Abey ranks #91 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #543: 452 of the 542 assets ahead of it are not native coins but tokens or claims. A token is issued on a host blockchain rather than running its own; a claim stands for an asset already counted. Of the 546 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 59% are tokens, 33% are claims on other assets and 8% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — launch under review |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #91 |
| Rank counting claims | #543 |
| Market capitalisation | $40M |
| Price | $0.0378 |
| Circulating supply | 1,049,094,912 ABEY |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Hybrid |
| Consensus mechanism | DPoS/PBFT + PoW oversight |
| Own hashrate | — |
| Ledger type | Multi-asset ledger |
Market figures from the 28 October 2026 build. Open the live view for every exchange's price, and charts.
Grade pending. Abey's launch — how much went to insiders, whether it was sold to investors — is still being researched. A grade is not given until it is, so that a coin is never rated higher for what is not yet known.
| Criterion | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Leading Consensus Mechanisms (Source) | 4.5 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 4.5 | Hybrid: 4.5 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 4.5 | Hybrid: 4.5 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 5.1 | group average, 8 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 6 | 2.4 of 4 points, 2 not yet measured source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 3.9 | no fixed maximum; 1.05 billion in circulation: supply scale 7.7, cap 0 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✗ | 4 full years since its first recorded price, no halt, freeze or reversal in five years |
| Fungibility: every unit interchangeable, none the protocol can freeze or set apart | – | |
| Divisibility: the smallest unit worth a cent or less | ✓ | 18 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $3.8e-20 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✓ | typical fee $0.000013; about 152 transactions a second (5.4 on the throughput scale; 5 is the busiest networks' median demand) |
| Verifiability: open-source nodes and checking without a trusted server | – | node software open source |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 2 | 1 of 5 passed source |
| Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity | ✓ | Any secp256k1 key can hold and send ABEY; the chain's account and transfer rules carry no identity check. |
| UTXO ledger: a new key for each payment, no account linking every coin | ✗ | |
| Network-level privacy: the node hides where a transaction came from (Dandelion++, Tor or I2P, on by default) | ✗ | go-ethereum-style p2p gossip with no Dandelion relay or built-in Tor. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | EVM balances and transfers are public. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Accounts are public; no privacy feature. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 7.5 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.000013 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 5.4 | about 152 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 2.5 | a block every 5 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 9.8 | 0.235 MB limit (converted from its gas, compute, mass or count limit), 28.2 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 10 | 1 of 1 passed, 2 not yet researched |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✓ | A PBFT committee commits five-second blocks with immediate finality. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | – | Pruning is not documented for go-abey. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | – | The go-abey tree contains les/light packages, but nothing shows a working trustless light client on mainnet. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | — | 3 of 4 points, 5 not yet measured source |
| Miners paid a day ($1,000 0, $10 million or more 10), 2 points | – | |
| Its own hashrate: at least half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined | – | |
| Largest pool or validator under 50% | – | |
| Largest three under 75% | – | |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 1 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | Gabey, the only node (a TrueChain fork), is developed by the Abey Foundation. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✓ | about 3,434 a day |
| No 51% attack or deep reorganisation in five years | ✓ | |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 7.8 | 7 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance at protocol level, validated by its own nodes | 2 | EVM-compatible chain (go-abey, a go-ethereum fork) on which any account can deploy ERC-20-style token contracts. |
| Smart contracts: a general-purpose contract system | 2 | EVM (go-abey, a go-ethereum-derived client with the Ethereum vm package) on which any account can deploy contracts. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | Multisig and time-lock contracts on its EVM. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | Solidity HTLCs can be deployed on its EVM. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | No exchange module in the protocol. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | Interoperability is claimed, but no protocol-verified cross-chain messaging mechanism is documented. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✓ | ERC-721 contracts run by its EVM. |
| Decentralisation | 4.4 | section average, 4 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | — | Not yet researched |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: Gabey, the only node (a TrueChain fork), is developed by the Abey Foundation. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 7.1 | Hybrid: 7.1 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | — | Not yet counted |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 0.5 | 94.9% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. DefaultGenesisBlock in core/genesis.go allocates 1,000,000,000 ABEY at genesis (990,000,000 to 0xEc1F80E553Bf43229EBA70d254E09DD188D604f2 plus 1,000,000 to each of 10 initial committee addresses); 1.0B / ~1.054B circulating today = ~94.9%. Recipients are not publicly named; the ABEY Foundation (Vaduz, Liechtenstein) controls the project. source |
