Provider at a glance
- Category
- Seed Phrase Backup
- Entity
- Not verified
- Official website
- cryptotag.io
Independent rankingchecked How it works
Details
Scored 64 out of 100 under methodology 2026.10.18, from the evidence read in August 2026.
CRYPTOTAG Zeus
Titanium seed backup plates
Seed Phrase Backup
#5 Overall
Ranked #5 of 7 seed phrase backup in the published ranking
64
ChainChoice Score
The ChainChoice Score, shown against 100: published scores run from 41 to 99.- High evidence confidence
Is CRYPTOTAG Zeus right for you?
Right for you if these matter most
- Whether someone neutral actually destroyed one9/10, the category best
Look elsewhere if these come first
- Where the fire number comes from3/10 here; Coldbit Steel scores 6
- What you can store and recover4/10 here; Coldbit Steel scores 9
- Whether the real landed price is on the page3/10 here; Hodlr Shield — Stealth Titanium Heart 24 scores 10
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What will CRYPTOTAG Zeus cost you?
Not priced on this basis
How this is calculatedHow safe is CRYPTOTAG Zeus?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read August 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Alternatives to CRYPTOTAG Zeus
Compare all 4- 3Coldbit Steel7 points above · stronger on recovery format and readback (9 against 4)71
- 4Hodlr Shield — Stealth Titanium Heart 242 points above · stronger on landed price transparency (10 against 3)66
- 6Keystone Tablet Plus14 points below · stronger on landed price transparency (8 against 3)50
For your setup
Find out if CRYPTOTAG Zeus fits you
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Why this rank
Why CRYPTOTAG Zeus ranks #5
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (17.1 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest. Best in this ranking on 1 of 4.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
359+10.088.09#1/7Loading evidence…
243+2.303.010#4/7Loading evidence…
234+2.946.09#5/7Loading evidence…
183+1.736.010#7/7Loading evidence…
Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−2behind Hodlr Shield — Stealth Titanium Heart 24, #4
RobustnessOne point from changingacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 62–66 and ranks #4–#5
Evidence4 of 4 scored4 quoted, 4 with a source link
What would move the rank
Each line is the ranking run again with one of CRYPTOTAG Zeus’s criterion scores changed and every other value held: the smallest whole-point change on that criterion that moves its rank, and where the re-run puts it. Up to 4 climbs and 3 falls are listed, smallest change first. Nothing here is a forecast.
Whether someone neutral actually destroyed one 9 → 10 on its ladder · passes Hodlr Shield — Stealth Titanium Heart 24+166#5 → #4
Where the fire number comes from 3 → 5 on its ladder · passes Hodlr Shield — Stealth Titanium Heart 24+266#5 → #4
What you can store and recover 4 → 6 on its ladder · passes Hodlr Shield — Stealth Titanium Heart 24+266#5 → #4
Whether the real landed price is on the page 3 → 5 on its ladder · passes Hodlr Shield — Stealth Titanium Heart 24+266#5 → #4
Whether someone neutral actually destroyed one 9 → 2 on its ladder · Keystone Tablet Plus passes it−748#5 → #6
Smallest climb: whether someone neutral actually destroyed one 9 → 10 passes Hodlr Shield — Stealth Titanium Heart 24, #4.
Strengths
1 from the score dataWhere it leads
Best for readers who weight
- Whether someone neutral actually destroyed one — 9/10, the category best
Tradeoffs
3 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- Where the fire number comes from — 3/10 against a category best of 10/10
- What you can store and recover — 4/10 against a category best of 9/10
- Whether the real landed price is on the page — 3/10 against a category best of 10/10
Record watch-outs
- Zeus is a number backup, not a word backup. If you die, whoever finds the plates sees 24 numbers and needs to know they are BIP39 indices and to find the exact 2048-word list to decode them - and Lopp's acid test faded the very template that tells you which column is which, against a treatise that asks for a "Template for decoding data inscribed onto the device".
Competitive position
Where CRYPTOTAG Zeus leads and where it trails
Rank on every objective dimension among the rows scored on it. A criterion in the top third of its pool is listed as a lead, the bottom third as a trail; the middle is neither. Popularity, size and commercial terms are not dimensions.
Availability#1 / 714.0 of 20 · pool best
Published criteria#5 / 712.8 of 30 · best 19.5
Friction#1 / 72.7 of 10 · constant here
Trust record#1 / 73.2 of 8 · constant here
Measured data#1 / 78.3 of 18 · constant here
Where CRYPTOTAG Zeus leads
- Whether someone neutral actually destroyed one#1 / 7
Where it trails
- What you can store and recover#5 / 7
- Whether the real landed price is on the page#7 / 7
Closest alternatives
The 3 nearest rows by score
Nearest by published score in either direction. Each card states the criteria on which the two rows differ and the cost difference under the same scenario inputs; the compare arithmetic below shows why the higher one ranks higher.
