The score, by dimension
- the same for all 7
- #4 of 7 · best 19.8
- 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
SolvBTC (Solv Protocol)
Bitcoin-denominated reserve token
#4 of all 7 worldwide52
- Rank
- #4 of all 7 worldwidere-runs: scores 50–54 and ranks #4–#5
- Your cost
- Not priced on this basis
- Evidence
- High4 of 4 criteria sourced
- Licence
- No MiCA record on file
- Freshness
- Read November 2026checked · re-read due
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The verdict
SolvBTC (Solv Protocol) is #4 of 7 published wrapped assets; it scores 5/10 on published cost, where the category best is 10. Its widest gap is custody control: 3/10, where Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) scores 4. Choose Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) if custody control matters most.
Is SolvBTC (Solv Protocol) right for you?
Look elsewhere if
- Who can move the bitcoin3/10 here; Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) scores 4
- Who is allowed to redeem4/10 here; the category best is 8
- How tightly the reserve is actually proven3/10 here; Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) scores 9
- Published dated cost5/10 here; the category best is 10
Not yet tested for your country. Markets it lists: Global. Restricted: Netherlands, United States, Canada, Singapore.
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The rank above is the published one, the same for every reader. Find my best wrapped asset shows where it lands for you.
What will SolvBTC (Solv Protocol) cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Your monthly volume
- $1k
How safe is SolvBTC (Solv Protocol)?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read November 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Entity: not verified. No hand-confirmed record on file ties SolvBTC (Solv Protocol) 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
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Compare all 4- 3Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC)If reserve proof matters most: 95 points above · stronger on reserve proof (9 against 3)57
- 5Coinbase Wrapped BTC (cbBTC)If custody control matters most: 41 point below · stronger on custody control (4 against 3)51
- 6Ignition FBTC (Function)If reserve proof matters most: 64 points below · stronger on reserve proof (6 against 3)48
Provider at a glance
- Category
- Wrapped Assets
- Entity
- Not verified
- Official website
- solv.finance
Independent rankingchecked How it works
Details
Scored 52 out of 100 under methodology 2026.11.1, from the evidence read in November 2026.
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Why this rank
Why SolvBTC (Solv Protocol) ranks #4
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (11.6 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
323+3.074.09#5/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-11-10284+3.584.08#2/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-11-10223+2.116.09#6/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-11-10185+2.883.010#3/7
Primary
Provider page · read 2026-11-10Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−5behind Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), #3 of all 7 worldwide, on the published score
RobustnessOne point from changingacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 50–54 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 SolvBTC (Solv Protocol)’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.
Who can move the bitcoin 3 → 6 on its ladder · passes Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC)+358#4 → #3
Who is allowed to redeem 4 → 7 on its ladder · passes Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC)+358#4 → #3
How tightly the reserve is actually proven 3 → 7 on its ladder · passes Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC)+458#4 → #3
Published dated cost 5 → 9 on its ladder · passes Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC)+457#4 → #3
Who can move the bitcoin 3 → 2 on its ladder · Coinbase Wrapped BTC (cbBTC) passes it−150#4 → #5
Who is allowed to redeem 4 → 3 on its ladder · Coinbase Wrapped BTC (cbBTC) passes it−151#4 → #5
How tightly the reserve is actually proven 3 → 1 on its ladder · Coinbase Wrapped BTC (cbBTC) passes it−250#4 → #5
Smallest climb: who can move the bitcoin 3 → 6 passes Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), #3.
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
- Who can move the bitcoin — 3/10 against a category best of 9/10
- Who is allowed to redeem — 4/10 against a category best of 8/10
- How tightly the reserve is actually proven — 3/10 against a category best of 9/10
- Published dated cost — 5/10 against a category best of 10/10
Record watch-outs
- SolvBTC's own documentation disagrees with itself about what backs it — one page says 'Native BTC and BTCB currently form the core reserves, while WBTC, FBTC, cbBTC, BTC.b, and tBTC are classified as innovative reserves', while another describes 'Core Reserve Assets' that 'include native Bitcoin (BTC), Binance's BTCB, and Base's cbBTC' and pairs them with 'Isolated Reserve Assets' rather than innovative ones. Neither page is dated and neither tells a buyer today's actual mix, so the custody risk you are taking is unknowable at purchase.
