How the Clever Score Works: 30 Factors, 5 Pillars, Zero Black Box
Every crypto rating site asks you to trust a number. We'd rather show you the machine.
The Clever Score grades 1,000 real cryptocurrencies from 0–100 — no stablecoins, no wrapped tokens, no tokenized funds dressed up as coins. Every score is built from 30 factors across five pillars, refreshed every ~4 hours, using data from Santiment, Dune Analytics, DefiLlama, CryptoQuant, GitHub, and CoinGecko.
The five pillars
Tokenomics & Value Accrual — Is the supply working for you or against you? Dilution risk, unlock schedules, inflation, real staking yield, and where price sits versus on-chain cost basis (MVRV).
On-Chain Health — Is anyone actually using this network? Active addresses, fee revenue, TVL, and developer activity — the fundamentals that survive market cycles.
Technical Momentum — Trend alignment, volatility state, RSI, volume flow, plus our proprietary Weekly Momentum Rank: every coin's risk-adjusted momentum ranked against all 1,000 we cover.
Market & Capital Flow — Where money is rotating: relative strength versus Bitcoin and sector peers, volume money-flow, and whale movement ($100k+ on-chain transfers).
Liquidity & Risk — Can you exit safely? Liquidity quality, wash-trading filters, elite exchange listings, and holder concentration.
The honesty rules
Three things make our score different. First: if a factor doesn't apply to a coin — Bitcoin has no TVL, a payment coin earns no DeFi fees — we exclude it from the math instead of penalizing the coin. Second: coins with thin data get pulled toward neutral, so nothing posts an extreme score off a handful of data points. Third: on July 2, 2026 we locked the methodology. The factors and thresholds are frozen — any future change gets a new, clearly labeled version. Your score history means something because the ruler never changes.
Does it work? We tested it.
Before locking v1.0, we recomputed historical scores across three years of data — 6,013 coin-month observations from 2023 to 2026. High-scoring coins went on to beat Bitcoin 40–50% of the time over the following 90 days, versus roughly 31% for low scorers — and the typical low-scoring coin lost double digits. Full methodology, caveats included, is published here.
No rating quotas. No black box. Every coin, every factor, every day.
See any coin's full scorecard free → app.clevercrypto.com — Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana are open to everyone, no signup required.
