Core ranks #112 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #734: 622 of the 733 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 736 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 62% are tokens, 29% are claims on other assets and 9% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | C · 62/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #112 |
| Rank counting claims | #734 |
| Market capitalisation | $26M |
| Price | $0.0176 |
| Circulating supply | 1,501,931,600 CORE |
| Maximum supply | 2,100,000,000 CORE |
| Consensus family | Hybrid |
| Consensus mechanism | Satoshi Plus (DPoS + delegated Bitcoin hashpower) |
| Own hashrate | — |
| Network purpose | Smart-contract platform |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Premine |
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C — 62 out of 100, provisional (from 18 of 20 criteria, 28 October 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 55 to 66 (C to B).
| Criterion | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Leading Consensus Mechanisms (Source) | 4.5 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 4.5 | Hybrid: 4.5 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 4.5 | Hybrid: 4.5 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 6.4 | group average, 11 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 8.2 | 4.9 of 6 points source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 8.7 | fixed maximum supply of 2.1 billion: supply scale 7.3, cap 10 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✗ | 3 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 | ✓ | 18 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $1.8e-20 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✓ | typical fee $0.000022; about 794 transactions a second (8.1 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; pruned nodes validate everything |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 2 | 1 of 5 passed source |
| Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity | ✓ | Any secp256k1 key can hold and send CORE; the chain's account and transfer 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) | ✗ | core-chain is a BSC/go-ethereum fork with standard devp2p gossip. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | Public EVM ledger. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Accounts are public. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 5.8 | average of 4 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.000022 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 8.1 | about 794 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 1.7 | a block every 3 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | – | no fixed byte limit (gas, compute units or mass instead), left out |
| Features (3 checks) | 3.3 | 1 of 3 passed |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✗ | Satoshi Plus validators produce 3-second blocks in rotation with Parlia-style probabilistic finality, so exchanges wait for many blocks. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✓ | core-chain carries BSC's --pruneancient option, which deletes old block bodies while the node keeps validating. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✗ | Parlia-style PoSA with no sync-committee or finality-proof light client; wallets trust RPC. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 5.7 | 5 of 8 points, 1 not yet measured source |
| Miners paid a day ($1,000 0, $10 million or more 10), 2 points | 0.2 | about $1,223 a day |
| Its own hashrate: at least half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined | – | |
| Largest pool or validator under 50% | ✓ | 6.3% |
| Largest three under 75% | ✓ | 19% |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 1 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | core-chain (a Geth/BSC fork under GPL/LGPL) is developed by the Core DAO / Core Foundation team, which sets the roadmap. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✓ | about 33,800 a day |
| No 51% attack or deep reorganisation in five years | ✓ | |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 7.8 | 7 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance at protocol level, validated by its own nodes | 2 | ERC-20 contracts on its EVM, open to any account. |
| Smart contracts: a general-purpose contract system | 2 | Geth-derived client running the EVM, open to any account. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | Multisig and time-lock contracts on its EVM. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | Solidity HTLCs can be deployed on its EVM. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | No exchange in the protocol. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | A built-in Bitcoin light client verifies BTC headers and proofs for staking and hash-power delegation, but carries no messages or assets; bridges are third-party. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✓ | ERC-721 contracts run by its EVM. |
