Ascendia (ex AirDAO) ranks #476 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #5541: 5065 of the 5540 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 | #476 |
| Rank counting claims | #5541 |
| Price | $0.00747 |
| Circulating supply | 0 AMB |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Other |
| Consensus mechanism | — not yet curated |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
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Grade pending. Ascendia (ex AirDAO)'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) | — | group average, 0 of 2 measured |
| Consensus: leader ladder | — | Consensus not yet reviewed |
| Consensus: family ladder | — | Consensus not yet reviewed |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 5.2 | group average, 2 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | — | 1 of 1 points, 5 not yet measured |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | – | |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | – | 9 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 | ✓ | 18 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $7.5e-21 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | – | |
| Verifiability: open-source nodes and checking without a trusted server | – | |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 3.3 | 1 of 5 passed, 2 not yet measured source |
| Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity | ✓ | Open EVM accounts; no identity rule. |
| 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) | – | AirDAO (Ascendia) mainnet, chain id 16718: EVM chain whose node client and source are not public, so this node feature could not be established. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | AirDAO (Ascendia) mainnet, chain id 16718: EVM account chain; transfers show plain values on the explorer, no shielded pool. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | AirDAO (Ascendia) mainnet, chain id 16718: EVM account chain; sender and receiver addresses are public. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | — | not yet measured 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) | – | not yet measured |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | – | not yet measured |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | – | not yet measured |
| Features (3 checks) | – | not yet researched |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | – | |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | – | AirDAO (Ascendia) mainnet, chain id 16718: EVM chain whose node client and source are not public, so this node feature could not be established. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | – | AirDAO (Ascendia) mainnet, chain id 16718: EVM chain whose node client and source are not public, so this node feature could not be established. |
| 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) | 7.1 | 5 of 7 points, 2 not yet researched source |
| Token issuance | – | Issuance is in the protocol, but the mainnet could not be reached to confirm it is live. |
| Smart contracts: a general-purpose contract system | 2 | AirDAO (Ascendia) (chain id 16718) is an EVM chain; any account can deploy EVM contracts. The AirDAO RPC and explorer hosts did not resolve on 2026-10-28 after the Ascendia rebrand, so current liveness is unverified. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | EVM contracts express m-of-n multisig wallets and time-locked releases (block.timestamp / block.number checks). |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | EVM contracts express hash-locked, time-locked HTLCs (sha256/keccak256 plus a refund deadline). |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | AirDAO's AstraDEX runs as user-deployed contracts, not as part of the protocol. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | No protocol-level cross-chain verification found for AirDAO (Ascendia); bridges are separate contracts or operators. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✓ | ERC-721 contracts run by the chain's EVM. |
| Decentralisation | — | section average, 0 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | — | Not yet researched |
| No central team (Source) | — | Not yet researched |
| Who can mint (Source) | — | Consensus not yet reviewed |
| 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 | 0 | group average, 1 of 2 measured |
| 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) | — | Supply not reported |
| Record | 9 | group average, 1 of 3 measured |
| Record (origin, claims, halts) | — | Not yet reviewed |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 9 | 9 full years since 2017-10-23, 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 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 AMB 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.
Ascendia (ex AirDAO) is #476 among cryptocurrencies and #5541 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 5065 places between Ascendia (ex AirDAO)'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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