Stacks ranks #37 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #99: 62 of the 98 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 85 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 56% are claims on other assets, 39% are tokens and 5% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | C · 59/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #37 |
| Rank counting claims | #99 |
| Market capitalisation | $567M |
| Price | $0.3021 |
| Circulating supply | 1,878,570,016 STX |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Other |
| Consensus mechanism | Proof of Transfer (PoX, Bitcoin-anchored) |
| Ledger type | Multi-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Presale |
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C — 59 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 52 to 64 (C to B).
| Criterion | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Leading Consensus Mechanisms (Source) | 6.4 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 6.4 | Other: 6.4 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 6.4 | Other: 6.4 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 4.6 | group average, 10 of 12 measured |
| Sound Money Properties (6 checks) (Source) | 6 | 2.4 of 4 points, 2 not yet measured source |
| Scarcity (Limited supply · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §6) | 3.7 | no fixed maximum; 1.88 billion in circulation: supply scale 7.4, cap 0 |
| Durability (Sustainability · 1 Store of value) | ✗ | 8 full years since its first recorded price, 5 halts, freezes or reversals in five years |
| Fungibility (Interchangeability · 3 Unit of account) | ✓ | every unit identical and worth any other |
| Portability (Scalability · 2 Medium of exchange) | – | typical fee $0.00005 |
| Divisibility (Flexibility · 3 Unit of account) | ✓ | 6 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $3.0e-7 |
| Verifiability (Authenticity check · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §8) | – | node software open source |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 6.7 | average of 3 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.00005 |
| 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) | 10 | a block every 10 minutes |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | – | not yet measured |
| Features (3 checks) | 0 | 0 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper §11) | ✗ | Signer-approved Nakamoto blocks arrive in seconds but can still be invalidated by a Bitcoin reorg (82 blocks in May 2025); full settlement follows Bitcoin confirmations. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | – | No documented pruning mode found for stacks-core. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✗ | No light-client protocol; wallets trust Stacks API servers. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 5 | 5 of 9 points 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%) | ✓ | 18.1% |
| Largest three (Under 75% together) | ✓ | 47.5% |
| Clients (More than one maintained) | ✗ | 1 |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | stacks-core is developed mainly by Stacks Labs and the Stacks Foundation, in the stacks-network repository. |
| Real use (1,000+ transactions a day) | ✓ | about 23,067 a day |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Decentralisation | 4.4 | section average, 6 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol key can freeze STX; the signer set can stall blocks but not seize funds. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: stacks-core is developed mainly by Stacks Labs and the Stacks Foundation, in the stacks-network repository. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 1.4 | Other: 1.4 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | — | Not yet counted |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 3 | 70.3% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. The Stacks genesis block (v1, 2018-2019) created about 1.32B STX (866.8M to pre-launch buyers, investors, founders and employees; 453.2M later distributed to 2019 sale participants), against a current supply of about 1.877B STX (CoinGecko, as supplied). source |
| Fundraising | 3 | Sold by its issuer or insiders: 70.3% of supply was theirs to sell, 43.9% sold so far. Sold: 395M STX to buyers in the 2017 accredited (Reg D/SAFT) sale, ~105.5M in the 2019 offering (74,976,266 Reg A+ for ~$15.4M plus 30,560,000 Reg S for ~$7.6M), and ~323M sold at $0.00012 to 24 accredited shareholders of Blockstack PBC (per the Reg A filing; CEO described these as issued to equity investors). 823.5M / 1,877,423,102 STX (CoinGecko, 2026-10-24) = 43.9%; excluding the shareholder tokens it would be 26.7%. Blockstack's 2017 token sale raised about $47M under Reg D (accredited investors only), plus about $5M from VCs. In July 2019 the first SEC-qualified Reg A+ token offering (up to $28M, open to the public, with a parallel Reg S sale) followed. source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 8.7 | Developer share: about 12.8% of today's supply received so far; 69.5% of each new block reward goes to them today. SIP-031 (July 2025) minted two one-off 100M STX tranches to the Stacks Endowment and sends it 1,140 STX per tenure against the miners' 500 (69.5% of new issuance): ≈200M + ~40M of ~1.877B STX ≈ 12.8% of supply. 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) | ✓ | Anyone can create keys and receive and send coins; the protocol carries no identity check. |
