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The TBB Network Quality Score measures blockchain technology and operating characteristics. It does not use token price, market capitalization, exchange volume, TVL or social popularity to determine rank.
Published category weights: Efficiency 20% · Performance 15% · Reliability 15% · Security & Finality 15% · Cost 10% · Decentralization 10% · Accessibility 5% · Useful Work 10%.
Calibration rule: Observed traffic and throughput capability are separate measurements. A quiet network is not scored as low-capacity merely because recent usage is low. Methodology version changes trigger a clean re-ranking; stability hysteresis applies only within the same methodology version.
Consensus resource efficiency and hardware burden under one uniform category score.
Sourced throughput capability (60%) and standardized full finality (40%). Observed traffic and transaction response are reference telemetry only.
Long-term network reliability evidence. Short-window block cadence is displayed separately as health telemetry and does not overwrite the reliability baseline.
Finalization guarantees, quorum and attack assumptions.
User fees and operating-cost burden. Native fee units are shown where a defensible baseline exists; no unsourced currency conversion is fabricated.
Participant and operator distribution plus concentration.
Hardware, stake and capital barrier to participation.
Whether consensus-linked resources produce externally useful computation.
0.75 point lead · 3 consecutive recalculations
Live scores may move every refresh, but a challenger must sustain at least a 0.75-point lead for 3 consecutive ranking runs before a position changes. This prevents meaningless rank flicker.
N/A lowers confidence, not score to zero
Unsupported metrics are excluded from the category denominator when minimum coverage exists. Missing or stale data lowers the A/B/C Data Confidence grade.
We distinguish dedicated consensus energy from useful compute.
Power comparisons separate dedicated consensus electricity, participant hardware requirements, operating power, external API/compute resources and useful output per unit of resource. A network is never described as “zero energy.” Estimates retain their source and observation date.
Ease of Entry is a separate participation score.
It measures how difficult it is to become a miner, validator, baker, node operator or equivalent participant. It never changes the TBB Network Quality Score and it is not a profitability, yield or investment score.
Uses the same published TBB hardware-barrier baseline so specialized ASICs, multi-server setups and ordinary-device/API models are distinguished consistently.
Reuses the published Accessibility input as one component, not as the whole participation grade.
Classifies no/low/moderate/high/very-high or externally selected capital requirements. Fixed token requirements are only stated when documented.
Rates the operational path from very easy to expert based on node, key, server and consensus responsibilities.
Compares the operator energy burden from near-zero API participation through specialized proof-of-work mining.
Distinguishes permissionless, stake-gated, elected, limited-influence, permissioned and currently capacity-closed operator entry.