Competitive position
How SolvBTC (Solv Protocol) 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
81 vs 52 · gap 29.0Why tBTC (Threshold Network) ranks above SolvBTC (Solv Protocol)
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 29.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThistBTC (Threshold Network)Gap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight8.719.8−28.9, 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 criterionThistBTC (Threshold Network)Points
Who can move the bitcoin · w3239−6.14, worse
Who is allowed to redeem · w2848−3.58, worse
How tightly the reserve is actually proven · w2236−2.11, worse
Published dated cost · w18510−2.88, worse
Net5281−29.0
Your scenario
SolvBTC (Solv Protocol) is not priced for this scenario
Transfer fee on your volume for a year. Excludes network gas and any withdrawal fee. 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
Your monthly volume · your input$1k
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 10 November 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 cost and lowest feeNot statedOnly 1 of 7 rows publish a comparable price; a typical cost and a lowest fee need at least 3.
5 of 7 rows in this ranking have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the typical, not counted as free.
1 of 7 quote a zero fee that leaves costs out, so they are absent from the typical and the lowest fee, not counted as free.
Evidence
Evidence read 10 November 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.CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
Who can move the bitcoinstrength 3 · weight 32Report an errorProvider's own page10 November 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.Who is allowed to redeemstrength 4 · weight 28Report an errorProvider's own page10 November 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.How tightly the reserve is actually provenstrength 3 · weight 22Report an errorProvider's own page10 November 2026…
Verified
The published strength matches the evidence cell and a source page is on file.Published dated coststrength 5 · weight 18Report an errorProvider's own page10 November 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
- Custody failure (SolvBTC (Solv Protocol) 3/10): whoever holds the assets loses or withholds them.Scored by Who can move the bitcoin · 32%
- Insolvency failure (SolvBTC (Solv Protocol) 3/10): the firm or issuer that owes you cannot pay.Scored by How tightly the reserve is actually proven · 22%
- Exit failure (SolvBTC (Solv Protocol) 4/10): you cannot get out at par, on time, or with what is yours.Scored by Who is allowed to redeem · 28%
Not assessed by this ranking: Contract failure, Control failure, Verification failure, Regulatory failure, Information 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: Published dated cost (18%).
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- Solv docs, read 10 November 2026 (HTTP 200) in the documentation corpus at docs.solv.finance/llms-full.txt: "**Minting Fees:** A fee applies, varying by the wrapped Bitcoin used, as most are converted back to BTC to maintain the tiered reserve’s integrity." and "**Redemption Fees:** Currently no fees for redeeming SolvBTC, saving you costs." No numeric mint fee is stated for SolvBTC anywhere in that corpus, so a 1 BTC round trip cannot be costed: the mint leg is an unquantified fee. The corpus prints a numeric fee table only for a different product (BTC+), and Solv does not say that table governs SolvBTC.SolvBTC (Solv Protocol) — official pricing page ↗ · 10 November 2026
- Prices published in
- USDSolvBTC (Solv Protocol) — official pricing page ↗ · 10 November 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
- Netherlands, United States, Canada, Singapore
- Operating limits
- Not published
- Availability note
- Solv's Terms of Use (docs.solv.finance/legal/terms-of-use, "Latest Update: July 5, 2024", read by hand in a browser on 10 November 2026): "Due to local laws and regulations, we do not provide any services to users from the following countries or regions, including but not limited to" a list of countries, among them Canada, the Netherlands, Singapore and the United States, which it calls the Prohibited Countries. The list is stated as not exhaustive. A German visitor was shown the normal site with no region notice. A longer region notice, which also named Japan, was served to an automated read on 10 November 2026 and could not be reproduced in a browser from Germany, so Japan is not recorded as excluded. Solv's terms bar automated access to its site (clause 8), so its pages are read by hand only.
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.
10 methodology entries
- 10 November 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.11.1Score 52, #4 of 7. 4 of 4 criteria scored. History starts here; earlier values are not interpolated.
- 10 November 2026
2026.11.1Wrapped assets: the published-cost criterion no longer quotes a dollar price for bitcoin- removed Wrapped assets, published dated cost: the sentence giving the bitcoin price of 6 August 2026 from DefiLlama, and the note on recomputing dollar figures at it, leave the criterion text. The bands (9-10, 5-8, 3-4, 1-2) are unchanged and no score moves.
- 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.
Methodology 2026.11.1, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt wrapped_assets:solvbtc:2026.11.1:4a6ef67abb48
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