| Decentralisation | 6.9 | section average, 6 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No documented key can freeze or claw back native CORE; system contracts change through validator and governance upgrades. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: core-chain (a Geth/BSC fork under GPL/LGPL) is developed by the Core DAO / Core Foundation team, which sets the roadmap. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 7.1 | Hybrid: 7.1 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | — | Not yet counted |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 4.1 | 59.5% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. Tokenomist's allocation of the 2.1B CORE supply: users airdrop 25.03%, contributors (existing and future) 15%, reserves 10%, treasury 9.5% = 59.53% (about 1,250M CORE). Node-mining rewards (40%) and relayer rewards (0.48%) are open-participation pools and are excluded. Share taken against the 2.1B total supply reported as minted (CoinGecko total supply 2,100,000,000, 2026-10-23). 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. Validator and delegator rewards come from the pre-minted 40% node-mining allocation of the 2.1B supply. No share of block rewards goes to a foundation or treasury; the system-reward split covers transaction fees, not issuance. source |
| Supply & Demand | 7.2 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 7.1 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 9 | 9 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 4.3 | $1,440,781 traded in 24 hours; #553 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $1,422,084) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 9.9 | 5.2% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 9.2 | $150,812 within 2% of the price on 5 exchanges, 0.57% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 3.6 | $26M, 3.6 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | 6.7 | futures, options and margin positions 11% of its market cap |
| Supply (smaller is better) | 7.3 | fixed maximum supply of 2.1 billion |
| Record | 5.7 | 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) | 3 | 3 full years since 2023-02-08, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 4 | 2 positive, 3 negative, 1 not yet researched source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 21 commits in 4 of the last 12 months (github.com/coredao-org/core-chain); core-chain v1.0.26 released 2026-09-02. |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1 | ✓ | Hermes hard fork, 25 Nov 2025: EOAs with code (EIP-7702-style), BLS12-381 precompiles, historical block hash access. |
| Negative | ||
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2026-01-13, −1 | ✗ | go-ethereum GHSA-mr7q-c9w9-wh4h (CVE-2026-22862, High) lets a crafted p2p message crash the node with a too-short ECIES ciphertext; core-chain v1.0.26 (the public RPC reports v1.0.26) lacks the 1.16.8 length check. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2026-02-17, −1 | ✗ | go-ethereum GHSA-2gjw-fg97-vg3r (CVE-2026-26314, High) lets a crafted p2p message crash the node through unchecked secp256k1 point coordinates; core-chain v1.0.26 (the public RPC reports v1.0.26) lacks the 1.16.9 coordinate check. |
| Exploit of the chain, 2026-08-28, −1 | ✗ | Attackers used a flaw in the protocol's block-reward crediting path (rewards credited more than once for coinbase accounts with an EIP-7702 delegation) to release about 255M CORE ahead of schedule over 28-31 Aug 2026; the forward-only CoreRewardFix fork on 3 Sep burned about 186M CORE. |
| Not yet researched | ||
| Shipped a security fix in two years | – | |
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.
1,501,931,600 of a maximum 2,100,000,000 CORE are in circulation — 71.5% of the total that will ever exist.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 59.5% 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 |
Tokenomist's allocation of the 2.1B CORE supply: users airdrop 25.03%, contributors (existing and future) 15%, reserves 10%, treasury 9.5% = 59.53% (about 1,250M CORE). Node-mining rewards (40%) and relayer rewards (0.48%) are open-participation pools and are excluded. Share taken against the 2.1B total supply reported as minted (CoinGecko total supply 2,100,000,000, 2026-10-23).
No public sale or venture round is disclosed; Tokenomist lists $0 raised and no rounds. The 25.03% airdrop went to users of Core's pre-launch Satoshi mobile 'mining' app, a distribution designed by the project.
Validator and delegator rewards come from the pre-minted 40% node-mining allocation of the 2.1B supply. No share of block rewards goes to a foundation or treasury; the system-reward split covers transaction fees, not issuance.
If the unpaid part of the node-mining pool is treated as not yet existing supply, the insider share of supply in existence today is higher, roughly 80-90%. No sale is disclosed, but reserves and treasury (19.5%) are project-controlled and their market sales are not reported, so soldPct is left empty. Core disclosed in 2026 that some validators had been over-rewarded (amount undisclosed).
Sources: docs.coredao.org · docs.coredao.org · tokenomist.ai · coingecko.com · cryptoslate.com. Researched 2026-10-24, medium confidence.
No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for Core.
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.
Core is #112 among cryptocurrencies and #734 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 622 places between Core'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).
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