EOS and Cardano Top Weiss Ratings but Investment Scores Still Very Low

Weiss has released its full list of cryptocurrency ratings to the public, free of charge for one week only. This service is usually only available to paying customers.

The company rated 93 Cryptocurrencies . Only 14 achieved an overall score of B- or higher, and of those with a market capitalisation of $5 billion or more, only 7. None received an A rating.

The coins with the highest scores are those offered by EOS and Cardano, with both getting Bs. EOS is an Ethereum-esque project owned by a company based in the Cayman Islands, and Cardano is a Blockchain which describes itself as being "developed from a scientific philosophy".

The lowest scores (of those with a market capitalisation of minimum $100 million) were Bitcoin Gold (D), Electroneum (E+) and ReddCoin (D+).

Bitcoin Gold is a mining-focused fork of Bitcoin, Reddcoin was once endorsed by Jon McAfee, and Electroneum is a cryptocurrency designed to be mined and used via a mobile phone.

Weiss has published three scores for each coin - an overall rating, a rating for 'technology/adoption' and one for 'investment risk/reward'.

Bitcoin, for example, has an overall rating of B-, calculated from a B in technology/adoption and a D+ in investment risk/reward.

Interestingly, none of even the highest-scoring coins have a score higher than C- for the latter category.

Founder Martin Weiss said: "The overall Weiss Rating is based on a complex algorithm — not simply an average of the two component grades. At this stage in the industry’s transition to newer technologies, it remains extremely difficult for any one coin to achieve top scores across the board. Older generation coins with broader adoption typically lag in technology. Alternative coins with more advanced technology lag in adoption. And none currently have a risk-reward balance that’s comparable to many traditional investments."

This is interesting because, in a recent article, the very same Weiss argued that cryptocurrencies are actually more trustworthy than banks at this point, as the current American government works to repeal the Dodd-Frank laws that were designed to prevent the financial crime endemic at financial institutions. Given this trend, he argued that a widespread switch to cryptocurrency is an inevitability.