Index

We'd reach for Index when the question is 'what do people who actually use this protocol think?' — not 'what is its market cap.' Those are different jobs, and CoinGecko and DeFi Llama answer the second one faster than anything reputation-based can. Index answers the first, and it does so with a mechanism that's more than a gimmick: stake, weight by standing, decay by inactivity. That decay is the part worth understanding before you trust a score. Reputation Weight V2 applies time-weighted decay, so an account that reviewed heavily in 2024 and vanished contributes less today than an active reviewer with a thinner track record. For buyers of this kind of signal, that's the right default — crypto moves fast and stale conviction is worse than no conviction. Where it bites is coverage. Reputation systems have a cold-start problem, and Index isn't exempt. Established names across Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, and Optimism tend to have enough contributors to produce a meaningful score. Long-tail tokens may not. Check the contributor count on a project page before you weight the rating heavily. The wallet-connect layer is a practical plus for portfolio risk analysis — if your holdings already live in MetaMask or WalletConnect, the friction is near zero. If they don't, you're setting up a wallet before you can do much of anything, which is a real barrier for anyone outside the crypto-native audience. Pick Index if you contribute as well as consume. The reward mechanism means your reviews have a path to earning, and the system rewards people who stick around. Pass if you want a one-stop aggregator with instant numbers on every asset, or if the projects you care about are too small to have attracted reviewers yet. Closest alternative: DeFi Llama for protocol-level data,