Osmosis ranks #94 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #553: 459 of the 552 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 554 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 59% are tokens, 33% are claims on other assets and 8% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | B · 66/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #94 |
| Rank counting claims | #553 |
| Market capitalisation | $39M |
| Price | $0.0523 |
| Circulating supply | 749,157,748 OSMO |
| Maximum supply | 1,000,000,000 OSMO |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | Tendermint (CometBFT) |
| Ledger type | Multi-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Presale |
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B — 66 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 63 to 68 (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) | 5.8 | group average, 12 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 5.7 | 3.4 of 6 points source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 3.9 | fixed maximum supply of 1 billion, but an issuer or vote can mint outside the schedule: supply scale 7.8, cap 0 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✗ | 5 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 and core developers deliberately halted the chain at block 4,713,064 in Jun 2022 after an LP-share bug, restarting only with a patched release. |
| Divisibility: the smallest unit worth a cent or less | ✓ | 6 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $5.2e-8 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✓ | typical fee $0.0012; about 2,895 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 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 OSMO; 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 with no Dandelion-style relay or built-in Tor. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | All transfers are public. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Accounts are public; no ring signatures or stealth addresses. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 8.5 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 9.7 | typical fee $0.0012 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 10 | about 2,895 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 2.8 | a block every 6 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 10 | 3 MB limit, 300 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 10 | 3 of 3 passed |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✓ | CometBFT gives deterministic finality with ~1.5 s blocks. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✓ | Cosmos SDK state pruning and state sync; Osmosis publishes pruned osmosis-1 snapshots for nodes that do not keep full history. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✓ | CometBFT light client protocol verifies signed headers against the validator set (>2/3 trust, skipping/bisection), as used by IBC. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 5 | 5 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% | ✓ | 12.56% |
| Largest three under 75% | ✓ | 28.22% |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 1 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | Osmosis Labs maintains the only node, osmosis-labs/osmosis (Apache-2.0); upgrades pass on-chain governance. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✓ | about 40,300 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 | The Token Factory module lets any account create a native denom for a fee; CosmWasm CW-20 contracts also run on the chain. |
| Smart contracts: a general-purpose contract system | 2 | CosmWasm contracts on mainnet (cosmwasmpool and third-party applications), with code uploads approved by governance. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | Cosmos SDK threshold multisig accounts, plus CosmWasm contracts and the smart-account module for time-based conditions. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | Hash- and time-locked contracts can be written in CosmWasm. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✓ | The gamm, concentrated-liquidity and poolmanager modules make the AMM part of the chain itself. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✓ | IBC light clients, with ibc-hooks and rate limits in the chain's modules. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✓ | CW-721 contracts run by the chain's CosmWasm module. |
| Decentralisation | 5.5 | section average, 7 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 0 | An authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: Validators and core developers deliberately halted the chain at block 4,713,064 in Jun 2022 after an LP-share bug, restarting only with a patched release. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: Osmosis Labs maintains the only node, osmosis-labs/osmosis (Apache-2.0); upgrades pass on-chain governance. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 8.6 | Proof of stake: 8.6 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | 4.9 | 30 reachable nodes source |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 8.7 | 12.6% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. 100M OSMO at genesis (June 2021): 50M airdrop to ATOM holders (founder-designed 'fairdrop') and 50M strategic reserve (Osmosis Foundation), against current total supply 793,315,669 OSMO (Osmosis bank module, 2026-10-23). source |
