Eternity (ENT)

Eternity ranks #457 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #5500: 5043 of the 5499 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.

CoinSpectrum Gradepending — launch under review
Rank among cryptocurrencies#457
Rank counting claims#5500
Price$0.00186
Circulating supply0 ENT
Maximum supplyno fixed cap
Consensus familyProof of Work
Consensus mechanismX11
Own hashrate—
Network purposePayments
Ledger typeSingle-asset ledger

Market figures from the 28 October 2026 build. Open the live view for every exchange's price, and charts.

CoinSpectrum Grade (Source)

Grade pending. Fewer than six of Eternity's nine network-security points are measured yet. A grade is not given until it is, so that a coin is never rated higher for what is not yet known.

CriterionScoreBasis
Leading Consensus Mechanisms (Source)10group average
Consensus: leader ladder10Proof of work: 10 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap
Consensus: family ladder10Proof of work: 10 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains
Cryptocurrency Standards (Source)7.5group average, 9 of 12 measured
Sound Money Properties (6 checks) (Source)84 of 5 points, 1 not yet measured source
Scarcity (Limited supply · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §6)–
Durability (Sustainability · 1 Store of value)✓9 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)✗about 30 transactions a second, 2.7 on the throughput scale (5 is the busiest networks' median demand)
Divisibility (Flexibility · 3 Unit of account)✓8 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $1.9e-11
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)6.7average of 4 parts 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)2.7about 29.5 simple transactions a second
Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side)7.8a block every 2.5 minutes
Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10)6.41 MB limit, 4 MB per 10 minutes
Features (3 checks)102 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched
Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper §11)–The Dash 0.12-era code includes InstantSend locks via masternodes, but no live network was found to confirm it operates.
Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7)✓Eternity Core 0.12.1.8 (Feb 2020): -prune deletes old block files and keeps the UTXO set and recent blocks (not with -txindex, so not on Eternitynodes).
Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8)✓Eternity Core 0.12.1.8 (Feb 2020): proof-of-work chain whose node serves BIP37 bloom-filtered merkleblock proofs, so an SPV client can check headers and Merkle proofs.
Security (miner pay and 7 checks)—2 of 3 points, 6 not yet measured source
Miner pay (A day, $1,000 0 to $10 million 10; 2 points)–
Own hashrate (Half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined)–
Largest pool (Pool or validator under 50%)–
Largest three (Under 75% together)–
Clients (More than one maintained)✗0
Open source (Node software)✓A single team (eternity-group, MIT-licensed Eternity Core) maintained the client; nothing since 2020.
Real use (1,000+ transactions a day)–
No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years)✓
Decentralisation8.2section average, 6 of 8 measured
Censorship resistant (Source)10No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No freeze or admin key in the code (sporks toggle features but cannot freeze balances). source
No central team (Source)0A central team directs it: A single team (eternity-group, MIT-licensed Eternity Core) maintained the client; nothing since 2020. source
Who can mint (Source)10Proof of work: 10 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks
Nodes (Source)—Not yet counted
Holder concentration (Source)—Not yet measured
Premine (allocated at launch)100% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. Eternity Core (a Dash fork, genesis 17 Sep 2016) has no premine or instamine in its consensus code: block subsidy is difficulty-based between 1 and 25 ENT from block 1, reduced by one-sixth every 210,240 blocks. source
Fundraising10No sale of the coin source
Developer share (after launch)9Developer share: about 10% of today's supply received so far; no share of new block rewards today. Dash-style governance: 10% of each block's issuance is reserved for superblock budget proposals when SPORK_6 is active, and half of the remainder goes to masternodes ('Eternitynodes'). Whether the chain still runs is unknown, so the current cut is not established. source
Privacy4section average
Privacy (5 checks)42 of 5 passed source
Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10)✓Eternity's Bitcoin-derived node (eternity-group/eternity) has no identity rule: anyone generates keys and receives and sends the coin.
UTXO ledger (A new key for each payment · Whitepaper §2, §9)✓
Network privacy (Origin hidden by default)✗Eternity Core 0.12.1.8 (Feb 2020): no Dandelion relay in the node; Tor is only an optional proxy setting (-tor/-onion) the user must configure.
Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential)✗Eternity Core 0.12.1.8 (Feb 2020): Bitcoin-style transparent outputs; no confidential amounts.
Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden)✗Eternity Core 0.12.1.8 (Feb 2020): Bitcoin-style transparent addresses; no ring signatures, zero-knowledge spends or stealth addresses.
Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks)3.33 of 9 points source
Token issuance0No token issuance on the chain itself
Smart contracts (Scripting for spending conditions)1Eternity Core 0.12.1.8 (Feb 2020): Bitcoin-style Script limited to spending conditions; no contract platform.
Multisig and time locks (Without a third party)✓Eternity Core 0.12.1.8 (Feb 2020): CHECKMULTISIG plus OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY and OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY enforced by the block-validation script flags (src/main.cpp). Enforcement starts once version-4 blocks reach a supermajority.
Atomic swaps (With other chains)✓Eternity Core 0.12.1.8 (Feb 2020): hash-locked, CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY-refund HTLC scripts are expressible, as in Bitcoin.
Native exchange (Built into the protocol)✗Eternity Core 0.12.1.8 (Feb 2020): no order book or market maker in the ledger rules.
Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself)✗Eternity Core 0.12.1.8 (Feb 2020): no cross-chain message or light-client verification in the protocol.
NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules)✗Eternity Core 0.12.1.8 (Feb 2020): no token or NFT type in the consensus rules.
Supply & Demand0group average, 1 of 2 measured
Supply & Demand (Source)0average of 1 measure
Exchanges (10 or more: 10)0no exchange the site reads trades it
Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10)–no volume reported
Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10)–not measured
Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10)–not measured
Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10)–not measured
Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0)–not measured
Supply (smaller is better)—Supply not reported
Record6.3group average
Record (origin, claims, halts)103 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)99 full years since 2016-12-07, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated).
Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues)00 positive, 5 negative source
Negative
Steady work, 0 of 6✗0 commits in 0 of the last 12 months (github.com/eternity-group/eternity); eternity-group/eternity: Eternity Core 0.12.1.8, 7 Feb 2020, is the last release.
Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-03, −1✗CVE-2024-52914: crafted orphan transactions can stall the node for hours in the uninterruptible orphan-resolution loop; still in Eternity v0.12.1.8.
Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-03, −1✗CVE-2020-14198: misbehaving peers are auto-banned into an unbounded ban list, so many attacker addresses can exhaust CPU and memory; still in Eternity v0.12.1.8.
Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-31, −1✗CVE-2024-52919: addr-message spam can overflow the address manager's 32-bit id counter and crash the node, with no addr rate limit; still in Eternity v0.12.1.8.
Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-09-18, −1✗CVE-2019-25220: a long low-difficulty header chain can exhaust memory because the node has no headers pre-synchronisation; still in Eternity v0.12.1.8.

