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Degen Chain

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#9 overall across 9 scored appchains / l3s. 38 points behind #1 Abstract. Scored 41 on the published 41–99 scale under methodology 2026.09.15, from the evidence read in August 2026.

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Historical verdict. The record carries a sunset date of 31 Aug 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.

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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 (3.4 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

1+1.122.08#6/9Third party

2+1.603.05#6/9Third party

1+0.643.07#9/9Third party

0+0.002.08#9/9Third party

Hairline = pool best · tick = pool median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero

Margin−9behind Eclipse, #8

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

Where it leads

1 from the score data

Record says best for

Permissionless exit without the operator — 2/10
Security inherited from settlement layer — 1/10

Tradeoffs

Where it trails

4 from the score data

Record watch-outs

A one-of-one Safe confirms state roots about ten minutes after they are proposed and the bridge honours it; four consecutive assertions were confirmed this way. Corrected during verification: the draft said Degen has no published bridge guide or exit instructions, which is not true — bridge.degen.tips is live and carries an FAQ including "How do I withdraw $DEGEN from Degen chain?" 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, so a user cannot reach the chain through its advertised endpoint today.

Competitive position

Where Degen Chain 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 / 914.0 of 20 · pool best

Published criteria#9 / 90.0 of 30 · best 14.5

Friction#1 / 92.7 of 10 · pool best

Trust record#1 / 93.2 of 8 · pool best

Measured data#1 / 98.3 of 18 · pool best

Where Degen Chain leadsNo criterion in the top third of its pool.

Where it trails

Operators running the chain today#9 / 9
Measured liquidity on arrival#9 / 9

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.

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Eclipse#8 of 9 · score 50 · 9.0 points ahead

Degen Chain leads on

Permissionless exit without the operator2 vs 1

Eclipse leads on

Operators running the chain today2 vs 1
Measured liquidity on arrival2 vs 0

Largest single reason Eclipse is ahead: published criteria (+8.8 display points).Scenario cost: Eclipse has no verified pricing for this scenario.

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Immutable zkEVM#7 of 9 · score 55 · 14.0 points ahead

Degen Chain leads on

Permissionless exit without the operator2 vs 1

Immutable zkEVM leads on

Operators running the chain today3 vs 1
Measured liquidity on arrival5 vs 0

Largest single reason Immutable zkEVM is ahead: published criteria (+13.8 display points).Scenario cost: Immutable zkEVM has no verified pricing for this scenario.

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Ronin#6 of 9 · score 57 · 16.0 points ahead

Degen Chain leads on

Permissionless exit without the operator2 vs 1

Ronin leads on

Operators running the chain today5 vs 1
Measured liquidity on arrival5 vs 0

Largest single reason Ronin is ahead: published criteria (+16.1 display points).Scenario cost: Ronin has no verified pricing for this scenario.

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Against the leader

Why Abstract ranks above Degen Chain

79 vs 41 · gap 38.0

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 38.0 to within rounding.

DimensionThisAbstractGap share

Availability · 23% weight14.014.00

Published criteria · 35% weight0.014.5−37.7

Friction · 12% weight2.72.70

Trust record · 9% weight3.23.20

Measured data · 21% weight8.38.30

Published criterionThisAbstractPoints

Security inherited from settlement layer · w3518−7.84

Permissionless exit without the operator · w2525−2.40

Operators running the chain today · w2014−1.92

Measured liquidity on arrival · w2006−3.84

Net4179−38.0

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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

Usage per month · your input10

Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 11 Aug 2026.

your cost/yr

Pricing not verified

Under the default inputs · USD

Category medianNot priced0 of 9 rows priced

Cheapest pricedNone pricedDifference not stated · availability not applied — set your country to filter

Cost is stated as your cost/yr in USD; it is never a yield, never annualised, and it does not enter the score.

9 of 9 rows in the pool have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the median, not counted as free.

Evidence

Evidence read 7 Aug 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

Public receiptsAvailable4 quoted with a source URL

Evidence confidenceHighcoverage and corroboration, never freshness

Rank stabilityHoldsone point moves 2.2 display points

Coverage100%4 of 4 criteria scored

Freshness52 days agonewest read 7 Aug 2026 · current

Primary-source share0%0 of 4 sourced cells

Conflicts0file and table agree

The newest evidence read on the platform is 5 Sept 2026; this category's reading is older. The scores stand as read on 7 Aug 2026.

CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt

Security inherited from settlement layerstrength 1 · weight 35Report an errorl2beat.comThird-party page7 Aug 2026*CurrentVerified

Permissionless exit without the operatorstrength 2 · weight 25Report an errorl2beat.comThird-party page7 Aug 2026CurrentVerified

Operators running the chain todaystrength 1 · weight 20Report an errorl2beat.comThird-party page7 Aug 2026CurrentVerified

Measured liquidity on arrivalstrength 0 · weight 20Report an errorapi.llama.fiThird-party page7 Aug 2026*CurrentVerified

* category-wide reading date; the cell carries none of its own.