| Fundraising | 8.7 | Sold by its issuer or insiders: 12.6% of supply was theirs to sell, 0.9% sold so far. The Osmosis Foundation sold $21M of OSMO from its treasury in Oct 2021 (Paradigm-led); units undisclosed, estimated 4.2M-10.5M OSMO at $2-5. 4.2M-10.5M / 793,315,669 OSMO (bank module, 2026-10-23) = 0.5-1.3%, midpoint 0.9%. The 50M genesis fairdrop was not a sale. $21M private/strategic sale of OSMO from the Osmosis Foundation treasury (Oct 2021) led by Paradigm, with Robot Ventures, Nascent, Ethereal, Figment and Do Kwon. source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 7.8 | Developer share: about 21.9% of today's supply received so far; 92% of each new block reward goes to them today. Osmosis mint params (2026-10-24) split each daily emission into staking 8%, pool incentives 0%, developer rewards 25% (paid from the pre-minted 225M developer-vesting module to multisig osmo1f3w7…) and community pool 67%, so 92% goes to non-validators. Developer rewards released since June 2021 = 225M − 51.58M left = 173.4M OSMO = 21.9% of 793.4M supply. Community-pool inflows come on top (the pool holds 119.1M OSMO now) but their cumulative total was not reconstructed, so 21.9 is a lower bound. source |
| Supply & Demand | 7.7 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 7.6 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 10 | 22 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 4.6 | $5,567,903 traded in 24 hours; #440 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $2,081,518) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 9.2 | 7.1% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 8 | $97,160 within 2% of the price on 6 exchanges, 0.25% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 4 | $39M, 4 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) | 7.8 | fixed maximum supply of 1 billion |
| 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, 2022-06-08 | ✗ | Validators and core developers halted the chain at block 4,713,064 after a v9 LP-share bug let ~$5M be drained; restarted only after a patched release. |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 5 | 5 full years since 2021-10-05, 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 source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 157 commits in 9 of the last 12 months (github.com/osmosis-labs/osmosis); osmosis-labs/osmosis v31.0.3, 2026-05-14 (v32.0.0 tagged 2026-10-22); 16 stable releases in 24 months. |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | Osmosis v30.0.0, Jul/Aug 2025: 'security patches and dependencies upgrade'; v31.0.1, Jan 2026: CometBFT bumped to v0.38.21 (includes the GHSA-hrhf-2vcr-ghch fix). |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1 | ✓ | Osmosis v30.0.0, Aug 2025: permissionless creation of supercharged (concentrated-liquidity) pools. |
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.
749,157,748 of a maximum 1,000,000,000 OSMO are in circulation — 74.9% of the total that will ever exist.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 12.6% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 0.9% of today's supply |
| Developer share received since launch | 21.9% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 92% |
| Nodes or validators | 30 |
| Fundraising | Private or venture funding |
100M OSMO at genesis (June 2021): 50M airdrop to ATOM holders (founder-designed 'fairdrop') and 50M strategic reserve (Osmosis Foundation), against current total supply 793,315,669 OSMO (Osmosis bank module, 2026-10-23).
$21M private/strategic sale of OSMO from the Osmosis Foundation treasury (Oct 2021) led by Paradigm, with Robot Ventures, Nascent, Ethereal, Figment and Do Kwon.
The Osmosis Foundation sold $21M of OSMO from its treasury in Oct 2021 (Paradigm-led); units undisclosed, estimated 4.2M-10.5M OSMO at $2-5. 4.2M-10.5M / 793,315,669 OSMO (bank module, 2026-10-23) = 0.5-1.3%, midpoint 0.9%. The 50M genesis fairdrop was not a sale.
Osmosis mint params (2026-10-24) split each daily emission into staking 8%, pool incentives 0%, developer rewards 25% (paid from the pre-minted 225M developer-vesting module to multisig osmo1f3w7…) and community pool 67%, so 92% goes to non-validators. Developer rewards released since June 2021 = 225M − 51.58M left = 173.4M OSMO = 21.9% of 793.4M supply. Community-pool inflows come on top (the pool holds 119.1M OSMO now) but their cumulative total was not reconstructed, so 21.9 is a lower bound.
Sources: blockworks.co · cryptobriefing.com · invezz.com · lcd.osmosis.zone · github.com · stakin.com. Researched 2026-10-24, low confidence.
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Osmosis is #94 among cryptocurrencies and #553 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 459 places between Osmosis'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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