OctaSpace (OCTA)

OctaSpace ranks #190 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1459: 1269 of the 1458 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 1692 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 75% are tokens, 20% are claims on other assets and 6% are memecoins.

CoinSpectrum GradeB · 67/100 · provisional
Rank among cryptocurrencies#190
Rank counting claims#1459
Market capitalisation$3M
Price$0.0752
Circulating supply39,984,352 OCTA
Maximum supply48,000,000 OCTA
Consensus familyProof of Work
Consensus mechanismEthash (EVM-compatible)
Own hashrate1.29 TH/s
Network purposeDistributed compute
Ledger typeMulti-asset ledger
Launch distributionNo premine

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

CoinSpectrum Grade (Source)

B — 67 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 60 to 70 (C to B).

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)6.7group average, 10 of 12 measured
Sound Money Properties (6 checks) (Source)63 of 5 points, 1 not yet measured source
Scarcity (Limited supply · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §6)9.8fixed maximum supply of 48 million: supply scale 9.5, cap 10
Durability (Sustainability · 1 Store of value)✗3 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 $0.0000024; about 109 transactions a second, 4.9 on the throughput scale (5 is the busiest networks' median demand)
Divisibility (Flexibility · 3 Unit of account)✓18 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $7.5e-20
Verifiability (Authenticity check · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §8)–node software open source
Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features)5.8average of 5 parts source
Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0)10typical fee $0.0000024
Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5)4.9about 109 simple transactions a second
Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side)3.9a block every 12 seconds
Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10)101.88 MB limit (converted from its gas, compute, mass or count limit), 93.8 MB per 10 minutes
Features (3 checks)00 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched
Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper §11)✗Ethash proof-of-work with ~13 s blocks and probabilistic finality; no instant-lock or double-spend-proof mechanism.
Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7)✗go-ethereum 1.10.17 base prunes state only; full nodes keep every block.
Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8)–go-octa is based on go-ethereum 1.10.17, which still contains the LES light protocol, but whether any node serves it is unknown.
Security (miner pay and 7 checks)44 of 9 points source
Miner pay (A day, $1,000 0 to $10 million 10; 2 points)0about $541 a day
Own hashrate (Half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined)✗
Largest pool (Pool or validator under 50%)✓49.5%
Largest three (Under 75% together)✗96.2%
Clients (More than one maintained)✗1
Open source (Node software)✓The only client, go-octa (a go-ethereum fork under LGPL/GPL), lives in the OctaSpace GitHub organisation, which also sets the reward forks.
Real use (1,000+ transactions a day)✓about 1,926 a day
No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years)✓
Decentralisation8.1section average, 6 of 8 measured
Censorship resistant (Source)10No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol-level freeze, blacklist or halt key; the development and node-staking funds are ordinary addresses credited by the reward code. source
No central team (Source)0A central team directs it: The only client, go-octa (a go-ethereum fork under LGPL/GPL), lives in the OctaSpace GitHub organisation, which also sets the reward forks. 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. No genesis allocation or instamine: every OCTA has been issued as block rewards. The development-fund share (5.78M OCTA) is now scored as a block-reward cut. source
Fundraising10No sale of the coin source
Developer share (after launch)8.8Developer share: about 12.5% of today's supply received so far; 15% of each new block reward goes to them today. go-octa credits a development fund (0xfD208bfe…) every block: 1.5 OCTA to block 1,499,999, then 1.0, 0.5, 0.4 (from 2.5M) and 0.3 (from 6M); now 0.3 of 2.0 OCTA = 15%. To height 10,606,624 that sums to 5.78M OCTA = 12.5% of 46.42M (Blockscout coinsupply). A larger node-staking fund (0.7 OCTA a block now, 15.9M so far) pays OctaSpace compute nodes and is treated as node-operator rewards, not a cut. source
Privacy2section average
Privacy (5 checks)21 of 5 passed source
Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10)✓Accounts are derived from user-generated keys and the EVM checks only signatures and balances; no identity check is part of the chain's rules.
UTXO ledger (A new key for each payment · Whitepaper §2, §9)✗
Network privacy (Origin hidden by default)✗Devp2p relays transactions directly from the sending node; no Dandelion-style relay or built-in Tor.
Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential)✗Account-based EVM chain with public balances and transfer amounts.
Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden)✗Sender and receiver addresses are public; no ring signatures, ZK sender proofs or stealth addresses in the protocol.
Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks)7.87 of 9 points source
Token issuance (At protocol level)2ERC-20 contracts on its go-ethereum-based EVM chain (chain ID 800001), open to any account; third-party ERC-20s appear on its explorer.
Smart contracts (General-purpose)2go-ethereum-based EVM chain (chain ID 800001), open to any account; blocks produced in October 2026.
Multisig and time locks (Without a third party)✓EVM contracts can enforce m-of-n signatures and block-time locks.
Atomic swaps (With other chains)✓Hash-locked, time-locked contracts can be written for its EVM.
Native exchange (Built into the protocol)✗No exchange in the protocol.
Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself)✗No protocol-level cross-chain messaging found.
NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules)✓ERC-721 contracts on its EVM.
Supply & Demand6.4group average
Supply & Demand (Source)3.3average of 6 measures
Exchanges (10 or more: 10)22 exchanges
Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10)0$12,948 traded in 24 hours; #2737 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $6,963)
Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10)2.10.16% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days
Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10)4.5$656 within 2% of the price on 2 exchanges, 0.02% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days
Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10)1.2$3.0M, 1.2 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)9.5fixed maximum supply of 48 million
Record4.3group 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)33 full years since 2023-04-05, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated).
Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues)01 positive, 4 negative source
Positive
Steady work, 2 of 6✓0 commits in 0 of the last 12 months (github.com/octaspace/go-octa); go-octa v2.0.2, released 2024-11-04, is the only release in the last 24 months (previous: v2.0.1, 2024-09-26).
Negative
Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2023-09-06, −1✗go-ethereum GHSA-ppjg-v974-84cm (CVE-2023-40591, High) lets a flood of p2p pings spawn unbounded goroutines until the node runs out of memory; go-octa v2.0.2 (geth 1.10.17 base per its README; the RPC reports v2.0.2-octa) still answers pings in a new goroutine (fixed in 1.12.1).
Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-05-06, −1✗go-ethereum GHSA-4xc9-8hmq-j652 (CVE-2024-32972, High) lets a GetBlockHeaders request with count 0 make the node load every header back to genesis; go-octa v2.0.2 (geth 1.10.17 base per its README; the RPC reports v2.0.2-octa) lacks the 1.13.15 cap.
Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2026-01-13, −1✗go-ethereum GHSA-mr7q-c9w9-wh4h (CVE-2026-22862, High) lets a crafted p2p message crash the node with a too-short ECIES ciphertext; go-octa v2.0.2 (geth 1.10.17 base per its README; the RPC reports v2.0.2-octa) lacks the 1.16.8 length check.
Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2026-02-17, −1✗go-ethereum GHSA-2gjw-fg97-vg3r (CVE-2026-26314, High) lets a crafted p2p message crash the node through unchecked secp256k1 point coordinates; go-octa v2.0.2 (geth 1.10.17 base per its README; the RPC reports v2.0.2-octa) lacks the 1.16.9 coordinate check.

