How to Evaluate a Blockchain Development Company's Portfolio
A portfolio page is the easiest thing on a vendor's website to fake and the most commonly misread by buyers. Logos get borrowed, "case studies" describe demos that never shipped, and the same three projects get dressed up a dozen ways. Learning to read a portfolio properly — to see past the presentation to the actual evidence of capability — is one of the highest-leverage skills in vendor selection. Here's how. Start with a simple question: is this shipped, or is this a demo? The most important distinction in any portfolio is between systems that reached production and handled real value, and projects that stopped at a prototype. Vendors blur this deliberately. Look for concrete signals of production: real users, mainnet deployment, transaction volume, live contract addresses, a named client who'll talk. Be skeptical of anything described purely in aspirational terms ("a platform that will revolutionize…") with no evidence it actually launched. A p...