The team formerly known as L2BEAT has a new scorecard, and this time it’s rating apps. Thursday (November 5), ETHBEAT announcement that the CROPS Guide is live, a curated list of Ethereum protocols that clear its bars for censorship resistance, open source, privacy and security, starting with Uniswap V2, Uniswap V3, Safe and Tornado Cash.
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New name, broader goal: The Guide arrives at the same time as Wednesday’s change brand from L2BEAT to ETHBEAT. The Stages team, data, and framework are unchanged, but coverage now covers privacy, interoperability, staking, DeFi, tokens, and more. L2 coverage isn’t going anywhere, even though ETHBEAT says rollups are “no longer our primary focus.”
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How scoring works: Each protocol is evaluated based on the four CROPS principles that the Ethereum Foundation placed at the heart of its mandate in March. A single “bad” rating disqualifies a project, and the censorship resistance bar includes an exit test: Would users still be able to withdraw their funds even if the developers, website, and all relays disappeared? ETHBEAT clearly states that its security rating is not an audit.
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The first four: According to ETHBEAT Public APITornado Cash is the only entry rated good in all four categories. Uniswap V2, Uniswap V3 and Safe score well out of three, with privacy marked “fully transparent” since none of them claim to offer any.
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Designed to plug in: Each exam is attested on-chain via the Ethereum attestation service, listed protocols can display a CROPS badge, and wallets can pull the full list via the open API. Any live protocol on the mainnet can request a review via the ETHBEAT forum.
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