Elastos ranks #158 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1092: 934 of the 1091 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 1318 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 71% are tokens, 21% are claims on other assets and 7% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | C · 58/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #158 |
| Rank counting claims | #1092 |
| Market capitalisation | $7M |
| Price | $0.3117 |
| Circulating supply | 23,088,698 ELA |
| Maximum supply | 28,219,999 ELA |
| Consensus family | Hybrid |
| Consensus mechanism | AuxPoW SHA-256 (merge-mined) + DPoS |
| Own hashrate | — |
| Network purpose | Smart-contract platform |
| Ledger type | Multi-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Presale |
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C — 58 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 50 to 65 (D 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) | 5.1 | group average, 11 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 10 | 4 of 4 points, 2 not yet measured source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 9.9 | fixed maximum supply of 28.2 million: supply scale 9.8, cap 10 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✓ | 8 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 | ✓ | 8 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $3.1e-9 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | – | |
| Verifiability: open-source nodes and checking without a trusted server | – | node software open source |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 4 | 2 of 5 passed source |
| Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity | ✓ | Anyone can generate keys and receive and send coins; the consensus 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) | ✗ | No Dandelion or built-in Tor documented for the ELA main-chain node. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | Amounts are public. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Addresses are public. |
| 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) | 7.5 | a block every 2 minutes |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | – | not yet measured |
| Features (3 checks) | 0 | 0 of 1 passed, 2 not yet researched |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✗ | Two-minute merge-mined blocks confirmed by BPoS arbiters each block; no instant-lock or double-spend-proof mechanism, so finality takes minutes, not seconds. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | – | Not established. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | – | Not established. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 2.6 | 2 of 7 points, 2 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 | ✗ | merge-mined: its blocks are found by another chain's miners |
| Largest pool or validator under 50% | ✗ | 50.7% |
| Largest three under 75% | ✗ | 99.5% |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 1 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | The ELA main chain (Go) is developed by the Elastos Foundation's core team under the elastos GitHub organisation, funded through the Cyber Republic council treasury; MIT-licensed, though github.com/elastos/Elastos.ELA returned 404 on 2026-10-26 and binaries for v1.0.x are distributed from download.elastos.io. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✗ | about 770 a day |
| No 51% attack or deep reorganisation in five years | ✓ | |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 2.5 | 2 of 8 points, 1 not yet researched source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts: scripting for spending conditions | 1 | The main chain's UTXO programs cover signatures, multisig and output locks; contracts run only on the Elastos Smart Chain sidechain. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | Main-chain multisig addresses and OutputLock, a CLTV-like lock height on each UTXO that the spending transaction's lock time must exceed. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | – | Not established: a secret-and-key unlock condition is described, but no source shows a hash lock with a refund path on the main chain. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | No exchange on the main chain. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | Deposits to sidechains are verified by sidechain SPV, but withdrawals need an 8-of-12 multisignature of Council-run arbiters. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✗ | The main chain carries only ELA; NFTs live on the ESC sidechain. |
| Decentralisation | 5.3 | section average, 7 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No standing freeze or clawback key; after a July 2026 CrossChain-transaction validation exploit, v0.9.9.6 added a consensus-level 'mainchain address restriction' for the exploit path by mandatory upgrade rather than by any party's key. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: The ELA main chain (Go) is developed by the Elastos Foundation's core team under the elastos GitHub organisation, funded through the Cyber Republic council treasury; MIT-licensed, though github.com/elastos/Elastos.ELA returned 404 on 2026-10-26 and binaries for v1.0.x are distributed from download.elastos.io. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 7.1 | Hybrid: 7.1 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | 6.2 | 70 active validators or block producers (source: ~70) |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 2.2 | 77.7% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. Genesis 33M ELA, all allocated (angel 4.95M, public sale 6.88M, Elastos Foundation the rest); 13M was burned by community vote in July 2020, leaving a 20M base. Against a current total of ~25.74M (CoinPaprika), that is 77.7%. 30% of block rewards go to the Cyber Republic DAO treasury, run by an elected council. It is not counted here; counting it would add ~6-7 points. source |
| Fundraising | 2.2 | Sold by its issuer or insiders: 77.7% of supply was theirs to sell, 46% sold so far. Public sale ended Jan 23 2018: 6.88M ELA (20.84%) at $13.68 for $94.07M, paid in BTC and NEO. Angel round: 4.95M ELA (15%), amount not listed. Sold = 11.83M / 25.74M = 46%. source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 9.3 | Developer share: about 6.7% of today's supply received so far; 30% of each new block reward goes to them today. 30% of every ELA block reward has gone to the Elastos DAO / Cyber Republic treasury since the Dec 2017 mainnet (council-governed since 2020; held by the Foundation before). Merge-miners get 35% and BPoS validators 35%. Issued since genesis ≈ 25.74M current (CoinPaprika) − 20M base after the 2020 burn = 5.74M; 30% ≈ 1.72M = 6.7%. The halving schedule (every 1,051,200 blocks; reward now 0.761 ELA) gives ~5.0M issued and ~6.0%. source |
| Supply & Demand | 7.6 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 5.4 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 5 | 5 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 2 | $95,490 traded in 24 hours; #1582 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $97,457) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 6.7 | 1.2% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 6.5 | $6,327 within 2% of the price on 3 exchanges, 0.09% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 2.1 | $7.2M, 2.1 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) | 9.8 | fixed maximum supply of 28.2 million |
| Record | 8 | 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) | 8 | 8 full years since 2018-02-01, 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 | ✓ | ELA main-chain node v1.0.2 published 2026-07-30 on download.elastos.io (v1.0.0 2026-07-29, v0.9.9.6 2026-07-14, v0.9.9.4/0.9.9.5 2026-01-19); more than two releases in 24 months. |
| 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.
23,088,698 of a maximum 28,219,999 ELA are in circulation — 81.8% of the total that will ever exist.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 77.7% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 46% of today's supply |
| Developer share received since launch | 6.7% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 30% |
| Nodes or validators | 70 |
| Fundraising | Public sale |
Genesis 33M ELA, all allocated (angel 4.95M, public sale 6.88M, Elastos Foundation the rest); 13M was burned by community vote in July 2020, leaving a 20M base. Against a current total of ~25.74M (CoinPaprika), that is 77.7%. 30% of block rewards go to the Cyber Republic DAO treasury, run by an elected council. It is not counted here; counting it would add ~6-7 points.
Public sale ended Jan 23 2018: 6.88M ELA (20.84%) at $13.68 for $94.07M, paid in BTC and NEO. Angel round: 4.95M ELA (15%), amount not listed. Sold = 11.83M / 25.74M = 46%.
30% of every ELA block reward has gone to the Elastos DAO / Cyber Republic treasury since the Dec 2017 mainnet (council-governed since 2020; held by the Foundation before). Merge-miners get 35% and BPoS validators 35%. Issued since genesis ≈ 25.74M current (CoinPaprika) − 20M base after the 2020 burn = 5.74M; 30% ≈ 1.72M = 6.7%. The halving schedule (every 1,051,200 blocks; reward now 0.761 ELA) gives ~5.0M issued and ~6.0%.
Consistent with the site's current 'presale' label. Whose holdings the 13M burn came from is not stated in the sources found; it is treated as insider supply removed. The current total supply is from an aggregator.
Sources: elastos-docs.onrender.com · elastos-docs.onrender.com · icodrops.com · api.coinpaprika.com. Researched 2026-10-24, medium confidence.
No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for Elastos.
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Elastos is #158 among cryptocurrencies and #1092 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 934 places between Elastos'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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