PRivaCY Coin ranks #313 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #3655: 3342 of the 3654 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 3933 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 83% are tokens, 14% are claims on other assets and 2% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — launch under review |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #313 |
| Rank counting claims | #3655 |
| Market capitalisation | $17,820 |
| Price | $0.00123 |
| Circulating supply | 14,468,056 PRCY |
| Maximum supply | 70,000,000 PRCY |
| Consensus family | Hybrid |
| Consensus mechanism | PoSv3 + Proof-of-Audit (hash-mined audit blocks) + masternodes |
| Own hashrate | — |
| Network purpose | Private payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
Market figures from the 28 October 2026 build. Open the live view for every exchange's price, and charts.
Grade pending. PRivaCY Coin's launch — how much went to insiders, whether it was sold to investors — is still being researched. 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) | 6.2 | group average, 7 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) | 9.7 | fixed maximum supply of 70 million: supply scale 9.3, cap 10 |
| 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) | – | |
| Divisibility (Flexibility · 3 Unit of account) | ✓ | 8 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $1.2e-11 |
| Verifiability (Authenticity check · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §8) | ✗ | node software open source; no light clients or pruned nodes |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | — | too few measures yet 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) | – | not yet measured |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 6.4 | a block every 1 minutes |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 9.2 | 2 MB limit, 19.9 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 3.3 | 1 of 3 passed |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper §11) | ✓ | The PIVX/DAPS-derived node has transaction replacement disabled, so it relays the first-seen spend; one-minute PoS blocks alone would not qualify. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | ✗ | The PIVX-derived node has no -prune option (none in its init.cpp). |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✗ | Proof-of-stake (with PoA audit blocks) private UTXO chain: no light-client protocol; light wallets cannot check staker-signed headers or hidden outputs alone. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | — | 2 of 4 points, 5 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) | ✗ | 1 |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | The PRivaCY Coin team (18 members) maintains the only client (MIT licence) in the PRCYCoin GitHub organisation and holds the premine. |
| Real use (1,000+ transactions a day) | ✗ | about 251 a day |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Decentralisation | 5.5 | section average, 5 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol-level freeze, blacklist or claw-back mechanism was found. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: The PRivaCY Coin team (18 members) maintains the only client (MIT licence) in the PRCYCoin GitHub organisation and holds the premine. 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) | 0.4 | 95.55% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. The first 500 proof-of-work blocks paid 120,000 PRCY each (GetBlockValue: nHeight < LAST_POW_BLOCK), a 60,000,000 PRCY developer premine that the README lists as 'Premine 60,000,000 PRCY'; 60M / 62,789,705 supply (explorer, 2026-10-26) = 95.55%. source |
| Fundraising | — | Launch not yet researched |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. Each block's 1 PRCY is split between the staker and a masternode, and Proof-of-Audit miners receive 0.5 PRCY per audited block; no developer or treasury share in the reward code. source |
| Privacy | 8 | section average |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 8 | 4 of 5 passed source |
| Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10) | ✓ | Addresses are hashes of keys users generate themselves; the node checks scripts and signatures, with no identity condition in its consensus rules. |
| UTXO ledger (A new key for each payment · Whitepaper §2, §9) | ✓ | |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | ✗ | No Dandelion; Tor is an optional -onion/-proxy setting in the PIVX-derived node. |
| Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential) | ✓ | RingCT with Bulletproofs (DAPS-derived PRCY 2.0.0.x) hides transaction amounts. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | ✓ | RingCT ring signatures hide the sender and stealth addresses hide the receiver (PRCY 2.0.0.x). |
| 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 | PIVX/DAPS-derived Script limited to spending conditions, with RingCT-style hidden amounts. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | CHECKMULTISIG plus CLTV, enforced from nBIP65ActivationHeight 125,000 in PRCY mainnet parameters. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✓ | HTLCs expressible with OP_SHA256/OP_HASH160 and OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY. |
| 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. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✗ | No token or NFT type in the consensus rules. |
| Supply & Demand | 6.6 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 3.9 | average of 5 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 1 | 1 exchange |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 0 | $1,607 traded in 24 hours; #3208 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 2, $1,637) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 8.5 | 9.5% of its market cap a day, median of the last 3 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | – | no order book on the nine exchanges read |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 0 | $18K, 0 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) | 9.3 | fixed maximum supply of 70 million |
| Record | 5 | 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 2021-03-04, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 0 | 1 positive, 3 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 2 of 6 | ✓ | 50 commits in 3 of the last 12 months (github.com/PRCYCoin/PRCYCoin); 2.0.0.9 (tagged 2026-08-02, released 2026-10-08) is the only release in the last 24 months; the previous was 2.0.0.6 (2023-03-12). |
| Negative | ||
| 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 PRivaCY Coin 2.0.0.6. |
| 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 PRivaCY Coin 2.0.0.6. |
| 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 PRivaCY Coin 2.0.0.6. |
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.
14,468,056 of a maximum 70,000,000 PRCY are in circulation — 20.7% of the total that will ever exist.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 95.55% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
The first 500 proof-of-work blocks paid 120,000 PRCY each (GetBlockValue: nHeight < LAST_POW_BLOCK), a 60,000,000 PRCY developer premine that the README lists as 'Premine 60,000,000 PRCY'; 60M / 62,789,705 supply (explorer, 2026-10-26) = 95.55%.
No ICO; the team holds the premine and describes the project as self-funded. Sales of premined coins on exchanges are possible but undocumented.
The project calls itself 'non-ICO' and 'self-funded' and has run buybacks, but how much of the premine has been sold is not disclosed.
Each block's 1 PRCY is split between the staker and a masternode, and Proof-of-Audit miners receive 0.5 PRCY per audited block; no developer or treasury share in the reward code.
Proof of stake with masternodes; the 'proof of work' is limited to the first 500 premine blocks and hourly Proof-of-Audit blocks, so it may not belong in the PoW set. CMC's 14.47M circulating figure excludes most of the team-held premine.
Sources: github.com · github.com · github.com · github.com · explorer.prcycoin.com. Researched 2026-10-26, medium confidence.
No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for PRivaCY Coin.
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.
PRivaCY Coin is #313 among cryptocurrencies and #3655 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 3342 places between PRivaCY Coin'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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