Chains where transaction amounts and participants are hidden by default — via zero-knowledge proofs, ring signatures, or Mimblewimble-style aggregation. Payment as the primary use, privacy as the property that distinguishes them.
| # | Asset | Consensus | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | ZcashZEC | Equihash (200,9) | $21.6B |
| 10 | MoneroXMR | RandomX (CPU) | $11.4B |
| 77 | ZanoZANO | ProgPoWZ PoW + PoS | $60M |
| 89 | VergeXVG | MultiAlgo (5 PoW algos: Scrypt/X17/Lyra2REv2/Myr-Groestl/Blake2s) | $41M |
| 99 | Pirate ChainARRR | Equihash (privacy) | $37M |
| 124 | AbelianABEL | Chameleon Hash PoW (post-quantum) | $21M |
| 131 | FiroFIRO | FiroPoW (ProgPoW) | $16M |
| 132 | Epic Private Internet CashEPIC | ProgPoW + RandomX + Cuckoo Cycle (MimbleWimble) | $15M |
| 133 | MobileCoinMOB | MobileCoin Consensus Protocol (SCP-based) | $14M |
| 146 | ColossusXTCOLX | PoS + Masternodes (PIVX lineage) | $10M |
| 172 | BytecoinBCN | CryptoNight | $5M |
| 173 | Ycash (y.cash)YEC | Equihash (200,9) | $5M |
| 176 | SecretSCRT | Tendermint (CometBFT) | $5M |
| 178 | ZClassicZCL | Equihash (200,9) — Zcash fork | $5M |
| 180 | PIVXPIVX | Time Protocol v2 (PoS) | $4M |
| 184 | ParticlPART | PoSv3 (Peercoin lineage) | $4M |
| 187 | PlatONLAT | CBFT (Concurrent BFT with PPoS) | $4M |
| 194 | GrinGRIN | Cuckatoo32 (MimbleWimble) | $3M |
| 195 | Zephyr ProtocolZEPH | RandomX (CPU) | $3M |
| 201 | StealthXST | qPoS (Junaeth) | $2M |
| 213 | XELISXEL | XelisHash-v2 (BlockDAG) | $2M |
| 224 | CryptonCRP | CryptoNight (Utopia) | $1M |
| 234 | CloakCoinCLOAK | PoSA (Enigma privacy) | $1M |
| 313 | PRivaCY CoinPRCY | PoSv3 + Proof-of-Audit (hash-mined audit blocks) + masternodes | $17,820 |
| 314 | InitVerseINI | VersaHash | $12,837 |
| 352 | NeptuneXNT | Neptune memory-hard PoW (Tip5 guesser buffer) | $0 |
| 360 | xx networkXX | NPoS (BABE + GRANDPA) | $0 |
| 370 | NavioNAV | Proof-of-Private-Stake (BLSCT, new Navio chain) | $0 |
| 393 | DigitalNoteXDN | BMW512 PoW + PoS | $0 |
| 459 | ALIASALIAS | PoSv3 with anonymous staking (PoAS) | $0 |
| 474 | DeepOnionONION | X13 PoW + PoS | $0 |
| 479 | PRiVCYPRIV | YesPower | $0 |
| 481 | NervaXNV | CryptoNight-Adaptive v6 (CPU, solo mining) | $0 |
| 491 | KryptokronaXKR | CryptoNight Turtle | $0 |
Methodology — the rules under which each chain's purpose was decided. Assets that don't fit one of the categories are left unclassified rather than filed under a guess.