LUKSO ranks #165 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1165: 1000 of the 1164 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 1387 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 72% are tokens, 21% are claims on other assets and 7% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | B · 65/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #165 |
| Rank counting claims | #1165 |
| Market capitalisation | $6M |
| Price | $0.1978 |
| Circulating supply | 30,535,907 LYX |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | Casper FFG + LMD-GHOST (Ethereum-clone) |
| Network purpose | Smart-contract platform |
| Ledger type | Multi-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Presale |
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B — 65 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 58 to 69 (C to B).
| 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) | 5.2 | group average, 10 of 12 measured |
| Sound Money Properties (6 checks) (Source) | 9.2 | 5.5 of 6 points source |
| Scarcity (Limited supply · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §6) | 4.9 | no fixed maximum; 30.5 million in circulation: supply scale 9.8, cap 0 |
| Durability (Sustainability · 1 Store of value) | ✓ | 5 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) | ✓ | typical fee $0.0000037; about 167 transactions a second, 5.6 on the throughput scale (5 is the busiest networks' median demand) |
| Divisibility (Flexibility · 3 Unit of account) | ✓ | 18 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $2.0e-19 |
| 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) | 6.6 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.0000037 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 5.6 | about 167 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 3.9 | a block every 12 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 10 | 1.05 MB limit (converted from its gas, compute, mass or count limit), 52.5 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 3.3 | 1 of 3 passed |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper §11) | ✗ | Ethereum-style Casper FFG + LMD-GHOST: 12-second slots, finality after two epochs (about 13 minutes). |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | ✗ | Geth history pruning drops only pre-merge blocks on Ethereum mainnet and Sepolia; LUKSO has no pre-merge history, so nodes prune state only and keep every block. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✓ | Ethereum-style beacon chain with sync committees, which consensus light clients verify without trusting a server. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 5.1 | 4 of 7 points, 2 not yet measured source |
| Miner pay (A day, $1,000 0 to $10 million 10; 2 points) | 0 | not 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) | ✓ | 4 |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | The node clients are Ethereum's (Geth, Erigon, Besu, Nethermind; Prysm, Lighthouse, Teku, Nimbus, all open source), but the LUKSO network configs, fork schedule and LSP standards are set by the LUKSO team (LUKSO Blockchain GmbH / lukso-network GitHub org). |
| Real use (1,000+ transactions a day) | ✓ | about 7,692 a day |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Decentralisation | 4.8 | section average, 6 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol-level freeze, blacklist or halt key; consensus is the unmodified Ethereum beacon-chain specification. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: The node clients are Ethereum's (Geth, Erigon, Besu, Nethermind; Prysm, Lighthouse, Teku, Nimbus, all open source), but the LUKSO network configs, fork schedule and LSP standards are set by the LUKSO team (LUKSO Blockchain GmbH / lukso-network GitHub org). source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 8.6 | Proof of stake: 8.6 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | — | Not counted: the LUKSO consensus explorer lists 156,235 active validator keys (32 to 2,048 LYX each, epoch 281559, 2026-10-26), but one operator can run any number of keys, as on Ethereum, and no node crawler covers the network. |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 0.2 | 98.5% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. The LYX mainnet launched on 23 May 2023 with a 42M genesis supply (chosen by 84.2% of genesis validators). It went to LYXe holders, who migrate 1:1, and to the LUKSO Foundation. Current supply is about 42.6M LYX: execution-layer balances of 50.33M (Blockscout coinsupply) minus 13.04M held in the deposit contract plus 5.33M on the beacon chain (consensus explorer, 2026-10-23). source |
| Fundraising | 0.2 | Sold by its issuer or insiders: 98.5% of supply was theirs to sell, 16.4% sold so far. In 2020 LUKSO sold LYXe in an eight-month reversible ICO open to the public, receiving nearly 10,000 ETH, plus a KuCoin IEO. ByteTree puts these at about 6% and 1% of the 100M LYXe supply (about 7M), counted here as sold. Another roughly 8% for 'sales and marketing fees' is not counted. source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. Ethereum-style beacon chain: new LYX is issued only as consensus rewards to validators (~0.6M LYX since genesis); there is no treasury share. source |
