Reviews
Sorted newest first. Scores are revisited whenever a project ships something that changes the argument.
Bitcoin
BTCStore of Value · Bitcoin
Seventeen years of continuous uptime, an issuance schedule nobody can renegotiate, and the most battle-tested security budget in computing. Bitcoin is the benchmark every other project is measured against.
Ethereum
ETHSmart Contracts · Ethereum
The settlement layer that taught the world programmable money — and then executed the hardest live migration in software history without dropping a block. Ethereum is where crypto's serious builders still ship.
Solana
SOLHigh-Performance L1 · Solana
The chain that bet everything on raw performance, took the hardest public beating in the industry for it, rebuilt itself in the open, and now settles consumer-scale volume at costs that make everything else look quaint.
Capygram
CAPYSocial · Solana
A social network where the feed is owned by the people in it. Capygram pairs genuinely delightful consumer software with the most disciplined token design we have reviewed all year.
Hyperliquid
HYPEPerpetuals DEX · Hyperliquid L1
A vertically integrated perpetuals exchange that turned the fastest, cheapest on-chain trading experience into its own layer one. Hyperliquid is what happens when product excellence meets ruthless focus.
Tron
TRXPayments L1 · Tron
The blockchain that quietly became the dominant settlement layer for Tether outside Western markets. Tron is powerful, profitable, and uncomfortably centralized around its founder.
Binance Smart Chain
BNBExchange-Aligned L1 · BSC
The EVM-compatible chain backed by the world's largest crypto exchange. BSC delivers speed and liquidity, but its validator set and token design remain tightly coupled to Binance.
Bittensor
TAOAI x Crypto · Bittensor Subnet
An ambitious decentralized marketplace for artificial intelligence that rewards specialized models and datasets with a native token. Bittensor is genuinely novel, but its tokenomics remain a work in progress.
Venice Token
VVVAI Agents · Base
A privacy-preserving AI inference platform and token on Base, riding the AI agent wave with real product usage but an unproven long-term moat.