Aergo ranks #147 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #959: 812 of the 958 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 1199 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 69% are tokens, 23% are claims on other assets and 8% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | C · 60/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #147 |
| Rank counting claims | #959 |
| Market capitalisation | $10M |
| Price | $0.0198 |
| Circulating supply | 489,999,996 AERGO |
| Maximum supply | 500,000,000 AERGO |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | DPoS + Raft (SBP-based) |
| Network purpose | Smart-contract platform |
| Ledger type | Multi-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Presale |
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C — 60 out of 100, provisional (from 18 of 20 criteria, 28 October 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 53 to 64 (C to B).
| Criterion | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Leading Consensus Mechanisms (Source) | 9.1 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 9.1 | Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 9.1 | Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 4.6 | group average, 10 of 12 measured |
| Sound Money Properties (6 checks) (Source) | 9.8 | 3.9 of 4 points, 2 not yet measured source |
| Scarcity (Limited supply · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §6) | 9.1 | fixed maximum supply of 500 million: supply scale 8.2, cap 10 |
| Durability (Sustainability · 1 Store of value) | ✓ | 7 full years since its first recorded price, no halt, freeze or reversal in five years |
| Fungibility (Interchangeability · 3 Unit of account) | ✓ | every unit identical and worth any other |
| Portability (Scalability · 2 Medium of exchange) | – | |
| Divisibility (Flexibility · 3 Unit of account) | ✓ | 18 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $2.0e-20 |
| Verifiability (Authenticity check · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §8) | – | node software open source |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | — | too few measures yet source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | – | not yet measured |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | – | not yet measured |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 0 | a block every 1 second |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | – | not yet measured |
| Features (3 checks) | 0 | 0 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper §11) | ✗ | Blocks every second, but a block becomes final (LIB) only when it is double-confirmed by 2/3+ of the BPs, which with a 5-BP round-robin takes several rounds, roughly 8 s or more; this is an estimate from the spec, not a measured figure. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | – | Not established. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✗ | No light-client protocol; users rely on node RPC. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 3 | 3 of 9 points source |
| Miner pay (A day, $1,000 0 to $10 million 10; 2 points) | 0 | not mined |
| Own hashrate (Half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined) | ✗ | not mined |
| Largest pool (Pool or validator under 50%) | ✓ | 25% |
| Largest three (Under 75% together) | ✗ | 75% |
| Clients (More than one maintained) | ✗ | 1 |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | The single node implementation aergoio/aergo (MIT) is developed by the Aergo team (Blocko / Aergo foundation), which has since rebranded the project as House Party Protocol (HPP) on an Arbitrum Nitro L2. |
| Real use (1,000+ transactions a day) | ✗ | about 0 a day |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Decentralisation | 4.4 | section average, 7 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No freeze, blacklist or sudo key on the public DPoS chain (the enterprise admin contract applies only to private Raft deployments); but all 5 BPs appear to be run from one hosting provider, so a single operator could probably stop the chain. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: The single node implementation aergoio/aergo (MIT) is developed by the Aergo team (Blocko / Aergo foundation), which has since rebranded the project as House Party Protocol (HPP) on an Arbitrum Nitro L2. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 8.6 | Proof of stake: 8.6 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | 2.3 | 5 active validators or block producers (source: Active) |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 0 | 100% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. Fixed 500M supply, all allocated at TGE (Dec 2018); no open mining. Allocation: ecosystem 34.06%, private round 27.14%, team and advisors 25.30%, foundation reserve 9.50%, early supporters 4.00%. A chain with no open minting is 100. source |
| Fundraising | 0 | Sold by its issuer or insiders: 100% of supply was theirs to sell, 31.1% sold so far. Private sale Jul to Nov 2018: 135.72M AERGO at $0.187 for $25.38M (Sequoia, Arrington, FBG, Node, NGC, JD Capital, RockawayX and others). Early supporters: 20M at $0.168 for $3.36M. No public ICO. source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. Aergo has a fixed 500M supply, all allocated at TGE (Dec 2018), and no open issuance. Block-producer and voting rewards come from allocated tokens, not new minting, so nothing is cut. source |
