Your framework.
Your priorities. Your rankings.
Most cryptocurrency rankings sort coins by market cap or price. That tells you what is popular today, not what is likely to hold value over time. But popularity can fade and is often a poor measure of lasting value.
True Value Rankings (TVR) provides a transparent framework built on 8 fundamental metrics. The default rankings are a starting point, but the real power is that you can adjust every weight, override any score, and build rankings that reflect your own investment philosophy. TVR does not tell you what to think. It gives you the tools to think more clearly about your own investment thesis.
The default settings reflect a Sound Value philosophy, rooted in scarcity, decentralization, utility, and long-term sustainability. Think of it as one well-considered perspective among many. A privacy advocate, an institutional analyst, and a hard money purist would each weight these metrics differently, and TVR is designed to accommodate all of them.
How metrics work
The first step in using TVR tools to build your own investment thesis is adjusting metric weights. By setting these weights, you create a lens that reflects your own priorities.
When evaluating a cryptocurrency, the framework asks the same questions you would ask before trusting any store of value: Is the supply limited? Is it secure? Do people actually use it? Has it been around long enough to trust? Can you easily buy and sell it?
TVR answers these questions through 8 fundamental metrics, each scored from 0 to 100. Together, they paint a picture of a coin's strengths and weaknesses.
How scoring works
Once your metric weights are set, the next step is evaluating individual coins.
Every cryptocurrency is scored from 0 to 100 on each of the 8 metrics. Premium users can assess each coin and assign their own scores based on their research and investment philosophy. If you believe a coin's security is stronger or weaker than commonly assessed, reflect that in your score. If you have insights into a project's technical development, factor that in. Your scores, combined with your weights, produce rankings that are genuinely yours.
When assessing a coin, consider where it falls on the scale. A score above 75 indicates strength in that area. A score below 50 signals a notable weakness. If you weight a metric heavily and a coin scores poorly on that metric, its overall ranking will suffer.
Each metric card in the section above expands to reveal detailed scoring criteria. These breakdowns outline key factors within each metric and can help inform your own assessments.
The scoring system is strict. Low scores are penalized heavily because a coin cannot hide a major weakness behind strengths in other areas. In the real world, a single fatal flaw, like an insecure network or an unlimited supply, can undermine everything else. The scoring reflects this reality.
What the results mean
TVR produces two key outputs for every cryptocurrency: a TVR Score that measures fundamental quality, and a valuation assessment that compares that quality to the current market price. The default rankings represent one possible configuration of the engine. Premium subscribers can adjust every weight and override any score to build rankings that reflect their own investment philosophy. When you customize the inputs, the outputs update to reflect your analysis, not TVR's.
Based on each coin's TVR Score, the valuation formula produces a TVR Estimated Value by comparing the coin's fundamental quality to its share of the total cryptocurrency market. The platform then compares this TVR Estimated Value to the coin's actual market price. If the TVR Estimated Value is higher than the current price, the coin is categorized as potentially undervalued. If it is lower, potentially overvalued.
TVR rankings will often look very different from typical market cap ranking sites, and that is by design. Market cap rankings show which coins the market currently values most. TVR's default rankings offer an alternative perspective, in which the valuation formula highlights discrepancies between a coin's fundamentals and its current market price. A coin with a high TVR Score may not rank first if the market is already pricing it near its estimated value, while a coin with a moderate score can rank highly if the market is significantly underpricing its fundamentals. The default configuration is a starting point. Premium users can adjust every weight and score to produce rankings that reflect their own research and priorities.
The three valuation categories
The TVR Estimated Value is higher than the current market price. The market may be underpricing the coin's fundamentals.
The TVR Estimated Value is close to the current market price. The market appears to be pricing the coin roughly in line with its fundamental strength.
The TVR Estimated Value is lower than the current market price. The market may be overpricing the coin relative to its fundamentals.
True Value Rankings is a cryptocurrency research and scoring platform. All scores, estimated values, and valuation categories are model-derived outputs for informational and educational purposes only. This is not financial advice. Full disclaimer.