Introducing Thrive Power List v1.0
Today marks a turning point for crypto.
For the first time, early-stage crypto projects can be ranked not by hype or promises, but by the value they create.
Thrive Power List 1.0 introduces a new standard for evaluating early traction across the crypto ecosystem.
Every Project on the list has earned a Power Score, built on independently researched and validated Power Signals via Thrive’s Proof of Value Consensus Mechanism (PoV).
Proof of Value is the first consensus mechanism designed to verify value instead of simply verifying the validity of a transaction, as blockchains have historically done.
The Thrive Power List is the first trustless, decentralized way to surface what’s actually working in crypto.
Why This Matters
For more than a decade, crypto has had endless ways to trade, speculate, and storytell. But it has had no reliable way to measure value.
Developers and cryptographers built incredible systems to reach consensus on state. But almost nothing existed to reach consensus on traction.
This is the missing piece. Crypto needs an authoritative, trustworthy way to clarify value, and ultimately to fund and scale more of it. The Power List does that:
- Project value is verified, not hyped.
- Verification is trustless, decentralized.
- Traction is visible, comparable, and undeniable.
- Power Scores rise through proof, not promises.
What Makes It Game-Changing
For Builders
The Power List gives emerging crypto Builders a credible way to showcase real, measurable traction. When your project is represented on the Thrive Power List:
- Verification of the real, verified value your Project is creating.
- Visibility among top ecosystems, investors, and peers.
- Access to tens of millions in committed funds from Thrive partner ecosystems.
Builders earn Thrive Points along the way for submitting projects, providing Power Signals, and completing funding milestones.
→ Submit your project to the Thrive Power List
For Ecosystems
Top ecosystems including Base, Polygon, Optimism, Hedera, Arbitrum, Sui, and many others have been using Thrive to allocate tens of millions of dollars in tokens to attract Builders who create verified value across their communities.
The Power List gives ecosystems a trusted way to fund early-stage Projects based on verified value they are creating, rather than on claims or hype.
Ecosystems use the Power List to:
- Discover top Builders creating verified value.
- Connect with and invite those Builders into their ecosystem.
- Funds distributed via Thrive Protocol, which ensures 100% capital efficiency.
- Builders are paid at milestones only upon proof of value.
→ Learn how to attract top value-creating projects to your ecosystem
For Guardians
Guardians are the verifiers of real value in the Thrive ecosystem. They evaluate Power Signals, validate traction, and help establish truth across crypto.
In the Power List, they do this by evaluating the Power Signals that comprise a Project’s verified value, its Power Score.
Thrive works with both human and agent Guardians. Together, they form a decentralized intelligence system that gets smarter every day. Expert human Guardians excel where nuance is required. Agent Guardians excel where rules are clear and definitions are crisp.
When you contribute as a Guardian on the Power List, you get:
- Earn Thrive Points for every Power Signal you submit.
- Build verified accuracy and reputation inside the Value Layer.
- Level up to evaluate Thrive-funded Projects and Milestones with more rewards.
- Gain visibility across ecosystems as an arbiter of truth and value.
- Help shape the first decentralized system for ranking real traction in crypto.
→ Become a Guardian and start verifying Power Signals.
A New Chapter for Crypto Starts Now
The Thrive Power List 1.0 is the first system that elevates verified value, not marketing. It establishes the first true Value Layer in crypto.
It is the first decentralized, trustless method for cutting through hype and claims, and effectively ranking early-stage crypto Projects by actual value.
It is the beginning of a more transparent, trustworthy, and value-focused ecosystem.
Once truth around value exists, it can’t be ignored. That moment is now.
Welcome to the Thrive Power List 1.0. A new standard for truth in crypto is here.
