U2U Network ranks #278 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #2568: 2290 of the 2567 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 2833 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 81% are tokens, 16% are claims on other assets and 3% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — launch under review |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #278 |
| Rank counting claims | #2568 |
| Market capitalisation | $294,354 |
| Price | $0.000193 |
| Circulating supply | 1,526,009,637 U2U |
| Maximum supply | 10,000,000,000 U2U |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | Helios (DAG aBFT + DPoS) |
| Network purpose | DePIN |
| 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. U2U Network'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) | 9.1 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 9.1 | Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 9.1 | Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 5.5 | group average, 4 of 12 measured |
| Sound Money Properties (6 checks) (Source) | 7 | 2.8 of 4 points, 2 not yet measured |
| Scarcity (Limited supply · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §6) | 8.2 | fixed maximum supply of 10 billion: supply scale 6.4, cap 10 |
| Durability (Sustainability · 1 Store of value) | ✗ | 1 full year 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 $6e-9 |
| Divisibility (Flexibility · 3 Unit of account) | ✓ | 18 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $1.9e-22 |
| Verifiability (Authenticity check · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §8) | – | |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 3.8 | average of 3 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $6e-9 |
| 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) | 1.3 | a block every 2.37 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) | – | go-u2u documents no block-history pruning mode; not established. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✗ | go-u2u (go-opera/Lachesis fork) has no light-client protocol; 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) | 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 | 8.6 | section average, 1 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | — | Not yet researched |
| No central team (Source) | — | Not yet researched |
| Who can mint (Source) | 8.6 | Proof 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 |
| 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 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) | ✗ | No origin-hiding relay; the node gossips transactions over plain devp2p. |
| 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) | 7.8 | 7 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance (At protocol level) | 2 | ERC-20 contracts on its EVM (Solaris mainnet, chain ID 39), open to any account. |
| Smart contracts (General-purpose) | 2 | EVM on the U2U Solaris mainnet (Helios DAG, chain ID 39), producing blocks on 2026-10-28. |
| 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. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✓ | ERC-721 contracts run on its EVM. |
| Supply & Demand | 5.7 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 5 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 2 | 2 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 1.7 | $54,362 traded in 24 hours; #1724 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $73,308) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 6.4 | 23% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 9.6 | $2,241 within 2% of the price on 2 exchanges, 0.76% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 0 | $294K, 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) | 6.4 | fixed maximum supply of 10 billion |
| Record | 0.5 | group average, 2 of 3 measured |
| Record (origin, claims, halts) | — | Not yet reviewed |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 1 | 1 full year since 2024-12-10, 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 | ||
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | go-u2u Solaris Mainnet v1.1.4, Jan 2025: dependency bumps for security patches (no CVE named). |
| Negative | ||
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2023-09-06, −1 | ✗ | go-ethereum GHSA-ppjg-v974-84cm (CVE-2023-40591, High) lets a flood of p2p pings spawn unbounded goroutines until the node runs out of memory; go-u2u v1.1.4 (go-opera fork that takes crypto/secp256k1 from go-ethereum v1.13.15) still answers pings in a new goroutine (fixed in 1.12.1). |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2026-01-13, −1 | ✗ | go-ethereum GHSA-mr7q-c9w9-wh4h (CVE-2026-22862, High) lets a crafted p2p message crash the node with a too-short ECIES ciphertext; go-u2u v1.1.4 (go-opera fork that takes crypto/secp256k1 from go-ethereum v1.13.15) lacks the 1.16.8 length check. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2026-02-17, −1 | ✗ | go-ethereum GHSA-2gjw-fg97-vg3r (CVE-2026-26314, High) lets a crafted p2p message crash the node through unchecked secp256k1 point coordinates; go-u2u v1.1.4 (go-opera fork that takes crypto/secp256k1 from go-ethereum v1.13.15) lacks the 1.16.9 coordinate check. |
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.
1,526,009,637 of a maximum 10,000,000,000 U2U are in circulation — 15.3% of the total that will ever exist.
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.
U2U Network is #278 among cryptocurrencies and #2568 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 2290 places between U2U Network'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).