Hodlr Shield — Stealth Titanium Heart 24#4 of 7 · score 66 · 2.0 points ahead
CRYPTOTAG Zeus leads on
- Whether someone neutral actually destroyed one9 vs 5
Hodlr Shield — Stealth Titanium Heart 24 leads on
- What you can store and recover6 vs 4
- Whether the real landed price is on the page10 vs 3
Largest single reason Hodlr Shield — Stealth Titanium Heart 24 is ahead: published criteria (+2.1 display points).Scenario cost: Hodlr Shield — Stealth Titanium Heart 24 has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Coldbit Steel#3 of 7 · score 71 · 7.0 points ahead
CRYPTOTAG Zeus leads on
- Whether someone neutral actually destroyed one9 vs 8
Coldbit Steel leads on
- Where the fire number comes from6 vs 3
- What you can store and recover9 vs 4
- Whether the real landed price is on the page6 vs 3
Largest single reason Coldbit Steel is ahead: published criteria (+12.7 display points).Scenario cost: Coldbit Steel has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Keystone Tablet Plus#6 of 7 · score 50 · 14.0 points behind
CRYPTOTAG Zeus leads on
- Whether someone neutral actually destroyed one9 vs 2
- Where the fire number comes from3 vs 1
- What you can store and recover4 vs 3
Keystone Tablet Plus leads on
- Whether the real landed price is on the page8 vs 3
Largest single reason CRYPTOTAG Zeus is ahead: published criteria (+14.0 display points).Scenario cost: Keystone Tablet Plus has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Against the leader
81 vs 64 · gap 17.0Why BitBox Steelwallet ranks above CRYPTOTAG Zeus
The compare workspace's arithmetic applied to these two rows. Each dimension's share of the gap is its weight × the difference, on the displayed scale — it reproduces the displayed gap of 17.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisBitBox SteelwalletGap share
Availability · 23% weight14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight12.819.5−17.4, worse
Friction · 12% weight · constant here2.72.7same
Trust record · 9% weight · constant here3.23.2same
Measured data · 21% weight · constant here8.38.3same
Published criterionThisBitBox SteelwalletPoints
Whether someone neutral actually destroyed one · w3598+1.12, better
Where the fire number comes from · w2439−4.61, worse
What you can store and recover · w2346−1.47, worse
Whether the real landed price is on the page · w18310−4.03, worse
Net6481−17.0
Your scenario
CRYPTOTAG Zeus is not priced for this scenario
The published device price, paid once. Excludes shipping, duty and any replacement. Change an input and every figure recomputes from the published rate; the published rank does not move.
price, once · default scenario — set your own
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 27 September 2026.
price, onceCost is stated as price, once in USD; it is never a yield, never annualised, and it does not enter the score.
Not priced on this basis
Under the default inputs · USDCategory medianNot priced0 of 7 rows priced
Cheapest pricedNone pricedDifference not stated · availability not applied — set your country to filter
7 of 7 rows in this ranking have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the median, not counted as free.
Evidence
Evidence read 6 August 2026
One row per published criterion: the page each strength was read from, its source type by domain, the reading date and whether the file and the published table agree. Open a row for the quote and the receipt.
4 of 4 cells scored
Score evidenceVerified4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from receipts
4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from a quoted, sourced receipt equal to the published strength.Public receiptsReading…4 quoted with a source URL
The receipt file has not been read yet.Evidence confidenceHighcoverage and corroboration, never freshness
4/4 criteria scored, with 4 dated sources quoted.RobustnessOne point from changingrank #4 to #5 across one-point re-runs
Whether the position holds when one criterion score is changed by one point and the ranking is run again. It is always a re-run of the ranking, never an estimate.The newest evidence read on the platform is 3 November 2026; this category's reading is older. The scores stand as read on 6 August 2026.
Reading the evidence ledger…
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
Whether someone neutral actually destroyed onestrength 9 · weight 35Report an error—6 August 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Where the fire number comes fromstrength 3 · weight 24Report an error—6 August 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.What you can store and recoverstrength 4 · weight 23Report an error—6 August 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Whether the real landed price is on the pagestrength 3 · weight 18Report an error—6 August 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
- Key failure: your own keys are made, shown or recovered unsafely.Scored by Whether someone neutral actually destroyed one · 35% (CRYPTOTAG Zeus 9/10)Scored by What you can store and recover · 23% (CRYPTOTAG Zeus 4/10)
- Information failure (CRYPTOTAG Zeus 3/10): the number is wrong or bought, or your data leaks.Scored by Where the fire number comes from · 24%
Every failure family that applies to this category is scored. Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Whether the real landed price is on the page (18%).
