Conflux ranks #47 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #153: 106 of the 152 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 147 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 53% are claims on other assets, 40% are tokens and 7% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | C · 58/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #47 |
| Rank counting claims | #153 |
| Market capitalisation | $251M |
| Price | $0.0477 |
| Circulating supply | 5,250,833,008 CFX |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Hybrid |
| Consensus mechanism | Tree-Graph PoW + PoS finality |
| Own hashrate | 389 GH/s |
| Network purpose | Smart-contract platform |
| Ledger type | Multi-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Presale |
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C — 58 out of 100, provisional (from 19 of 20 criteria, 28 October 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 55 to 61 (C to C).
| 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) | 5.4 | group average, 12 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 8.8 | 5.3 of 6 points source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 3.4 | no fixed maximum; 5.25 billion in circulation: supply scale 6.8, cap 0 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✓ | 5 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 | ✓ | no authority can freeze, blacklist or set apart a coin |
| Divisibility: the smallest unit worth a cent or less | ✓ | 18 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $4.8e-20 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✓ | typical fee $0.00002; about 1,350 transactions a second (9 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; light clients verify from headers or proofs |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 2 | 1 of 5 passed source |
| Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity | ✓ | Anyone can create keys and receive and send coins; the protocol carries 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) | ✗ | conflux-rust relays transactions directly. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | No confidential transactions. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | No sender or receiver hiding. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 6.8 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.00002 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 9 | about 1,350 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 0.1 | a block every 1.06 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 10 | 0.205 MB limit, 116 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 5 | 1 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✗ | Tree-Graph PoW blocks are fast but probabilistic; PoS finality checkpoints arrive every few minutes. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | – | Full and archive node types exist; whether full nodes drop old blocks is not documented in the sources checked. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✓ | conflux-rust light node type (node_type = light) verifies headers and requests proofs from full nodes. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 6.1 | 6.1 of 9 points source |
| Miners paid a day ($1,000 0, $10 million or more 10), 2 points | 0.6 | about $1,660 a day |
| Its own hashrate: at least half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined | ✓ | |
| Largest pool or validator under 50% | ✓ | 30% |
| Largest three under 75% | ✓ | 69.2% |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 1 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | Conflux Network / Conflux Foundation maintains the only node, Conflux-Chain/conflux-rust (GPL-3.0). |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✓ | about 18,740 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 | CRC-20 contracts in Core Space and ERC-20 contracts in eSpace (EVM), both part of the same chain and open to any account. |
| Smart contracts: a general-purpose contract system | 2 | Contracts in Core Space and in the EVM-compatible eSpace, both open to any account. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | Multisig and timelock contracts in eSpace (EVM) and Core Space. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | EVM HTLC contracts (hash lock plus timelock refund) in eSpace. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | No exchange in the protocol. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | The CrossSpace internal contract moves CFX between Core Space and eSpace of the same chain; nothing reaches other chains at protocol level. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✓ | ERC-721 contracts in eSpace (and CRC-721 in Core Space). |
| Decentralisation | 4.7 | section average, 7 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol freeze or blacklist power located; no deliberate halts on record. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: Conflux Network / Conflux Foundation maintains the only node, Conflux-Chain/conflux-rust (GPL-3.0). source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 7.1 | Hybrid: 7.1 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | 4.7 | 26 reachable nodes source |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 0.5 | 95.2% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. 5B CFX allocated at the Oct 2020 mainnet launch (ecosystem fund 40%, genesis team 36%, private equity funders 12%, community fund 8%, foundation 4%) against net supply of 5,249,611,162 CFX (5,822,575,573 issued minus 572,964,411 at the null/burn address, ConfluxScan 2026-10-23); against gross issued it is 85.9%. source |
| Fundraising | 0.5 | Sold by its issuer or insiders: 95.2% of supply was theirs to sell, 11.4% sold so far. The 'private equity funders' share of the Oct 2020 genesis was 12% of 5B = 600M CFX, delivered to the Series A and later investors (Sequoia China, Baidu Ventures, Huobi and others). No public CFX sale was held. 600M / 5,249,611,162 net supply (ConfluxScan, 2026-10-23) = 11.4%; against the 5.82B gross issued it is 10.3%. $35M Series A for the Conflux Foundation (Dec 2018) from Sequoia China, Baidu Ventures, F2Pool, Huobi, Metastable, IMO Ventures and others; later totals of $40M and $68M are reported but not reconciled. source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. New CFX comes from PoW block rewards to miners and PoS interest to stakers, with parameters set by on-chain chain-parameter votes. No CIP or document shows any share of issuance going to a foundation or treasury; the ecosystem and community funds were genesis allocations. source |
| Supply & Demand | 7.2 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 7.5 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 10 | 29 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 5.2 | $2,443,009 traded in 24 hours; #278 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $4,216,675) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 7.3 | 1.5% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 9.1 | $1,379,956 within 2% of the price on 7 exchanges, 0.55% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 6 | $251M, 6 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | 7.4 | futures, options and margin positions 6.5% of its market cap |
| Supply (smaller is better) | 6.8 | no fixed maximum; 5.25 billion 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 2020-11-11, 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 | ✓ | 716 commits in 12 of the last 12 months (github.com/Conflux-Chain/conflux-rust); Conflux-Chain/conflux-rust v3.1.1, 2026-10-22; 9 stable releases in 24 months. |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1 | ✓ | v3.0 hardfork, Aug-Sep 2025: CIP-7702 (EOA code delegation) and other CIPs. |
| Not yet researched | ||
| Shipped a security fix in two years | – | |
| Shipped a scaling upgrade in two years | – | |
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.
5,250,833,008 CFX are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 95.2% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 11.4% of today's supply |
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
| Nodes or validators | 26 |
| Fundraising | Private or venture funding |
5B CFX allocated at the Oct 2020 mainnet launch (ecosystem fund 40%, genesis team 36%, private equity funders 12%, community fund 8%, foundation 4%) against net supply of 5,249,611,162 CFX (5,822,575,573 issued minus 572,964,411 at the null/burn address, ConfluxScan 2026-10-23); against gross issued it is 85.9%.
$35M Series A for the Conflux Foundation (Dec 2018) from Sequoia China, Baidu Ventures, F2Pool, Huobi, Metastable, IMO Ventures and others; later totals of $40M and $68M are reported but not reconciled.
The 'private equity funders' share of the Oct 2020 genesis was 12% of 5B = 600M CFX, delivered to the Series A and later investors (Sequoia China, Baidu Ventures, Huobi and others). No public CFX sale was held. 600M / 5,249,611,162 net supply (ConfluxScan, 2026-10-23) = 11.4%; against the 5.82B gross issued it is 10.3%.
New CFX comes from PoW block rewards to miners and PoS interest to stakers, with parameters set by on-chain chain-parameter votes. No CIP or document shows any share of issuance going to a foundation or treasury; the ecosystem and community funds were genesis allocations.
Sources: app.tokenomics.com · cgaa.org · confluxscan.io · doc.confluxnetwork.org · confluxnetwork.medium.com · api.confluxscan.org. Researched 2026-10-24, medium confidence.
Conflux is secured by 389 GH/s of its own work. Hashrate does not compare across algorithms — a SHA-256 hash and a Scrypt hash cost different amounts to produce.
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Conflux is #47 among cryptocurrencies and #153 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 106 places between Conflux'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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