Koinos ranks #225 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1774: 1549 of the 1773 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 2011 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 77% are tokens, 18% are claims on other assets and 5% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — launch under review |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #225 |
| Rank counting claims | #1774 |
| Market capitalisation | $1M |
| Price | $0.0178 |
| Circulating supply | 83,257,338 KOIN |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Other |
| Consensus mechanism | Proof of Burn |
| Network purpose | Smart-contract platform |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
Market figures from the 28 October 2026 build. Open the live view for every exchange's price, and charts.
Grade pending. Koinos's launch — how much went to insiders, whether it was sold to investors — is still being researched. 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) | 6.4 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 6.4 | Other: 6.4 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 6.4 | Other: 6.4 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 3.9 | group average, 4 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | — | 1.5 of 2 points, 4 not yet measured |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 4.6 | no fixed maximum; 83.3 million in circulation: supply scale 9.2, cap 0 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | – | 5 full years since its first recorded price, record not yet reviewed |
| Fungibility: every unit interchangeable, none the protocol can freeze or set apart | – | |
| Divisibility: the smallest unit worth a cent or less | ✓ | 8 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $1.8e-10 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | – | typical fee $0 |
| Verifiability: open-source nodes and checking without a trusted server | – | |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 2.5 | 1 of 5 passed, 1 not yet measured source |
| Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity | ✓ | Accounts are created from keys users generate themselves; transfers are validated by signature, with no identity condition in the protocol. |
| 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) | ✗ | koinos p2p microservice gossips transactions directly; no Dandelion or Tor. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | Token balances are public contract state. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Sender and receiver addresses are public. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 3.9 | average of 3 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0 |
| 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) | 1.7 | a block every 2.94 seconds |
| 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 | – | |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | – | Block-store pruning not established. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✗ | No light-client protocol; wallets use JSON-RPC nodes. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | — | 0 of 3 points, 6 not yet measured |
| Miners paid a day ($1,000 0, $10 million or more 10), 2 points | 0 | not mined |
| Its own hashrate: at least half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined | ✗ | not mined |
| Largest pool or validator under 50% | – | |
| Largest three under 75% | – | |
| More than one maintained client | – | |
| Node software is open source | – | |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | – | |
| No 51% attack or deep reorganisation in five years | – | |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 7.8 | 7 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance at protocol level, validated by its own nodes | 2 | WASM smart contracts, open to any account that has mana, carry KCS-1/KCS-4 tokens. |
| Smart contracts: a general-purpose contract system | 2 | WASM smart contracts on the Koinos VM, open to any account with mana; chain producing blocks in October 2026. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | Multisig is not built in but is added through authority overrides (an account's own authorize contract), which can also check block time. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | WASM contracts can express hash-locked, time-locked escrow. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | No exchange in the protocol; DEXs are contracts. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | No protocol-level cross-chain messaging found. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✓ | KCS-2 NFT contract standard on its VM, with a collection guide in the developer hub. |
| Decentralisation | 1.4 | section average, 1 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | — | Not yet researched |
| No central team (Source) | — | Not yet researched |
| Who can mint (Source) | 1.4 | Other: 1.4 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | — | Not yet counted |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | — | Launch not yet researched |
| Fundraising | — | Launch not yet researched |
| Developer share (after launch) | — | Not yet researched |
| Supply & Demand | 4.6 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 0.1 | average of 4 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 0 | no exchange the site reads trades it |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 0 | $794 traded in 24 hours; #3340 by volume |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 0 | 0.05% 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) | 0.4 | $1.5M, 0.4 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) | 9.2 | no fixed maximum; 83.3 million in circulation |
| Record | 3 | group average, 2 of 3 measured |
| Record (origin, claims, halts) | — | Not yet reviewed |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 5 | 5 full years since 2021-01-19, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 1 | 1 positive, 0 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | koinos-chain v1.5.0 (hf1a), Oct 2025: hard-fork rectification forcing an update of the Koinos Fund system contract to fix a bug (return buffer and project-length 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.
83,257,338 KOIN are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
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.
Koinos is #225 among cryptocurrencies and #1774 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 1549 places between Koinos'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.
The price above is the median of the exchanges the site reads live, checked every minute and cross-checked against a market snapshot (how market data is gathered). The grade is scored on published criteria, each with its source (the method). The site is independent, nothing on it is a paid placement, and its statements are signed (about CoinSpectrum, the manifesto).