ColossusXT ranks #146 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #963: 817 of the 962 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 1194 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 69% are tokens, 23% are claims on other assets and 8% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | C · 62/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #146 |
| Rank counting claims | #963 |
| Market capitalisation | $10M |
| Price | $0.000772 |
| Circulating supply | 12,732,356,945 COLX |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | PoS + Masternodes (PIVX lineage) |
| Network purpose | Private payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Premine |
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C — 62 out of 100, provisional (from 17 of 20 criteria, 28 October 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 51 to 68 (D to B).
| 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) | 6 | group average, 10 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 8.3 | 3.3 of 4 points, 2 not yet measured source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 3.2 | no fixed maximum; 12.7 billion in circulation: supply scale 6.3, cap 0 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✓ | 9 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 $7.7e-12 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | – | |
| Verifiability: open-source nodes and checking without a trusted server | – | node software open source |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 4 | 2 of 5 passed source |
| Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity | ✓ | Anyone can generate keys and receive and send coins; the consensus rules carry no identity check. |
| 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) | ✗ | PIVX-lineage node; no Dandelion or built-in Tor. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | Obfuscation is CoinJoin-style mixing and Zerocoin minting was disabled; amounts are public. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | No ring signatures, zero-knowledge spends in use, or stealth addresses. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | — | too few measures yet 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) | 6.4 | a block every 1 minute |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | – | not yet measured |
| Features (3 checks) | 5 | 1 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✓ | The PIVX-derived client includes SwiftX instant-send locks signed by masternodes, though only 19 masternodes remain. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | – | Not established. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✗ | ColossusXT is proof of stake, so Bitcoin-style SPV cannot check the stake behind its headers, and no shipped light client verifies it; light wallets trust a server. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 2.6 | 2 of 7 points, 2 not yet measured source |
| 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 | ✗ | 0 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | The ColossusXT team maintains the client (MIT, ColossusCoinXT/ColossusCoinXT); its last release, v1.2.5, came on 2024-09-23. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✗ | about 3 a day |
| No 51% attack or deep reorganisation in five years | ✓ | |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 3.3 | 3 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts: scripting for spending conditions | 1 | PIVX-derived Bitcoin Script; spending conditions only. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | OP_CHECKMULTISIG plus CLTV, set in every block's script flags. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | HTLCs expressible with CLTV; COLX is swap-enabled in the Komodo coin list. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | No exchange in the protocol. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | No cross-chain feature in the protocol. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✗ | No token or NFT rules in consensus. |
| Decentralisation | 7 | section average, 6 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No party can freeze or claw back COLX. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: The ColossusXT team maintains the client (MIT, ColossusCoinXT/ColossusCoinXT); its last release, v1.2.5, came on 2024-09-23. source |
| 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) | 4 | 60.4% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. 12B COLX were created in the genesis block (Sep 2017) for a 1:1 swap from ColossusCoin V2; ~1.61B unswapped coins were burned. 10.39B genesis-swap coins against ~17.19B on-chain supply (cryptoid, Oct 2026) ≈ 60.4%. The team says none was kept; the original distribution of CV2 is not documented. source |
| Fundraising | 10 | No sale of the coin source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 9.2 | Developer share: about 7.7% of today's supply received so far; 20% of each new block reward goes to them today. Budget proposals took 5% of block value from launch to block 388,800, then 10% treasury plus 10% dev fund (DBKqofwU…); unallocated budget goes to a fixed address instead of being burned. Upper bound if fully paid: 5% × 653.4M + 20% × 6,500.2M (1,500 COLX × 4,333,473 blocks to height 4,722,272) = 1.33B = 7.7% of 17.19B (cryptoid). Actual supply is ~0.35B below the schedule, so the true figure may be lower. source |
| Supply & Demand | 3.8 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 1.3 | 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) | 2.5 | $9.8M, 2.5 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) | 6.3 | no fixed maximum; 12.7 billion in circulation |
| Record | 6.3 | 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) | 9 | 9 full years since 2017-09-29, 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, 4 negative source |
| Negative | ||
| Steady work, 0 of 6 | ✗ | 0 commits in 0 of the last 12 months (github.com/ColossusCoinXT/ColossusCoinXT); Last release ColossusXT v1.2.5 on 2024-09-23 (previous v1.2.4 in 2020). |
| 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 ColossusXT v1.2.5. |
| 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 ColossusXT v1.2.5. |
| 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 ColossusXT v1.2.5. |
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.
12,732,356,945 COLX are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 60.4% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share received since launch | 7.7% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 20% |
| Fundraising | No sale and no investor round |
12B COLX were created in the genesis block (Sep 2017) for a 1:1 swap from ColossusCoin V2; ~1.61B unswapped coins were burned. 10.39B genesis-swap coins against ~17.19B on-chain supply (cryptoid, Oct 2026) ≈ 60.4%. The team says none was kept; the original distribution of CV2 is not documented.
No ICO or IPO per the project's ANN and whitepaper.
Budget proposals took 5% of block value from launch to block 388,800, then 10% treasury plus 10% dev fund (DBKqofwU…); unallocated budget goes to a fixed address instead of being burned. Upper bound if fully paid: 5% × 653.4M + 20% × 6,500.2M (1,500 COLX × 4,333,473 blocks to height 4,722,272) = 1.33B = 7.7% of 17.19B (cryptoid). Actual supply is ~0.35B below the schedule, so the true figure may be lower.
The 81.6% is a genesis swap allocation to holders of a predecessor coin, not a team allocation. BitcoinWiki calls it '100% premined, 0% to team'. The PIVX-style treasury is a developer-directed share of rewards that would add to the insider share.
Sources: github.com · github.com · chainz.cryptoid.info · colossusxt.medium.com · bitcointalk.org · bitcoinwiki.org. Researched 2026-10-24, medium confidence.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
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ColossusXT is #146 among cryptocurrencies and #963 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 817 places between ColossusXT'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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