Thanks for signing up. This is the first issue of our newsletter, and before we send you anything else, we want to tell you exactly what CryptoGrade is and how it works — so everything that follows has context.
What CryptoGrade does
CryptoGrade grades crypto assets using a rules-based framework: six weighted dimensions, nine hard disqualifier gates, and a letter grade — A, B, C, or F — at the end. We publish the top 200 assets, ranked by CryptoGrade's own score, highest to lowest (not by market cap). Anyone can see the top 10 without an account; a free account gets you the full 200.
We're a ratings and research company. We publish grades and the reasoning behind them. We don't tell anyone what to buy, sell, or hold, and nothing we send you is investment advice — more on that at the bottom of this email.
Why we built it this way
Four things we care about, and try to make visible in every score:
Actionable insights — not just raw data, but something you can actually use to form your own view.
Transparency — our six dimensions and their weights are published, not proprietary. You can see exactly what we measure and how much each part counts.
Aligned incentives — we don't work commercially with the assets or projects we cover, and we don't sell data. Our grades don't have a customer to please other than the reader.
Data-driven — grades come from the framework, not from a take on where the market is headed.
The short version of how a grade gets made
Every asset is scored across six weighted dimensions — things like whether a token actually captures value from its own network, and whether that network is actually being used. That weighted score then has to pass nine hard gates: pass/fail checks that sit outside the scoring. If a gate trips — say, an unaudited contract or a team that can't be identified — the grade is forced to F, no matter how the weighted score came out. What comes out the other end is a letter grade, published with a provenance record: which version of our rules produced it, which model ran it, and what the score was computed from.
If you want the full breakdown, we've already written it up:
How CryptoGrade grades an asset: https://blog.cryptograde.ai/p/how-cryptograde-grades-an-asset
What the six dimensions actually measure: https://blog.cryptograde.ai/p/what-the-six-dimensions-actually-measure
What to expect from future issues
We're not going to fill your inbox for the sake of it. Going forward, when a graded asset's score moves in a material way, we plan to break down what changed and why — the same way we break down everything else, sourced and dated. We don't have one of those to show you yet, so this first issue is the orientation instead. When we do, you'll get what changed and why, never a suggestion about what to do about it — that second part isn't something we do, in this newsletter or anywhere else.
One free step
If you haven't already, create a free CryptoGrade account at https://cryptograde.ai to see the full top-200 list and the deeper per-asset detail behind it.
Thanks for reading this far. We'll be back with more.
— The CryptoGrade team