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Ethereum
ETHUNCALIBRATED — awaiting v4 re-assessment
Monetary Fitness
5.86
/ 10
System Soundness
6.56
/ 10
Layer A — Monetary Fitness 5.86
A1Acceptability & Liquidity
9/10
Assessed 2026-09-14 · Tier 2 evidence · source ↗
A2Value Stability
5/10
Assessed 2026-09-14 · Tier 2 evidence · source ↗
A3Usability & Safety
4/10
Assessed 2026-09-14 · Tier 1 evidence · source ↗
A4Portability & Divisibility
5/10
Assessed 2026-09-14 · Tier 2 evidence · source ↗
A6Recognizability
7/10
Assessed 2026-09-14 · Tier 1 evidence · source ↗
A7Cost Efficiency & Capacity
7/10
Assessed 2026-09-14 · Tier 2 evidence · source ↗
Layer B — System Soundness 6.56
B1Supply Integrity
8/10
Assessed 2026-09-14 · Tier 2 evidence · source ↗
B2Settlement Assurance
UNCALIBRATED
8/10
B3Resilience, Liveness & Capacity
7/10
Assessed 2026-09-14 · Tier 3 evidence · source ↗
B4No Single Point of Control
4/10
Assessed 2026-09-14 · Tier 3 evidence · source ↗
B5Rule Auditability
8/10
Assessed 2026-09-14 · Tier 1 evidence · source ↗
B6Forward Security Margin
UNCALIBRATED
4/10
Evidence:
Miners / Stakers Revenue ↗
B7No Invisible Rent
4/10
Assessed 2026-09-14 · Tier 2 evidence · source ↗
B8Capture-Resistant Rule-Change
7/10
Assessed 2026-09-14 · Tier 1 evidence · source ↗
B9Resource Proportionality
UNCALIBRATED
9/10
B10Claim Enforceability
N/A
Layer C — Disclosures
Disclosed without scoring. These axes describe design choices, not quality.
Privacy Posture
Transparent
Identity Model
Pseudonymous
Issuance Ethic
Rule-bound elastic
Consensus Cost
Proof-of-Stake
Governance Model
Off-chain / foundation
Autonomy Accountability
Moderate autonomy
Jurisdictional Posture
No issuing entity and no jurisdiction of issue: there is no party on whom process can be served to freeze, reverse or reissue a holder balance. Real exposure runs to the holder's own custodian, exchange or fiat ramp, not to an issuer.
Catastrophic Failure Modes
Irrecoverable key loss. Consensus-client monoculture bug causing finality failure or a chain split. Correlated mass slashing of the validator set. Quantum key recovery (B6 = 4). Holders of tokens ON Ethereum additionally inherit every failure mode of those tokens' issuers.