The score, by dimension
- the same for all 9
- #9 of 9 · best 13.4
- the same for all 9
- the same for all 9
- the same for all 9
Tick: the best in this ranking · Methodology v2026.11.1
Degen Chain
Arbitrum Orbit L3 on Base
Historical#9 of all 9 worldwide43
- Rank
- #9 of all 9 worldwide
- Your cost
- Not priced on this basis
- Evidence
- High4 of 4 criteria sourced
- Licence
- No MiCA record on file
- Freshness
- Read September 2026checked · re-read due
Historical verdict. The record carries a sunset date of 31 August 2026. The score is what the methodology produced from the evidence read at the time; it is kept so the ranking history stays auditable, not as a recommendation.
The verdict
Degen Chain is #9 of 9 published appchains / L3s; it scores 0/10 on settlement security inherited, where the category best is 8. Its widest gap is liquidity on arrival: 0/10, where Ronin scores 5. Choose Ronin if liquidity on arrival matters most.
Is Degen Chain right for you?
Look elsewhere if
- Security inherited from settlement layer0/10 here; Ronin scores 1
- Permissionless exit without the operator0/10 here; Ronin scores 3
- Operators running the chain today0/10 here; Ronin scores 3
- Measured liquidity on arrival0/10 here; Ronin scores 5
Not yet tested for your country. Markets it lists: Global.
to test where you can use it.
The rank above is the published one, the same for every reader. Find my best appchain or L3 shows where it lands for you.
What will Degen Chain cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Usage per month
- 10
How safe is Degen Chain?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read September 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Entity: not verified. No hand-confirmed record on file ties Degen Chain to the company that runs it, so this page cannot say which other products that company operates. Read the legal entity in its terms before you deposit. How we read the evidence
Open the evidenceIf it doesn’t fit, choose
Compare all 4- 6RoninIf liquidity on arrival matters most: 517 points above · stronger on liquidity on arrival (5 against 0)60
- 7Immutable zkEVMIf liquidity on arrival matters most: 514 points above · stronger on liquidity on arrival (5 against 0)57
- 8EclipseIf operator set today matters most: 28 points above · stronger on operator set today (2 against 0)51
Provider at a glance
- Category
- Appchains / L3s
- Entity
- Not verified
- Official website
- bridge.degen.tips
Independent rankingchecked How it works
Details
Scored 43 out of 100 under methodology 2026.11.1, from the evidence read in September 2026.
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Why this rank
Why Degen Chain ranks #9
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (0.0 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
350+0.001.08#9/9
Third party
Third party · read 2026-09-28250+0.003.05#9/9
Third party
Third party · read 2026-09-28200+0.003.07#9/9
Third party
Third party · read 2026-09-28200+0.002.08#9/9
Third party
Third party · read 2026-09-28Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−8behind Eclipse, #8 of all 9 worldwide, on the published score
RobustnessNot scored on criteriait stopped operating on 2026-08-31, so its criterion scores are zeroed in the score and no move is computed
Evidence4 of 4 scored4 quoted, 4 with a source link
Strengths
0 from the score dataWhere it leads
No scored criterion is at or within one point of the category best, so no strength can be stated from the data.
Tradeoffs
4 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- Security inherited from settlement layer — 0/10 against a category best of 8/10
- Permissionless exit without the operator — 0/10 against a category best of 5/10
- Operators running the chain today — 0/10 against a category best of 7/10
- Measured liquidity on arrival — 0/10 against a category best of 8/10
Record watch-outs
- The chain is closed, yet on 2026-09-28 1,913,926,174.77 DEGEN was still locked in its bridge on Base. Assertions 16362 to 16364 sit past their deadlines unconfirmed, so withdrawals made after the 2026-09-02 state cannot finalise, and a one-of-one Safe still holds the power to fast-confirm state. and "How long do withdrawals take?". What is genuinely missing is any fee or gas documentation. Note also that the chain's public RPC at rpc.degen.tips returned "Monthly app usage limit exceeded" to every request on 2026-08-07 and Cloudflare "error code: 1016" on 2026-09-28, when explorer.degen.tips served "default backend - 404", so a user cannot reach the chain through its advertised endpoints.
Competitive position
How Degen Chain places on each criterion
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.