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.

Supply

0 ENT are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.

Launch and allocation

Premine (allocated at launch)0% of today's supply
Sold by the issuer or insiders0% of today's supply
Developer share received since launch10% of today's supply
FundraisingNo sale and no investor round

Eternity Core (a Dash fork, genesis 17 Sep 2016) has no premine or instamine in its consensus code: block subsidy is difficulty-based between 1 and 25 ENT from block 1, reduced by one-sixth every 210,240 blocks.

No ICO or presale documented.

No sale or ICO found.

Dash-style governance: 10% of each block's issuance is reserved for superblock budget proposals when SPORK_6 is active, and half of the remainder goes to masternodes ('Eternitynodes'). Whether the chain still runs is unknown, so the current cut is not established.

X11, 2.5-minute blocks. The coin appears defunct; no market or explorer data with live blocks was found.

Sources: github.com · github.com · github.com. Researched 2026-10-26, low confidence.

The work behind it

No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for Eternity.

What a regulator has said

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.

How CoinSpectrum ranks Eternity

Eternity is #457 among cryptocurrencies and #5500 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 5043 places between Eternity'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.

The price above is the median of the exchanges the site reads live, checked every minute and cross-checked against a market snapshot (how market data is gathered). The grade is scored on published criteria, each with its source (the method). The site is independent, nothing on it is a paid placement, and its statements are signed (about CoinSpectrum, the manifesto).

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