Moderate usage, weak structure, and no strong moat evidence
| Grade | Verdict | Score | Rank | Price | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | Speculative | Yellow | 48.8 / 100 | #37 | $0.0849 | $32.9M |
C | Speculative means: A small, deliberate position in our model, sized so a total loss would be survivable; often zero.
Data as of Nov 2, 2026 — scores are re-evaluated daily. This page refreshes automatically from the published record.
Veranta (AVNT) is a decentralized finance project built on Base that provides an onchain venue for trading crypto assets and real-world asset markets. Its stated scope includes perpetual contracts linked to foreign exchange, commodities, indices, equities, and cryptocurrencies. The project is designed to bring leveraged derivatives and institutional-style trading products into a permissionless DeFi environment, where users can access these markets through smart-contract-based infrastructure rather than traditional intermediaries. Veranta also describes Upside Perps, a trading primitive in which fees are paid only when a position is profitable. Through this model, the project presents a different approach to perpetual trading economics while extending leveraged exposure to tokenized or otherwise represented real-world assets onchain. Veranta is associated with the Base ecosystem and is categorized across DeFi, derivatives, perpetuals, and Base-native projects. AVNT is the project’s stated symbol.
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