Injective ranks #31 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #84: 53 of the 83 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 72 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 57% are claims on other assets, 38% are tokens and 6% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | C · 60/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #31 |
| Rank counting claims | #84 |
| Market capitalisation | $775M |
| Price | $7.75 |
| Circulating supply | 100,000,000 INJ |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | Tendermint (CometBFT) |
| Network purpose | Financial ledger |
| Ledger type | Multi-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Presale |
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C — 60 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 57 to 62 (C to C).
| Criterion | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Leading Consensus Mechanisms (Source) | 9.1 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 9.1 | Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 9.1 | Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 4.7 | group average, 12 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 4.2 | 2.5 of 6 points source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 4.6 | no fixed maximum; 100 million in circulation: supply scale 9.1, cap 0 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✗ | 6 full years since its first recorded price, one halt, freeze or reversal in five years |
| Fungibility: every unit interchangeable, none the protocol can freeze or set apart | ✗ | an authority can freeze funds: Validators stopped block production for about 3h42m on 2026-08-31 to respond to an exploit and restarted on a patched safe-harbor build, a coordinated emergency halt; no key freezes individual INJ balances. |
| Divisibility: the smallest unit worth a cent or less | ✓ | 18 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $7.7e-18 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✓ | typical fee $0.00003; about 12,000 transactions a second (10 on the throughput scale; 5 is the busiest networks' median demand) |
| Verifiability: open-source nodes and checking without a trusted server | ✗ | node software not open source; light clients verify from headers or proofs |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 2 | 1 of 5 passed source |
| Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity | ✓ | Any key can hold and send INJ; the Cosmos SDK bank and auth modules 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) | ✗ | CometBFT mempool gossip relays transactions directly. |
| 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) | ✗ | No sender or receiver hiding. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 8 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.00003 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 10 | about 12,000 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 0 | a block every 0.59 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 10 | 4.19 MB limit, 4270 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 10 | 3 of 3 passed |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✓ | CometBFT gives deterministic single-block finality with blocks of about 0.6 seconds. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✓ | Cosmos SDK pruning strategies plus min-retain-blocks let nodes drop old state and blocks. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✓ | CometBFT light client verifies headers from validator signatures (basis of IBC). |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 4 | 4 of 9 points source |
| Miners paid a day ($1,000 0, $10 million or more 10), 2 points | 0 | not mined |
| Its own hashrate: at least half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined | ✗ | not mined |
| Largest pool or validator under 50% | ✓ | 8.8% |
| Largest three under 75% | ✓ | 21.9% |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 1 |
| Node software is open source | ✗ | Injective Labs develops the chain, and its InjectiveFoundation/injective-core repository holds only a SOURCE_CODE_IS_PRIVATE placeholder, with binaries shipped in injective-chain-releases. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✓ | about 1,600,000 a day |
| No 51% attack or deep reorganisation in five years | ✓ | |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 10 | 9 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance at protocol level, validated by its own nodes | 2 | Token Factory module lets any account create a native denom for a small INJ fee, alongside CW-20 contracts on CosmWasm and ERC-20 on its native EVM. |
| Smart contracts: a general-purpose contract system | 2 | Native EVM in the core chain since 11 November 2025, alongside CosmWasm (instantiation open, code upload limited to one address), with DEX and lending applications on mainnet. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | Native Cosmos SDK multisig accounts plus timelock contracts on the EVM. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | EVM HTLC contracts (hash lock plus timelock refund). |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✓ | The exchange module runs order-book management, matching and settlement for spot and derivative markets on chain. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✓ | IBC (ibc-go v8) light-client channels to other Cosmos chains. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✓ | ERC-721 contracts on the native EVM (and CW-721 on CosmWasm). |
| Decentralisation | 4 | section average, 7 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 0 | An authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: Validators stopped block production for about 3h42m on 2026-08-31 to respond to an exploit and restarted on a patched safe-harbor build, a coordinated emergency halt; no key freezes individual INJ balances. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: Injective Labs develops the chain, and its InjectiveFoundation/injective-core repository holds only a SOURCE_CODE_IS_PRIVATE placeholder, with binaries shipped in injective-chain-releases. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 8.6 | Proof of stake: 8.6 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | 5.5 | 45 active validators or block producers (source: sentry.lcd.injective.network) |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 1.9 | 81% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. 100M INJ were created and fully allocated at the Oct 2020 TGE (ecosystem 36.33%, team 20%, private sale 16.67%, community growth 10%, Binance Launchpad 9%, seed 6%, advisors 2%), against an on-chain bank supply of 123,474,980 INJ (Injective LCD, 2026-10-23) after staking issuance net of burns. source |
