FIO Protocol (FIO)

FIO Protocol ranks #276 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #2562: 2286 of the 2561 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 2827 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 81% are tokens, 16% are claims on other assets and 3% are memecoins.

CoinSpectrum Gradepending — launch under review
Rank among cryptocurrencies#276
Rank counting claims#2562
Market capitalisation$298,829
Price$0.000323
Circulating supply926,128,170 FIO
Maximum supply1,000,000,000 FIO
Consensus familyProof of Stake
Consensus mechanismDPoS
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. FIO Protocol's launch — how much went to insiders, whether it was sold to investors — is still being researched. 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)9.1group average
Consensus: leader ladder9.1Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap
Consensus: family ladder9.1Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains
Cryptocurrency Standards (Source)4.6group average, 3 of 12 measured
Sound Money Properties (6 checks) (Source)—2.9 of 3 points, 3 not yet measured
Scarcity (Limited supply · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §6)8.9fixed maximum supply of 1 billion: supply scale 7.8, cap 10
Durability (Sustainability · 1 Store of value)–6 full years since its first recorded price, record not yet reviewed
Fungibility (Interchangeability · 3 Unit of account)✓every unit identical and worth any other
Portability (Scalability · 2 Medium of exchange)–typical fee $0.0042
Divisibility (Flexibility · 3 Unit of account)✓9 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $3.2e-13
Verifiability (Authenticity check · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §8)–
Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features)2.6average of 3 parts source
Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0)7.9typical fee $0.0042
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)0a block every 0.53 seconds
Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10)–not yet measured
Features (3 checks)00 of 1 passed, 2 not yet researched
Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper §11)–
Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7)–nodeos can start from a state snapshot, but whether FIO 3.5.1 can discard its block log was not established.
Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8)✗No light-client protocol in FIO 3.5; wallets query API nodes.
Security (miner pay and 7 checks)—0 of 3 points, 6 not yet measured
Miner pay (A day, $1,000 0 to $10 million 10; 2 points)0not 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)–
Open source (Node software)–
Real use (1,000+ transactions a day)–
No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years)–
Decentralisation8.6section average, 1 of 8 measured
Censorship resistant (Source)—Not yet researched
No central team (Source)—Not yet researched
Who can mint (Source)8.6Proof of stake: 8.6 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks
Nodes (Source)—Not yet counted
Holder concentration (Source)—Not yet measured
Premine (allocated at launch)—Launch not yet researched
Fundraising—Launch not yet researched
Developer share (after launch)—Not yet researched
Privacy2.5section average
Privacy (5 checks)2.51 of 5 passed, 1 not yet measured source
Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10)✓Accounts are derived from user-generated keys, and FIO Handles are optional names, not identity checks.
UTXO ledger (A new key for each payment · Whitepaper §2, §9)–
Network privacy (Origin hidden by default)✗EOSIO-derived nodeos gossips without origin hiding.
Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential)✗Transparent transfers.
Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden)✗Public FIO handles and accounts.
Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks)1.11 of 9 points source
Token issuance0No token issuance on the chain itself
Smart contracts0Users cannot deploy contracts; only system contracts installed by a block-producer multisig run on FIO.
Multisig and time locks (Without a third party)✓eosio.msig proposals with m-of-n account permissions, and transfer_locked_tokens (FIP-6, final) sending FIO under unlock periods.
Atomic swaps (With other chains)✗No hash-locked transfer in the system contracts.
Native exchange (Built into the protocol)✗No exchange in the protocol.
Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself)✗FIO token and domain wrapping to Ethereum and Polygon relies on oracles, not light-client verification.
NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules)✗No NFT type; FIO domains become NFTs only when wrapped on other chains, and NFT signatures merely map NFTs to FIO handles.
Supply & Demand5.2group average
Supply & Demand (Source)2.6average of 6 measures
Exchanges (10 or more: 10)11 exchange
Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10)0$4,004 traded in 24 hours; #3200 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $1,659)
Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10)4.30.43% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days
Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10)0$0 within 2% of the price on 1 exchange, 0.00% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days
Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10)0$299K, 0 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold
Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0)10no futures, options or margin on the exchanges read
Supply (smaller is better)7.8fixed maximum supply of 1 billion
Record6group average, 1 of 3 measured
Record (origin, claims, halts)—Not yet reviewed
Age (years since genesis) (Source)66 full years since 2020-07-19, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated).
Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues)—Not yet measured: no commit count and no release research

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

926,128,170 of a maximum 1,000,000,000 FIO are in circulation — 92.6% of the total that will ever exist.

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 FIO Protocol

FIO Protocol is #276 among cryptocurrencies and #2562 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 2286 places between FIO Protocol'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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