Crypto ratings from open data
We score crypto services 0–10 from public, checkable sources: value locked, audits, track record and reach from DefiLlama, plus our own latency and status-page checks. Every number is dated and links to where it came from.
No affiliate links, no paid placements, nothing to sell. That is why a rating here can put a smaller audited protocol above a big unaudited one, or score a service well on everything we could measure while telling you we only measured part of it. How this is funded · Methodology
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Crypto exchanges
Reserves held, track record and operational uptime
Decentralized exchanges
Liquidity locked, audits and multi-chain reach
Perpetual DEXs
Liquidity backing the book, audits, longevity
Instant exchangers
Track record and operational reliability
Trading tools
Longevity and service uptime
Hardware wallets
Track record and companion-service reliability
Crypto wallets
Track record, backend uptime and reach
Staking platforms
Value staked, longevity, uptime
Liquid staking
Value locked, audits, peg infrastructure
Liquid restaking
Value locked, audits, how new the protocol is
Yield aggregators
Value locked, audits, track record
Lending platforms
Value locked, audits, longevity
DeFi protocols
Scale of value trusted, audits, reach
Crypto bridges
Value bridged, audits — the top exploit target
Stablecoins
Market cap, peg mechanism, backing transparency
NFT marketplaces
Track record and operational reliability
NFT & AI tools
Track record and service uptime
Crypto cards
Track record and payment-service uptime
Morpho & Euler curators
Vault risk managers scored on assets, concentration, utilisation and fees
Highest-rated in each category
The single best-scoring service in every ranked category, side by side. Scores are out of 10 on what we could measure; open each for the full breakdown.
| # | Service | Category | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tether | Stablecoins | 10.0 |
| 2 | MyEtherWallet | Crypto wallets | 10.0 |
| 3 | Coinbase | Staking platforms | 10.0 |
| 4 | Magic Eden | NFT marketplaces | 10.0 |
| 5 | Ledger | Hardware wallets | 9.8 |
| 6 | ChangeNOW | Instant exchangers | 9.8 |
| 7 | Bitstamp | Crypto exchanges | 9.5 |
| 8 | Aave V3 | DeFi protocols | 9.2 |
| 9 | Aave V3 | Lending platforms | 9.2 |
| 10 | Lido | Liquid staking | 9.1 |
How we score crypto services
Every score is built from public data, not opinion. We pull each service’s value locked, security audits, age and multi-chain reach from DefiLlama, then add three signals we measure ourselves — response latency, whether a public status page exists, and how quickly incidents are resolved. The weights shift by category, because what matters for a bridge (audits) is not what matters for a stablecoin (market cap and peg) or an exchange (reserves and uptime).
How much value the market trusts it with — TVL, reserves or market cap.
Published third-party security audits, with links to the findings.
How long it has run and survived — time is signal.
How many chains it is deployed across.
Latency we measure ourselves from a public endpoint.
Whether it publishes a status page anyone can audit.
How fast it resolves incidents, from its own timestamps.
Two things a rankings page usually leads with — fees and support quality — we deliberately don’t score, because they can’t be read honestly from open data. We’d rather show the gap than fill it with a guess. See the full methodology →
What these ratings are — and aren’t
Most “best crypto exchange” or “top DeFi protocol” lists are advertising: the order follows who pays the biggest referral commission, not who is safest or most reliable. This section is the opposite. It takes no money from the services it covers, so a score can say the uncomfortable thing — that the largest venue publishes no proof of reserves, or that a fashionable new protocol has never been audited.
Built to be checked, not trusted
Nothing here is a hand-typed opinion. A script collects each figure from a public source — DefiLlama for on-chain value, audits and age; our own probes for latency and status — stamps it with the date it was taken, and links it back so you can verify it yourself. If a number looks wrong, the evidence link goes to the provider’s own page, not ours.
How to read a score
A score is always relative to its category and to what we could measure. The percentage beside it is coverage: 100% means we filled every criterion, a lower figure means some were n/a and their weight was spread across the rest. A high score at low coverage is a narrower claim than the same score at full coverage — and we show you which is which rather than rounding the difference away.
Questions about our crypto ratings
How are crypto services rated on CoinPulse?+
Each service is scored 0–10 from public, checkable sources: value locked, audits, track record and multi-chain reach from DefiLlama, plus our own latency, status-page and incident-repair measurements. Weights shift by category — a bridge leans on audits, a stablecoin on market cap and peg — and every number is dated and linked to its source.
Do you earn money from the services you rate?+
No. The ratings section carries no affiliate links, no paid placements and no sponsored entries. Outbound links to providers are marked nofollow and earn us nothing, which is what lets a rating rank a smaller audited protocol above a larger unaudited one.
Why is a well-known service sometimes rated lower than a smaller one?+
Size is not a criterion. A large service that publishes no audits and no status page cannot demonstrate its safety or reliability from the outside, so it scores lower than a smaller one that can — even though it may be perfectly sound. We rate what is verifiable, not what is famous.
What does the “% measured” figure next to a score mean?+
It is the share of a category’s criteria weight we could actually fill for that service. Anything we could not measure is marked n/a and its weight is redistributed across the rest — never counted as zero — so the percentage tells you how complete the verdict is.
How often are the ratings updated?+
Figures are collected by script and refreshed on a schedule; each one carries the date it was taken. The latest run measured 233 services on 2026-08-25.
Last collection 2026-08-25: probed 252 services, measured 233, over a 90-day window.