| UTXO ledger (A new key for each payment · Whitepaper §2, §9) | ✗ | |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | ✗ | stacks-core relays transactions directly. |
| Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential) | ✗ | No confidential transactions. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | ✗ | No sender or receiver hiding. |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 7.8 | 7 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance (At protocol level) | 2 | SIP-010 fungible tokens as Clarity smart contracts, open to any account. |
| Smart contracts (General-purpose) | 2 | Clarity smart contracts, which can read Bitcoin state, running DEXs and lending on mainnet. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | Native multisig spending conditions in transaction auth (SIP-005) plus block-height conditions in Clarity. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✓ | Clarity can verify Bitcoin transactions trustlessly and check hashes and heights, so HTLCs and BTC-triggered releases are expressible. |
| Native exchange (Built into the protocol) | ✗ | No exchange in the protocol; ALEX and others are contracts. |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | ✗ | sBTC's peg is held by 15 community-chosen signers separate from the Stacks Nakamoto signers. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✓ | Built-in non-fungible token functions in Clarity and the SIP-009 NFT trait (ratified 2020). |
| Supply & Demand | 7.6 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 7.8 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 10 | 37 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 6.5 | $5,636,221 traded in 24 hours; #98 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $17,044,696) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 8.3 | 2.4% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 7.5 | $1,017,928 within 2% of the price on 9 exchanges, 0.18% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 6.9 | $567M, 6.9 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | 7.8 | futures, options and margin positions 4.9% of its market cap |
| Supply (smaller is better) | 7.4 | no fixed maximum; 1.88 billion in circulation |
| Record | 8.3 | group average |
| Record (origin, claims, halts) | 9 | 2 positive, 5 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, 2024-06-14 | ✗ | Block production stalled for about nine hours after a Bitcoin reorg and unexpected miner behaviour. |
| Halt, freeze or reversal, 2025-01-06 | ✗ | No blocks for over four hours from 07:15 UTC, attributed to a signer-related delay. |
| Halt, freeze or reversal, 2025-05-19 | ✗ | No valid blocks for 4h59m: a Bitcoin reorg invalidated 82 Stacks blocks and miners could not reach the 70% signer threshold. |
| Halt, freeze or reversal, 2025-05-23 | ✗ | Stall of 7h41m: oversized mempool transactions triggered a P2P packet-size bug plus a node communication bug. |
| Halt, freeze or reversal, 2025-07-08 | ✗ | Block gap from 17:07 to 22:16 UTC after a stacks-core bug surfaced during a Bitcoin reorg and two large signers stopped signing. |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 8 | 8 full years since 2017-11-10, 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 | ✓ | 3,016 commits in 12 of the last 12 months (github.com/stacks-network/stacks-core); stacks-core 4.0.5, 13 Oct 2026; 68 stable releases in the last 24 months. |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | stacks-core 3.2.0.0.2, 2025: critical security fix. |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1 | ✓ | Epoch 3.3, late 2025: Clarity 4 (contract-hash?, block-time and others); Clarity 5 in Apr 2026. |
| 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.
1,878,570,016 STX are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 70.3% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 43.9% of today's supply |
| Developer share received since launch | 12.8% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 69.5% |
| Fundraising | Private or venture funding |
The Stacks genesis block (v1, 2018-2019) created about 1.32B STX (866.8M to pre-launch buyers, investors, founders and employees; 453.2M later distributed to 2019 sale participants), against a current supply of about 1.877B STX (CoinGecko, as supplied).
Blockstack's 2017 token sale raised about $47M under Reg D (accredited investors only), plus about $5M from VCs. In July 2019 the first SEC-qualified Reg A+ token offering (up to $28M, open to the public, with a parallel Reg S sale) followed.
Sold: 395M STX to buyers in the 2017 accredited (Reg D/SAFT) sale, ~105.5M in the 2019 offering (74,976,266 Reg A+ for ~$15.4M plus 30,560,000 Reg S for ~$7.6M), and ~323M sold at $0.00012 to 24 accredited shareholders of Blockstack PBC (per the Reg A filing; CEO described these as issued to equity investors). 823.5M / 1,877,423,102 STX (CoinGecko, 2026-10-24) = 43.9%; excluding the shareholder tokens it would be 26.7%.
SIP-031 (July 2025) minted two one-off 100M STX tranches to the Stacks Endowment and sends it 1,140 STX per tenure against the miners' 500 (69.5% of new issuance): ≈200M + ~40M of ~1.877B STX ≈ 12.8% of supply.
Sources: sec.gov · theblock.co · theblock.co · blog.blockstack.org · github.com · github.com. Researched 2026-10-24, medium confidence.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
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Stacks is #37 among cryptocurrencies and #99 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 62 places between Stacks'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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