Portal

Portal is a legitimate, well-funded Bitcoin DeFi infrastructure project with verified backing from Coinbase Ventures and others (~$12.5M+ confirmed funding). The project addresses a high-utility problem (atomic swaps/bridgeless interoperability) with significant technical innovation. However, the submission itself is of extremely low quality, featuring copy-pasted, hyperbolic claims ('most people have used my product') and missing data. The score reflects the project's high external potential and funding status, heavily penalized by the poor response quality and lack of verifiable user metrics in the submission.