Highest grades awarded to longest-developed projects.
​​The longer a project survives and perseveres for, the stronger an investment it tends to be.

​Updated quarterly to reflect the top 25 market cap.  ​
Click on each project to be directed to their respective coinmarketcap.com listing.

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2020

​The Data:

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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)
    

As of Q2 2020-

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

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:

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

Video highlights from the Q2 2019 data:

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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