Ixcoin ranks #376 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #5401: 5025 of the 5400 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.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — launch under review |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #376 |
| Rank counting claims | #5401 |
| Price | $0.00570 |
| Circulating supply | 0 IXC |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | SHA-256 (merge-mined) |
| Own hashrate | — |
| Network purpose | Payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Premine |
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Grade pending. Fewer than six of Ixcoin's nine network-security points are measured yet. 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) | 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) | 8.2 | 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 | – | |
| 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 $5.7e-11 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✗ | typical fee $3e-7; about 7 transactions a second (0.4 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 | ✓ | Ixcoin's Bitcoin-derived node (ixcore/ixcoin) has no identity rule: anyone generates keys and receives and sends the coin. |
| 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) | ✗ | Ixcoin 0.14.1 (Jan 2018, Bitcoin Core 0.13-era code): no Dandelion; Tor is only used if the operator runs and configures it. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | Transparent Bitcoin-style amounts; no confidential transactions. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Transparent addresses and inputs; no ring signatures or stealth addresses. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 6.7 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $3e-7 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 0.4 | about 7.4 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 9.6 | a block every 7.7 minutes |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 6.9 | 4 MB limit, 5.23 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 6.7 | 2 of 3 passed |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✗ | Ten-minute proof-of-work blocks merge-mined with Bitcoin; no instant locks or double-spend proofs. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✓ | Ixcoin 0.14.1 (Jan 2018, Bitcoin Core 0.13-era code): -prune keeps the UTXO set and recent blocks. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✓ | Ixcoin 0.14.1 (Jan 2018, Bitcoin Core 0.13-era code) serves BIP37 Merkle proofs to SPV clients, which check the merge-mined SHA-256 proof of work in headers. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | — | 2 of 5 points, 4 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% | – | |
| Largest three under 75% | – | |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 0 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | Ixcoin Core (a Namecoin-derived merge-mining client) was maintained by volunteers in the IXCore GitHub organisation; no company or foundation and no activity since 2018; MIT licence. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✗ | about 1 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 | Ixcoin runs Bitcoin-style Script limited to spending conditions (signatures, hash locks, multisig); no contract VM or token introspection. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | OP_CHECKMULTISIG plus CLTV, enforced from BIP65Height 450,000 (the chain is past block 1,064,000); the CSV deployment is undefined. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | HTLCs built from Script hash locks (OP_SHA256/OP_HASH160) with a CLTV refund branch are standard Script, so cross-chain hash-locked swaps work on Ixcoin. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | No exchange or order book in the Ixcoin consensus rules. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | Ixcoin nodes verify no other chain; no protocol-level cross-chain messaging. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✗ | No token or NFT type in the Ixcoin consensus rules. |
| Decentralisation | 10 | section average, 6 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol party can freeze, blacklist or claw back coins or halt the chain. source |
| No central team (Source) | 10 | No central team: Ixcoin Core (a Namecoin-derived merge-mining client) was maintained by volunteers in the IXCore GitHub organisation; no company or foundation and no activity since 2018; MIT licence. 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) | 9.7 | 2.7% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. The Ixcoin Core 0.14 chainparams state that the block rewards of the initial 6,050 blocks (6,050 x 96 = 580,800 IXC) 'are the premine'; 580,800 / 21.54M current supply = 2.70%. source |
| Fundraising | 10 | No sale of the coin source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. The whole coinbase goes to the miner. The original 96 IXC subsidy ended at height 227,499; since height 450,000 miners may also claim up to 1 IXC per block from a 'mining fund' created by the 0.14 hard fork (initially 580,800 IXC, equal to the premine) plus any burned coins. source |
| Supply & Demand | 0 | group average, 1 of 2 measured |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 0 | average of 1 measure |
| 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) | – | not measured |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | – | not measured |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | – | not measured |
| Supply (smaller is better) | — | Supply not reported |
| 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 2013-05-08, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 0 | 0 positive, 7 negative source |
| Negative | ||
| Steady work, 0 of 6 | ✗ | 0 commits in 0 of the last 12 months (github.com/IXCore/IXCoin); Last release 'Version 0.14.1 Update' on 2018-01-30 (IXCore/IXCoin); last commit 2018-09-10. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-03, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-52914: crafted orphan transactions can stall the node for hours in the uninterruptible orphan-resolution loop; still in Ixcoin v0.14.1. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-03, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2020-14198: misbehaving peers are auto-banned into an unbounded ban list, so many attacker addresses can exhaust CPU and memory; still in Ixcoin v0.14.1. |
| 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 Ixcoin v0.14.1. |
| 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 Ixcoin v0.14.1. |
| 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 Ixcoin v0.14.1. |
| 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 Ixcoin v0.14.1. |
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.
0 IXC are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 2.7% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
| Fundraising | No sale and no investor round |
The Ixcoin Core 0.14 chainparams state that the block rewards of the initial 6,050 blocks (6,050 x 96 = 580,800 IXC) 'are the premine'; 580,800 / 21.54M current supply = 2.70%.
No ICO or presale; the 2011 launch included a creator premine of 580,800 IXC.
What happened to the 2011 premine is not documented.
The whole coinbase goes to the miner. The original 96 IXC subsidy ended at height 227,499; since height 450,000 miners may also claim up to 1 IXC per block from a 'mining fund' created by the 0.14 hard fork (initially 580,800 IXC, equal to the premine) plus any burned coins.
clients is 0 because the only client has had no release since 2018. The 2017-18 hard fork re-created an amount equal to the premine as a mining fund paid out to miners, so supply now exceeds the advertised 21M cap. The input circulating supply of 0 is wrong: chainz reports 21.54M at height 1,063,773.
Sources: github.com · github.com · github.com · chainz.cryptoid.info. Researched 2026-10-26, medium confidence.
No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for Ixcoin.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
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Ixcoin is #376 among cryptocurrencies and #5401 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 5025 places between Ixcoin'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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