Against the leader
78 vs 43 · gap 35.0Why Abstract ranks above Degen Chain
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 35.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisAbstractGap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight0.013.4−34.8, 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 criterionThisAbstractPoints
Security inherited from settlement layer · w3508−8.96, worse
Permissionless exit without the operator · w2504−3.20, worse
Operators running the chain today · w2004−2.56, worse
Measured liquidity on arrival · w2005−3.20, worse
Net4378−35.0
Your scenario
Degen Chain is not priced for this scenario
Metered usage beyond whatever the plan includes, for a year. Excludes egress, support tiers and enterprise minimums. Change an input and every figure recomputes from the published rate; the published rank does not move.
your cost/yr · default scenario — set your own
Usage per month · your input10
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 28 September 2026.
your cost/yrCost is stated as your cost/yr 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 · USDTypical costNot statedFewer than 5 priced rows: no typical cost is named · 0 of 9 rows priced
Lowest fee, priced rowsNone pricedDifference not stated · availability not applied — set your country to filter
9 of 9 rows in this ranking have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the typical, not counted as free.
Evidence
Evidence read 28 September 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.RobustnessNot scored on criteriano re-run describes this row
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 10 November 2026; this category's reading is older. The scores stand as read on 28 September 2026.
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
Security inherited from settlement layerstrength 0 · weight 35Report an errorThird-party page28 September 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.Permissionless exit without the operatorstrength 0 · weight 25Report an errorThird-party page28 September 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.Operators running the chain todaystrength 0 · weight 20Report an errorThird-party page28 September 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.Measured liquidity on arrivalstrength 0 · weight 20Report an errorThird-party page28 September 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
- Verification failure: an invalid state or transfer is accepted.Scored by Security inherited from settlement layer · 35% (Degen Chain 0/10)Scored by Operators running the chain today · 20% (Degen Chain 0/10)
- Liveness failure (Degen Chain 0/10): the operator stops, censors you or loses data.Scored by Permissionless exit without the operator · 25%
Not assessed by this ranking: Contract failure, Control failure, Execution failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means. Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Measured liquidity on arrival (20%).
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- Degen Chain has shut down, so there is no fee to publish. L2BEAT's page for it reads "This project is archived and no longer maintained." and "Degen Chain is sunsetting on August 31, 2026." (l2beat.com/scaling/projects/degen, fetched 28 September 2026). Read on Base on 2026-09-28: the chain's SequencerInbox 0x6216dD1EE27C5aCEC7427052d3eCDc98E2bc2221 has not moved past batchCount() 46,756 since Base block 51,348,947 (15 September 2026), the public RPC rpc.degen.tips returns a Cloudflare 1016 error and explorer.degen.tips no longer serves an explorer. degen.tips now describes the token, not the chain: "The most popular meme token on base", with the chain appearing only as history, "Launched the Degen Chain, expanding utility beyond a meme" (fetched 28 September 2026). Value still bridged in: the Bridge 0xEfEf4558802bF373Ce3307189C79a9cAb0a4Cb9C on Base holds 1,913,926,174.77 DEGEN at Base block 51,897,590.Degen Chain — official pricing page ↗ · 28 September 2026
- Prices published in
- USDDegen Chain — official pricing page ↗ · 28 September 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- Not published
- Supported chains
- Degen Chain, Base, Ethereum
- 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
- 28 September 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.11.1Score 43, #9 of 9. 4 of 4 criteria scored. History starts here; earlier values are not interpolated.
- 15 October 2026
2026.10.10The live-data rule names the researched market measurements a criterion reads- changed The live-data rule names a second kind of figure a score reads: a researched, dated market measurement a criterion's ladder is built on, read again on the 45-day review. /methodology/live-data lists the 14 criteria that read one; no score, rank or order changes.
- changed A saved decision is checked again on the answers the reader saved. The drift check had merged a priority suggested by the market (price swings, gas) into those answers, so a market reading could move a saved decision's #1; the published ranking never read it.
- added On every build a test reads every criterion's published ladder: one that names a market quantity or a market-data source must be declared, and every scored row of a declared criterion must carry the source and the date its figure was read.
- 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
2026.10.6A 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 2026.11.1, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt appchains_l3s:degen_chain:2026.11.1:97026bcdaac1
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