| Privacy | 2 | section average |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 2 | 1 of 5 passed source |
| Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10) | ✓ | Anyone can create keys and receive and send coins; the protocol carries no identity check. |
| UTXO ledger (A new key for each payment · Whitepaper §2, §9) | ✗ | |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | ✗ | Aergo nodes gossip transactions directly; no Dandelion or built-in Tor. |
| Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential) | ✗ | Transfers are public. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | ✗ | Accounts are public. |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 7.8 | 7 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance (At protocol level) | 2 | Lua smart contracts deployable by any account, with the ARC-1 fungible token standard. |
| Smart contracts (General-purpose) | 2 | Lua 5.1 smart contracts deployable by any account on the BFT-dPoS mainnet. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | Multisig and time-lock logic is expressible in Lua contracts that read block height or time. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✓ | Hash- and time-locked Lua contracts can be written. |
| Native exchange (Built into the protocol) | ✗ | No exchange in the protocol. |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | ✗ | The Merkle bridge to Ethereum is Lua and Solidity contracts plus off-chain proposer and validator operators, not a protocol feature. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✓ | ARC2 non-fungible token contracts run by its Lua VM. |
| Supply & Demand | 6.5 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 4.7 | average of 5 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 1 | 1 exchange |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 3.5 | $561,300 traded in 24 hours; #828 by volume |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 9.7 | 5.8% of its market cap a day |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 6.9 | $11,318 within 2% of the price on 1 exchange, 0.12% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 2.5 | $9.7M, 2.5 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | – | not measured |
| Supply (smaller is better) | 8.2 | fixed maximum supply of 500 million |
| Record | 8 | 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) | 7 | 7 full years since 2018-12-17, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 7 | 2 positive, 0 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 121 commits in 11 of the last 12 months (github.com/aergoio/aergo); Reference node aergoio/aergo v2.8.3 released 2026-10-22; also v2.8.2 (2025-09-25), v2.8.1 (2025-07-18), v2.7.0 (2025-04-22) and v2.6.0-fix (2025-04-14) in the last 24 months. The chain itself is close to dormant (see note). |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | Aergo v2.7.0, Apr 2025: updated libraries flagged with CVEs; v2.8.0/2.8.1 hard fork V5 at block 196,150,000 (Jul 2025) tightened transaction and contract validation |
Twenty criteria, weighted equally. The Cryptocurrency Standards have five sections: sound money (six qualities: scarcity, durability, fungibility, portability, divisibility, verifiability), scalability (four measures and three features), security (miner pay and seven checks), decentralisation (censorship resistance, no central team, who can mint, nodes, holders, premine, fundraising and developer share) and privacy (five checks); programmability (token issuance, smart contracts and five checks) follows them. 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.
489,999,996 of a maximum 500,000,000 AERGO are in circulation — 98.0% of the total that will ever exist.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 100% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 31.1% of today's supply |
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
| Nodes or validators | 5 |
| Fundraising | Private or venture funding |
Fixed 500M supply, all allocated at TGE (Dec 2018); no open mining. Allocation: ecosystem 34.06%, private round 27.14%, team and advisors 25.30%, foundation reserve 9.50%, early supporters 4.00%. A chain with no open minting is 100.
Private sale Jul to Nov 2018: 135.72M AERGO at $0.187 for $25.38M (Sequoia, Arrington, FBG, Node, NGC, JD Capital, RockawayX and others). Early supporters: 20M at $0.168 for $3.36M. No public ICO.
Aergo has a fixed 500M supply, all allocated at TGE (Dec 2018), and no open issuance. Block-producer and voting rewards come from allocated tokens, not new minting, so nothing is cut.
The token has reportedly migrated contracts and rebranded to House Party Protocol (HPP), per CryptoRank.
Sources: docs.aergo.io · coingecko.com · icodrops.com · dropstab.com · binance.com. Researched 2026-10-26, medium confidence.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
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Aergo is #147 among cryptocurrencies and #959 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 812 places between Aergo'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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