DigiByte ranks #74 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #384: 310 of the 383 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 393 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 53% are tokens, 39% are claims on other assets and 7% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | A+ · 85/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #74 |
| Rank counting claims | #384 |
| Market capitalisation | $64M |
| Price | $0.00343 |
| Circulating supply | 18,535,061,210 DGB |
| Maximum supply | 21,000,000,000 DGB |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | MultiAlgo (5 PoW algos: SHA256/Scrypt/Skein/Qubit/Odocrypt) |
| Own hashrate | 28 PH/s |
| Network purpose | Payments |
| Ledger type | Overlay-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | No premine |
Market figures from the 28 October 2026 build. Open the live view for every exchange's price, and charts.
A+ — 85 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 81 to 87 (A to A+).
| Criterion | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Leading Consensus Mechanisms (Source) | 10 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 10 | Proof of work: 10 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 10 | Proof of work: 10 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 8.5 | group average, 12 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 9.7 | 5.8 of 6 points source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 8 | fixed maximum supply of 21 billion: supply scale 6, cap 10 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✓ | 12 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 | ✓ | 8 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $3.4e-11 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✓ | typical fee $0.000047; about 473 transactions a second (7.3 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) | 6 | 3 of 5 passed source |
| Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity | ✓ | Anyone can generate keys and receive and send coins; the consensus 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) | ✓ | DigiByte Core relays transactions by Dandelion++ by default (-dandelion, DEFAULT_DANDELION = true, since 7.17; still on in v9.26.7, Oct 2026). |
| 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) | ✗ | Dandelion++ hides the origin IP only; no ring signatures or stealth addresses. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 7.6 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.000047 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 7.3 | about 473 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 4.2 | a block every 15 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 10 | 4 MB limit, 160 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 6.7 | 2 of 3 passed |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✗ | 15-second probabilistic multi-algorithm blocks; no double-spend proofs or instant locks protect zero-confirmation payments. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✓ | DigiByte Core -prune deletes old blocks. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✓ | Bitcoin-style SPV with headers and Merkle proofs. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 5.6 | 4.3 of 7 points, 2 not yet measured source |
| Miners paid a day ($1,000 0, $10 million or more 10), 2 points | 1.7 | about $4,893 a day |
| 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 | ✓ | DigiByte Core is maintained by volunteer developers in the DigiByte-Core repository, with no controlling company. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✓ | about 1,905 a day |
| No 51% attack or deep reorganisation in five years | ✓ | |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 4.4 | 4 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance through a metaprotocol | 1 | DigiAssets: read by indexers, not validated by the chain's nodes |
| Smart contracts: scripting for spending conditions | 1 | Bitcoin-derived Script limited to spending conditions. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | P2SH multisig plus CLTV (BIP 65, block 4,394,880) and the CSV deployment of 2017. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | HTLCs (hash lock plus CLTV/CSV refund) in standard Script, as in BIP 199. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | No exchange in the protocol. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | No protocol messaging to other chains. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✗ | DigiAssets live in OP_RETURN data read by their own software, not consensus. |
| Decentralisation | 9.9 | section average, 7 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) | 10 | No central team: DigiByte Core is maintained by volunteer developers in the DigiByte-Core repository, with no controlling company. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 10 | Proof of work: 10 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | 9.3 | 635 reachable nodes (source: digibyte.io) |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 10 | Fair launch: no premine |
| Fundraising | 10 | No sale of the coin |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners who produce blocks |
| Supply & Demand | 6.4 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 6.8 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 10 | 22 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 3.9 | $1,217,186 traded in 24 hours; #680 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $926,428) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 7 | 1.4% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 5.1 | $20,930 within 2% of the price on 4 exchanges, 0.03% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 4.5 | $64M, 4.5 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) | 6 | fixed maximum supply of 21 billion |
| Record | 9 | 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) | 10 | 12 full years since 2014-02-06, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 7 | 3 positive, 1 negative, 1 not yet researched source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 1,591 commits in 11 of the last 12 months (github.com/DigiByte-Core/digibyte); DigiByte Core v9.26.7, released 2026-10-06. |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | DigiByte v9.26.2, 30 Jun 2026: fixed the retired-algorithm (Groestl) block acceptance exploit. |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1 | ✓ | DigiDollar activated on mainnet at block 23,869,440, 17 Jul 2026 (v9.26.2-v9.26.5). |
| Negative | ||
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2026-05-05, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-52911: a crafted invalid block can make script-check threads read freed precomputed transaction data and crash the node; still in DigiByte v9.26.7. |
| Not yet researched | ||
| 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.
18,535,061,210 of a maximum 21,000,000,000 DGB are in circulation — 88.3% of the total that will ever exist.
| Nodes or validators | 635 |
|---|
DigiByte is secured by 28 PH/s of its own work. Hashrate does not compare across algorithms — a SHA-256 hash and a Scrypt hash cost different amounts to produce.
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.
DigiByte is #74 among cryptocurrencies and #384 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 310 places between DigiByte'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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