DeepBrain Chain (DBC)

DeepBrain Chain ranks #274 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #2547: 2273 of the 2546 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 2811 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 81% are tokens, 16% are claims on other assets and 3% are memecoins.

CoinSpectrum Gradepending — launch under review
Rank among cryptocurrencies#274
Rank counting claims#2547
Market capitalisation$307,624
Price$0.0000567
Circulating supply5,428,952,299 DBC
Maximum supply10,000,000,000 DBC
Consensus familyProof of Stake
Consensus mechanismNPoS (BABE + GRANDPA)
Network purposeDistributed compute
Ledger typeSingle-asset ledger

Market figures from the 28 October 2026 build. Open the live view for every exchange's price, and charts.

CoinSpectrum Grade (Source)

Grade pending. DeepBrain Chain'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.

CriterionScoreBasis
Leading Consensus Mechanisms (Source)9.1group average
Consensus: leader ladder9.1Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap
Consensus: family ladder9.1Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains
Cryptocurrency Standards (Source)6.7group average, 4 of 13 measured
Sound Money Qualities (6 checks)—2.8 of 3 points, 3 not yet measured
Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million8.2fixed maximum supply of 10 billion: supply scale 6.4, cap 10
Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal–8 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✓15 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $5.7e-20
Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand✓typical fee $1e-8; about 476 transactions a second (7.3 on the throughput scale; 5 is the busiest networks' median demand)
Verifiability: open-source nodes and checking without a trusted server–light clients verify from headers or proofs
Privacy (5 checks)2.51 of 5 passed, 1 not yet measured source
Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity✓Accounts are user-generated sr25519/ECDSA keys checked by the balances pallet, with no identity condition on transfers.
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)✗Substrate libp2p gossip has no origin hiding; no Dandelion or built-in Tor.
Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble)✗Transparent balances.
Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses)✗Plain public accounts.
Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features)8average of 5 parts source
Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0)10typical fee $1e-8
Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5)7.3about 476 simple transactions a second
Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side)2.8a block every 6 seconds
Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10)103.93 MB limit, 393 MB per 10 minutes
Features (3 checks)102 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched
Payments safe to accept within seconds–
Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history✓Substrate --state-pruning and --blocks-pruning with warp sync keep only recent state and blocks.
Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server✓Substrate chain with BABE + GRANDPA (DBC 2.0, Dec 2024), so GRANDPA finality proofs support trustless Substrate light clients.
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 points0not 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)7.87 of 9 points source
Token issuance at protocol level, validated by its own nodes2ERC-20 contracts on the EVM built into DeepBrain Chain 2.0 (chain ID 19880818), live since its December 2024 mainnet, with many third-party tokens on the explorer.
Smart contracts: a general-purpose contract system2EVM built into DeepBrain Chain 2.0 (Substrate, chain ID 19880818), live since the December 2024 mainnet and producing blocks on 2026-10-28.
Multisig and time locks✓m-of-n multisig and time-lock contracts (Safe-style wallets, timelock controllers) run on its EVM like on Ethereum.
Atomic swaps with other chains✓Hash-time-locked contracts are expressible in Solidity on its EVM, as in EVM HTLC swap implementations.
An exchange built into the protocol✗No exchange in the protocol; DEXs on the chain are user-deployed contracts.
Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself✗Standalone Substrate chain, not a parachain; no IBC, XCM or light-client messaging.
Non-fungible tokens✓ERC-721 contracts run on its EVM.
Decentralisation8.6section average, 1 of 8 measured
Censorship resistant (Source)—Not yet researched
No central team (Source)—Not yet researched
Who can mint (Source)8.6Proof 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)—Launch not yet researched
Fundraising—Launch not yet researched
Developer share (after launch)—Not yet researched
Supply & Demand5.3group average
Supply & Demand (Source)4.2average of 6 measures
Exchanges (10 or more: 10)11 exchange
Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10)0$1,124 traded in 24 hours; #2976 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $3,352)
Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10)6.10.92% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days
Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10)8.3$932 within 2% of the price on 1 exchange, 0.30% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days
Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10)0$308K, 0 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold
Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0)10no futures, options or margin on the exchanges read
Supply (smaller is better)6.4fixed maximum supply of 10 billion
Record4group average, 2 of 3 measured
Record (origin, claims, halts)—Not yet reviewed
Age (years since genesis) (Source)88 full years since 2017-12-28, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated).
Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues)01 positive, 1 negative source
Positive
Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1✓DBC v4.0 / DeepBrain Chain 2.0 mainnet, Dec 2024: Frontier EVM built into the chain, opening ERC-20 and smart contracts to any account.
Negative
Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2023-10-13, −1✗Frontier GHSA-gc88-2gvv-gp3v (High) lets a contract with large storage call SELFDESTRUCT for a fixed cost and force an unbounded storage deletion that can stall block production; the current release v4.0.1 uses DeepBrainChain/DBC-EVM branch polkadot-v0.9.43, which still deletes with remove_prefix(address, None) and lacks the aea5281 fix.

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.

Supply

5,428,952,299 of a maximum 10,000,000,000 DBC are in circulation — 54.3% of the total that will ever exist.

What a regulator has said

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.

How CoinSpectrum ranks DeepBrain Chain

DeepBrain Chain is #274 among cryptocurrencies and #2547 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 2273 places between DeepBrain Chain'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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