| Fundraising | — | Launch not yet researched |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. The reward code (consensus/minerva/consensus.go) pays PoW block and fruit miners and the PoS committee/stakers; no developer or foundation output was found (a developerCoin variable survives only in a commented-out log line). Since the TIP9 upgrade (fast block 8,742,700) only committee (staking) rewards are paid, starting at 119.8368 ABEY per block halving every 25,000,000 blocks. source |
| Supply & Demand | 5.3 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 2.9 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 1 | 1 exchange |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 0.1 | $10,673 traded in 24 hours; #2563 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $11,513) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 0 | 0.03% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 2.5 | $2,182 within 2% of the price on 1 exchange, 0.01% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 4 | $40M, 4 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | 10 | no futures, options or margin on the exchanges read |
| Supply (smaller is better) | 7.7 | no fixed maximum; 1.05 billion in circulation |
| Record | 4.7 | group average |
| Record (origin, claims, halts) | 10 | 3 positive, 0 negative source |
| Positive record | ||
| Launched with a stated purpose, not as a joke | ✓ | |
| No claims by its founders that contradict its own design | ✓ | |
| No halt, freeze or reversal in five years | ✓ | |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 4 | 4 full years since 2021-12-30, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 0 | 0 positive, 4 negative source |
| Negative | ||
| Steady work, 0 of 6 | ✗ | 0 commits in 0 of the last 12 months (github.com/abeychain/go-abey); go-abey v3.3.0, released 2023-12-12; last commit on main April 2023; no release in 24 months. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2023-09-06, −1 | ✗ | go-ethereum GHSA-ppjg-v974-84cm (CVE-2023-40591, High) lets a flood of p2p pings spawn unbounded goroutines until the node runs out of memory; go-abey v3.3.0 (geth-1.8-era fork with backports) still answers pings in a new goroutine (fixed in 1.12.1). |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2026-01-13, −1 | ✗ | go-ethereum GHSA-mr7q-c9w9-wh4h (CVE-2026-22862, High) lets a crafted p2p message crash the node with a too-short ECIES ciphertext; go-abey v3.3.0 (geth-1.8-era fork with backports) lacks the 1.16.8 length check. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2026-02-17, −1 | ✗ | go-ethereum GHSA-2gjw-fg97-vg3r (CVE-2026-26314, High) lets a crafted p2p message crash the node through unchecked secp256k1 point coordinates; go-abey v3.3.0 (geth-1.8-era fork with backports) lacks the 1.16.9 coordinate check. |
Twenty criteria, weighted equally. The Cryptocurrency Standards have six sections: sound money qualities (six checks: scarcity, durability, fungibility, divisibility, portability, verifiability), privacy (five checks), scalability (four measures and three features), security (miner pay and seven checks), programmability (token issuance, smart contracts and five checks) and decentralisation (censorship resistance, no central team, who can mint, nodes, holders, premine, fundraising and developer share). Provisional: criteria marked — are not yet measured and are left out of the average. A rating of structure and market depth, not a price forecast or investment advice. How the grade is built · Highest-graded cryptocurrencies.
1,049,094,912 ABEY are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 94.9% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
DefaultGenesisBlock in core/genesis.go allocates 1,000,000,000 ABEY at genesis (990,000,000 to 0xEc1F80E553Bf43229EBA70d254E09DD188D604f2 plus 1,000,000 to each of 10 initial committee addresses); 1.0B / ~1.054B circulating today = ~94.9%. Recipients are not publicly named; the ABEY Foundation (Vaduz, Liechtenstein) controls the project.
Not established: no ICO, presale or investor round found in the repository, press releases or aggregators.
No documented public or private sale was found. ABEY first traded on the ZBX exchange in 2020 at about US$0.61 per the Foundation's 2021 press release, but how the genesis supply reached the market is undocumented.
The reward code (consensus/minerva/consensus.go) pays PoW block and fruit miners and the PoS committee/stakers; no developer or foundation output was found (a developerCoin variable survives only in a commented-out log line). Since the TIP9 upgrade (fast block 8,742,700) only committee (staking) rewards are paid, starting at 119.8368 ABEY per block halving every 25,000,000 blocks.
go-abey is a fork of TrueChain (Minerva PoW 'snail chain' + TBFT committee). The genesis balance address held only ~0.005 ABEY on 2026-10-26, so the 990M has been moved on. After TIP9 the PoW chain earns no reward, so 'PoW oversight' is nominal; consensus is effectively DPoS/BFT.
Sources: github.com · github.com · github.com · newsfilecorp.com · coinmarketcap.com · github.com. Researched 2026-10-26, medium confidence.
No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for Abey.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
The regulator's position, reported as stated, not CoinSpectrum's. Assets nobody has ruled on are left unclassified rather than sorted by a guess.
Abey is #91 among cryptocurrencies and #543 in the market ranking, which lists wrapped coins, staked derivatives, stablecoins and tokens alongside them. CoinSpectrum counts an asset once, and counts only cryptocurrencies: assets with their own blockchain and their own consensus. A wrapped coin, a staked derivative or a stablecoin is a claim on something already counted; a token, memecoin or otherwise, runs on another chain's blocks. All of them are listed, each in its own section, and none is added to the total. The 452 places between Abey's two ranks are held by claims and tokens, not by other networks. The methodology sets out the rule and the counting rule argues for it.
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