Methodology
How the survival score works
The Coingraph survival score runs from 0 to 100, where higher is healthier. It starts at 100 and deducts points for price decline, volume decay, market cap erosion and time spent below the peak. It is a rating derived from public market data — an opinion, not a statement of fact about any project.
What goes into it
Price decline
50 of 100How far below the all-time high the price sits today.
The single clearest measure of value destroyed. It carries the most weight because it is the least ambiguous.
Volume decay
25 of 100Recent 14-day average trading volume against the busiest sustained 14-day stretch in the window.
Trading volume is the pulse. A coin nobody trades is a coin nobody wants — and comparing an average to another average avoids letting one spike day look like a collapse.
Market cap erosion
15 of 100Current market capitalisation against its highest sustained level in the window.
Price alone can mislead when supply changes. Market cap accounts for both.
Time below peak
10 of 100Days elapsed since the all-time high, scaled over three years.
Three years underwater is a different situation from three months, even at the same drawdown.
Recent rebound
credit, up to +8Market cap up more than 25% over the last 30 days.
A coin that is genuinely moving again earns points back, however far it once fell.
When a factor has too little data to judge, it is excluded and the remaining weights are rebased. Missing data must never read as collapse — a coin CoinGecko barely indexes is not the same as a coin that fell.
What the bands mean
| Score | Rating | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| 50–100 | Active | Trading and holding up better than most of the market. |
| 35–49 | Weakening | Still trading, but the trend across our inputs is negative. |
| 15–34 | Distressed | Multiple inputs deeply negative. Recovery would take a large move. |
| 0–14 | Dormant | Little trading activity and no sign of recovery in the data we track. |
These thresholds are calibrated to crypto rather than to an abstract scale. Drawdown from the all-time high carries half the weight, and almost every crypto asset trades far below its peak — so scores cluster lower than they would in another asset class. Bands set against the raw range would rate the largest and most liquid assets as weakening and leave the healthiest band permanently empty, which describes the scale rather than the coins. A rating is relative to the population it rates.
What it cannot know
- It reads market data only. A funded team rebuilding quietly and an abandoned project can look identical for months.
- Reported volume can be inflated by the venues reporting it. We are working on weighting by exchange trust; today the score takes volume at face value.
- History is limited to the window our data plan covers, so a peak outside that window is taken from CoinGecko’s recorded all-time high rather than observed directly.
- Coins below a $100.0K market cap are excluded. Exchange coverage gets too thin below that for us to stand behind a number.
- It describes the past and the present. It does not forecast, and a low score is not a prediction that a coin will not recover.
Think a rating is wrong?
Ratings are computed from public data and update continuously — a coin whose volume and market cap recover will see its score rise without anyone intervening. If you believe an input is factually wrong, tell us what and why, and we will check the source and correct it.
Coingraph is for information only and is not investment advice. Ratings are opinions formed from the public market data described above, not statements of fact about any project, team or asset. Market data is provided by CoinGecko.