Methodology

How tenants move upstairs

Tower Map's floor placement isn't a simple price ranking. Each tenant goes through editorial review against market presence, liquidity, culture, ecosystem role, longevity, and data trustworthiness.

Every floor is a signal layer.

Section 01

Who lives upstairs?

The tower asks which projects carry the strongest signal. Higher floors are not investment advice or price prediction. They're an editorial position on how present that tenant currently is in the Solana ecosystem.

Section 02

What we weigh

01

Market Gravity

Cap-weighted presence: how much of the room a tenant takes up.

02

Liquidity Depth

How deep the order books and pools are when the music gets loud.

03

Cultural Signal

Mindshare, narrative, and the way a name circulates in feeds.

04

Ecosystem Relevance

Whether the project is a load-bearing wall or a passing tenant.

05

Longevity

Time on chain, time on lease — staying power matters.

06

Data Quality

How confident we are in what we're showing you tonight.

Section 03

How floors are grouped

Floors gather into six tiers. The numbers in the left margin are editorial anchor points, not a fixed schedule — the live building admits exceptions.

  1. 23

    Penthouse

    The highest-signal layer. Reserved for the strongest ecosystem gravity.

  2. 20–22

    Upper Floors

    Major anchors, deep liquidity, high visibility, and category leaders.

  3. 15–19

    Prime Floors

    Projects with strong culture, active communities, meaningful market presence, or important narrative weight.

  4. 08–14

    Middle Floors

    Active tenants with recognizable signal, but still below the major anchor layer.

  5. 02–07

    Lower Floors

    Smaller, older, niche, or quieter projects that still have a visible place in the ecosystem.

  6. 01

    Lobby

    New arrivals, watchlist projects, early-stage tokens, and tenants still waiting for stronger confirmation.

Section 04

The Tower can move

Tower Map is designed to change over time. A tenant can move upstairs, move downstairs, enter the lobby, become pending, or be archived. Movement reflects changes in signal, liquidity, culture, data quality, and editorial review.

Section 05

Verified-CA Policy

Tower Map doesn't infer contract addresses from a ticker alone. Solana has many tokens with similar names or duplicate tickers, so CAs need careful handling. When an address can't be confirmed, we don't force one — we show "CA pending".

Verified
Address confirmed against an official source. The CA renders with a copy button and a Solscan link.
Pending
Address is unconfirmed. The page shows “CA pending” instead of inventing one. No link.
Disputed
Multiple candidate addresses exist or the canonical mint is contested. The CA stays withheld until the record is clean.
Native
Reserved for SOL itself, where there is no SPL mint in the usual sense. We display the wrapped-SOL mint only because the UI requires a mint-style address.
Section 06

Not a leaderboard. Not financial advice.

Tower Map is an editorial ecosystem map. It is not investment advice, not a price target, not a guarantee, and not a paid ranking board. Floors are a way to visualize signal and culture, not a promise of future performance.

Section 07

The lobby is always open

Every tenant enters through the lobby first. Some stay there; others move upstairs. Tower Map is the map that makes the Solana ecosystem visible, floor by floor.