Acala Token ranks #275 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #2553: 2278 of the 2552 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 2816 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 | #275 |
| Rank counting claims | #2553 |
| Market capitalisation | $305,061 |
| Price | $0.000261 |
| Circulating supply | 1,166,666,660 ACA |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | NPoS (Polkadot parachain) |
| Network purpose | Financial ledger |
| 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. Acala Token'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) | 7 | group average, 5 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 6 | 2.4 of 4 points, 2 not yet measured |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 3.9 | no fixed maximum; 1.17 billion in circulation: supply scale 7.7, cap 0 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✗ | 4 full years since its first recorded price, record not yet reviewed |
| Fungibility: every unit interchangeable, none the protocol can freeze or set apart | – | |
| Divisibility: the smallest unit worth a cent or less | ✓ | 12 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $2.6e-16 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✓ | typical fee $8e-7; about 118 transactions a second (5 on the throughput scale; 5 is the busiest networks' median demand) |
| Verifiability: open-source nodes and checking without a trusted server | – | light clients verify from headers or proofs |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 2.5 | 1 of 5 passed, 1 not yet measured source |
| Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity | ✓ | Accounts are user-generated sr25519/ECDSA keys checked by the balances pallet, with no identity condition on transfers. |
| UTXO ledger: a new key for each payment, no account linking every coin | – | |
| Network-level privacy: the node hides where a transaction came from (Dandelion++, Tor or I2P, on by default) | ✗ | Substrate libp2p gossip has no origin hiding; no Dandelion or built-in Tor. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | Transparent balances. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Plain public accounts. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 7.8 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $8e-7 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 5 | about 118 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 3.9 | a block every 12 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 10 | 3.67 MB limit, 184 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 10 | 2 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | – | |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✓ | Substrate --state-pruning and --blocks-pruning with warp sync keep only recent state and blocks. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✓ | Polkadot parachain: smoldot verifies relay-chain GRANDPA finality and the parachain head, so light clients need no trusted server. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | — | 0 of 3 points, 6 not yet measured |
| Miners paid a day ($1,000 0, $10 million or more 10), 2 points | 0 | not mined |
| Its own hashrate: at least half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined | ✗ | not mined |
| Largest pool or validator under 50% | – | |
| Largest three under 75% | – | |
| More than one maintained client | – | |
| Node software is open source | – | |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | – | |
| No 51% attack or deep reorganisation in five years | – | |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 10 | 9 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance at protocol level, validated by its own nodes | 2 | ERC-20 contracts on Acala EVM+, live on mainnet since 2022, where any account can take the developer role (a deposit) to deploy and pay a fee to publish. |
| Smart contracts: a general-purpose contract system | 2 | Acala EVM+ (module_evm) on the Polkadot parachain, live since 2022; any account can take the developer role to deploy. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | pallet_multisig in the Acala runtime, plus time-lock contracts on EVM+. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | Hash-time-locked contracts are expressible in Solidity on its EVM, as in EVM HTLC swap implementations. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✓ | module_dex, a protocol AMM, plus the StableAsset pallet in the Acala runtime. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✓ | XCM through pallet_xcm, XcmpQueue and orml_xtokens as a Polkadot parachain. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✓ | module_nft (orml_nft) native NFT pallet in the Acala runtime, plus ERC-721 on EVM+. |
| 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 |
| Supply & Demand | 5.9 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 4.1 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 1 | 1 exchange |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 0 | $2,394 traded in 24 hours; #2923 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $3,981) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 6.3 | 0.99% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 7.2 | $442 within 2% of the price on 1 exchange, 0.14% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 0 | $305K, 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) | 7.7 | no fixed maximum; 1.17 billion in circulation |
| Record | 2.5 | group average, 2 of 3 measured |
| Record (origin, claims, halts) | — | Not yet reviewed |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 4 | 4 full years since 2022-01-25, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 1 | 1 positive, 0 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | Acala & Karura 2.37.0 (Aug 2026): governance parameter changes to 'prevent spam attack'. |
Twenty criteria, weighted equally. The Cryptocurrency Standards have six sections: sound money qualities (six checks: scarcity, durability, fungibility, divisibility, portability, verifiability), privacy (five checks), scalability (four measures and three features), security (miner pay and seven checks), programmability (token issuance, smart contracts and five checks) and decentralisation (censorship resistance, no central team, who can mint, nodes, holders, premine, fundraising and developer share). 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.
1,166,666,660 ACA 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.
Acala Token is #275 among cryptocurrencies and #2553 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 2278 places between Acala Token'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.
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