Five criteria, one scale
Every project is scored 0–5 across five weighted criteria chosen for its category, from security and decentralisation to token economics and disclosure quality.
Independent, evidence-led reviews of crypto projects, every one rated out of five. We dig through the code so you don't get buried in the hole.

Weekly Deep Dive
We re-audited the oldest network in crypto from genesis block to mempool, and it keeps doing the one thing nothing else in this industry does — it simply refuses to break.
Every project rated out of 5

Smart Contract Platform / Layer 1
The world's settlement layer for programmable value, and the only ecosystem that has repeatedly rebuilt its own engine mid-flight without stalling.

High-Performance Layer 1
The comeback story of the cycle. Solana took its public failures seriously, re-engineered the stack, and now runs consumer-scale throughput without flinching.

Pre-Mainnet Layer 1 / Mobile Mining
A fair-launch, phone-mineable Layer 1 with an unusually large consumer app suite already live — but the chain, the token and the liquidity all still sit in the future.

Perpetuals DEX / Layer 1
The first on-chain venue that genuinely competes with centralised perp exchanges on execution quality, funded by a distribution model that gave the upside to its users.

Layer 1 / Stablecoin Settlement
Enormous, genuinely used stablecoin rails wrapped around a governance structure and a founder history that our methodology cannot score generously.

Layer 1 / Exchange Ecosystem
A fast, cheap, heavily used chain with a genuine retail economy, permanently tethered to the fortunes and the validator set of a single exchange.

Decentralised AI / Layer 1
The most intellectually ambitious network in crypto — an open market for machine intelligence — carrying real questions about output quality and validator concentration.

Private AI / Utility Token
A working privacy-first AI product with a token that buys real, ongoing inference capacity — held back by dependence on open models and a single company's roadmap.

Comparison / Mobile Mining
Pi Network proved that tens of millions of people will tap a button every day for a token. These five projects take that same mobile-first, zero-cost distribution idea and do something more interesting with it.

Comparison / Layer 1
Throughput stopped being the interesting question somewhere around 2024. Heading into 2027 the base layers worth holding are the ones with credible neutrality, real users and an economic reason to exist.

Comparison / Social
Decentralised social has produced a decade of elegant protocols with nobody on them. The projects worth your time in 2026 are the ones that got the app right first and the ideology second.
Every project is scored 0–5 across five weighted criteria chosen for its category, from security and decentralisation to token economics and disclosure quality.
Claims we cannot check independently — user counts, uptime figures, unaudited architecture — score nothing. Published, falsifiable facts score everything.
Scores move. A project that fixes its failure modes goes up; one that ships an admin key goes down. Nothing on this site is a price prediction.