Telos ranks #156 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1078: 922 of the 1077 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 1308 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 71% are tokens, 22% are claims on other assets and 7% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — launch under review |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #156 |
| Rank counting claims | #1078 |
| Market capitalisation | $7M |
| Price | $0.0164 |
| Circulating supply | 451,699,869 TLOS |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Other |
| Consensus mechanism | — not yet curated |
| 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. Telos'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) | — | group average, 0 of 2 measured |
| Consensus: leader ladder | — | Consensus not yet reviewed |
| Consensus: family ladder | — | Consensus not yet reviewed |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 2.9 | group average, 2 of 12 measured |
| Sound Money Properties (6 checks) (Source) | — | 2.4 of 3 points, 3 not yet measured |
| Scarcity (Limited supply · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §6) | 4.1 | no fixed maximum; 452 million in circulation: supply scale 8.2, cap 0 |
| Durability (Sustainability · 1 Store of value) | – | 7 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) | – | typical fee $0 |
| Divisibility (Flexibility · 3 Unit of account) | ✓ | 4 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $0.0000016 |
| Verifiability (Authenticity check · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §8) | – | |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 3.3 | average of 3 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0 |
| 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) | 0 | a block every 0.5 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | – | not yet measured |
| Features (3 checks) | 0 | 0 of 1 passed, 2 not yet researched |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper §11) | – | |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | – | Not established. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✗ | Telos runs Antelope nodeos, and no user light client ships for the Antelope stack, so wallets trust API nodes. |
| 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) | 0 | not 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) | – | |
| Decentralisation | — | section average, 0 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | — | Not yet researched |
| No central team (Source) | — | Not yet researched |
| Who can mint (Source) | — | Consensus not yet reviewed |
| 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 |
| Privacy | 2.5 | section average |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 2.5 | 1 of 5 passed, 1 not yet measured source |
| Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10) | ✓ | Accounts are created by an existing account paying for RAM; the Antelope system contracts carry no identity check. |
| UTXO ledger (A new key for each payment · Whitepaper §2, §9) | – | |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | ✗ | Antelope (Spring/Leap) nodes relay transactions directly; no Dandelion or built-in Tor. |
| Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential) | ✗ | Transfers are public. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | ✗ | Account names are public. |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 7.8 | 7 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance (At protocol level) | 2 | Antelope smart contracts (eosio.token standard) deployable by any account with RAM, plus Telos EVM for ERC-20 contracts. |
| Smart contracts (General-purpose) | 2 | Antelope Wasm smart contracts on Telos Zero, plus Telos EVM running inside the eosio.evm contract. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | Native weighted account permissions and the eosio.msig propose-approve-execute contract, plus Telos Safe on the EVM; time locks are expressible in contracts. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✓ | HTLCs can be written as Antelope or Solidity contracts. |
| Native exchange (Built into the protocol) | ✗ | No exchange in the protocol; DEXes are contracts. |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | ✗ | The native-to-EVM bridge connects two environments of the same chain; links to other chains are contract or third-party bridges. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✓ | ERC-721 contracts on Telos EVM (held in Telos Safe) and Antelope NFT contracts. |
| Supply & Demand | 7.2 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 6.1 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 5 | 5 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 2.7 | $254,886 traded in 24 hours; #1148 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $236,736) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 8.9 | 3.1% 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 | $18,691 within 2% of the price on 4 exchanges, 0.25% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 2.2 | $7.4M, 2.2 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) | 8.2 | no fixed maximum; 452 million in circulation |
| Record | 7 | group average, 1 of 3 measured |
| Record (origin, claims, halts) | — | Not yet reviewed |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 7 | 7 full years since 2019-09-19, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | — | Not yet measured: no commit count and no release research |
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.
451,699,869 TLOS are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
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.
Telos is #156 among cryptocurrencies and #1078 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 922 places between Telos'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).
See the 1 wrapped and staked claim on Telos →