The score, by dimension
- the same for all 7
- #7 of 7 · best 11.4
- the same for all 7
- the same for all 7
- the same for all 7
Tick: the best in this ranking · Methodology v2026.11.1
Harmony
Sharded EVM chain
Historical#7 of all 7 worldwide47
- Rank
- #7 of all 7 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 10 September 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
Harmony is #7 of 7 published sidechains; it scores 1/10 on bridge custody control, where the category best is 5. Its widest gap is failure and halt record: 0/10, where Chiliz Chain scores 5. Choose Chiliz Chain if failure and halt record matters most.
Is Harmony right for you?
Look elsewhere if
- Bridge custody control1/10 here; Chiliz Chain scores 3
- Validator set concentration1/10 here; BNB Smart Chain scores 4
- Documented failure and halt record0/10 here; Chiliz Chain scores 5
- Finality and reorg behaviour1/10 here; BNB Smart Chain scores 8
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The rank above is the published one, the same for every reader. Find my best sidechain shows where it lands for you.
What will Harmony cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Usage per month
- 10
How safe is Harmony?
- 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 Harmony 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- 4BNB Smart ChainIf finality and reorg behaviour matters most: 822 points above · stronger on finality and reorg behaviour (8 against 1)69
- 5Chiliz ChainIf failure and halt record matters most: 519 points above · stronger on failure and halt record (5 against 0)66
- 6CronosIf finality and reorg behaviour matters most: 514 points above · stronger on finality and reorg behaviour (5 against 1)61
Provider at a glance
- Category
- Sidechains
- Entity
- Not verified
- Official website
- docs.harmony.one
Independent rankingchecked How it works
Details
Scored 47 out of 100 under methodology 2026.11.1, from the evidence read in September 2026.
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The rank above is the published one — the same for every visitor. Answer the category's questions and this section shows where Harmony lands for you, which criteria your answers weight up, and which stated needs the record does or does not meet. The published rank stays beside it.
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Why this rank
Why Harmony ranks #7
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (2.4 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
351+1.123.05#7/7
Third party
Third party · read 2026-09-28251+0.803.04#6/7
Third party
Third party · read 2026-09-28250+0.004.05#7/7
Third party
Third party · read 2026-09-28151+0.485.08#6/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-09-28Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−14behind Cronos, #6 of all 7 worldwide, on the published score
RobustnessNot scored on criteriait stopped operating on 2026-09-10, 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
- Bridge custody control — 1/10 against a category best of 5/10
- Validator set concentration — 1/10 against a category best of 4/10
- Documented failure and halt record — 0/10 against a category best of 5/10
- Finality and reorg behaviour — 1/10 against a category best of 8/10
Record watch-outs
- https://www.harmony.one/ returns HTTP 200 but serves a 415-byte single-page app titled "1.country" — an unrelated Harmony side product — and harmony.one redirects to it. The chain itself has produced no block since shard 0 stopped at 93,624,315 on 10 September 2026, after a 6 September Harmony proposal to end the chain and reissue ONE on Ethereum; docs.harmony.one still answers and carries no shutdown notice. Separately, DefiLlama measured $9,397 of Harmony chain TVL on 2026-09-28, yet the Horizon escrow on Ethereum still held about 94.8 ETH and $41,900 of stablecoins that day, and the wallet that releases it lists its two owners on chain and needs only 1 of their 2 signatures.
Competitive position
How Harmony 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
77 vs 47 · gap 30.0Why Gnosis Chain ranks above Harmony
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 30.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisGnosis ChainGap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight0.011.4−29.6, 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 criterionThisGnosis ChainPoints
Bridge custody control · w3515−4.48, worse
Validator set concentration · w2514−2.40, worse
Documented failure and halt record · w2505−4.00, worse
Finality and reorg behaviour · w1515−1.92, worse
Net4777−30.0
Your scenario
Harmony 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 7 rows priced
Lowest fee, priced rowsNone 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 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
Bridge custody controlstrength 1 · weight 35Report an errorThird-party page28 September 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.Validator set concentrationstrength 1 · weight 25Report an errorThird-party page28 September 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.Documented failure and halt recordstrength 0 · weight 25Report an errorThird-party page28 September 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.Finality and reorg behaviourstrength 1 · weight 15Report an errorProvider's own 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 Validator set concentration · 25% (Harmony 1/10)Scored by Finality and reorg behaviour · 15% (Harmony 1/10)
- Liveness failure (Harmony 0/10): the operator stops, censors you or loses data.Scored by Documented failure and halt record · 25%
- Custody failure (Harmony 1/10): whoever holds the assets loses or withholds them.Scored by Bridge custody control · 35%
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.
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- "The gas price can be as low as 0.0000001 ONE (or 100 Gwei as in Ether)" and "transactions in Harmony network cost around $0.00003 gas fee" (docs.harmony.one transactions page, fetched 28 September 2026). The page is unchanged, but the chain it prices stopped producing blocks on 2026-09-10: Harmony's official endpoint api.harmony.one still returned shard 0 head 93,624,315, timestamped 14:41:43 UTC on 10 September, on 28 September 2026, so no transaction can be included at any price. The frozen node still answers eth_gasPrice with 100 gwei, which as a worked example is 21,000 x 100 gwei = 0.0021 ONE, the documented figure.Harmony — official pricing page ↗ · 28 September 2026
- Prices published in
- USDHarmony — official pricing page ↗ · 28 September 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- Not published
- Supported chains
- Harmony Mainnet Shard 0, 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.
8 methodology entries
- 28 September 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.11.1Score 47, #7 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
2026.10.6A 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.
- 16 September 2026
2026.09.15Dimension 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.
Methodology 2026.11.1, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt sidechains:harmony:2026.11.1:8afdd4286d1c
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