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Bitcoin

8 verifications

4.6out of 5Weakest axis : Audits

  • Open code5 out of 5
  • Audits3 out of 5
  • Business model5 out of 5
  • Governance5 out of 5
  • Token alignment5 out of 5
  • Maturity5 out of 5
  • Own chain
  • No issuer
  • Capped supply

No company issues it and no ledger of owners exists. Its cap is not 21 million but 20 999 999.9769, because each halving rounds down whole satoshis.

Ethereum

11 verifications

4.4out of 5Weakest axis : Token alignment

  • Open code5 out of 5
  • Audits5 out of 5
  • Business model5 out of 5
  • Governance5 out of 5
  • Token alignment1 out of 5
  • Maturity5 out of 5
  • Own chain
  • Programs
  • No cap

Runs programs, not just payments. It has no single official client and no supply cap, two things almost every directory gets wrong about it.

Tether

7 verifications

Not rated yet

  • Open codenot measured
  • Audits0 out of 5
  • Business modelnot measured
  • Governance2 out of 5
  • Token alignment1 out of 5
  • Maturity3 out of 5
  • Dollar token
  • Single issuer
  • No public code

The dollar token that moves the most money, and the only one of these ten whose contract has no public repository. Under half of it lives on Ethereum.

BNB

9 verifications

3out of 5Weakest axis : Audits

  • Open code5 out of 5
  • Audits0 out of 5
  • Business modelnot measured
  • Governance5 out of 5
  • Token alignment2 out of 5
  • Maturity4 out of 5
  • Own chain
  • Ethereum fork
  • Exchange token

A chain forked from Ethereum’s client, tied to the exchange that launched it. The repository most data sites link to is the exchange API, not the chain.

XRP

10 verifications

3.7out of 5Weakest axis : Token alignment

  • Open code5 out of 5
  • Audits3 out of 5
  • Business modelnot measured
  • Governance4 out of 5
  • Token alignment2 out of 5
  • Maturity5 out of 5
  • Own chain
  • Institutional transfers
  • Supply gap

Built for moving value between institutions. 37 of its 100 billion units are issued but not circulating, and the gap is not explained.

USDC

11 verifications

2.7out of 5Weakest axis : Audits

  • Open code5 out of 5
  • Audits1 out of 5
  • Business modelnot measured
  • Governance2 out of 5
  • Token alignment1 out of 5
  • Maturity5 out of 5
  • Dollar token
  • Single issuer
  • Open code

The other dollar token, and the counter example to Tether on the point that matters: its contract has a public repository under an open licence.

Solana

11 verifications

4out of 5Weakest axis : Token alignment

  • Open code5 out of 5
  • Audits5 out of 5
  • Business model5 out of 5
  • Governance4 out of 5
  • Token alignment1 out of 5
  • Maturity3 out of 5
  • Own chain
  • Programs
  • Archived link

The busiest codebase of the ten. The repository data sites point to has been archived since January 2025, so its link shows a project frozen for over a year.

TRON

10 verifications

3.8out of 5Weakest axis : Token alignment

  • Open code5 out of 5
  • Audits3 out of 5
  • Business model5 out of 5
  • Governance5 out of 5
  • Token alignment1 out of 5
  • Maturity4 out of 5
  • Own chain
  • Carries dollar tokens
  • Elected validators

A chain that carries a large share of the dollar tokens in circulation. That role, not its own token, is what makes it matter at this size.

Figure HELOC

7 verifications

Not rated yet

  • Open codenot measured
  • Audits0 out of 5
  • Business modelnot measured
  • Governance2 out of 5
  • Token alignment1 out of 5
  • Maturity2 out of 5
  • Real world asset
  • Single issuer
  • No public code

Not a currency. A token backed by American home equity loans, sitting in the top ten with no public code and no chain of its own.

Hyperliquid

10 verifications

1.8out of 5Weakest axis : Open code

  • Open code0 out of 5
  • Audits3 out of 5
  • Business modelnot measured
  • Governance2 out of 5
  • Token alignment2 out of 5
  • Maturity2 out of 5
  • Own chain
  • Closed source
  • Derivatives

The only one of the ten whose protocol code is not published. Its node repository holds a Dockerfile and a signing key, no source at all.

Pendle

13 verifications

4.5out of 5Weakest axis : Open code

  • Open code3 out of 5
  • Audits5 out of 5
  • Business model5 out of 5
  • Governance4 out of 5
  • Token alignment5 out of 5
  • Maturity5 out of 5
  • DeFi
  • Yield
  • Ethereum

Splits a yield-bearing token into its principal and its future yield, so the two trade separately. Code public since 2022, licence unresolved.

Arweave

23 verifications

3.5out of 5Weakest axis : Governance

  • Open code4 out of 5
  • Audits3 out of 5
  • Business model5 out of 5
  • Governance2 out of 5
  • Token alignment3 out of 5
  • Maturity4 out of 5
  • Storage
  • Pay once
  • Own chain

Charges once to store a file, then keeps serving it with no monthly bill and no stated end date. Runs on its own chain rather than on Ethereum.

