DucatusX ranks #198 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #4486: 4288 of the 4485 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 1721 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 75% are tokens, 20% are claims on other assets and 6% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | E · 39/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #198 |
| Rank counting claims | #4486 |
| Market capitalisation | $3M |
| Price | $0.00371 |
| Circulating supply | 761,929,611 DUCX |
| Maximum supply | 780,177,041 DUCX |
| Consensus family | Proof of Authority |
| Consensus mechanism | Proof of Authority (Clique) |
| Network purpose | Payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
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E — 39 out of 100, provisional (from 19 of 20 criteria, 28 October 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 37 to 45 (E to D).
| Criterion | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Leading Consensus Mechanisms (Source) | 7.3 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 7.3 | Proof of authority: 7.3 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 7.3 | Proof of authority: 7.3 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 3.1 | group average, 12 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 3.8 | 1.9 of 5 points, 1 not yet measured source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 9 | fixed maximum supply of 780 million: supply scale 7.9, cap 10 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✗ | 3 full years since its first recorded price, 2 halts, freezes or reversals in five years |
| Fungibility: every unit interchangeable, none the protocol can freeze or set apart | ✗ | an authority can freeze funds: All three Clique signers, fixed since the 2025 genesis, are operator-run; they can censor any transaction or stop the chain at will, and the operator has already relaunched the chain from a new genesis. |
| Divisibility: the smallest unit worth a cent or less | ✓ | 18 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $3.7e-21 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✗ | typical fee $0.063; about 32 transactions a second (2.8 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) | 4.5 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 4 | typical fee $0.063 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 2.8 | about 32 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 6 | a block every 45 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 9.6 | 1.88 MB limit (converted from its gas, compute, mass or count limit), 25 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 0 | 0 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✗ | Clique proof of authority with 45-second blocks; no finality gadget or protected zero-confirmation. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✗ | Geth 1.13.15 prunes state only; full nodes keep every block. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | – | Geth 1.13.15 still carries LES, but no evidence that any DucatusX node serves it. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 3 | 3 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% | ✓ | 33.3% |
| Largest three under 75% | ✗ | 100% |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 1 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | The network is run by the Ducatus group with the developer Rock'n'Block (RPC nodes ducx-mainnet-node1-3.rocknblock.io) on stock Geth (LGPL/GPL); there is no independent development. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✗ | about 28 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 (DRC-20) contracts on its Clique PoA EVM chain; validators are fixed but contract deployment is open to any account, and third-party tokens appear on its explorer. |
| Smart contracts: a general-purpose contract system | 2 | Clique PoA EVM chain (chain ID 26483) with open contract deployment; 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 protocol-level cross-chain messaging found. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✓ | ERC-721 contracts on its EVM. |
| Decentralisation | 2.3 | section average, 7 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 0 | An authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: All three Clique signers, fixed since the 2025 genesis, are operator-run; they can censor any transaction or stop the chain at will, and the operator has already relaunched the chain from a new genesis. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: The network is run by the Ducatus group with the developer Rock'n'Block (RPC nodes ducx-mainnet-node1-3.rocknblock.io) on stock Geth (LGPL/GPL); there is no independent development. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 4.3 | Proof of authority: 4.3 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | 1.6 | 3 active validators or block producers (source: Clique) |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 0 | 100% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. DUCX is an Ethereum-fork chain launched by the Ducatus group in 2020 with a fixed cap of 777,874,205. Coins are 'produced and dispersed' by the company (Centurion Global) and sold through its affiliate network. No open mining or staking issuance was found. source |
| Fundraising | 0 | Sold by its issuer or insiders: 100% of supply was theirs to sell. Coins are sold by the Ducatus group through its affiliate network, but no sale volumes are published; ~278.1M DUCX of the 777,874,205 cap are reported circulating (ducatuscoins.com stats via CoinGecko), which would be an upper bound of ~35.8% if every circulating coin had been sold rather than paid out as affiliate commissions. Sold to retail through the Ducatus/Centurion Global affiliate (MLM) network. BehindMLM reports affiliates paid for recruiting buyers. Amounts are not disclosed. source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. No open issuance: the supply is capped at 777.9M, and the chain runs Clique proof-of-authority, which pays no block reward. Coins are distributed by the company, which falls under premine, not a reward cut. source |
| Supply & Demand | 5.3 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 2.7 | average of 3 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | – | exchanges not yet counted |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 0.9 | $27,358 traded in 24 hours; #2125 by volume |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 6.2 | 0.97% 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) | 1.1 | $2.8M, 1.1 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) | 7.9 | fixed maximum supply of 780 million |
| Record | 4 | group average |
| Record (origin, claims, halts) | 9 | 2 positive, 2 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, 2025-08-11 | ✗ | The chain was relaunched from a new genesis: the old OpenEthereum network had 3,544,369 blocks on the explorer in July 2025, while the current Clique chain (same RPC hosts and explorer) starts at block 1 on 2025-08-11 with a zero-timestamp genesis, so the earlier block history was not continued. |
| Halt, freeze or reversal, 2026-01-04 | ✗ | Block production faltered from about 08:19 UTC on 4 January 2026 (gaps of about 1 h at blocks 280216-280380) and then stopped for 19.6 hours between block 280381 (17:10 UTC) and block 280382 (12:46 UTC on 5 January). |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 3 | 3 full years since 2023-04-14, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 0 | 1 positive, 2 negative, 4 not yet researched source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 2 of 6 | ✓ | 0 commits in 0 of the last 12 months (github.com/DucatusX/ducatusx); No DucatusX node releases are published: the old network ran OpenEthereum v3.3.1 (DucatusX/ducatusx Docker wrapper, no releases), and the chain was relaunched in August 2025 on stock Geth v1.13.15 (an April 2024 upstream release, per web3_clientVersion on 2026-10-26); the operator still maintains the explorer and backends (DucatusX GitHub, ducatuscore updated 2026-10-22). |
| 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; the public RPC reports Geth v1.13.15, which 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; the public RPC reports Geth v1.13.15, which lacks the 1.16.9 coordinate check. |
| 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 | – | |
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.
761,929,611 of a maximum 780,177,041 DUCX are in circulation — 97.7% of the total that will ever exist.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 100% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
| Nodes or validators | 3 |
| Fundraising | Public sale |
DUCX is an Ethereum-fork chain launched by the Ducatus group in 2020 with a fixed cap of 777,874,205. Coins are 'produced and dispersed' by the company (Centurion Global) and sold through its affiliate network. No open mining or staking issuance was found.
Sold to retail through the Ducatus/Centurion Global affiliate (MLM) network. BehindMLM reports affiliates paid for recruiting buyers. Amounts are not disclosed.
Coins are sold by the Ducatus group through its affiliate network, but no sale volumes are published; ~278.1M DUCX of the 777,874,205 cap are reported circulating (ducatuscoins.com stats via CoinGecko), which would be an upper bound of ~35.8% if every circulating coin had been sold rather than paid out as affiliate commissions.
No open issuance: the supply is capped at 777.9M, and the chain runs Clique proof-of-authority, which pays no block reward. Coins are distributed by the company, which falls under premine, not a reward cut.
No whitepaper allocation table was found. The 100 rests on the absence of any documented open minting and the company's role as issuer and seller. BehindMLM's characterisations are allegations. Circulating figures conflict (82.5M, 278M, 762M).
Sources: coingecko.com · coinbase.com · ducatuscoins.com · businesswire.com · behindmlm.com · mexc.com. Researched 2026-10-26, low confidence.
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DucatusX is #198 among cryptocurrencies and #4486 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 4288 places between DucatusX'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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