Chia ranks #118 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #772: 654 of the 771 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 774 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 62% are tokens, 28% are claims on other assets and 9% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | C · 61/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #118 |
| Rank counting claims | #772 |
| Market capitalisation | $24M |
| Price | $1.27 |
| Circulating supply | 19,165,850 XCH |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Proof of Space / Storage |
| Consensus mechanism | Proof of Space and Time |
| Ledger type | Multi-asset ledger |
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C — 61 out of 100, provisional (from 17 of 20 criteria, 28 October 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 51 to 69 (D to B).
| Criterion | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Leading Consensus Mechanisms (Source) | 5.5 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 5.5 | Proof of space: 5.5 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 5.5 | Proof of space: 5.5 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 5.2 | group average, 9 of 12 measured |
| Sound Money Properties (6 checks) (Source) | 9 | 4.5 of 5 points, 1 not yet measured source |
| Scarcity (Limited supply · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §6) | 5 | no fixed maximum; 19.2 million in circulation: supply scale 9.9, cap 0 |
| Durability (Sustainability · 1 Store of value) | ✓ | 5 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) | ✓ | 12 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $1.3e-12 |
| Verifiability (Authenticity check · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §8) | ✓ | node software open source; light clients verify from headers or proofs |
| 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) | 4.5 | a block every 18 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | – | not yet measured |
| Features (3 checks) | 5 | 1 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper §11) | ✗ | Transaction blocks arrive about every 52 seconds with probabilistic confirmation. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | – | No pruning mode for the Chia full-node database was documented. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✓ | Protocol weight proofs (FlyClient-style sub-epoch sampling) let light wallets verify chain weight and sync without downloading every block. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 3 | 2 of 6 points, 3 not yet measured 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%) | – | |
| Largest three (Under 75% together) | – | |
| Clients (More than one maintained) | ✗ | 1 |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | chia-blockchain, the reference and only full node, is developed by Chia Network Inc., which sets the roadmap. |
| Real use (1,000+ transactions a day) | – | |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Decentralisation | 5.2 | section average, 6 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol-level party can freeze coins or halt the chain. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: chia-blockchain, the reference and only full node, is developed by Chia Network Inc., which sets the roadmap. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 2.9 | Proof of space: 2.9 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | — | Not yet counted |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 4.1 | 59.1% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. 21M XCH prefarm (strategic reserve) paid in the first block to Chia Network Inc., against a current total supply of 35,517,517 XCH (CoinGecko, 2026-10-23). source |
| Fundraising | 4.1 | Sold by its issuer or insiders: 59.1% of supply was theirs to sell. Not established. Chia Network Inc. has sold XCH from its 21M prefarm since Oct 2023 through its market maker (blog-announced transfers of 45,000 and 50,000 XCH, with a reported 200k XCH sale) and through direct 'Buy XCH with ACH' sales (2025). It publishes no cumulative sales total. The confirmed transfers alone are ~95k XCH (0.3% of 35.5M), so the true figure is above that but unknown. Chia Network Inc. has sold prefarm XCH through its market maker since October 2023, and directly to buyers through its 'Buy XCH with ACH' offer in 2025. It publishes no cumulative total. source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. All block rewards (2 XCH a block at launch, halving every three years) go to farmers: 1/8 to the farmer and 7/8 to the pool or farmer reward address. The 21M strategic reserve was a one-time prefarm in the genesis block, already counted as premine, and no ongoing share goes to Chia Network Inc. source |
| Privacy | 4 | section average |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 4 | 2 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) | ✗ | chia-blockchain full nodes gossip transactions directly; no Dandelion or built-in Tor. |
| Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential) | ✗ | Coin amounts are public. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | ✗ | Puzzle hashes (addresses) are public; no ring signatures or stealth addresses. |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 7.8 | 7 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance (At protocol level) | 2 | Chia Asset Tokens (CAT2), a ChiaLisp coin standard validated by full nodes, open to anyone. |
| Smart contracts (General-purpose) | 2 | Chialisp puzzles lock every coin; CATs, NFT1, DIDs, offers and vaults are built as Chialisp on mainnet. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | AGG_SIG conditions combine keys in Chialisp puzzles for m-of-n spends, and ASSERT_SECONDS/HEIGHT_RELATIVE and ABSOLUTE conditions set time locks. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✓ | A preimage-or-delay puzzle (p2_delayed_or_preimage) is used for XCH-for-Bitcoin Lightning swaps (chiaswap). |
| Native exchange (Built into the protocol) | ✗ | Offer files settle peer-to-peer trades, but there is no order book or AMM in the consensus rules. |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | ✗ | No protocol-level cross-chain messaging; warp.green is run by its own validator set. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✓ | NFT1 (CHIP-0005) NFTs as Chialisp singleton coins validated by full nodes. |
| Supply & Demand | 8.3 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 6.6 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 7 | 7 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 3.5 | $470,340 traded in 24 hours; #849 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $572,318) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 8 | 2.1% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 7.7 | $49,537 within 2% of the price on 4 exchanges, 0.20% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 3.5 | $24M, 3.5 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) | 9.9 | no fixed maximum; 19.2 million in circulation |
| Record | 7.3 | 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) | 5 | 5 full years since 2021-04-30, 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, 2 not yet researched source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 1,740 commits in 12 of the last 12 months (github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain); chia-blockchain 2.7.5, released 2026-10-14. |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | chia-blockchain 2.7.1, May 2026: rejects malformed weight-proof segments (SEC-615); 2.7.0, Mar 2026: soft fork with network hardening. |
| Not yet researched | ||
| Shipped a scaling upgrade in two years | – | |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years | – | |
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.
19,165,850 XCH are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 59.1% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
| Fundraising | Public sale |
21M XCH prefarm (strategic reserve) paid in the first block to Chia Network Inc., against a current total supply of 35,517,517 XCH (CoinGecko, 2026-10-23).
Chia Network Inc. has sold prefarm XCH through its market maker since October 2023, and directly to buyers through its 'Buy XCH with ACH' offer in 2025. It publishes no cumulative total.
Not established. Chia Network Inc. has sold XCH from its 21M prefarm since Oct 2023 through its market maker (blog-announced transfers of 45,000 and 50,000 XCH, with a reported 200k XCH sale) and through direct 'Buy XCH with ACH' sales (2025). It publishes no cumulative sales total. The confirmed transfers alone are ~95k XCH (0.3% of 35.5M), so the true figure is above that but unknown.
All block rewards (2 XCH a block at launch, halving every three years) go to farmers: 1/8 to the farmer and 7/8 to the pool or farmer reward address. The 21M strategic reserve was a one-time prefarm in the genesis block, already counted as premine, and no ongoing share goes to Chia Network Inc.
Sources: chia.net · chia.net · coinmarketcap.com · docs.chia.net · chia.net · docs.chia.net. Researched 2026-10-24, low confidence.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
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Chia is #118 among cryptocurrencies and #772 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 654 places between Chia'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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