Chainlink

15 verifications

3.7out of 5Weakest axis : Token alignment

  • Open code4 out of 5
  • Audits3 out of 5
  • Business model5 out of 5
  • Governancenot measured
  • Token alignment2 out of 5
  • Maturity5 out of 5
  • Oracle network
  • Multi-chain
  • No governance vote

A network of nodes that reports outside data on-chain rather than a chain of its own. Its LINK token carries no vote at all, only payment and a staking deposit that can be slashed.

Zcash

18 verifications

Not rated yet

  • Open code4 out of 5
  • Auditsnot measured
  • Business model5 out of 5
  • Governance4 out of 5
  • Token alignment5 out of 5
  • Maturity5 out of 5
  • Own chain
  • Shielded payments
  • Archived link

A chain where hiding the amounts is part of the protocol. The repository every directory links to is archived: its node software was switched off in July 2026, and the chain kept going without it.

Dogecoin

13 verifications

Not rated yet

  • Open code5 out of 5
  • Auditsnot measured
  • Business model5 out of 5
  • Governance2 out of 5
  • Token alignment4 out of 5
  • Maturity5 out of 5
  • Own chain
  • Uncapped supply
  • Merge-mined

Its earliest blocks paid a reward drawn at random from the previous block’s hash, anywhere from 1 to 999,999 DOGE. Every block since has paid a flat 10,000 DOGE, forever, with no cap ever written into the code.

NEAR

11 verifications

3.8out of 5Weakest axis : Token alignment

  • Open code5 out of 5
  • Audits3 out of 5
  • Business model5 out of 5
  • Governance4 out of 5
  • Token alignment2 out of 5
  • Maturity4 out of 5
  • Own chain
  • Proof of stake
  • Licence mismatch

GitHub labels its code GPL-3.0. No such file exists anywhere in the repository: its own Cargo.toml, and every licence file actually shipped, say MIT or Apache-2.0 instead.

Bitcoin Cash

15 verifications

4.4out of 5Weakest axis : Audits

  • Open code5 out of 5
  • Audits3 out of 5
  • Business model5 out of 5
  • Governancenot measured
  • Token alignment5 out of 5
  • Maturity4 out of 5
  • Own chain
  • No single client
  • Capped supply

Its official website repository has taken zero commits in 90 days. The software that actually runs the network lives elsewhere, took 156, and nobody company controls either one.

Litecoin

16 verifications

4out of 5Weakest axis : Audits

  • Open code5 out of 5
  • Audits1 out of 5
  • Business model5 out of 5
  • Governance4 out of 5
  • Token alignment5 out of 5
  • Maturity5 out of 5
  • Own chain
  • Bitcoin fork
  • Privacy layer

A direct fork of Bitcoin’s own code, four times faster and capped near 84 million, not exactly on it. Its privacy layer suffered a real exploit in April 2026, patched the next day.

Monero

17 verifications

2.9out of 5Weakest axis : Token alignment

  • Open code4 out of 5
  • Audits3 out of 5
  • Business model3 out of 5
  • Governance2 out of 5
  • Token alignment1 out of 5
  • Maturity5 out of 5
  • Own chain
  • Mandatory privacy
  • No supply cap

Hides the sender, the receiver and the amount of every transaction by default, with no option to turn that off. Its block reward never reaches zero, and the privacy upgrade several 2026 pages describe as live has not shipped.

Stellar

21 verifications

4.1out of 5Weakest axis : Token alignment

  • Open code5 out of 5
  • Audits3 out of 5
  • Business model5 out of 5
  • Governance5 out of 5
  • Token alignment2 out of 5
  • Maturity5 out of 5
  • Own chain
  • Fees burned
  • No governance token

Burns every lumen collected in fees into a locked account nobody can ever reach, paying no miner and no validator. A bug let it create lumens for real in 2017, before a validator vote ended its own inflation rule in 2019.

Cardano

14 verifications

4.2out of 5Weakest axis : Audits

  • Open code5 out of 5
  • Audits3 out of 5
  • Business model5 out of 5
  • Governance5 out of 5
  • Token alignment3 out of 5
  • Maturity4 out of 5
  • Own chain
  • Proof of stake
  • Archived link

The repository most data sites link to, input-output-hk/cardano-sl, has been archived since July 2020 and still carries more stars than the client that replaced it. That successor’s proposal repository has merged 771 pull requests since 2020, feeding an on-chain vote most chains don’t have.

Uniswap

16 verifications

3.3out of 5Weakest axis : Audits

  • Open code3 out of 5
  • Audits1 out of 5
  • Business model5 out of 5
  • Governance2 out of 5
  • Token alignment5 out of 5
  • Maturity5 out of 5
  • DeFi
  • AMM
  • Multi-chain

Its fee switch, turned on in December 2025, routes a share of swap fees to buy back and burn UNI. On-chain supply still reads exactly 1,000,000,000: burning moves tokens to a dead address, it never decrements that counter.

What gets a profile here

A project earns a profile when enough of what it says about itself can be checked at a primary source: its own repository, its own contracts, a node we can query. Everything we could not establish stays on the page, in a table, with the reason. A profile is not a recommendation. The rating it carries measures what can be checked about the protocol, never what the token will be worth.

Each claim carries the address it came from and the date it was read, so anyone can land where we landed. Where an aggregator is our only source, the row says so rather than borrowing its confidence.

There are few profiles because each one takes a day. We would rather publish one page that holds up than fifty that repeat each other.