Feathercoin ranks #292 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #2750: 2458 of the 2749 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 3014 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 81% are tokens, 16% are claims on other assets and 3% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | A · 76/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #292 |
| Rank counting claims | #2750 |
| Market capitalisation | $190,258 |
| Price | $0.000804 |
| Circulating supply | 236,600,238 FTC |
| Maximum supply | 336,000,000 FTC |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | NeoScrypt |
| Own hashrate | — |
| Network purpose | Payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | No premine |
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A — 76 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 68 to 79 (B 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) | 8 | group average, 11 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 9.8 | 5.9 of 6 points source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 9.2 | fixed maximum supply of 336 million: supply scale 8.4, cap 10 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✓ | 13 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 $8.0e-12 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✓ | typical fee $1e-7; about 118 transactions a second (5 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) | ✗ | No Dandelion relay; Tor/onion is an optional -onion/-proxy setting in the Bitcoin-derived node, not on by default. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | Transparent transactions: amounts are public on chain. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Transparent addresses: sender and receiver are public on chain. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 7.6 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $1e-7 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 5 | about 118 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 6.5 | a block every 1.1 minutes |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 10 | 4 MB limit, 37.9 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 6.7 | 2 of 3 passed |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✗ | Bitcoin Core 0.21-based node that relays BIP125 opt-in replace-by-fee, so zero-confirmation is not network-protected; no double-spend proofs. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✓ | -prune in its Bitcoin Core 0.21.1 base (feature since 0.11, 2015). |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✓ | Feathercoin v0.21.0 (May 2026): NeoScrypt PoW header chain with BIP37 Merkle proofs and BIP157 compact block filters (SPV). |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 3.4 | 3 of 8 points, 1 not yet measured source |
| Miners paid a day ($1,000 0, $10 million or more 10), 2 points | 0 | about $5 a day |
| Its own hashrate: at least half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined | – | |
| Largest pool or validator under 50% | ✓ | 44.1% |
| Largest three under 75% | ✗ | 100% |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 1 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | Feathercoin Core is maintained by a small volunteer team in the FeatherCoin GitHub organisation (MIT); no company. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✗ | about 89 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 | Litecoin-derived Script (SegWit) limited to spending conditions. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | CHECKMULTISIG plus CLTV (height 2,120,750) and CSV (height 2,157,120) in Feathercoin mainnet parameters. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | HTLCs expressible with OP_SHA256/OP_HASH160 and OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | No exchange in the protocol. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | No protocol-level cross-chain messaging. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✗ | No token or NFT type in the consensus rules. |
| Decentralisation | 10 | section average, 6 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No party can freeze or claw back coins, but nodes enforce Advanced Checkpointing by default: a developer-held master key (checkpointPubKey) signs sync checkpoints every 5 blocks that override chain selection, giving that key holder power to pick between competing chains. source |
| No central team (Source) | 10 | No central team: Feathercoin Core is maintained by a small volunteer team in the FeatherCoin GitHub organisation (MIT); no company. 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 | Fair launch: no premine |
| Fundraising | 10 | No sale of the coin |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. No cut. GetBlockSubsidy pays the whole 80 FTC (halving) subsidy to miners; there is no dev fund or founder output in the consensus code. source |
| Supply & Demand | 4.2 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 0 | average of 2 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 0 | no exchange the site reads trades it |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | – | no volume reported |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | – | not measured |
| 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) | 0 | $190K, 0 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) | 8.4 | fixed maximum supply of 336 million |
| Record | 6.7 | 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) | 10 | 13 full years since 2013-05-03, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 0 | 3 positive, 4 negative, 1 not yet researched source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 2 of 6 | ✓ | 75 commits in 3 of the last 12 months (github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin); Feathercoin v0.21.0 released 2026-05-30 and v0.19.2 on 2025-03-19: two releases in the last 24 months. |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | Feathercoin v0.21.0, May 2026: rebased from Bitcoin Core 0.19 to 0.21.1 (inheriting the upstream fixes of 0.20-0.21.1) and restored synchronized checkpointing against deep-reorganisation attacks. |
| Shipped a privacy improvement in two years, +1 | ✓ | Feathercoin v0.21.0, May 2026: BIP155 address relay for Tor v3 onion peers and BIP157 compact block filters for light clients. |
| Negative | ||
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-31, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-52919: addr-message spam can overflow the address manager's 32-bit id counter and crash the node, with no addr rate limit; still in Feathercoin v0.21.0. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-09-18, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2019-25220: a long low-difficulty header chain can exhaust memory because the node has no headers pre-synchronisation; still in Feathercoin v0.21.0. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-10-08, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-35202: a crafted blocktxn message trips the assert in compact-block reconstruction and crashes the node; still in Feathercoin v0.21.0. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2026-05-05, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-52911: a crafted invalid block can make script-check threads read freed precomputed transaction data and crash the node; still in Feathercoin v0.21.0. |
| Not yet researched | ||
| 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.
236,600,238 of a maximum 336,000,000 FTC are in circulation — 70.4% of the total that will ever exist.
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
No cut. GetBlockSubsidy pays the whole 80 FTC (halving) subsidy to miners; there is no dev fund or founder output in the consensus code.
Sources: github.com · feathercoin.com. Researched 2026-10-24, high confidence.
No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for Feathercoin.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
The regulator's position, reported as stated, not CoinSpectrum's. Assets nobody has ruled on are left unclassified rather than sorted by a guess.
Feathercoin is #292 among cryptocurrencies and #2750 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 2458 places between Feathercoin'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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