Last reviewed August 2026
Anyone can publish a list of token sales. The question worth asking is what stops that list from simply reflecting whoever paid the most. This page sets out how we work, where our money comes from, and what we will not do — so you can judge the listings rather than take them on faith.
Advertising buys placement and visibility. It does not buy a score, and it never has. The review criteria are published in full, weighted, and applied the same way to a paid listing and a free one. If we ever changed that, this page would be the first thing we would have to rewrite — which is rather the point of publishing it.
Sponsored banners carry an "Ad" marker. Sponsored articles carry a sponsored label and nofollow links. Outbound partner links pass through a redirect that search engines are told not to follow. You should never have to guess whether something on this site was paid for.
A score with no method behind it is decoration. Ours breaks down into five weighted areas — contract and audit quality, token distribution, evidence the product exists, team accountability, and community quality — and each one says what we actually look at.
Guaranteed returns, unverifiable APY figures, audit badges with no report behind them, logo walls naming partners who have never heard of the project. These get rejected rather than listed with a caveat. A directory that accepts everything is not a directory, it is a billboard.
Where a project has not published its audit, supply figures or team details, the listing leaves those fields empty instead of filling them with something plausible. An empty field is information.
If we get something wrong, tell us and we will fix it. Substantive corrections to a listing are dated so you can see the page changed and when.
We look for a published audit from a firm with a track record. More telling than the badge is whether the findings were fixed — an audit carrying four unresolved medium-severity issues says more than any clean summary page. We also check what privileges survive launch: can the deployer still mint, pause, or blacklist?
A round that sells 8% of supply while the team holds 40% behind a three-month cliff is not an early opportunity, it is a queue you are standing in front of. We read the vesting table before the pitch deck. Long team lockups, a public unlock calendar and transparent treasury wallets move a score more than any partnership announcement.
A testnet, a repository with commits from more than one contributor, a demo anyone can open. AI and infrastructure projects get extra scrutiny here because the claims are harder to verify and easier to fabricate.
Anonymity is not disqualifying — respected protocols have shipped pseudonymously. But it raises the bar everywhere else. We want either named founders with traceable history, or an anonymous team operating under multisig control with milestone-based fund release.
Follower counts are cheap. We look at the ratio of substantive discussion to price talk, whether the team answers hard questions in public, and how the channel behaves on a red day. Forty thousand members with moderators deleting criticism scores worse than four thousand people arguing about tokenomics.
A project submits through the listing form, or our team adds one we have been tracking. Nothing publishes automatically.
We check that the website, buy link and social accounts belong to the same project, that the contract address matches what the site publishes, and that any audit named actually exists and covers the contract being sold.
The five criteria are applied and weighted. Missing information lowers a score rather than being assumed favourably.
The listing goes live with dates, links and score. Straightforward projects often clear in a day; anything needing a check takes longer.
Scores are re-checked when tokenomics, audit status or the team changes, and when a sale window closes.
A trust page that only lists strengths is marketing. These are the real limits of what a listing here can establish.
If a listed project is behaving badly — a rug, a misleading claim, a contract that does not match what was published — tell us. Reports about live listings go to the top of the queue, and we would rather pull a paying listing than leave it up.