Evaluation lens
How we grade firms
The grading lens is closer to market structure analysis than agency review. Position in the request and execution path matters most.
How we grade firms
This page grades crypto infrastructure firms and development agencies that are genuinely strong at infrastructure. We care about who sits in the path of requests, routing, sequencing, private order flow, RPC availability, or block construction.
That means a different lens from generic web3 agency directories: the teams here are judged by how close they sit to execution, data, and network-critical systems.
- Does the firm sit close to transaction routing, data access, sequencing, or validator economics?
- Is the product important to one chain only, or does it generalize across Ethereum, Solana, and adjacent ecosystems?
- How strong is the execution moat: latency, distribution, private flow, node footprint, or workflow lock-in?
- Does the company help serious builders move faster, or does it mostly market surface-level developer tooling?