Adzcoin ranks #426 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #5465: 5039 of the 5464 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 Grade | pending — launch under review |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #426 |
| Rank counting claims | #5465 |
| Price | $0.00125 |
| Circulating supply | 0 ADZ |
| Maximum supply | 84,000,000 ADZ |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | X11 |
| 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. Adzcoin'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) | 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) | 5.7 | group average, 9 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 8.3 | 5 of 6 points source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 9.6 | fixed maximum supply of 84 million: supply scale 9.2, cap 10 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✓ | 10 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 $1.2e-11 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✗ | about 74 transactions a second (4.2 on the throughput scale; 5 is the busiest networks' median demand) |
| 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 | ✓ | Adzcoin's Bitcoin-derived node (AdzCoin/adzcoin) has no identity rule: anyone generates keys and receives and sends the coin. |
| 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) | ✗ | Adzcoin source (last commit Dec 2015): no Dandelion relay in the node; Tor is only an optional proxy setting (-tor/-onion) the user must configure. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | Adzcoin source (last commit Dec 2015): Bitcoin-style transparent outputs; no confidential amounts. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Adzcoin source (last commit Dec 2015): Bitcoin-style transparent addresses; no ring signatures, zero-knowledge spends or stealth addresses. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 6.3 | average of 4 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | – | not yet measured |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 4.2 | about 73.7 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 6.4 | a block every 1 minute |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 8 | 1 MB limit, 10 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 6.7 | 2 of 3 passed |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✓ | The Bitcoin 0.8-era client has transaction replacement disabled and relays the first-seen spend; one-minute blocks alone would not qualify. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✗ | Adzcoin source (last commit Dec 2015): no -prune option; the node keeps the full block history. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✓ | Adzcoin source (last commit Dec 2015): proof-of-work chain whose node serves BIP37 bloom-filtered merkleblock proofs, so an SPV client can check headers and Merkle proofs. |
| 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 | ✓ | Run by Jens Steyaert, named CEO/owner of Adzcoin/ADZbuzz/Buzzex/VMT in the ANN thread; MIT-licensed client in the AdzCoin GitHub account. |
| 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 | Adzcoin source (last commit Dec 2015): Bitcoin-style Script (signatures, hashes, CHECKMULTISIG) limited to spending conditions; no contract platform. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✗ | Adzcoin source (last commit Dec 2015): CHECKMULTISIG is present, but the script interpreter has no OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY or OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY (the code base predates BIP65/BIP112), so no output can be time-locked. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✗ | Adzcoin source (last commit Dec 2015): without a lock-time opcode Script cannot express the refund branch of an HTLC, and no adaptor-signature swap exists for the coin. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | Adzcoin source (last commit Dec 2015): no order book or market maker in the ledger rules. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | Adzcoin source (last commit Dec 2015): no cross-chain message or light-client verification in the protocol. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✗ | Adzcoin source (last commit Dec 2015): no token or NFT type in the consensus rules. |
| Decentralisation | 6.3 | section average, 5 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol-level freeze or blacklist mechanism. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: Run by Jens Steyaert, named CEO/owner of Adzcoin/ADZbuzz/Buzzex/VMT in the ANN thread; MIT-licensed client in the AdzCoin GitHub account. 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) | 1.6 | 84.3% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. Block 1 paid 42,000,000 ADZ (GetBlockValue: nHeight == 1), half of the 84M maximum; 42M / 49.83M total supply (CMC) = 84.3%. source |
| Fundraising | — | Launch not yet researched |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. After block 1, block rewards (40 ADZ halving every 525,600 blocks) go entirely to miners. source |
| Supply & Demand | 4.6 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 0 | average of 1 measure |
| 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) | – | 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) | 9.2 | fixed maximum supply of 84 million |
| 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 | 10 full years since 2015-12-26, 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/AdzCoin/adzcoin); No GitHub releases; last commit to AdzCoin/adzcoin 2015-12-16. |
| 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 Adzcoin HEAD. |
| 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 Adzcoin HEAD. |
| 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 Adzcoin HEAD. |
| 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 Adzcoin HEAD. |
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.
0 of a maximum 84,000,000 ADZ are in circulation — 0.0% of the total that will ever exist.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 84.3% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
Block 1 paid 42,000,000 ADZ (GetBlockValue: nHeight == 1), half of the 84M maximum; 42M / 49.83M total supply (CMC) = 84.3%.
No sale documented; the coin was run by Jens Steyaert's ADZbuzz/Buzzex businesses, per the ANN thread.
Use of the premine is not documented.
After block 1, block rewards (40 ADZ halving every 525,600 blocks) go entirely to miners.
X11 (Hash9) with a 60 s target and an 84M cap, matching the input. clients is 0 because no client was released in the last 24 months. The ANN thread now carries an ImpulsX token-swap notice and BitcoinTalk 'red flag' warnings about the topic creator. The website returns 403 and the explorer 502.
Sources: github.com · github.com · bitcointalk.org. Researched 2026-10-26, low confidence.
No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for Adzcoin.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
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Adzcoin is #426 among cryptocurrencies and #5465 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 5039 places between Adzcoin'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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