I didn't know that and it is also impossible to verify whether they are independent or not. We all know how the three big ratings agencies did their job right before the financial crisis

They claimed to be independent, but obviously they weren't.
All the ratings are sooo biased... if you just delve into the info about the project and shape your own opinion, and then go to check all these rates assigned by the "independent" experts, you'll that it's all not worth looking at
I would not trust these shitty ratings either... for instance, Mark Space have 4.1 on ICOBench, but they're scammers, and everyone knows that. So which on earth "expert" ratings are we talking about
At least Ico Bench have quite a right rate for Filecoin, so it's not as hopeless as I thought
Filecoin? Oh, I'm starting to smell a rat

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