DeepOnion ranks #474 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #5532: 5058 of the 5531 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.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — launch under review |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #474 |
| Rank counting claims | #5532 |
| Price | $0.0113 |
| Circulating supply | 0 ONION |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Hybrid |
| Consensus mechanism | X13 PoW + PoS |
| Own hashrate | — |
| Network purpose | Private payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Premine |
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Grade pending. Fewer than six of DeepOnion's nine network-security points are measured yet. A grade is not given until it is, so that a coin is never rated higher for what is not yet known.
| Criterion | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Leading Consensus Mechanisms (Source) | 4.5 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 4.5 | Hybrid: 4.5 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 4.5 | Hybrid: 4.5 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 7.8 | group average, 9 of 12 measured |
| Sound Money Properties (6 checks) (Source) | 8 | 4 of 5 points, 1 not yet measured source |
| Scarcity (Limited supply · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §6) | – | |
| Durability (Sustainability · 1 Store of value) | ✓ | 9 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 92 transactions a second, 4.6 on the throughput scale (5 is the busiest networks' median demand) |
| Divisibility (Flexibility · 3 Unit of account) | ✓ | 8 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $1.1e-10 |
| Verifiability (Authenticity check · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §8) | ✓ | node software open source; pruned nodes validate everything |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 6.9 | 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) | 4.6 | about 92.2 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 6.1 | a block every 48 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 10 | 4 MB limit, 50 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 6.7 | 2 of 3 passed |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper §11) | ✓ | The Bitcoin Core 0.16-based node sets DEFAULT_ENABLE_REPLACEMENT false, so it relays the first-seen spend; four-minute PoW and PoS blocks alone would not qualify. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | ✓ | DeepOnion v2.3.3 (Apr 2022): -prune deletes old block files and keeps the UTXO set and recent blocks (incompatible with -txindex). |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✗ | DeepOnion v2.3.3 (Apr 2022): hybrid PoW/PoS chain; stake blocks cannot be checked from headers without the UTXO set and the protocol has no light-client proof scheme. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | — | 2 of 3 points, 6 not yet measured source |
| Miner pay (A day, $1,000 0 to $10 million 10; 2 points) | – | |
| Own hashrate (Half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined) | – | |
| Largest pool (Pool or validator under 50%) | – | |
| Largest three (Under 75% together) | – | |
| Clients (More than one maintained) | ✗ | 0 |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | A community development team maintains the deeponion GitHub repository (MIT licence); no company controls it. |
| Real use (1,000+ transactions a day) | – | |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Decentralisation | 8.2 | section average, 6 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol-level freeze or blacklist mechanism found. source |
| No central team (Source) | 10 | No central team: A community development team maintains the deeponion GitHub repository (MIT licence); no company controls it. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 7.1 | Hybrid: 7.1 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | — | Not yet counted |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 2.2 | 78.3% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. Block 1 paid 18,000,000 ONION (GetProofOfWorkReward: nHeight == 1), distributed by the founders as airdrops to BitcoinTalk members and bounties plus founder and development funds (reported split 10M airdrop / 3M bounties / 2M founders / 3M development); 18M / 22.998M total supply (CMC) = 78.3%. 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. After block 1, PoW (8 ONION halving every 131,400 PoW blocks) and PoS (1%/yr after the second year) rewards go to block producers only. source |
| Privacy | 6 | section average |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 6 | 3 of 5 passed source |
| Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10) | ✓ | DeepOnion's Bitcoin-derived node (deeponion/deeponion) has no identity rule: anyone generates keys and receives and sends the coin. |
| UTXO ledger (A new key for each payment · Whitepaper §2, §9) | ✓ | |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | ✓ | DeepOnion v2.3.3 (Apr 2022): DeepOnion starts an internal Tor node (-torport, default 9081) and routes all traffic through Tor with no client-side configuration. |
| Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential) | ✗ | DeepOnion v2.3.3 (Apr 2022): transparent amounts; no confidential-transaction scheme. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | ✗ | DeepOnion v2.3.3 (Apr 2022): stealth addresses hide the receiver, but no ring signature or zero-knowledge proof hides the sender. |
| 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 | DeepOnion v2.3.3 (Apr 2022): Bitcoin-style Script limited to spending conditions; no contract platform. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | DeepOnion v2.3.3 (Apr 2022): CHECKMULTISIG plus OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY and OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY enforced by the block-validation script flags (src/validation.cpp). |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✓ | DeepOnion v2.3.3 (Apr 2022): hash-locked, CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY-refund HTLC scripts are expressible, as in Bitcoin. |
| Native exchange (Built into the protocol) | ✗ | DeepOnion v2.3.3 (Apr 2022): no order book or market maker in the ledger rules. |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | ✗ | DeepOnion v2.3.3 (Apr 2022): no cross-chain message or light-client verification in the protocol. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✗ | DeepOnion v2.3.3 (Apr 2022): no token or NFT type in the consensus rules. |
| Supply & Demand | 0 | group average, 1 of 2 measured |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 0 | average of 1 measure |
| 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) | – | not measured |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | – | not measured |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | – | not measured |
| Supply (smaller is better) | — | Supply not reported |
| Record | 6.3 | 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) | 9 | 9 full years since 2017-08-12, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 0 | 0 positive, 7 negative source |
| Negative | ||
| Steady work, 0 of 6 | ✗ | 0 commits in 0 of the last 12 months (github.com/deeponion/deeponion); Last release v2.3.3, 2022-04-08; nothing in the last 24 months. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-03, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-52914: crafted orphan transactions can stall the node for hours in the uninterruptible orphan-resolution loop; still in DeepOnion v2.3.3. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-03, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2020-14198: misbehaving peers are auto-banned into an unbounded ban list, so many attacker addresses can exhaust CPU and memory; still in DeepOnion v2.3.3. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-31, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-52919: addr-message spam can overflow the address manager's 32-bit id counter and crash the node, with no addr rate limit; still in DeepOnion v2.3.3. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-09-18, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2019-25220: a long low-difficulty header chain can exhaust memory because the node has no headers pre-synchronisation; still in DeepOnion v2.3.3. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-10-08, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-35202: a crafted blocktxn message trips the assert in compact-block reconstruction and crashes the node; still in DeepOnion v2.3.3. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2026-05-05, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-52911: a crafted invalid block can make script-check threads read freed precomputed transaction data and crash the node; still in DeepOnion v2.3.3. |
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.
0 ONION are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 78.3% 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 |
Block 1 paid 18,000,000 ONION (GetProofOfWorkReward: nHeight == 1), distributed by the founders as airdrops to BitcoinTalk members and bounties plus founder and development funds (reported split 10M airdrop / 3M bounties / 2M founders / 3M development); 18M / 22.998M total supply (CMC) = 78.3%.
No ICO; coins were distributed by airdrop from 12 July 2017.
Not documented.
After block 1, PoW (8 ONION halving every 131,400 PoW blocks) and PoS (1%/yr after the second year) rewards go to block producers only.
clients is 0 because the last release (April 2022) is older than 24 months. The premine split comes from secondary sources; the 18M block-1 amount comes from the code. BitcoinTalk shows a 'high-risk' warning on the ANN thread creator.
Sources: github.com · github.com · github.com · hive.blog · bitcointalk.org. Researched 2026-10-26, medium confidence.
No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for DeepOnion.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
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DeepOnion is #474 among cryptocurrencies and #5532 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 5058 places between DeepOnion'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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