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

39,984,352 of a maximum 48,000,000 OCTA are in circulation — 83.3% of the total that will ever exist.

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 launch12.5% of today's supply
Developer share of new coins today15%
FundraisingNo sale and no investor round

No genesis allocation or instamine: every OCTA has been issued as block rewards. The development-fund share (5.78M OCTA) is now scored as a block-reward cut.

No sale. OctaSpace's docs state that no coins were premined or pre-allocated, including to the team.

go-octa credits a development fund (0xfD208bfe…) every block: 1.5 OCTA to block 1,499,999, then 1.0, 0.5, 0.4 (from 2.5M) and 0.3 (from 6M); now 0.3 of 2.0 OCTA = 15%. To height 10,606,624 that sums to 5.78M OCTA = 12.5% of 46.42M (Blockscout coinsupply). A larger node-staking fund (0.7 OCTA a block now, 15.9M so far) pays OctaSpace compute nodes and is treated as node-operator rewards, not a cut.

The site has no label yet. 'No premine' is accurate, but the dev fund takes a block-reward share, which counts here. The dev total is computed from the published schedule. On-chain supply is about 0.7M above the schedule's 45.7M, probably uncle rewards; the dev address balance was not checked directly.

Sources: github.com · github.com · scan.octa.space · docs.octa.space · pool.kryptex.com. Researched 2026-10-24, high confidence.

The work behind it

OctaSpace is secured by 1.29 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.

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 OctaSpace

OctaSpace is #190 among cryptocurrencies and #1459 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 1269 places between OctaSpace'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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