Community: Adoption & Engagement
Measuring user adoption, ecosystem growth, and network effects
What is Community?
Community is the C of STRICT. It asks who uses, builds and holds the asset, and how durable that base is. The rating weighs measured adoption such as active users and transactions, the ecosystem of applications and developers, and engagement.
How the Community number is set
For every coin, the research step records a Community rating from 0 to 10 in the coin's input set, with a written rationale and the pages it cites. A report prints that rating times 10, on the 0 to 100 scale. The engine multiplies it by the Community weight of the coin's sector profile and adds the other rated pillars the same way. It divides that sum by the weights in use and rounds to a whole number: the result is the STRICT score.
A pillar without a rating is left out of both the sum and the weights in use, so the other pillars carry the score. It is never scored as zero.
Community weight in each sector profile
The engine reads one weight table for every coin. Across its 9 sector profiles, the Community weight runs from 0.10 to 0.26. The six weights of each profile add up to 1.00.
| Profile and sectors | Sectors (coins) | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Monetary | Store of Value (3) | 0.24 |
| Network protocol | Smart Contract Platform (30), Layer 1 (34), Layer 2 (25) | 0.18 |
| Financial protocol | DeFi (142), Exchange (20), Launchpad (5) | 0.10 |
| Technical infrastructure | Infrastructure (97), AI (94), DePIN (17), Privacy (20), Identity (7), Wallet (5), Social (7), IoT (3), Telecom (2) | 0.14 |
| Payments and RWA | RWA (91), Payments (20) | 0.12 |
| Adoption-led | Meme (61), Gaming (55), Entertainment (6), NFT (10), Sports (5) | 0.26 |
| Stable asset | Stablecoin (108) | 0.12 |
| Derivative | Wrapped Token (32), Liquid Staking (37) | 0.12 |
| Balanced | Any sector without its own profile, including Other (34) | 0.13 |
Key Evaluation Factors
User Adoption Metrics
Active usage demonstrates real demand and value creation beyond speculation.
- Daily active users and unique addresses
- Transaction volume and frequency
- Growth in new wallet addresses over time
Ecosystem Development
A thriving ecosystem of applications and services creates sustainable value.
- Number and quality of applications built on the protocol
- Active developers building in the ecosystem
- Strategic partnerships and integrations
Community Engagement
Engaged communities provide feedback, evangelize, and support the project's growth.
- Social media following and engagement rates
- Community events, hackathons, and meetups
- User retention and churn rates
Where the evidence comes from
The input set of every coin must give each rated pillar a written rationale and at least one source address. A report never lists a page of this site as a source, and neither does the count below.
352 of the 935 input sets on file cite a third-party page for Community. The sites they cite most often:
- coingecko.com: 199 citations
- defillama.com: 46 citations
- github.com: 30 citations
- twitter.com: 25 citations
- x.com: 20 citations
Worked example: Bitcoin
Bitcoin is in the monetary profile, where Community weighs 0.24. Its Community rating is 90, so this pillar adds 90 × 0.24 = 21.60 to the weighted sum. The weighted mean of all its rated pillars rounds to its published STRICT score of 92.
The rationale recorded in its input set of 15 Oct 2026:
Bitcoin combines a deep open-source developer and node-operator base with broad global ownership. Regulated US spot ETPs gained in-kind creation and redemption approval in July 2025.
Sources it cites
The rarity bands apply to the final STRICT score, never to one pillar on its own. They are published in full here: Rarity bands
- Legendary90-100
- Epic80-89
- Rare70-79
- Uncommon60-69
- Common0-59
Engine v5.2.0. Every figure on this page is read from the engine and the coin registry when the page is built. Latest analysis in the registry: 22 Oct 2026.
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