“Streams you can feel” I wanted to know if real-time data actually changes decisions not in a lab it is in @Covalent_HQ , but in my flow. So I ran a 45-minute capture on Base with two tabs open my old 60s poller vs Covalent’s GoldRush stream for New DEX Pairs. Every time the stream lit up, I marked the timestamp, watched the first minute breathe, and asked, “Would I take this entry if I saw it now?” The difference was obvious. The stream felt like someone whispering in my ear while the poller sent me a recap. The docs help here because the “New DEX Pairs” feed arrives pre-labeled you’re not decoding anything mid-move. covalenthq.com/blog/august-2… When a brand-new pool popped, I flipped straight into Covalent’s new Update Pairs feed live USD price, volume, liquidity, even market cap and waited for alignment: price expanding, volume confirming, liq not rugging. That gave me one clean early entry I would’ve missed with a minute-late view. Covalent’s August update spells out exactly this stream and calls out support across Ethereum, Base, BNB, tuned for sub-second use. That’s the “feel” I’m talking about enough signal, fast enough, to act once. My quick frame for anyone testing this: pick one active window, subscribe to New Pairs on Base, and the second it fires, open Update Pairs on that pair. Write down two times when the alert hit, and when price+volume+liq first lined up for a sensible entry. Do it twice. You’ll see why streaming beats polling for first-seen signals. If you need receipts beyond your gut, the GoldRush docs have the real-time subscription laid out in plain English so you can reproduce this without glue code. Bottom line streams don’t make you “early” by magic; they make you informed at the right second. On Base, that’s the whole game. Try the 30–60 min capture, keep two screenshots (alert + alignment), and decide if you’d have taken the same trade a minute later. Receipts over vibes.