How we rate
Every farm gets one of three labels. Here is what they mean and how we keep the facts straight.
The labels
- Ripe
Picked: we would start today. The We farm it tag marks the ones we farm ourselves.
- Ripening
Still on the vine: we track it and check the facts, but it is below our bar for now, even if we use it ourselves. Every new project starts here.
- Rotten
Gone soft: closing, paused or not worth the effort. Skip it; the project page says why.
The score
Inside each label, a melon slice of 1 to 5 compares a farm with others in its category, never across categories: a perp DEX and a card do different jobs, so each category has its own weights. Six criteria are each scored 1 to 5 against written anchors (a taker fee of 0.02% or less is a 5 for cost on a perp DEX, for example), from the facts and sources on the project page. A criterion we cannot check stays out; we need at least four. Crypto cards and perp DEXs have their own criteria and a scale of 10.
Perps
Scored to 10. Fee, volume and open interest are computed from the numbers; the rest come from written anchors. No score without confirmed rewards, taker fee and volume.
- Rewards 25%
- What you can earn now: points, a token ahead, prizes, rebates.
- Taker fee 20%
- No taker fee is a 10, 0.07% or more is a 1. A venue that earns from the spread tops out at 7.
- Volume 15%
- Average a day: $5M is a 1, $5B is a 10, on a log scale. Volume past ten times open interest does not count.
- Safety 15%
- Time live, audits, onchain settlement, incidents.
- Open interest 10%
- $1M is a 1, $1B is a 10, on a log scale. Harder to farm than volume.
- Ease 10%
- Mobile, one-click trading, markets, bridges needed.
- Access 5%
- KYC, restricted regions, invites, minimums.
Prediction markets
Scored to 10. Fee, volume and open interest are computed from the numbers; the rest come from written anchors. No score without confirmed rewards, taker fee and volume.
- Rewards 20%
- Points, contests, liquidity rewards.
- Taker fee 15%
- The highest taker fee: none is a 10, 4% or more is a 1.
- Volume 15%
- Average a day: $1M is a 1, $1B is a 10, on a log scale. Under $100K a day the whole score stops at 5.
- Safety 15%
- Regulation, resolution rules, time live, incidents.
- Ease 15%
- Mobile, ways to deposit, range of markets.
- Open interest 10%
- $1M is a 1, $1B is a 10, on a log scale.
- Access 10%
- KYC, restricted regions, invites.
Crypto cards
Scored to 10 from the terms themselves. A card holds your spending money, so who holds it counts most. No score without confirmed custody, cashback and FX fee.
- Custody 25%
- Self-custody is a 10, a custodial balance is a 4.
- Cashback 20%
- Base tier: 3% or more is a 10, no cashback is a 1. Paid in the project's own token, a rate counts at three quarters.
- FX and conversion 15%
- Base tier: no fee is a 10, 3% in FX and conversion together is a 1.
- Issuer and record 15%
- Who issues the card, time live, incidents.
- Fees 10%
- No monthly fee is a 10; a fee or a paid physical card lowers it.
- Regions 10%
- Where you can get it, from many regions down to one country or a waitlist.
- Phone pay and card types 5%
- Apple Pay, Google Pay, virtual and physical cards.
Tools
A tool has to cover what you use and stay out of the way.
- Depth 30%
- How many chains and protocols it covers, and how fresh the data is.
- Cost 20%
- Whether the free tier does what a farmer needs.
- Ease 20%
- Mobile, sign-up, alerts or API, a clean interface.
- Trust 15%
- Time live, read-only or custody, incidents.
- Access 10%
- Open, account or wallet needed, region limits.
- Rewards 5%
- Points, bounties or an airdrop for using it.
The label is always our own call from farming it. When our team scores a farm by hand, that number wins over the formula.
The rules
- Facts from official pages
- Every fact comes from the project’s own website, docs, terms or announcements, and each page lists those sources. Anything we cannot confirm stays blank instead of guessed.
- Regions
- We show where a project says it does not serve users, or where it is offered only. This is not legal advice: check the terms before you sign up.
- Campaigns
- We list campaigns that are live on the project’s official page. Ended ones drop off when the site is rebuilt.
- Referrals
- Some exits are referral links. You get the benefit shown and we may earn a share. Labels never depend on referrals or payments.
- Funding scanner
- Funding rates load live from each venue’s public API in your browser. We do not store or edit them.