Mezo ranks #266 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #2456: 2190 of the 2455 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 2725 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 80% are tokens, 16% are claims on other assets and 4% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — launch under review |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #266 |
| Rank counting claims | #2456 |
| Market capitalisation | $359,429 |
| Price | $0.00418 |
| Circulating supply | 85,989,103 MEZO |
| Maximum supply | 1,000,000,000 MEZO |
| Consensus family | Proof of Authority |
| Consensus mechanism | CometBFT (PoA validators) |
| Network purpose | Financial ledger |
| 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. Mezo'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) | 7.3 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 7.3 | Proof of authority: 7.3 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 7.3 | Proof of authority: 7.3 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 4.8 | group average, 6 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 5.8 | 2.9 of 5 points, 1 not yet measured |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 8.9 | fixed maximum supply of 1 billion: supply scale 7.8, cap 10 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✗ | 0 full years since its first recorded price, record not yet reviewed |
| Fungibility: every unit interchangeable, none the protocol can freeze or set apart | ✗ | an authority can freeze funds |
| Divisibility: the smallest unit worth a cent or less | ✓ | 18 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $4.2e-21 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✓ | typical fee $0.0026; about 133 transactions a second (5.2 on the throughput scale; 5 is the busiest networks' median demand) |
| Verifiability: open-source nodes and checking without a trusted server | – | light clients verify from headers or proofs |
| 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 user-generated keys in the Cosmos SDK auth and bank modules, with no identity check on holding or sending. |
| 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) | ✗ | CometBFT gossips transactions without origin hiding; no Dandelion or built-in Tor. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | Account-based EVM transfers; amounts are public. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Plain account addresses; sender and receiver are public. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 7.2 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 8.6 | typical fee $0.0026 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 5.2 | about 133 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 2 | a block every 3.58 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 10 | 0.25 MB limit (converted from its gas, compute, mass or count limit), 41.9 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 10 | 2 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | – | |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✓ | Cosmos SDK pruning ('default'/'everything') plus CometBFT min-retain-blocks and state sync let a node keep only recent state and blocks. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✓ | mezod runs CometBFT 0.38.21, whose light client verifies headers from validator signatures. |
| 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) | 8.8 | 7 of 8 points, 1 not yet researched source |
| Token issuance at protocol level, validated by its own nodes | 2 | ERC-20 contracts on Mezo's own EVM (Cosmos SDK chain, chain ID 31612); its docs state that anybody can deploy to Mezo Mainnet. |
| Smart contracts: a general-purpose contract system | 2 | EVM in mezod (Cosmos SDK v0.50), chain ID 31612, producing blocks on 2026-10-28; its docs state anybody can deploy to Mezo Mainnet. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | m-of-n multisig and time-lock contracts (Safe-style wallets, timelock controllers) run on its EVM like on Ethereum. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | Hash-time-locked contracts are expressible in Solidity on its EVM, as in EVM HTLC swap implementations. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | No exchange in the protocol; DEXs on the chain are user-deployed contracts. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | – | IBC is not wired (ibc-go only an indirect dependency); a native x/bridge module carries assets to and from Ethereum on a bridge-validator quorum, but whether that quorum is the chain's own validator set could not be established. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✓ | ERC-721 contracts run on its EVM. |
| Decentralisation | 2.2 | section average, 2 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 0 | An authority can halt the chain or freeze funds |
| No central team (Source) | — | Not yet researched |
| Who can mint (Source) | 4.3 | Proof of authority: 4.3 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 | 6.7 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 5.6 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 4 | 4 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 1 | $49,642 traded in 24 hours; #2122 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $32,696) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 8.4 | 10% 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 | $10,764 within 2% of the price on 4 exchanges, 3.0% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 0 | $359K, 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) | 7.8 | fixed maximum supply of 1 billion |
| Record | 1 | group average, 2 of 3 measured |
| Record (origin, claims, halts) | — | Not yet reviewed |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 0 | 0 full years since 2026-04-01, 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 | ✓ | mezod v12.0.0, Aug 2026 (mandatory, block 10,885,900): bounded eth_getProof keys and aligned StateDB account existence with go-ethereum; v10.0.0 (May 2026) enforces the BTC supply invariant on EVM commit. |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1 | ✓ | mezod v11.0.0, May 2026 (block 9,275,000): Osaka EVM with EIP-7702 SetCode transactions; v9.0.0 (Apr 2026) enabled the Triparty BTC bridge. |
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.
85,989,103 of a maximum 1,000,000,000 MEZO are in circulation — 8.6% of the total that will ever exist.
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.
Mezo is #266 among cryptocurrencies and #2456 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 2190 places between Mezo'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).
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