Diamond ranks #186 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1364: 1178 of the 1363 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 1587 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 74% are tokens, 20% are claims on other assets and 6% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | B · 66/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #186 |
| Rank counting claims | #1364 |
| Market capitalisation | $4M |
| Price | $1.03 |
| Circulating supply | 3,728,048 DMD |
| Maximum supply | 4,380,000 DMD |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | PoS 3.0 |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
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B — 66 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 59 to 70 (C 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) | 5.6 | group average, 11 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 5.8 | 2.9 of 5 points, 1 not yet measured source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 9.3 | fixed maximum supply of 4.38 million: supply scale 8.6, cap 10 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✗ | 12 full years since its first recorded price, one halt, freeze or reversal in five years |
| Fungibility: every unit interchangeable, none the protocol can freeze or set apart | ✗ | an authority can freeze funds: The node spec has a daoHardforks mechanism that, once a DAO proposal passes and validators install the release, moves the balance of named accounts to a beneficiary; it was used on 2026-09-07 to take P2B and BitMart wallet balances. The system contracts are also upgradeable proxies. |
| Divisibility: the smallest unit worth a cent or less | ✓ | 18 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $1.0e-18 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✓ | typical fee $0.0012; about 14,286 transactions a second (10 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 |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 2 | 1 of 5 passed source |
| Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity | ✓ | Accounts are derived from user-generated keys and the EVM checks only signatures and balances; no identity check is part of the chain's rules. |
| 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) | ✗ | Devp2p relays transactions directly from the sending node; no Dandelion-style relay or built-in Tor. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | Account-based EVM chain with public balances and transfer amounts. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Sender and receiver addresses are public; no ring signatures, ZK sender proofs or stealth addresses in the protocol. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 8.2 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 9.7 | typical fee $0.0012 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 10 | about 14,286 simple transactions a second |
| 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) | 10 | 18.8 MB limit (converted from its gas, compute, mass or count limit), 188 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 5 | 1 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✓ | Honey Badger BFT gives deterministic finality when a block is produced, and a pending transaction triggers a block after the 3 s minimum block time (spec.json minimumBlockTime 3, transactionQueueSizeTrigger 1). |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | – | Whether warp/snapshot sync without ancient blocks is served on DMD v4 was not established. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✗ | diamond-node (OpenEthereum lineage) offers no light client. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 4 | 4 of 9 points 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% | ✓ | 5.93% |
| Largest three under 75% | ✓ | 17.6% |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 1 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | The only node, DMDcoin/diamond-node (an OpenEthereum fork, GPL-3.0), and the system contracts are developed by the DMD Diamond core team / DMD Diamond Association, which drafts the DAO proposals and node releases. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✗ | about 174 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 the DMD v4 EVM chain (HBBFT + POSDAO), mainnet since late 2025, open to any account; third-party ERC-20s appear on its explorer. |
| Smart contracts: a general-purpose contract system | 2 | EVM on the DMD v4 chain (chain ID 17771, OpenEthereum-based diamond-node), open to any account; blocks produced in October 2026. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | EVM contracts can enforce m-of-n signatures and block-time locks. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | Hash-locked, time-locked contracts can be written for its EVM. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | No exchange in the protocol. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | No cross-chain feature in the diamond-node client. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✓ | ERC-721 contracts on its EVM. |
