General Guidelines
What does it take to be a successful Prime Rater?
Contextual Understanding
Understand the products and the market
Try to use the protocols yourself, and gain experience from exploring and comparing them.
Familiarize yourself with Web3 concepts.
Stay up-to-date on the latest developments.
Get familiar with Prime Rating and don't be afraid to ask questions!
Refer to the Workflow for each section.
Don't miss out on our list of additional learning resources!
Researching
Understand the right metrics for the right use cases.
Apply critical thinking and be aware of your biases (we encourage raters to only evaluate projects they are not personally invested in)
Try to compare as best as you can, i.e. do not look at a protocol in isolation (this is an interactive and interconnected ecosystem)
If possible, try to establish contact with the respective protocols and ask them questions
Use data. Whenever possible use hard facts (e.g. on-chain data)
Check out our Rating Resources Page for frequently used references and sources!
Tip: Many protocols have documentation on Medium. It can be helpful to start with small blog posts that give high level overviews of a protocol of interest!
Writing
Condensing and translating relevant information
Be upright and honest!
We rate what exists today, we do not rate what could be in the future (roadmaps are good and can flow into the scores, but what counts is what is existing today)
Always link your sources
Avoid copy & pasting. We encourage raters to do their own research and synthesize their thoughts over bluntly copying from the protocols website
Don’t hesitate to ask for feedback on your reports, either via the
#🔎│report-feedbackchannel or directly from Prime stewards and/or other raters
Look at some of our top quality reports: Aave, The Graph Protocol, Index Cooperative (INDEX), Curve CRV
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