Massa ranks #229 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #4308: 4079 of the 4307 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 2075 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 | #229 |
| Rank counting claims | #4308 |
| Market capitalisation | $1M |
| Price | $0.00265 |
| Circulating supply | 488,999,440 MAS |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | PoS (Blockclique multithreaded DAG) |
| Network purpose | Smart-contract platform |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
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Grade pending. Massa'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) | 9.1 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 9.1 | Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 9.1 | Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 6.2 | group average, 5 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 6 | 2.4 of 4 points, 2 not yet measured |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 4.1 | no fixed maximum; 489 million in circulation: supply scale 8.2, cap 0 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✗ | 2 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 | ✓ | 9 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $2.6e-12 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✓ | typical fee $0.000032; about 4,000 transactions a second (10 on the throughput scale; 5 is the busiest networks' median demand) |
| 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) | ✗ | massa-node propagates operations directly; no Dandelion or Tor. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | Balances and transfers are public. |
| 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) | 6 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.000032 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 10 | about 4,000 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 0 | a block every 0.5 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 10 | 0.3 MB limit, 360 MB per 10 minutes |
| 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 | – | Nodes bootstrap the final state from peers, but the history retention setting was not established. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✗ | No light-client protocol; wallets query 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 | Autonomous smart contracts (AssemblyScript/WASM), open to any account, carry MRC-20 tokens. |
| Smart contracts: a general-purpose contract system | 2 | Autonomous smart contracts (AssemblyScript compiled to WASM), open to any account. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | Contracts can enforce m-of-n approvals and wait for future slots (autonomous/deferred execution). |
| 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 such as Dusa are contracts. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | The Massa Bridge relies on a relayer network where 3 of 4 relayers sign each operation, not verification by Massa nodes. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✓ | MRC-721 (ERC-721-equivalent) NFT standard in Massa's contract standards. |
| Decentralisation | 8.6 | section average, 1 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | — | Not yet researched |
| No central team (Source) | — | Not yet researched |
| Who can mint (Source) | 8.6 | Proof of stake: 8.6 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 | 6.9 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 5.5 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 2 | 2 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 2.2 | $94,960 traded in 24 hours; #1487 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $122,271) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 8.6 | 9.3% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 10 | $16,110 within 2% of the price on 2 exchanges, 1.2% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 0.3 | $1.3M, 0.3 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) | 8.2 | no fixed maximum; 489 million in circulation |
| Record | 2 | group average, 2 of 3 measured |
| Record (origin, claims, halts) | — | Not yet reviewed |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 2 | 2 full years since 2024-04-22, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 2 | 2 positive, 0 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | Massa MAIN.2.5, May 2025: security-audit fixes; MAIN.5.1, Oct 2026: DoS hardening (request-size bounds, trailing-bytes messages, block operation size limits). |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1 | ✓ | Massa MAIN.2.5 network upgrade, May 2025: deferred calls (contracts schedule future calls) and direct MAS transfers to contract addresses. |
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.
488,999,440 MAS 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.
Massa is #229 among cryptocurrencies and #4308 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 4079 places between Massa'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).