Startcoin ranks #392 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #5422: 5030 of the 5421 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 | #392 |
| Rank counting claims | #5422 |
| Price | $0.000983 |
| Circulating supply | 0 START |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | X11 |
| Own hashrate | — |
| Network purpose | 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. Fewer than six of Startcoin'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) | 10 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 10 | Proof of work: 10 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 10 | Proof of work: 10 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 6.9 | 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) | ✓ | 12 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 74 transactions a second, 4.2 on the throughput scale (5 is the busiest networks' median demand) |
| Divisibility (Flexibility · 3 Unit of account) | ✓ | 8 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $9.8e-12 |
| Verifiability (Authenticity check · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §8) | ✓ | node software open source; light clients verify from headers or proofs |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 5.5 | 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) | 4.2 | about 74 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 6.4 | a block every 1 minute |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 8 | 1 MB limit, 10 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 3.3 | 1 of 3 passed |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper §11) | ✗ | The chain is not verified to be producing blocks; its Bitcoin 0.8-era code would relay first-seen without replace-by-fee. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | ✗ | StartCOIN 2.0.1 (Apr 2016) has no pruning mode; nodes keep every block. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✓ | StartCOIN 2.0.1 (Apr 2016) serves BIP37 Merkle proofs to SPV clients, which check the X11 proof of work in headers. |
| 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) | ✓ | Single project team tied to the StartJOIN crowdfunding site (startcoin-project on GitHub); MIT licence inherited from Bitcoin. |
| Real use (1,000+ transactions a day) | – | |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Decentralisation | 7.5 | section average, 6 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol freeze key found. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: Single project team tied to the StartJOIN crowdfunding site (startcoin-project on GitHub); MIT licence inherited from Bitcoin. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 10 | Proof 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) | 4.9 | 51.2% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. GetBlockValue mints 42,024,000 START in block 1 and a 1,000,000 START 'compensation' block 2, then 40 START per block halving yearly. The ANN says the coin was '50% pre-mined, 90% of which will be donated to projects and active users of StartJOIN'. 43.02M of the 84M cap = 51.2%; the final supply is unknown because the chain is defunct, so the true share is at least this. 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. No developer output in GetBlockValue; the chain no longer appears to produce blocks. source |
| Privacy | 4 | section average |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 4 | 2 of 5 passed source |
| Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10) | ✓ | Startcoin's Bitcoin-derived node (startcoin-project/startcoin) 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) | ✗ | StartCOIN 2.0.1 (Apr 2016): no Dandelion; Tor is only used if the operator runs and configures it. |
| Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential) | ✗ | Transparent Bitcoin-style amounts; no confidential transactions. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | ✗ | Transparent addresses and inputs; no ring signatures or stealth addresses. |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 1.1 | 1 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts (Scripting for spending conditions) | 1 | Startcoin runs Bitcoin-style Script limited to spending conditions (signatures, hash locks, multisig); no contract VM or token introspection. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✗ | OP_CHECKMULTISIG is present, but StartCOIN 2.0.1's src/script.h has no OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY or OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY (0xb1 is still OP_NOP2), so Script cannot enforce a time lock. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✗ | Without a consensus-enforced CLTV or CSV, Startcoin Script cannot express the time-locked refund of an HTLC; only pre-signed nLockTime refunds, which pre-SegWit malleability makes unsafe. |
| Native exchange (Built into the protocol) | ✗ | No exchange or order book in the Startcoin consensus rules. |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | ✗ | Startcoin nodes verify no other chain; no protocol-level cross-chain messaging. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✗ | No token or NFT type in the Startcoin 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 | 6.7 | 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) | 10 | 12 full years since 2014-06-15, 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, 5 negative source |
| Negative | ||
| Steady work, 0 of 6 | ✗ | 0 commits in 0 of the last 12 months (github.com/startcoin-project/startcoin); Last release StartCOIN 2.0.1 (2016-04-26); last commit 2018-06-25. |
| 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 Startcoin StartCOIN-v2.0.1. |
| 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 Startcoin StartCOIN-v2.0.1. |
| 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 Startcoin StartCOIN-v2.0.1. |
| 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 Startcoin StartCOIN-v2.0.1. |
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 START are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 51.2% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 0% 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 |
GetBlockValue mints 42,024,000 START in block 1 and a 1,000,000 START 'compensation' block 2, then 40 START per block halving yearly. The ANN says the coin was '50% pre-mined, 90% of which will be donated to projects and active users of StartJOIN'. 43.02M of the 84M cap = 51.2%; the final supply is unknown because the chain is defunct, so the true share is at least this.
No ICO; premine controlled by the StartJOIN operators for donations to projects and users.
No sale; the premine was to be given away through the StartJOIN crowdfunding community.
No developer output in GetBlockValue; the chain no longer appears to produce blocks.
Launched June 2014 (X11, 60 s blocks). Forum users disputed whether the launch was instamined. clients is 0 because there has been no release in 24 months.
Sources: github.com · bitcointalk.org · github.com · api.coinpaprika.com. Researched 2026-10-26, low confidence.
No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for Startcoin.
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.
Startcoin is #392 among cryptocurrencies and #5422 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 5030 places between Startcoin'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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