I ranked every single major blockchain in crypto by technology, and Internet Computer Protocol came out so far ahead of everything else in terms of what the actual technology can do that everything else is not even worth mentioning afterwards — it's that technically incapable compared to Internet Computer Protocol. In my view, this is the simple truth of crypto boiled down into one single slide, and the only arguments against it are, one, "well, price chart," which I don't believe will last the test of time, and two, "well, who's using it?" I'm using it every day — as evidence, I'm using it every day.
The website CryptoTechCap.com, where I host this chart of the capabilities ranking all these blockchains, is where you can transparently see all of this yourself. This website is hosted directly on the ICP blockchain, which nothing else can do. I made these questions up based on what are valuable things blockchains could do, based on what they are doing and what needs to be done in the world — categories like AI on sovereign compute, full stack on-chain app hosting, cross chain, cryptography, governance, DAO ownership, launch infrastructure, identity verification, cybercrime resistance, performance, and ecosystem.
100 Yes/No Questions for Every Top 100 Blockchain
Now, what's beautiful is that for every single top 100 blockchain there are a hundred yes/no questions. We're not in maybes, or speculating, or "it should do this," or "the roadmap says" — right now, I ask every single major blockchain 100 questions. That means this is a 10,000-cell spreadsheet of zeros and ones, yes and no answers, that I've used to rank all of the technology. And you'll notice Bitcoin is a 10 out of 100, Ethereum 22 out of 100, XRP 6 out of 100 — which is why I'm so critical of it — and Hyperliquid 7 out of 100.
This is what you need to get: the technology in crypto may not matter in the short term. Otherwise ICP would be the number one crypto if things were ranked on technology. Instead, the number one crypto is Bitcoin, and it can barely do anything, with Ethereum right behind it, barely more capable of doing anything. But when you look at what ICP can do, and you see these hundred different things, it has "no" answers to only three of them — two of which are about decentralization, and one that is basically another decentralization question. The rest of it? These are important things that solve huge, real problems in the world, and that I'm actually using right now. In my experience, this is the best tech in the world just to do something simple like host a website on — and I would know about that, having been in internet marketing for 15 years. This is the best tech I've ever seen, by far, to host a website on. It's incredible.
What Market Caps Would Look Like If Technology Mattered
I've come to believe that if market caps were adjusted to where they should be based on the technology, Internet Computer Protocol would have a thousand-x upside and would be valued at about where Bitcoin is right now. Not financial advice — and I hold a bunch of ICP, so of course I think this. But I think this because of all the research I've done based on the technology, not based on people's opinions and hype and speculation, but on what this tech can actually do. If everything were technology-based and adjusted, Bitcoin's market cap would go down about 85%, Ethereum's would go down at least 62%, and you would have cascading market failures all the way down, as all these other coins are fundamentally useless.
The basic strategy in crypto, as I see it, is to constantly barrage you with junk information so that you can't see the simple truth: that the one real thing in crypto is Internet Computer Protocol, and that everything else is basically copies of Ethereum and copies of Bitcoin, barely engineered to do a little bit more than they do. Internet Computer Protocol went down the long, hard route of making massive innovation in the blockchain space. That's the simple truth that everything in crypto is designed to distract you from, and that's the simple truth I try to bring you in everything I make. It's only countered by what I consider totally ignorant arguments like "price chart" — well, a price chart is easy to manipulate by entities in power to do so, in order to keep this secret. And adoption is jumping on ICP: as evidence, I've got five websites on it, governments and enterprises are using it, and the dashboard shows we are up to 196 blocks a second with 50 subnets. It's incredible — you're just massively early.
Full Transparency — Look Up NEAR's AI Answers Yourself
Now, what's beautiful is the transparency. You can go in and look at every single question for every single blockchain — full transparency on how all of these were rated. Man, don't you wish there was full transparency on how things like NEAR Protocol made it into the AI category on CoinGecko? Wouldn't you love to see exactly how that process worked behind the scenes? I sure would. I would love to see who got paid — who potentially got greased or bribed to put that on there — and then talking about NEAR like it can do anything with AI. This will help you cut through the BS, because you can just search the actual answers. Want to see NEAR? Let's look at NEAR's capabilities for AI and sovereign compute: Can smart contracts access an LLM interface provided by the network? No. Can AI memory be stored on chain at scale? No. Does the chain provide native threshold key derivation for private AI? No. Can AI agents access external web data through native calls? No. Can the chain run long-running or heavier compute workloads? No. Can a dapp call an AI interface without using a centralized API key? No. Can AI-generated actions be auditable through on-chain state? No. This is the truth, right here, that I believe they're desperate for you not to find out.
And you can do this research on your own, too. I'll be transparent about how I did this research: I have a $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro subscription, and I told it to look all this stuff up, and it looked all this stuff up — so I've done the hard work for you, and I encourage you to verify it yourself.
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