Facts

What the record publishes

facts, not scores

Pricing: Degen publishes no fee or gas documentation. Corrected during verification: docs.degen.tips does not resolve (NXDOMAIN, checked 2026-08-07), and the documentation link L2Beat lists for Degen, docs.syndicate.io/docs/core/get-started/introduction, returns HTTP 200 but does not contain the word Degen anywhere. 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 2026-08-07). Normalised from the explorer: explorer.degen.tips reported gas_prices slow, average and fast all 106.51 gwei in DEGEN on 2026-08-07, so a 21,000-gas transfer costs 21000 x 106.51e-9 = 0.0022367 DEGEN, and at the DEGEN price of $0.001263 returned by coins.llama.fi that is $0.0000028. Bridge.nativeToken() on Base resolves to 0x4ed4e862860bed51a9570b96d89af5e1b0efefed, symbol() DEGENDegen Chain — official pricing page ↗ · 11 Aug 2026
Prices published in: USDDegen Chain — official pricing page ↗ · 11 Aug 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.

History

What the record carries

Changes to published ranks and scores are recorded in a ledger, but this page does not chart that record yet, so no score line is drawn: history begins with the current verified snapshot. Below it, the methodology versions whose changes applied to this category, newest first.

6 methodology entries

7 Aug 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.09.15Score 41, #9 of 9. 4 of 4 criteria scored. History starts here; earlier values are not interpolated.
16 Sept 2026
2026.09.15
Dimension scores carry tenths, and eleven more categories are re-read from primary sources · platform-wide
- changed Dimension scores resolve to tenths of a point (O-04b), and weightedTotal is rounded to six decimal places before the order is read. 518 published scores move across 107 categories that were not re-read; none of them moves by more than 4 points, and most move by 1.
- fixed 66 published scores change in the eleven re-read categories, against a verbatim source each. The largest moves are Reflexer RAI (−16), Beefy and Unrekt (−11), Aztec (−10) and Golem (+9) — all of them rows whose sources had moved since their last read.
- changed Published order moves in 38 of 119 categories and three #1s change: smart_contract_audits (Zellic → Certora) and travel_rule_compliance (Sumsub Travel Rule → CodeVASP) on the finer resolution, kyc_compliance (Veriff → Sumsub) on the re-read.
- added availabilitySource (O-04g): for a reader who states a country, a row whose availability in that country rests on a region tag its record gives no source for sorts below every sourced row. It is inert in every order published here, which states no country.
10 Sept 2026
2026.09.5
The published review cadence is now one the work actually keeps · platform-wide
- changed reviewCadenceDays 30 → 45 across all 119 category specs, and the two prose sites that quoted "the 30-day review cadence" in tokenised_bonds.
- changed check-review-cadence-is-kept ceiling 7 → 3, negative-tested: restoring a single 30-day promise over 49-day evidence takes it to 4 and fails the build.
- fixed Measured by regenerating rankings.json: no category changed order and no score moved, and the golden suite confirms it independently — across all 119 fixtures and 2,217 cases the only fields that differ are methodologyVersion and contentHash. A cadence is a claim about freshness, not an input to any ranking.
2 Sept 2026
2026.09.2
Twenty points that ordered nothing leave the total · platform-wide
- removed profileFit removed from the weighting. The published composite is now availability 20, objectiveFit 30, frictionFit 10, trustBonus 8 and quantitative 18 — 86 points, down from 106.
- fixed A stated priority for support raised profileFit, routing a visitor's answer into a dimension that could not move a result. It now raises frictionFit, where getting started and getting help are scored.
- changed Measured effect: 15 of 114 categories reordered and 3 changed leader (institutional_custody, payment_gateway, business_banking). Every one of the 36 swapped pairs sits within 0.02 points of 86 of its partner — products that were numerically tied before and after.
- changed The sensitivity analysis and the per-dimension breakdown no longer offer profileFit as a lever, since re-weighting a term that carries no weight cannot change an outcome. The breakdown still shows the number, labelled "shown, not scored".

Full methodology changelog

Methodology

How this verdict was produced

Methodology version: 2026.09.15 · last platform-wide change 16 Sept 2026
Data snapshot: Evidence read 7 Aug 2026
Last recalculated: At page build from the published inputs — the same run every visitor sees.
Published run: runWizardEngine(appchains_l3s, defaults) · no visitor answers
Receipt id: appchains_l3s:degen_chain:2026.09.15:aaa71be189e7

What changed in this methodology version?

2026.09.15 · Dimension scores carry tenths, and eleven more categories are re-read from primary sources

Dimension scores resolve to tenths of a point (O-04b), and weightedTotal is rounded to six decimal places before the order is read. 518 published scores move across 107 categories that were not re-read; none of them moves by more than 4 points, and most move by 1.
66 published scores change in the eleven re-read categories, against a verbatim source each. The largest moves are Reflexer RAI (−16), Beefy and Unrekt (−11), Aztec (−10) and Golem (+9) — all of them rows whose sources had moved since their last read.
Published order moves in 38 of 119 categories and three #1s change: smart_contract_audits (Zellic → Certora) and travel_rule_compliance (Sumsub Travel Rule → CodeVASP) on the finer resolution, kyc_compliance (Veriff → Sumsub) on the re-read.

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