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- Not readable on 2026-10-28: Not re-read: the price exists only in the Shopify Storefront API response the product page requests at runtime with a token taken from the site's script; that call was not repeated on 28 October 2026. The product page (HTTP 200) still serves no price in its HTML. The note keeps its 27 September 2026 read. Last readable on 2026-09-27: No price appears anywhere in the served HTML of the product page (fetched 27 September 2026) - verified by looking: there is no Open Graph price tag, the single JSON-LD Product block carries name, description and aggregateRating but no offers object, and the only occurrences of the digits '149' in the file are inside an image filename hash. The page renders x-text="formatPrice(price)" and calls x-init="getProduct(handles)" for handle 'cryptotag-zeus-starter-kit'. Reproduced on 27 September 2026 by issuing the site's own Storefront query with the public tokens published in cryptotag.io/js/main.js: the EU shop (cryptotag-b-v.myshopify.com) returned {"title":"Zeus","handle":"cryptotag-zeus-starter-kit","availableForSale":true,"variants":{"edges":[{"node":{"title":"Default Title","availableForSale":true,"priceV2":{"amount":"149.0","currencyCode":"EUR"},"compareAtPriceV2":null}}]}}, the US shop (cryptotag-usd.myshopify.com) the same record with "priceV2":{"amount":"149.0","currencyCode":"USD"}, and the UK shop (cryptotag-gbp.myshopify.com) "priceV2":{"amount":"129.0","currencyCode":"GBP"}; the EU and US amounts are unchanged since 6 August 2026. Normalised to one unit on 2026-09-27: 149.00 in EUR, on a tax basis the page's own script sets per shop as "incl. VAT" for the EU and UK shops and "excl. taxes and duties" for the US shop. Single-unit shipping is not on the product page, which says only "Free shipping on orders with 2 or more products"; the vendor's delivery page (cryptotag.io/delivery-times-and-costs/, fetched 27 September 2026) states "Standard shipping costs are 15,00 Euro" and "If you buy two products or more, shipping is free!", which corrects the August note's statement that no single-unit shipping figure was published anywhere.CRYPTOTAG Zeus — official pricing page ↗ · 27 September 2026
- Prices published in
- USDCRYPTOTAG Zeus — official pricing page ↗ · 27 September 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- Not published
- Supported chains
- Multi-chain
- Markets served
- global
- Primary markets
- Not published
- Restricted markets
- Not published
- Operating limits
- Not published
- Availability note
- Not published
No confirmed legal entity is on file for this record. Nothing is inferred from the brand name.
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How this page is reviewed
Reviewed means this product in this category was read against its sources on or after that date; every ranked category is re-read at least every 45 days. Models research, extract and parse. A deterministic engine ranks. Every quote passes an adversarial refute pass.
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History
What the record carries
Changes to published ranks are recorded in a ledger; every step and its cause is listed on the rank-history page. The entries below begin with the current verified snapshot, then the methodology versions whose changes applied to this category, newest first.
9 methodology entries
- 6 August 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.10.18Score 64, #5 of 7. 4 of 4 criteria scored. History starts here; earlier values are not interpolated.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.8When nothing serves your country, the list shown for reference is the published ranking · platform-wide- fixed The reference list shown when nothing serves your country is the published order with the published scores, and a build check now fails any such list out of that order or with a score the ranking does not publish.
- fixed The explorer prints an overall rank only for a row the published ranking holds; a country entrant such as Coinbase Commerce for US merchants shows no overall rank.
- changed Published orders do not move. Country results change only where nothing serves the country: in India bill pay keeps Bitcoin Well first and now shows Strike second, as published; 35 such runs across all categories and countries now match the published list exactly.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.7Forty-one more products are offered only where their own quoted terms serve- fixed 141 country exclusions on 31 rows, each the name of a country the row's own quoted terms exclude: for example Mercuryo Hungary, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Chile, Colombia and Morocco; Gemini Custody the United Kingdom, Australia and the EU after its wind-down; Backed xStocks the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, Nigeria, the Philippines and Venezuela.
- changed Thirteen rows list the only countries their terms serve: Coins.ph the Philippines, Spritz bill pay, Brex, Unchained, WisdomTree, Franklin BENJI and AnchorWatch the United States (with its territories for AnchorWatch), PRYPCO Mint the UAE, N26 crypto seven EU countries, Gemini Tokenized Stocks the EU, XNET the US, Canada and the UK, Coldbit Steel and MetaMask Card the countries they list.
- changed Published (no-country) orders do not move. Country results change: in India six categories each lose one row (bill pay, cards, off-ramps, P2P, seed backup, tokenised real estate), and bill pay there has no row confirmed available, so it shows the published order marked as such; country pages list 23 fewer rows (24,357 to 24,334). The grounding test now matches full country names in any case, which shows seven earlier exclusions were quoted all along: the named debt of unquoted exclusions falls from 40 to 33 pairs.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.6A criterion you require re-scores the rows that meet it · platform-wide- changed The explorer sends each criterion you require, at any band, as fit_required with your other answers; region, licence, chain and fact filters stay filters. On /best, a required criterion joins For you as a marked preference does, which needs your country; Overall stays the published ranking, filtered.
- added Every published criterion has a golden case as the explorer sends it (require:<criterion>), so the order a requirement gives is replayed and gated as the published order is, and a change to it needs an entry here.
Methodology 2026.10.18, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt seed_backup:cryptotag_zeus:2026.10.18:3d71ac7925aa
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