| Fundraising | 1.9 | Sold by its issuer or insiders: 81% of supply was theirs to sell, 25.6% sold so far. Of the 100M INJ at the Oct 2020 TGE, seed 6% + private sale 16.67% + Binance Launchpad IEO 9% (at $0.40) = 31.67M INJ sold. 31.67M / 123,474,980 INJ on-chain bank supply (Injective LCD, 2026-10-23) = 25.6%. Seed sale (6%) and private sale (16.67%) plus a Binance Launchpad IEO of 9% at $0.40 on 20 Oct 2020 (~$3.6M). source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 9.9 | Developer share: about 1.1% of today's supply received so far; 5% of each new block reward goes to them today. The Cosmos SDK community tax sends a share of block rewards (inflation plus fees) to the community pool: 2% from genesis (Nov 2020), then 5% since Proposal 59 (Sep 2021), which is still the on-chain value. Gross minting is about 123.48M on-chain supply - 100M genesis + ~7.2M burned = ~30.7M. About 2% of ~4M plus 5% of ~26.7M gives ~1.4M INJ, about 1.1% of supply. Most of it has since been spent, and the pool now holds ~11.7K INJ. source |
| Supply & Demand | 8.6 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 8.2 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 10 | 42 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 7.5 | $30,475,370 traded in 24 hours; #44 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $55,606,248) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 9.2 | 7.0% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 9.3 | $4,763,679 within 2% of the price on 9 exchanges, 0.61% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days; a lower bound: the books returned by 1 of them stop short of 2% |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 7.2 | $775M, 7.2 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | 6 | futures, options and margin positions 16% of its market cap |
| Supply (smaller is better) | 9.1 | no fixed maximum; 100 million in circulation |
| Record | 7.3 | group average |
| Record (origin, claims, halts) | 9 | 2 positive, 1 negative source |
| Positive record | ||
| Launched with a stated purpose, not as a joke | ✓ | |
| No claims by its founders that contradict its own design | ✓ | |
| Negative record | ||
| Halt, freeze or reversal, 2026-08-31 | ✗ | Block production stopped for ~3h42m (last block 181,027,005 at 16:09:59 UTC) during an emergency response to a ~$4.9M insurance-fund/binary-options exploit; validators restarted on patched v1.20.3-safeharbor.1, some were jailed for missing the window. |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 6 | 6 full years since 2020-10-21, 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, 2 not yet researched source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 36 commits in 10 of the last 12 months (github.com/InjectiveLabs/injective-chain-releases); Injective chain v1.20.3-safeharbor.1 emergency release (Aug-Sep 2026); v1.17.2 2025-12-17 in injective-chain-releases. |
| Shipped a scaling upgrade in two years, +1 | ✓ | Real-Time EVM upgrade (proposal 619), 19 Feb 2026: scaled the EVM execution architecture. |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1 | ✓ | Native EVM live on mainnet, 11 Nov 2025, alongside CosmWasm. |
| Negative | ||
| Exploit of the chain, 2026-08-31, −1 | ✗ | An attacker used the chain's native exchange and insurance modules (a binary-options market-ID collision with an insurance fund) to extract about $4.9M; block production stopped for nearly four hours until validators shipped v1.20.3-safeharbor.1 with an insurance-fund denomination check. |
| Not yet researched | ||
| Shipped a security fix in two years | – | |
| Unfixed vulnerabilities and exploits | – | |
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.
100,000,000 INJ are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 81% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 25.6% of today's supply |
| Developer share received since launch | 1.1% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 5% |
| Nodes or validators | 45 |
| Fundraising | Public sale |
100M INJ were created and fully allocated at the Oct 2020 TGE (ecosystem 36.33%, team 20%, private sale 16.67%, community growth 10%, Binance Launchpad 9%, seed 6%, advisors 2%), against an on-chain bank supply of 123,474,980 INJ (Injective LCD, 2026-10-23) after staking issuance net of burns.
Seed sale (6%) and private sale (16.67%) plus a Binance Launchpad IEO of 9% at $0.40 on 20 Oct 2020 (~$3.6M).
Of the 100M INJ at the Oct 2020 TGE, seed 6% + private sale 16.67% + Binance Launchpad IEO 9% (at $0.40) = 31.67M INJ sold. 31.67M / 123,474,980 INJ on-chain bank supply (Injective LCD, 2026-10-23) = 25.6%.
The Cosmos SDK community tax sends a share of block rewards (inflation plus fees) to the community pool: 2% from genesis (Nov 2020), then 5% since Proposal 59 (Sep 2021), which is still the on-chain value. Gross minting is about 123.48M on-chain supply - 100M genesis + ~7.2M burned = ~30.7M. About 2% of ~4M plus 5% of ~26.7M gives ~1.4M INJ, about 1.1% of supply. Most of it has since been spent, and the pool now holds ~11.7K INJ.
Sources: tokenomist.ai · docs.injective.network · coingecko.com · lcd.injective.network · injective.valopers.com · raw.githubusercontent.com. Researched 2026-10-24, medium confidence.
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Injective is #31 among cryptocurrencies and #84 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 53 places between Injective'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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