Luckycoin ranks #244 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1997: 1753 of the 1996 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 2245 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 78% are tokens, 18% are claims on other assets and 4% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | B · 66/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #244 |
| Rank counting claims | #1997 |
| Market capitalisation | $946,704 |
| Price | $0.0493 |
| Circulating supply | 19,204,751 LKY |
| Maximum supply | 20,000,000 LKY |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | Scrypt (AuxPoW merged mining since block 176000) |
| Own hashrate | — |
| Network purpose | Payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | No premine |
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B — 66 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 59 to 69 (C to B).
| 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) | 6.7 | group average, 11 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 6.7 | 4 of 6 points source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 10 | fixed maximum supply of 20 million: supply scale 10, cap 10 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✗ | 2 full years since its first recorded price, one 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 $4.9e-10 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✗ | typical fee $0.0001; about 74 transactions a second (4.2 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) | ✗ | Bitcoin-derived node relays its own transactions over clearnet by default; Tor (-proxy/-onion) needs user setup and there is no Dandelion. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | Transparent UTXO amounts; no confidential-transaction or shielded feature. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Transparent addresses; no ring signatures, ZK proofs or stealth addresses. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 7.1 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.0001 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 4.2 | about 74 simple transactions a second |
| 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) | 8 | 1 MB limit, 10 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 6.7 | 2 of 3 passed |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✗ | The Dogecoin-derived Luckycoin Core sets DEFAULT_ENABLE_REPLACEMENT = true (opt-in replace-by-fee), and blocks are about a minute apart. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✓ | Luckycoin Core 5.0.1 (rebased on Dogecoin 1.14.9) keeps -prune. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✓ | Bitcoin-style SPV: block headers plus Merkle-branch proofs (BIP37 merkleblock) served by full nodes. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 3 | 3 of 9 points source |
| Miners paid a day ($1,000 0, $10 million or more 10), 2 points | 0 | about $98 a day |
| 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% | ✓ | 46% |
| Largest three under 75% | ✗ | 89% |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 1 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | The reference client is maintained by the Luckycoin Foundation in the LuckycoinFoundation/luckycoin repository (MIT). |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✗ | about 57 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 | Dogecoin-codebase Script with spending conditions only. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | OP_CHECKMULTISIG, OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY and OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY in its script interpreter. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | Script can express HTLCs (hash check plus CLTV refund). |
| 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 | 8.3 | 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, blacklist or claw back LKY. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: The reference client is maintained by the Luckycoin Foundation in the LuckycoinFoundation/luckycoin repository (MIT). 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. Launched 24 May 2013 by the pseudonymous LuckyC as a Litecoin fork with no genesis allocation (block 1 pays the normal 88 LKY at minimum difficulty). When the dormant chain was restarted on 25 Aug 2024 at height 81,744, the first restart blocks (81,744-82,000) paid an unspendable script, so the revival did not mint coins to anyone. 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. GetLuckycoinBlockSubsidy pays the whole subsidy plus fees to the miner; there is no developer or foundation output in Luckycoin Core 5.0. 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) | 0.5 | $18,926 traded in 24 hours; #2430 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $17,087) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 7.3 | 1.6% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 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) | 0 | $947K, 0 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 20 million |
| Record | 3.7 | group average |
| Record (origin, claims, halts) | 9 | 2 positive, 1 negative source |
| Positive record | ||
| Launched with a stated purpose, not as a joke | ✓ | |
| No claims by its founders that contradict its own design | ✓ | |
| Negative record | ||
| Halt, freeze or reversal, 2013-11-25 | ✗ | The chain produced no blocks from height 81,743 (25 Nov 2013) until a revival group mined height 81,744 on 25 Aug 2024; the dormancy covers the first three years of the window. |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 2 | 2 full years since 2024-09-02, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 0 | 2 positive, 3 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 2 of 6 | ✓ | 2 commits in 2 of the last 12 months (github.com/LuckycoinFoundation/luckycoin); LuckycoinFoundation/luckycoin: Luckycoin Core 5.0.1 (23 Dec 2025) and 5.0.0 (30 Oct 2025) are the only releases in the last 24 months. |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | Luckycoin Core 5.0.1, Dec 2025: mandatory security update adding a checkpoint at block 720,000. |
| Negative | ||
| 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 Luckycoin v5.0.1. |
| 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 Luckycoin v5.0.1. |
| 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 Luckycoin v5.0.1. |
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.
19,204,751 of a maximum 20,000,000 LKY are in circulation — 96.0% 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 | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
| Fundraising | No sale and no investor round |
Launched 24 May 2013 by the pseudonymous LuckyC as a Litecoin fork with no genesis allocation (block 1 pays the normal 88 LKY at minimum difficulty). When the dormant chain was restarted on 25 Aug 2024 at height 81,744, the first restart blocks (81,744-82,000) paid an unspendable script, so the revival did not mint coins to anyone.
No sale is documented for the 2013 launch or the 2024 revival.
GetLuckycoinBlockSubsidy pays the whole subsidy plus fees to the miner; there is no developer or foundation output in Luckycoin Core 5.0.
The queue's 20M maximum is not a supply cap: MAX_MONEY (20M) only bounds transaction values, and the 2024-25 client changed the original 2013 rule (subsidy halves every 100,000 blocks without limit, ~19.4M asymptote) to a perpetual 1.375 LKY floor. AuxPoW (merged mining with Litecoin) has been mandatory since block 176,000 (Nov 2024).
Sources: github.com · github.com · github.com · luckyscan.org · cryptoslate.com. Researched 2026-10-26, medium confidence.
2.02 PH/s is recorded against Luckycoin, but it is merge-mined in part and the split between its own blocks and a parent's is not published — so its own share reads as unknown.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
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Luckycoin is #244 among cryptocurrencies and #1997 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 1753 places between Luckycoin'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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