Crypton ranks #224 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1773: 1549 of the 1772 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 2011 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 77% are tokens, 18% are claims on other assets and 5% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — launch under review |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #224 |
| Rank counting claims | #1773 |
| Market capitalisation | $1M |
| Price | $0.1411 |
| Circulating supply | 10,499,252 CRP |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | CryptoNight (Utopia) |
| Own hashrate | — |
| Network purpose | Private payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
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Grade pending. Crypton'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) | 5.3 | group average, 5 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 6.3 | 2.5 of 4 points, 2 not yet measured source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 4.7 | no fixed maximum; 10.5 million in circulation: supply scale 9.4, cap 0 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✓ | 6 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 | – | |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | – | |
| Verifiability: open-source nodes and checking without a trusted server | ✗ | node software not open source |
| Privacy (5 checks) | — | 1 of 5 passed, 4 not yet measured |
| Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity | ✓ | Utopia accounts are key pairs created in the client; its currencies page advertises protected identity and untraceable transactions, with no identity check described. |
| 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) | – | Utopia's Crypton node is closed source with no public protocol specification. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | – | Utopia's Crypton node is closed source with no public protocol specification. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | – | Utopia's Crypton node is closed source with no public protocol specification. |
| 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) | – | not yet researched |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | – | Utopia claims instant transactions; the consensus and confirmation rules are not published. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | – | Utopia's Crypton node is closed source with no public protocol specification. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | – | Utopia's Crypton node is closed source with no public protocol specification. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | — | 1 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 | ✗ | 1 |
| Node software is open source | ✗ | The Utopia client, the only software that runs the Crypton ledger, is developed and distributed in closed source by the anonymous 1984 Group LP. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | – | |
| No 51% attack or deep reorganisation in five years | ✓ | |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 0 | 0 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts | 0 | Utopia's closed-source ledger carries Crypton and UUSD payments only; no contract or script system is described. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✗ | No multisig or time-locked payments described for Crypton or UUSD; low confidence, as the ledger is closed source. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✗ | No hash-locked or time-locked transactions described. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | Crypton Exchange (crp.is) is a separate service in the Utopia ecosystem, not ledger rules. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | No cross-chain feature described. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✗ | No user token or NFT type; only Crypton and team-issued UUSD. |
| Decentralisation | 6.7 | section average, 3 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: Cannot be established: the ledger rules are closed source and controlled by one developer group. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: The Utopia client, the only software that runs the Crypton ledger, is developed and distributed in closed source by the anonymous 1984 Group LP. 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) | — | Not established. Crypton is the currency of the Utopia P2P ecosystem (launched 18 November 2019 by the anonymous 1984 Group LP); the client and ledger are closed source and no genesis distribution, block explorer or launch allocation has been published, so a founders' allocation can neither be confirmed nor ruled out. |
| Fundraising | — | Launch not yet researched |
| Developer share (after launch) | — | Not yet researched |
| Supply & Demand | 6.6 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 3.8 | average of 3 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | – | exchanges not yet counted |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 2.1 | $112,372 traded in 24 hours; #1469 by volume |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 9 | 7.6% of its market cap a day |
| 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) | 0.4 | $1.5M, 0.4 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) | 9.4 | no fixed maximum; 10.5 million in circulation |
| Record | 7.3 | 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) | 6 | 6 full years since 2020-09-03, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 6 | 1 positive, 0 negative, 5 not yet researched source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | No public repository or numbered release history; the official Linux package utopia-latest.amd64.deb on update.u.is was last modified 2026-10-21, so the client is still being updated. |
| Not yet researched | ||
| Shipped a security fix in two years | – | |
| Shipped a privacy improvement in two years | – | |
| Shipped a scaling upgrade in two years | – | |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years | – | |
| Unfixed vulnerabilities and exploits | – | |
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.
10,499,252 CRP are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
Not established. Crypton is the currency of the Utopia P2P ecosystem (launched 18 November 2019 by the anonymous 1984 Group LP); the client and ledger are closed source and no genesis distribution, block explorer or launch allocation has been published, so a founders' allocation can neither be confirmed nor ruled out.
No ICO or token sale is documented (Coinranking states CRP entered circulation only through mining), but the closed project discloses nothing about its own funding.
Not established. Third-party profiles say Crypton was never sold in an ICO, but the 1984 Group's own holdings and any sales by it are undisclosed.
Not established. Utopia says new Cryptons are paid every 15 minutes as a 'collective reward' shared among users running mining bots, plus interest on balances; whether any share goes to the 1984 Group cannot be checked in closed-source software.
The site lists Crypton as proof-of-work (CryptoNight), but Utopia pays Crypton to users who keep 'mining bots' online (a reward for uptime and routing, distributed every 15 minutes), not for hashing; the classification may be wrong. Almost nothing can be verified because the software and ledger are closed.
Sources: u.is · u.is · coinmarketcap.com · thegrid.id · hackernoon.com. Researched 2026-10-26, low confidence.
No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for Crypton.
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.
Crypton is #224 among cryptocurrencies and #1773 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 1549 places between Crypton'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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