Taraxa (TARA)

Taraxa ranks #301 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #3046: 2745 of the 3045 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 3331 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 82% are tokens, 15% are claims on other assets and 3% are memecoins.

CoinSpectrum Gradepending — launch under review
Rank among cryptocurrencies#301
Rank counting claims#3046
Market capitalisation$102,167
Price$0.0000167
Circulating supply6,108,240,010 TARA
Maximum supply12,000,000,000 TARA
Consensus familyProof of Stake
Consensus mechanismBlock DAG + PBFT finality (DPoS, VRF)
Network purposeSmart-contract platform
Ledger typeSingle-asset ledger

Market figures from the 28 October 2026 build. Open the live view for every exchange's price, and charts.

CoinSpectrum Grade (Source)

Grade pending. Taraxa'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.

CriterionScoreBasis
Leading Consensus Mechanisms (Source)9.1group average
Consensus: leader ladder9.1Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap
Consensus: family ladder9.1Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains
Cryptocurrency Standards (Source)5.6group average, 2 of 12 measured
Sound Money Properties (6 checks) (Source)—2.8 of 3 points, 3 not yet measured
Scarcity (Limited supply · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §6)8.2fixed maximum supply of 12 billion: supply scale 6.3, cap 10
Durability (Sustainability · 1 Store of value)–5 full years since its first recorded price, record not yet reviewed
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)✓18 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $1.7e-23
Verifiability (Authenticity check · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §8)–pruned nodes validate everything
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)–not yet measured
Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10)–not yet measured
Features (3 checks)51 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched
Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper §11)–
Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7)✓taraxa-node --light (light plugin) keeps only a configured recent history (light.history, minimum set by kDefaultLightNodeHistoryDays).
Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8)✗Its 'light node' is a history-limited full node, not a header-verifying light client; wallets use RPC.
Security (miner pay and 7 checks)—0 of 3 points, 6 not yet measured
Miner pay (A day, $1,000 0 to $10 million 10; 2 points)0not mined
Own hashrate (Half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined)✗not mined
Largest pool (Pool or validator under 50%)–
Largest three (Under 75% together)–
Clients (More than one maintained)–
Open source (Node software)–
Real use (1,000+ transactions a day)–
No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years)–
Decentralisation8.6section average, 1 of 8 measured
Censorship resistant (Source)—Not yet researched
No central team (Source)—Not yet researched
Who can mint (Source)8.6Proof of stake: 8.6 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks
Nodes (Source)—Not yet counted
Holder concentration (Source)—Not yet measured
Premine (allocated at launch)—Launch not yet researched
Fundraising—Launch not yet researched
Developer share (after launch)—Not yet researched
Privacy2.5section average
Privacy (5 checks)2.51 of 5 passed, 1 not yet measured source
Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10)✓Accounts are derived from user-generated keys and the EVM checks only signatures and balances; no identity check is part of the chain's rules.
UTXO ledger (A new key for each payment · Whitepaper §2, §9)–
Network privacy (Origin hidden by default)✗taraxa-node gossips transactions without origin hiding.
Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential)✗Account-based EVM transfers; amounts are public.
Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden)✗Plain account addresses; sender and receiver are public.
Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks)7.87 of 9 points source
Token issuance (At protocol level)2ERC-20 contracts on Taraxa's EVM, live since the April 2023 mainnet and open to any account.
Smart contracts (General-purpose)2EVM integrated into Taraxa's block DAG, live since the April 2023 mainnet; on 2026-10-28 its registered RPC host did not resolve and the project page asked validators to upgrade so the network could recover.
Multisig and time locks (Without a third party)✓m-of-n multisig and time-lock contracts (Safe-style wallets, timelock controllers) run on its EVM like on Ethereum.
Atomic swaps (With other chains)✓Hash-time-locked contracts are expressible in Solidity on its EVM, as in EVM HTLC swap implementations.
Native exchange (Built into the protocol)✗No exchange in the protocol; DEXs on the chain are user-deployed contracts.
Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself)✗No protocol-level cross-chain messaging confirmed; the project describes cross-chain bridging as infrastructure still being rounded out.
NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules)✓ERC-721 contracts run on its EVM.
Supply & Demand4.7group average
Supply & Demand (Source)3average of 6 measures
Exchanges (10 or more: 10)11 exchange
Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10)1.5$53,409 traded in 24 hours; #1918 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $55,240)
Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10)5.634% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days
Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10)0$0 within 2% of the price on 1 exchange, 0.00% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days
Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10)0$102K, 0 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold
Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0)10no futures, options or margin on the exchanges read
Supply (smaller is better)6.3fixed maximum supply of 12 billion
Record4group average, 2 of 3 measured
Record (origin, claims, halts)—Not yet reviewed
Age (years since genesis) (Source)55 full years since 2021-03-22, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated).
Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues)33 positive, 0 negative source
Positive
Shipped a security fix in two years, +1✓taraxa-node v1.13.x (2025): consensus fixes, including leader selection (v1.13.5, Sep 2025) and a vote-counting race (v1.13.7, Dec 2025); v1.13.0 Soleirolia hard fork (block 17,380,000, Apr 2025) fixed DAG validation.
Shipped a scaling upgrade in two years, +1✓taraxa-node v1.14.0 'dynamic lambda' hard fork at block 24,350,801 (Jan 2026): PBFT finalization time cut from ~3.5 s to ~1.5 s.
Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1✓taraxa-node v1.14.0 hard fork (Jan 2026): EIP-7951 (secp256r1 verification) and a Falcon-512 post-quantum signature verifier in the EVM.

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.

Supply

6,108,240,010 of a maximum 12,000,000,000 TARA are in circulation — 50.9% of the total that will ever exist.

What a regulator has said

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.

How CoinSpectrum ranks Taraxa

Taraxa is #301 among cryptocurrencies and #3046 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 2745 places between Taraxa'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.

The price above is the median of the exchanges the site reads live, checked every minute and cross-checked against a market snapshot (how market data is gathered). The grade is scored on published criteria, each with its source (the method). The site is independent, nothing on it is a paid placement, and its statements are signed (about CoinSpectrum, the manifesto).

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