| Decentralisation | 5.6 | section average, 6 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 0 | An authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: The node spec has a daoHardforks mechanism that, once a DAO proposal passes and validators install the release, moves the balance of named accounts to a beneficiary; it was used on 2026-09-07 to take P2B and BitMart wallet balances. The system contracts are also upgradeable proxies. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: The only node, DMDcoin/diamond-node (an OpenEthereum fork, GPL-3.0), and the system contracts are developed by the DMD Diamond core team / DMD Diamond Association, which drafts the DAO proposals and node releases. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 8.6 | Proof of stake: 8.6 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | 4.7 | 25 active validators or block producers (source: Active) |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 10 | 0% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. No genesis premine: v1 (2013) paid only random PoW rewards from block 1. The v4 relaunch (2025) put the 4.38M DMD into claim, reinsert, delta and DAO governance pots for v3 holders and validator rewards; none is a team allocation. The v2-v3 Foundation contribution is now scored as a block-reward cut. source |
| Fundraising | 10 | No sale of the coin source |
| Developer share (after launch) | — | Developer share: 10% of each new block reward goes to them today. The v4 HBBFT chain (2025) sends 10/100 of each epoch's validator reward (governancePotShareNominator, adjustable 10-20% by the DAO) to the DAO governance pot; v4 rewards come from the pre-created delta and reinsert pots rather than fresh minting. Earlier, v2-v3 PoW blocks paid a Foundation contribution of 0.05 DMD (0.01 once 1M existed) until block 1,549,200, at most ~77k DMD. Neither total was read from a chain, so the cumulative share is not established. source |
| Supply & Demand | 5.7 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 2.8 | average of 5 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 1 | 1 exchange |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 0 | $6,502 traded in 24 hours; #2846 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 29, $5,248) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 1.5 | 0.13% of its market cap a day, median of the last 29 days |
| 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) | 1.5 | $3.8M, 1.5 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | 10 | no futures, options or margin on the exchanges read |
| Supply (smaller is better) | 8.6 | fixed maximum supply of 4.38 million |
| Record | 9.3 | group average |
| Record (origin, claims, halts) | 9 | 2 positive, 1 negative source |
| Positive record | ||
| Launched with a stated purpose, not as a joke | ✓ | |
| No claims by its founders that contradict its own design | ✓ | |
| Negative record | ||
| Halt, freeze or reversal, 2026-09-07 | ✗ | Scintilla hardfork: after DAO proposals #1 and #2, node release v4.0.3 executed an irregular state change at 2026-09-07 23:39 UTC that moved the DMD balance of exchange cold wallets identified as P2B and BitMart into a DAO-controlled treasury contract (0x9E12...F81d now holds about 123,215 DMD) for later redistribution to those exchanges' users. |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 10 | 12 full years since 2013-12-19, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 9 | 4 positive, 0 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 76 commits in 7 of the last 12 months (github.com/DMDcoin/diamond-node); DMDcoin/diamond-node v4.0.3 released 2026-09-02 (Scintilla hardfork); v4.0.0-v4.0.2 and many v0.9-v0.12 releases in the last 24 months. |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | diamond-node v4.0.2, Dec 2025: fixed a key-generation panic triggered by malicious parts from faulty validators; v4.0.1, Nov 2025: transaction-spam mitigation. |
| Shipped a scaling upgrade in two years, +1 | ✓ | DMDv4 mainnet, Oct–Nov 2025: migration from the PoS 3.0 Bitcoin-derived chain to an HBBFT EVM chain with a 300M block gas limit. |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1 | ✓ | DMDv4 mainnet, Oct–Nov 2025 (node 4.0.0): EVM smart contracts and POSDAO staking. |
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.
3,728,048 of a maximum 4,380,000 DMD are in circulation — 85.1% of the total that will ever exist.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 0% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 10% |
| Nodes or validators | 25 |
| Fundraising | No sale and no investor round |
No genesis premine: v1 (2013) paid only random PoW rewards from block 1. The v4 relaunch (2025) put the 4.38M DMD into claim, reinsert, delta and DAO governance pots for v3 holders and validator rewards; none is a team allocation. The v2-v3 Foundation contribution is now scored as a block-reward cut.
No sale found.
The v4 HBBFT chain (2025) sends 10/100 of each epoch's validator reward (governancePotShareNominator, adjustable 10-20% by the DAO) to the DAO governance pot; v4 rewards come from the pre-created delta and reinsert pots rather than fresh minting. Earlier, v2-v3 PoW blocks paid a Foundation contribution of 0.05 DMD (0.01 once 1M existed) until block 1,549,200, at most ~77k DMD. Neither total was read from a chain, so the cumulative share is not established.
The site has no label yet. A small founders' contribution is established (GetContributionAmount in v2) but its total was not read from a v3 explorer, so the figure is left blank; the ceiling is about 2%. Unclaimed v3 coins go to the reinsert and governance pots. The governance pot is DAO-voted, so it is not counted as insider.
Sources: github.com · ambcrypto.com · github.com · github.com · bitdiamonds.www12.perfectnet.at · coingecko.com. Researched 2026-10-26, low confidence.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
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Diamond is #186 among cryptocurrencies and #1364 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 1178 places between Diamond'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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