| Privacy | 2 | section average |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 2 | 1 of 5 passed source |
| Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10) | ✓ | Any secp256k1 key can hold and send LYX; the chain's account and transfer rules carry no identity check. |
| UTXO ledger (A new key for each payment · Whitepaper §2, §9) | ✗ | |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | ✗ | Runs upstream Ethereum clients (Geth, Erigon, Besu, Nethermind) with no Dandelion or built-in Tor. |
| Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential) | ✗ | Public EVM ledger. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | ✗ | Accounts are public. |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 7.8 | 7 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance (At protocol level) | 2 | EVM chain on which any account can deploy LSP7 (and ERC-20) token contracts. |
| Smart contracts (General-purpose) | 2 | EVM-based Layer 1 running the same technology as Ethereum, unmodified. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | Universal Profiles with the LSP6 Key Manager, plus multisig and time-lock contracts on its EVM. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✓ | Solidity HTLCs can be deployed on its EVM. |
| Native exchange (Built into the protocol) | ✗ | No exchange in the protocol; Universal Swaps is a dApp. |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | ✗ | No protocol-level cross-chain messaging. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✓ | LSP8 identifiable digital asset (NFT) and ERC-721 contracts run by its EVM. |
| Supply & Demand | 7.7 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 5.5 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 4 | 4 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 2.1 | $102,640 traded in 24 hours; #1519 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $112,937) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 7.4 | 1.6% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 7.7 | $12,677 within 2% of the price on 3 exchanges, 0.21% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 2 | $6.0M, 2 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | 10 | no futures, options or margin on the exchanges read |
| Supply (smaller is better) | 9.8 | no fixed maximum; 30.5 million in circulation |
| Record | 7.7 | 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) | 5 | 5 full years since 2021-10-20, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 8 | 3 positive, 0 negative, 1 not yet researched source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 2 commits in 1 of the last 12 months (github.com/lukso-network/tools-lukso-cli); LUKSO runs Ethereum's client software with its own network configs; the LUKSO CLI (lukso-network/tools-lukso-cli) shipped 8 releases in the last 24 months, latest v0.26.0 on 2026-04-04, network-configs updated 2026-08-19, and the Electra fork activated 2025-09-17. |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | LUKSO runs upstream Geth/Prysm clients; Geth 1.14.13+ (Feb 2025) fixed CVE-2025-24883, carried into the Pectra-ready client releases |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1 | ✓ | Pectra (Electra) fork at epoch 190,800, ~17 Sep 2025: EIP-7702 account abstraction |
| Not yet researched | ||
| Shipped a scaling upgrade in two years | – | |
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.
30,535,907 LYX are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 98.5% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 16.4% of today's supply |
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
| Fundraising | Public sale |
The LYX mainnet launched on 23 May 2023 with a 42M genesis supply (chosen by 84.2% of genesis validators). It went to LYXe holders, who migrate 1:1, and to the LUKSO Foundation. Current supply is about 42.6M LYX: execution-layer balances of 50.33M (Blockscout coinsupply) minus 13.04M held in the deposit contract plus 5.33M on the beacon chain (consensus explorer, 2026-10-23).
In 2020 LUKSO sold LYXe in an eight-month reversible ICO open to the public, receiving nearly 10,000 ETH, plus a KuCoin IEO. ByteTree puts these at about 6% and 1% of the 100M LYXe supply (about 7M), counted here as sold. Another roughly 8% for 'sales and marketing fees' is not counted.
Ethereum-style beacon chain: new LYX is issued only as consensus rewards to validators (~0.6M LYX since genesis); there is no treasury share.
The site has no label yet. Premine is solid: about 0.6M LYX has been minted since genesis. Sold share is approximate because no primary source gives the exact LYXe sold in the rICO. One pre-launch report put the Foundation at 26.8% of the 42M option. CoinGecko's 42.1M total is slightly stale.
Sources: docs.lukso.tech · docs.lukso.network · explorer.execution.mainnet.lukso.network · explorer.consensus.mainnet.lukso.network · bytetree.com. Researched 2026-10-26, high confidence.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
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LUKSO is #165 among cryptocurrencies and #1165 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 1000 places between LUKSO'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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