eCash ranks #59 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #226: 167 of the 225 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 228 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 47% are claims on other assets, 46% are tokens and 7% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | A · 76/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #59 |
| Rank counting claims | #226 |
| Market capitalisation | $134M |
| Price | $0.00000667 |
| Circulating supply | 20,103,064,047,580 XEC |
| Maximum supply | 21,000,000,000,000 XEC |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | SHA-256 (+ Avalanche finality) |
| Own hashrate | 40 PH/s |
| Network purpose | Payments |
| Ledger type | Overlay-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | No premine |
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A — 76 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 71 to 77 (B 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) | 7.4 | group average, 12 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 9.2 | 5.5 of 6 points source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 5 | fixed maximum supply of 21 trillion: supply scale 0, cap 10 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✓ | 17 full years since genesis, 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 | ✓ | 2 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $6.7e-8 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✓ | typical fee $0.000015; about 236 transactions a second (6.1 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) | 4 | 2 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) | ✗ | Bitcoin ABC relays transactions directly; Tor is optional configuration. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | No confidential transactions; CashFusion is a wallet tool. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | No protocol-level sender or receiver hiding. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 9.2 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.000015 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 6.1 | about 236 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 10 | a block every 10 minutes |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 10 | 32 MB limit |
| Features (3 checks) | 10 | 3 of 3 passed |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✓ | Avalanche pre-consensus finalises transactions in about 3 s, on top of first-seen relay with no replace-by-fee. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✓ | Bitcoin ABC -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) | 4 | 3.1 of 7 points, 2 not yet measured source |
| Miners paid a day ($1,000 0, $10 million or more 10), 2 points | 0.6 | about $1,741 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 | ✓ | Bitcoin ABC (led by Amaury Sechet) maintains the only node, Bitcoin-ABC/bitcoin-abc (MIT), and the roadmap. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✓ | about 2,767 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 | SLP, ALP (eTokens): read by indexers, not validated by the chain's nodes |
| Smart contracts: scripting for spending conditions | 1 | Bitcoin-derived Script (with OP_CHECKDATASIG and OP_REVERSEBYTES) limited to spending conditions; Agora offers are script covenants, and eTokens are indexer-validated. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | P2SH multisig plus CLTV (BIP 65) and CSV, active since the pre-fork Bitcoin heights 388,381 and 419,328. |
| 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 consensus; Agora offers are user scripts read through indexers. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | No protocol messaging to other chains; Avalanche finality is internal. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✗ | SLP and ALP NFTs are metaprotocols validated by indexers such as Chronik, not by nodes. |
| Decentralisation | 8.2 | section average, 7 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: Avalanche stakers can park or finalise blocks but cannot freeze or claw back user coins; no deliberate halts. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: Bitcoin ABC (led by Amaury Sechet) maintains the only node, Bitcoin-ABC/bitcoin-abc (MIT), and the roadmap. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 10 | Proof of work: 10 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | 7.8 | 222 reachable nodes (distinct IP addresses at the chain's tip, crawled by CoinSpectrum on 2026-10-27; clearnet only) |
| 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) | 9.9 | Developer share: about 1.3% of today's supply received so far; 32% of each new block reward goes to them today. A consensus coinbase rule pays a share of every block to the miner fund that finances Bitcoin ABC development: 8% from the 15 Nov 2020 fork, raised to 32% at the 15 Nov 2023 upgrade (a separate 10% goes to Avalanche stakers and is not a cut). ≈157,000 blocks × 6.25M × 8% (78.5B) + ≈21,350 × 6.25M × 32% (42.7B) + 132,464 × 3.125M × 32% after the block-840,000 halving to height 972,464 (132.5B) ≈ 253.7B XEC = 1.3% of 20.10T (Blockchair). source |
| Supply & Demand | 3.5 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 7 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 10 | 31 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 4.7 | $3,163,432 traded in 24 hours; #431 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $2,172,190) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 7.2 | 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) | 6.6 | $126,436 within 2% of the price on 4 exchanges, 0.09% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 5.3 | $134M, 5.3 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | 8.4 | futures, options and margin positions 2.5% of its market cap |
| Supply (smaller is better) | 0 | fixed maximum supply of 21 trillion |
| Record | 9.3 | 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) | 10 | 17 full years since genesis. Split from Bitcoin Cash on 15 November 2020 after block 661,647, keeping the ledger: its history runs from Bitcoin's genesis block of 3 January 2009. |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 8 | 3 positive, 0 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 1,661 commits in 12 of the last 12 months (github.com/Bitcoin-ABC/bitcoin-abc); Bitcoin-ABC/bitcoin-abc v0.34.2, 2026-10-20; 53 releases in 24 months. |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | Bitcoin ABC 0.32.2, Nov 2025: backported CVE-2025-46597/46598/54604/54605; 0.34.1, Oct 2026: walletnotify command-execution fix. |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1 | ✓ | Network upgrade, 15 Nov 2025: 64-bit script integers and arithmetic, Avalanche pre-consensus. |
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.
20,103,064,047,580 of a maximum 21,000,000,000,000 XEC are in circulation — 95.7% of the total that will ever exist.
| Developer share received since launch | 1.3% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Developer share of new coins today | 32% |
A consensus coinbase rule pays a share of every block to the miner fund that finances Bitcoin ABC development: 8% from the 15 Nov 2020 fork, raised to 32% at the 15 Nov 2023 upgrade (a separate 10% goes to Avalanche stakers and is not a cut). ≈157,000 blocks × 6.25M × 8% (78.5B) + ≈21,350 × 6.25M × 32% (42.7B) + 132,464 × 3.125M × 32% after the block-840,000 halving to height 972,464 (132.5B) ≈ 253.7B XEC = 1.3% of 20.10T (Blockchair).
Sources: bitcoinabc.org · api.blockchair.com. Researched 2026-10-24, high confidence.
eCash is secured by 40 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.
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eCash is #59 among cryptocurrencies and #226 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 167 places between eCash'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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