Defillama’s New Crypto Ratings Put 128 Tokens Under the Lens

Universal Token Ratings Bring Wall Street-Style Grades to Crypto

Over 100 tokens so far have received AAA through CCC grades, according to the announcement shared with Bitcoin.com News. The system is dubbed Universal Token Ratings (UTR) and the two firms explain that ratings are not static. UTR is updated regularly and Defillama and Forgd say “a project’s rating can deteriorate in near real time when its market structure falters, even if its disclosures remain unchanged.”

Looking at the UTR dashboard, the DeFi crypto asset uniswap (UNI) is the top contender with the only AAA rating. Meteora (MET), curve dao (CRV), raydium (RAY), olexchange (O), jito (JTO), ether.fi (ETHFI), dogecoin (DOGE), zama (ZAMA) and pyth network (PYTH) hold AA rankings. The dashboard also shows other performance metrics and market caps. As of Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026, Defillama’s UTR highlights 128 unique assets.

“Defillama’s mission has always been surfacing honest, unbiased data,” Ryan Celaj, Head of Research at Defillama, explained. “Ratings that are calculated from live market data are a natural extension of that mission, and give our users a fast, standardized way to identify projects that deliver.”

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