Epic Private Internet Cash ranks #132 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #784: 652 of the 783 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 1031 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 66% are tokens, 24% are claims on other assets and 9% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | B · 72/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #132 |
| Rank counting claims | #784 |
| Market capitalisation | $15M |
| Price | $0.7843 |
| Circulating supply | 19,474,018 EPIC |
| Maximum supply | 21,000,000 EPIC |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | ProgPoW + RandomX + Cuckoo Cycle (MimbleWimble) |
| Own hashrate | 18 GH/s |
| Network purpose | Private payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | No premine |
Market figures from the 28 October 2026 build. Open the live view for every exchange's price, and charts.
B — 72 out of 100, provisional (from 17 of 20 criteria, 28 October 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 60 to 77 (C to A).
| 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) | 7.1 | group average, 10 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 8 | 4 of 5 points, 1 not yet measured source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 10 | fixed maximum supply of 21 million: supply scale 10, cap 10 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✗ | 1 full year 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 $7.8e-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; pruned nodes validate everything |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 8 | 4 of 5 passed source |
| Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity | ✓ | Anyone can create keys and receive and send coins; the protocol carries 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) | ✓ | The Grin-derived epic node's transaction pool uses Dandelion++ by default (600 s epochs, 90% stem probability, always stems its own transactions); node 4.0.0 also integrated Tor. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✓ | Mimblewimble Pedersen commitments hide every amount. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Mimblewimble has no on-chain addresses, but inputs are spent openly with no ring or zero-knowledge sender set. |
| 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) | 3.3 | 1 of 3 passed |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✗ | One-minute probabilistic blocks with no instant-lock mechanism. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✓ | epic node default archive_mode=false runs a fast-sync, pruned node (Mimblewimble cut-through drops spent outputs). |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✗ | No light client; wallets connect to a node or remote node. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 5.2 | 4 of 7 points, 2 not yet measured source |
| Miners paid a day ($1,000 0, $10 million or more 10), 2 points | 0.1 | about $1,117 a day |
| Its own hashrate: at least half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined | ✓ | |
| Largest pool or validator under 50% | ✓ | 47% |
| Largest three under 75% | – | |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 1 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | The epic node is developed by the Epic Cash core team in the EpicCash repository, funded by the protocol dev fund. |
| 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 | Grin-derived MimbleWimble chain with no scripts; kernels are Plain, Coinbase or HeightLocked. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✗ | HeightLocked kernels give an absolute lock height, but there is no native or wallet-supported m-of-n multisig. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✗ | No hash locks can be expressed and no working Epic adaptor-signature swap implementation was found. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | No exchange in the protocol. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | No cross-chain feature in the protocol. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✗ | Outputs carry only EPIC. |
| Decentralisation | 8.2 | section average, 6 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol-level party can freeze coins or halt the chain. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: The epic node is developed by the Epic Cash core team in the EpicCash repository, funded by the protocol dev fund. 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) | 10 | 0% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. No premine, sale or genesis allocation; all EPIC is issued through block rewards. The foundation levy, previously counted here, is now scored as a block-reward cut. source |
| Fundraising | 10 | No sale of the coin source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 9.3 | Developer share: about 6.6% of today's supply received so far; 1.11% of each new block reward goes to them today. The consensus.rs foundation levy takes a share of every block reward, paid out daily: 8.88% for the first 120 days (from Sep 2019), then 7.77%, 6.66%, 5.55%, 4.44%, 3.33%, 2.22%, 1.11% and 1.11% in successive 365-day eras, and 0 from about block 4.38M (late 2027). The current era (around block 3.6M) is 1.11%. Summing the code's schedule gives ~1.272M EPIC at today's supply of 19.30M, or 6.6%. source |
| Supply & Demand | 6.9 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 3.8 | average of 5 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 1 | 1 exchange |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 1.2 | $33,461 traded in 24 hours; #2029 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 2, $41,609) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 3.7 | 0.32% of its market cap a day, median of the last 3 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) | 3 | $15M, 3 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) | 10 | fixed maximum supply of 21 million |
| Record | 6 | 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) | 1 | 1 full year since 2025-05-27, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 7 | 2 positive, 0 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 21 commits in 7 of the last 12 months (github.com/EpicCash/epic); Epic v4.1.1, released 2026-10-20. |
| Shipped a privacy improvement in two years, +1 | ✓ | Epic node 4.0.0 (15 Sep, most likely 2025 from release order): integrated Tor support (onion addresses, Tor API handler, transaction push over Tor). |
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.
19,474,018 of a maximum 21,000,000 EPIC are in circulation — 92.7% 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 received since launch | 6.6% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 1.11% |
| Fundraising | No sale and no investor round |
No premine, sale or genesis allocation; all EPIC is issued through block rewards. The foundation levy, previously counted here, is now scored as a block-reward cut.
No ICO, presale or venture round. Development is funded by the foundation levy.
The consensus.rs foundation levy takes a share of every block reward, paid out daily: 8.88% for the first 120 days (from Sep 2019), then 7.77%, 6.66%, 5.55%, 4.44%, 3.33%, 2.22%, 1.11% and 1.11% in successive 365-day eras, and 0 from about block 4.38M (late 2027). The current era (around block 3.6M) is 1.11%. Summing the code's schedule gives ~1.272M EPIC at today's supply of 19.30M, or 6.6%.
Epic is marketed as 'no premine', but the developer levy counts as insider allocation under the method. The figure is computed from the consensus code and the current supply, not read from the chain.
Sources: github.com · cryptoslate.com · coingecko.com. Researched 2026-10-24, high confidence.
Epic Private Internet Cash is secured by 18 GH/s of its own work. Hashrate does not compare across algorithms — a SHA-256 hash and a Scrypt hash cost different amounts to produce.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
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Epic Private Internet Cash is #132 among cryptocurrencies and #784 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 652 places between Epic Private Internet Cash'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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