A score of 100 would represent a project that consistently delivers on its public commitments, publishes verifiable financials, has transparent governance, treats its community honestly, and submits its technology to independent scrutiny. BlockDAG's score is 4 / 100.

Promise-keeping
64 tracked, 59 broken — 92.3% failure rate
3 / 25
Governance transparency
No audited financials, no board roster, hidden founder for 2+ years
0 / 20
Financial accountability
Public claim $442M; walk-back ~$200M; on-chain <$100M; $32M launch liquidity
1 / 20
Technical honesty
Whitepaper reproduces Kaspa material without citation; no public benchmarks
0 / 15
Community treatment
Critical posts deleted; support tickets unanswered 90+ days; AMAs scripted
0 / 10
External recognition
Default notices from 3 sponsors; FCA history of prior founder company
0 / 10
Composite
4 / 100

How to read this

The component scores are not equally weighted; we weight them by how reliably they predict outcomes for retail buyers. Promise-keeping carries the most weight (25%) because it is the most directly observable. Governance transparency (20%) and financial accountability (20%) carry the next most weight because in our experience they are the strongest leading indicators when promise-keeping is borderline. The full weighting rationale is in our methodology.

What would move the score

Restoring staking. Shipping the miners. Naming a Big-4 auditor and publishing audited financials. Acknowledging the $442M / on-chain gap with a primary document. None of these has happened.