Zetacoin (ZET)

Zetacoin ranks #377 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #5403: 5026 of the 5402 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 Gradepending — launch under review
Rank among cryptocurrencies#377
Rank counting claims#5403
Price$0.000988
Circulating supply0 ZET
Maximum supplyno fixed cap
Consensus familyProof of Work
Consensus mechanismSHA-256
Own hashrate—
Network purposePayments
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. Zetacoin'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)10group average
Consensus: leader ladder10Proof of work: 10 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap
Consensus: family ladder10Proof of work: 10 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains
Cryptocurrency Standards (Source)8.7group average, 6 of 12 measured
Sound Money Properties (6 checks) (Source)104 of 4 points, 2 not yet measured source
Scarcity (Limited supply · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §6)–
Durability (Sustainability · 1 Store of value)✓13 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)✓typical fee $4e-8; about 147 transactions a second, 5.4 on the throughput scale (5 is the busiest networks' median demand)
Divisibility (Flexibility · 3 Unit of account)✓8 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $9.9e-12
Verifiability (Authenticity check · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §8)–light clients verify from headers or proofs
Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features)8.2average of 5 parts source
Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0)10typical fee $4e-8
Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5)5.4about 147 simple transactions a second
Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side)5.4a block every 30.9 seconds
Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10)104 MB limit, 77.7 MB per 10 minutes
Features (3 checks)102 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched
Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper §11)–Not established: the 0.14.1.x node source was not found, so its replace-by-fee policy is unknown; blocks are about 30 s apart with probabilistic confirmation.
Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7)✓Zetacoin public source v0.13.2.1 (2018); the network's 0.14.1.x builds are not public: -prune keeps the UTXO set and recent blocks.
Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8)✓Zetacoin public source v0.13.2.1 (2018); the network's 0.14.1.x builds are not public serves BIP37 Merkle proofs to SPV clients, which check the SHA-256 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%)✓43.7%
Largest three (Under 75% together)–
Clients (More than one maintained)–
Open source (Node software)–Not established: whoever restarted the chain in November 2021 and ships the 0.14.1.x nodes is not identified, and their source was not found.
Real use (1,000+ transactions a day)✗about 149 a day
No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years)✓
Decentralisation10section average, 3 of 8 measured
Censorship resistant (Source)10No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: Not established (closed or unlocated node source). source
No central team (Source)—Not yet researched
Who can mint (Source)10Proof 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)—Not established. The chain chainz serves as ZET is not the 2013 ledger: its block 1 is dated 16 Nov 2021, and blocks 1 to at least 160 (to 17 Nov 2021, 02:15 UTC, at near-minimum difficulty) each minted 1,000,000 ZET, i.e. at least 160M, while chainz reports only 59.94M total coins today. No announcement explains the mint (a swap of 2013 balances is possible but unconfirmed). The 2013 code paid 1,000 ZET per 30 s block halving every 80,640 blocks, with no premine.
Fundraising—Launch not yet researched
Developer share (after launch)10No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. Recent blocks pay 0.1 ZET (PoW) or 0.0625 ZET (PoS) to the block producer; no developer output was seen, but the 0.14.1.x node source behind the 2021 chain was not found, so the history cannot be checked. source
Privacy4section average
Privacy (5 checks)42 of 5 passed source
Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10)✓Zetacoin's Bitcoin-derived node (zetacoin/zetacoin) 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)✗Zetacoin public source v0.13.2.1 (2018); the network's 0.14.1.x builds are not public: 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)1.11 of 9 points source
Token issuance0No token issuance on the chain itself
Smart contracts (Scripting for spending conditions)1Zetacoin 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)✗In the public source (v0.13.2.1) CLTV starts at BIP65_HEIGHT 8,570,810, beyond the chain's current height of about 4,647,000, and CSV needs BIP9 signalling that version-7 blocks do not give; the live 0.14.1.x nodes' source is not public.
Atomic swaps (With other chains)✗Without a consensus-enforced CLTV or CSV, Zetacoin 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 Zetacoin consensus rules.
Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself)✗Zetacoin 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 Zetacoin consensus rules.
Supply & Demand0group average, 1 of 2 measured
Supply & Demand (Source)0average of 1 measure
Exchanges (10 or more: 10)0no 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
Record10group average, 2 of 3 measured
Record (origin, claims, halts)103 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)1013 full years since 2013-09-11, 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.

Supply

0 ZET are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.

Launch and allocation

Developer share of new coins today0%

Not established. The chain chainz serves as ZET is not the 2013 ledger: its block 1 is dated 16 Nov 2021, and blocks 1 to at least 160 (to 17 Nov 2021, 02:15 UTC, at near-minimum difficulty) each minted 1,000,000 ZET, i.e. at least 160M, while chainz reports only 59.94M total coins today. No announcement explains the mint (a swap of 2013 balances is possible but unconfirmed). The 2013 code paid 1,000 ZET per 30 s block halving every 80,640 blocks, with no premine.

None documented.

Not established.

Recent blocks pay 0.1 ZET (PoW) or 0.0625 ZET (PoS) to the block producer; no developer output was seen, but the 0.14.1.x node source behind the 2021 chain was not found, so the history cannot be checked.

zetac.org now hosts an unrelated casino-review site. The 2013 Zetacoin (genesis 3 Aug 2013, SHA-256, 30 s) and the chain live today share a name but not, apparently, a ledger.

Sources: chainz.cryptoid.info · chainz.cryptoid.info · github.com · github.com · bugs.freebsd.org. Researched 2026-10-26, low confidence.

The work behind it

No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for Zetacoin.

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 Zetacoin

Zetacoin is #377 among cryptocurrencies and #5403 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 5026 places between Zetacoin'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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