leaderboard fills — a layer on top of these tools, not a replacement.
How to actually use all of it
Map the field on hl.eco; screen on VaultVision or the native page; get ecosystem context from ASXN; vet the leader on a wallet terminal; if you can code, verify it all on the API; and use the Altcopy board for the curated, honest cut and the Index. Cross-check everything against the source of truth, and never let any single screen — ours included — make the decision alone.
Use any third-party tool read-only — type the URL yourself, paste only a public address, never connect a wallet you don't have to, never enter a seed phrase. Not an endorsement; verify before you trust.
← Part 6: the builder layer | Part 8: hl.eco →
That closes the toolbox series. Nothing here is financial advice.