ExchangeCoin ranks #199 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #4581: 4382 of the 4580 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 1763 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 75% are tokens, 19% are claims on other assets and 6% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — launch under review |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #199 |
| Rank counting claims | #4581 |
| Market capitalisation | $3M |
| Price | $0.0842 |
| Circulating supply | 30,946,606 EXCC |
| Maximum supply | 32,003,078 EXCC |
| Consensus family | Hybrid |
| Consensus mechanism | Equihash (144,5) PoW + PoS tickets |
| Own hashrate | — |
| Network purpose | Payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Presale |
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Grade pending. What ExchangeCoin pays its miners is not yet measured. A grade is not given until it is, so that a coin is never rated higher for what is not yet known.
| 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) | 6 | group average, 11 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 8.3 | 5 of 6 points source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 9.9 | fixed maximum supply of 32 million: supply scale 9.8, cap 10 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✓ | 5 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 $8.4e-10 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✗ | typical fee $0.00002; about 12 transactions a second (1.2 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; light clients verify from headers or proofs |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 4 | 2 of 5 passed source |
| Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity | ✓ | Addresses are hashes of keys users generate themselves; the node checks scripts and signatures, with no identity condition in its consensus 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) | ✗ | dcrd-derived node relays directly; Tor needs user setup. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | Transparent UTXO amounts. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Transparent addresses; no ring signatures or stealth addresses. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 6.1 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.00002 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 1.2 | about 12 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 7.9 | a block every 2.6 minutes |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 4.7 | 0.393 MB limit, 1.51 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 6.7 | 2 of 3 passed |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✓ | exccd is a dcrd fork that relays the first-seen transaction and has no replace-by-fee; blocks are 150 s apart and there are no double-spend proofs. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✗ | dcrd-derived exccd has no pruning mode; nodes keep all blocks. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✓ | exccd (dcrd fork) builds version-2 committed GCS block filters (gcs/blockcf2) for SPV wallets. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 4.5 | 3 of 6 points, 3 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 | – | |
| Largest pool or validator under 50% | ✗ | 94.8% |
| Largest three under 75% | ✗ | 100% |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 1 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | All node, wallet and explorer code lives in the EXCCoin GitHub organisation run by the ExchangeCoin team (ISC licence), originally built for it by contractor Pragmatic Coders. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✓ | about 2,650 a day |
| No 51% attack or deep reorganisation in five years | ✓ | |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 3.3 | 3 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts: scripting for spending conditions | 1 | Decred-derived txscript with spending conditions only. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | OP_CHECKMULTISIG, OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY and OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY in exccd's txscript. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | txscript can express HTLCs (hash check plus CLTV refund), as in Decred's atomic swaps. |
| 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 | ✗ | No token or NFT type in the protocol. |
| Decentralisation | 6.6 | section average, 6 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol key can freeze or claw back coins; PoS ticket voting validates blocks but has no freeze power. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: All node, wallet and explorer code lives in the EXCCoin GitHub organisation run by the ExchangeCoin team (ISC licence), originally built for it by contractor Pragmatic Coders. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 7.1 | Hybrid: 7.1 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | — | Not yet counted |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 6.1 | 39.2% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. Block 1 (2018-07-18) paid 12,144,736 EXCC to 3,307 outputs (on-chain, explorer.excc.co); 12.14M / 30.94M mined supply = 39.2%. The ledger appears to convert pre-chain ICO holdings plus team allocations; it is dominated by a few large payouts (one of ~5.88M and five of 1M in the repository ledger). source |
| Fundraising | 6.1 | Sold by its issuer or insiders: 39.2% of supply was theirs to sell. The founders held an ICO before the chain was built (Pragmatic Coders case study) and block 1 distributed the coins, but the split between sale buyers and team inside the block-one ledger is not published. ICO in 2017-2018 before mainnet (amount not found); CEO Sylwester Szczepanek; chain built by contractor Pragmatic Coders from February 2018. source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. Decred-derived subsidy split 70% PoW / 30% PoS voters with no treasury or block tax (mainnetparams.go has WorkRewardProportion 7, StakeRewardProportion 3, no BlockTaxProportion); the site states there is no developer fee. source |
| Supply & Demand | 6 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 2.2 | average of 3 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | – | exchanges not yet counted |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 0.4 | $15,410 traded in 24 hours; #2386 by volume |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 5.1 | 0.59% 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 | $2.6M, 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) | 9.8 | fixed maximum supply of 32 million |
| Record | 7.3 | 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) | 5 | 5 full years since 2021-05-05, 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 | ✓ | 49 commits in 2 of the last 12 months (github.com/EXCCoin/exccd); exccd v2.8.2 released 2026-08-05 (v2.8.0 2026-07-31, v2.8.1 2026-08-03); before that v2.7.6 in November 2023. |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | exccd v2.8.1–v2.8.2, Aug 2026: Equihash validation with historical exceptions, enforcement of the inactive DCP0010 agenda, rejection of invalid headers before reading payloads, inbound connection-flood limits. |
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.
30,946,606 of a maximum 32,003,078 EXCC are in circulation — 96.7% of the total that will ever exist.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 39.2% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
| Fundraising | Public sale |
Block 1 (2018-07-18) paid 12,144,736 EXCC to 3,307 outputs (on-chain, explorer.excc.co); 12.14M / 30.94M mined supply = 39.2%. The ledger appears to convert pre-chain ICO holdings plus team allocations; it is dominated by a few large payouts (one of ~5.88M and five of 1M in the repository ledger).
ICO in 2017-2018 before mainnet (amount not found); CEO Sylwester Szczepanek; chain built by contractor Pragmatic Coders from February 2018.
The founders held an ICO before the chain was built (Pragmatic Coders case study) and block 1 distributed the coins, but the split between sale buyers and team inside the block-one ledger is not published.
Decred-derived subsidy split 70% PoW / 30% PoS voters with no treasury or block tax (mainnetparams.go has WorkRewardProportion 7, StakeRewardProportion 3, no BlockTaxProportion); the site states there is no developer fee.
subsidydefinitions.go in the current repository lists 17.14M across 3,305 payouts, 5M more than block 1 actually paid; the on-chain figure is used. The website calls EXCC 'privacy-focused' and Equihash 144,5 'ASIC-resistant': the ledger is transparent (the wallet offers only CoinShuffle++ mixing) and Bitmain's Z15 mines Equihash 144,5. No 51% attack or reorg found.
Sources: github.com · explorer.excc.co · explorer.excc.co · github.com · pragmaticcoders.com · github.com. Researched 2026-10-26, medium confidence.
No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for ExchangeCoin.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
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ExchangeCoin is #199 among cryptocurrencies and #4581 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 4382 places between ExchangeCoin'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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