Acoin ranks #323 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #3901: 3578 of the 3900 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 4167 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 84% are tokens, 14% are claims on other assets and 2% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — launch under review |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #323 |
| Rank counting claims | #3901 |
| Market capitalisation | $3,808 |
| Price | $0.00312 |
| Circulating supply | 1,220,085 ACOIN |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | SHA-256 |
| Own hashrate | — |
| Network purpose | Payments |
| 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. Fewer than six of Acoin's nine network-security points are measured yet. 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) | 10 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 10 | Proof of work: 10 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 10 | Proof of work: 10 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 8.1 | group average, 10 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 8.8 | 4.4 of 5 points, 1 not yet measured source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 3.8 | no fixed maximum; 1.22 million in circulation: supply scale 7.5, cap 0 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✓ | 12 full years since its first recorded price, no halt, freeze or reversal in five years |
| Fungibility: every unit interchangeable, none the protocol can freeze or set apart | ✓ | no authority can freeze, blacklist or set apart a coin |
| Divisibility: the smallest unit worth a cent or less | ✓ | 8 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $3.1e-11 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | – | typical fee $3e-7 |
| Verifiability: open-source nodes and checking without a trusted server | ✓ | node software open source; light clients verify from headers or proofs |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 4 | 2 of 5 passed source |
| Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity | ✓ | Addresses are hashes of keys users generate themselves; the node checks scripts and signatures, with no identity condition in its consensus rules. |
| 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) | ✗ | No Dandelion; Tor is an optional -onion/-proxy setting in its Bitcoin 0.9-era node. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | Transparent transactions: amounts are public on chain. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Transparent addresses: sender and receiver are public on chain. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 7.4 | average of 4 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $3e-7 |
| 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) | 5.8 | a block every 40 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 8.7 | 1 MB limit, 15 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 5 | 1 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | – | The code (a Bitcoin Core 0.9.2 fork) relays the first-seen transaction with no replace-by-fee, but no live network could be observed to confirm that payments are protected. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✗ | Its v0.9.2.2 node predates Bitcoin Core 0.11's -prune and must keep every block. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✓ | Bitcoin-derived PoW header chain with BIP37 merkleblock and gettxoutproof Merkle proofs, so SPV wallets verify payments (Bitcoin §8). |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | — | 2 of 3 points, 6 not yet measured source |
| Miners paid a day ($1,000 0, $10 million or more 10), 2 points | – | |
| Its own hashrate: at least half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined | – | |
| Largest pool or validator under 50% | – | |
| Largest three under 75% | – | |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 0 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | Anonymous 'Acoin Developers' published the MIT-licensed Bitcoin 0.9 fork in 2014; no organisation maintains it today. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | – | |
| No 51% attack or deep reorganisation in five years | ✓ | |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 1.1 | 1 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts: scripting for spending conditions | 1 | 2014-era Bitcoin Script limited to spending conditions. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✗ | CHECKMULTISIG exists, but the only public Acoin source (2014) treats OP_NOP2 as a no-op, so there is no CLTV or CSV time-locked spending. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✗ | Without CLTV or CSV the chain cannot express an HTLC refund path. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | No exchange in the protocol. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | No protocol-level cross-chain messaging. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✗ | No token or NFT type in the consensus rules. |
| Decentralisation | 10 | section average, 6 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol-level party can freeze or claw back coins. source |
| No central team (Source) | 10 | No central team: Anonymous 'Acoin Developers' published the MIT-licensed Bitcoin 0.9 fork in 2014; no organisation maintains it today. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 10 | Proof 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) | 10 | 0% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. The code has no allocation: a 1 ACOIN genesis output and a block value of 1 ACOIN (randomly 2-10x on about one block in ten), halving every 388,800 blocks to a 0.01 ACOIN floor. No instamine is documented, but the 2014 launch record could not be found, so this rests on the code alone. source |
| Fundraising | 10 | No sale of the coin source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. No cut: GetBlockValue pays the whole subsidy plus fees to the miner. source |
| Supply & Demand | 3.8 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 0 | average of 2 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 0 | no 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) | – | no order book on the nine exchanges read |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 0 | $4K, 0 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | – | not measured |
| Supply (smaller is better) | 7.5 | no fixed maximum; 1.22 million in circulation |
| Record | 6.7 | group average |
| Record (origin, claims, halts) | 10 | 3 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) | 10 | 12 full years since 2014-09-13, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 0 | 0 positive, 5 negative source |
| Negative | ||
| Steady work, 0 of 6 | ✗ | 0 commits in 0 of the last 12 months (github.com/acoin-project/acoin); Last release v0.9.2.2, 2014-10-23; the repository (acoin-project/acoin) has had no commit since then. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-03, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-52914: crafted orphan transactions can stall the node for hours in the uninterruptible orphan-resolution loop; still in Acoin v0.9.2.2. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-03, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2020-14198: misbehaving peers are auto-banned into an unbounded ban list, so many attacker addresses can exhaust CPU and memory; still in Acoin v0.9.2.2. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-31, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-52919: addr-message spam can overflow the address manager's 32-bit id counter and crash the node, with no addr rate limit; still in Acoin v0.9.2.2. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-09-18, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2019-25220: a long low-difficulty header chain can exhaust memory because the node has no headers pre-synchronisation; still in Acoin v0.9.2.2. |
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.
1,220,085 ACOIN are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 0% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
| Fundraising | No sale and no investor round |
The code has no allocation: a 1 ACOIN genesis output and a block value of 1 ACOIN (randomly 2-10x on about one block in ten), halving every 388,800 blocks to a 0.01 ACOIN floor. No instamine is documented, but the 2014 launch record could not be found, so this rests on the code alone.
No ICO or presale found; launched September 2014 as a Bitcoin 0.9 fork ('Acoin (POD-CryptoAsian)').
No sale is documented.
No cut: GetBlockValue pays the whole subsidy plus fees to the miner.
Probably a dead chain: code untouched since October 2014, no explorer found, market cap about $3,800.
Sources: github.com · github.com · github.com · coinmarketcap.com. Researched 2026-10-26, low confidence.
No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for Acoin.
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.
Acoin is #323 among cryptocurrencies and #3901 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 3578 places between Acoin'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).