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I examine inception dates because ​projects that have been around a while have more opportunity to gain market share. See below for more details and examples on how this evaluation metric can be used.

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• Highest grades awarded to oldest projects.
• Quarterly data was pulled based on the top 25 market cap coins, throughout a given year. 
• Descriptions of each project are available on each of their linked, coinmarketcap, pages. More in-depth analysis is available for some of the top coins on this website, in the "Crypt Keeper By Coin" section. 
• Please note that Binance purchased coinmarketcap.com in 2020, therefore info gathered from coinmarketcap may now reflect a conflict of interest, because Binance is a project that is evaluated by coinmarketcap.com. Other sources for examining market data are:
  • https://www.coingecko.com/en  
  • https://quantifycrypto.com/

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2020

​The Data:

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As of Q4 2020- ​

• Data was pulled on 12/15/2020
• Wrapped Bitcoin, Filecoin, and DAI were added to the top 25. 
• The following dropped off:
  • VeChain (26th) 
  • Huobi (33rd)
  • yearn.finance (35th)

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As of Q3 2020- ​

• VeChain, Polkadot, and yearn.finance were added to the top 25
• The following dropped off the top 25:
  • IOTA (30th)
  • Dash (31st)
  • Eth Classic (32nd)
  • Maker (38th)
  • Hedge Trade (42nd)

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As of Q2 2020-

• Maker was added to the top 25, and Hedge Trade dropped to 26th. 

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​As of Q1 2020-

• Hedge Trade (smart contract-based trading prediction market) was the only new project added to the top 25 market cap. 
• Previously listed projects from 2019 that did not make it (and their new rank as of 3/26/2020):
  • NEM (26th)
  • Maker (27th)
  • Zcash (28th)
  • Ontology (31st)
  • Doge (33rd)
  • VeChain (36th)
  • Bitcoin Gold (38th)
  • WAVES (50th)
  • MINDOL (203rd)

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2019

The Data:

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​As of Q3 2019- Huobi Token and Unus Sed Leo are added to the top 25 market cap. At the time of my data pull on 9/16/2019, Lisk, Bitcoin Gold, Z Cash, WAVES, VeChain, NEM and Crypto.com Chain were no longer in the top 25 market cap, but will continue to be featured in the 2019 data. 

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Video highlights from the Q2 2019 data:

​​As of Q2, 2019- COSMOS ATOM, Chainlink and Bitcoin Gold, have been added into the top 25 market cap for evaluation. 

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Video highlights from the Q1 2019 data:

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2018

The Data:

Video highlights from the 2018 data. ​Warning: this is 20+ minutes of me talking about numbers.  

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