Groestlcoin ranks #151 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1033: 882 of the 1032 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 1266 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 70% are tokens, 22% are claims on other assets and 8% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | A · 80/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #151 |
| Rank counting claims | #1033 |
| Market capitalisation | $8M |
| Price | $0.0915 |
| Circulating supply | 91,199,019 GRS |
| Maximum supply | 105,000,000 GRS |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | Groestl |
| Own hashrate | 4.87 TH/s |
| Network purpose | Payments |
| Ledger type | Single-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 — 80 out of 100, provisional (from 18 of 20 criteria, 28 October 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 72 to 82 (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) | 8.4 | group average, 10 of 12 measured |
| Sound Money Properties (6 checks) (Source) | 10 | 5 of 5 points, 1 not yet measured source |
| Scarcity (Limited supply · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §6) | 9.6 | fixed maximum supply of 105 million: supply scale 9.1, cap 10 |
| Durability (Sustainability · 1 Store of value) | ✓ | 12 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 118 transactions a second, 5 on the throughput scale (5 is the busiest networks' median demand) |
| Divisibility (Flexibility · 3 Unit of account) | ✓ | 8 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $9.2e-10 |
| 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) | 7.1 | average 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) | 5 | about 118 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 6.5 | a block every 1.1 minutes |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 10 | 4 MB limit, 38 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 6.7 | 2 of 3 passed |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper §11) | ✗ | One-minute probabilistic PoW blocks with no network protection for zero-confirmation payments. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | ✓ | Groestlcoin Core inherits Bitcoin Core's -prune (0.11+). |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✓ | Bitcoin-format headers with Merkle roots support SPV verification (Bitcoin §8). |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 3 | 3 of 9 points source |
| Miner pay (A day, $1,000 0 to $10 million 10; 2 points) | 0 | about $659 a day |
| Own hashrate (Half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined) | ✓ | |
| Largest pool (Pool or validator under 50%) | ✗ | 95% |
| Largest three (Under 75% together) | ✗ | 100% |
| Clients (More than one maintained) | ✗ | 1 |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | Groestlcoin Core is maintained by a small volunteer developer team, with no controlling company. |
| Real use (1,000+ transactions a day) | ✗ | about 71 a day |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Decentralisation | 10 | section average, 6 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: Groestlcoin Core is maintained by a small volunteer developer team, 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) | — | Not yet counted |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 10 | 0% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. Launched 22 March 2014 by Gruve_P on Bitcointalk as an open proof-of-work coin with no premine, ICO or developer reward reported. source |
| Fundraising | 10 | No sale of the coin source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. Groestlcoin launched in March 2014 as open PoW with no premine, and the whole block subsidy goes to the miner. The consensus code has no developer fee or treasury output. source |
| Privacy | 4 | section average |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 4 | 2 of 5 passed source |
| Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10) | ✓ | Anyone can generate keys and receive and send coins; the consensus rules carry no identity check. |
| UTXO ledger (A new key for each payment · Whitepaper §2, §9) | ✓ | |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | ✗ | Groestlcoin Core (Bitcoin Core base) uses Tor/I2P only if configured; no Dandelion. |
| Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential) | ✗ | Amounts are public. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | ✗ | Addresses are public. |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 3.3 | 3 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts (Scripting for spending conditions) | 1 | Bitcoin Core-derived Script (with SegWit and Taproot); spending conditions only. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | OP_CHECKMULTISIG plus CSV (height 1,439,424) and CLTV (height 2,464,000) buried deployments. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✓ | HTLCs expressible with CLTV; GRS is swap-enabled in the Komodo coin list. |
| Native exchange (Built into the protocol) | ✗ | No exchange in the protocol. |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | ✗ | No cross-chain feature in the protocol. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✗ | No token or NFT rules in consensus. |
| Supply & Demand | 5.1 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 1.2 | average of 2 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 0 | no 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) | – | no order book on the nine exchanges read |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 2.3 | $8.3M, 2.3 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | – | not measured |
| Supply (smaller is better) | 9.1 | fixed maximum supply of 105 million |
| 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 2014-04-11, 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 source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 166 commits in 12 of the last 12 months (github.com/Groestlcoin/groestlcoin); Groestlcoin Core 31.0, released 2026-04-26 (30.2 Jan 2026, 29.0 May 2025). |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | Groestlcoin Core 29.0 (May 2025), 30.2 (Jan 2026) and 31.0 (Apr 2026) rebase on the matching Bitcoin Core releases and carry their disclosed fixes; the Groestlcoin notes themselves label none |
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.
91,199,019 of a maximum 105,000,000 GRS are in circulation — 86.9% of the total that will ever exist.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 0% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
| Fundraising | No sale and no investor round |
Launched 22 March 2014 by Gruve_P on Bitcointalk as an open proof-of-work coin with no premine, ICO or developer reward reported.
No sale or venture round.
Groestlcoin launched in March 2014 as open PoW with no premine, and the whole block subsidy goes to the miner. The consensus code has no developer fee or treasury output.
The no-premine claim comes from secondary sources. The project's own about page gives the launch date but doesn't state it, and the 2014 ANN thread wasn't checked.
Sources: github.com · groestlcoin.org · groestlcoin.org · coinbureau.com · miningboard.com. Researched 2026-10-24, high confidence.
Groestlcoin is secured by 4.87 TH/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.
Groestlcoin is #151 among cryptocurrencies and #1033 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 882 places between Groestlcoin'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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