Nexa ranks #181 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1307: 1126 of the 1306 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 1531 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 73% are tokens, 20% are claims on other assets and 6% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | B · 67/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #181 |
| Rank counting claims | #1307 |
| Market capitalisation | $4M |
| Price | $7.26e-7 |
| Circulating supply | 5,859,620,000,000 NEXA |
| Maximum supply | 21,000,000,000,000 NEXA |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | NexaPow (SHA3-based) |
| Own hashrate | 2.60 TH/s |
| Ledger type | Multi-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | No premine |
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B — 67 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 60 to 71 (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) | 7.1 | group average, 11 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 5.8 | 3.5 of 6 points source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 5 | fixed maximum supply of 21 trillion: supply scale 0, cap 10 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✗ | 3 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 | ✓ | 2 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $7.3e-9 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✗ | typical fee $0.0000025; about 76 transactions a second (4.3 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) | 8 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.0000025 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 4.3 | about 76 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 7.5 | a block every 2 minutes |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 8 | 2 MB limit, 10 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 10 | 3 of 3 passed |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✓ | The nexad node (Bitcoin Unlimited lineage) relays first-seen transactions and has no replace-by-fee, so zero-confirmation payments are protected by network relay policy. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✓ | Nexa node (Bitcoin Unlimited lineage) keeps the -prune option. |
| 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) | 3.6 | 3.2 of 8 points, 1 not yet measured source |
| Miners paid a day ($1,000 0, $10 million or more 10), 2 points | 1 | about $2,612 a day |
| Its own hashrate: at least half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined | ✓ | |
| Largest pool or validator under 50% | ✗ | 86% |
| Largest three under 75% | ✗ | 97.6% |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 1 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | The reference client nexad is developed in the gitlab.com/nexa repository by the Bitcoin Unlimited organisation, which designed the protocol; MIT licence. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | – | |
| No 51% attack or deep reorganisation in five years | ✓ | |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 6.7 | 6 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance at protocol level, validated by its own nodes | 2 | Group tokens are native consensus rules since mainnet launch in 2022, letting any address create fungible tokens and NFTs. |
| Smart contracts: scripting for spending conditions | 1 | Nexa Script with transaction introspection (OP_PUSH_TX_STATE), OP_EXEC and pay-to-template contracts since the 2022 mainnet, but no DEX, lending or similar applications running on it were found, so it is scored as spending-condition script; low confidence. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | OP_CHECKMULTISIG, OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY and OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY in its script interpreter; the spec documents a time-lock vault contract. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | Script can express HTLCs (hash check plus CLTV/CSV 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 | ✓ | Group tokens in the consensus rules since the 2022 mainnet, with an NFT/SFT specification built on group subgroups. |
| Decentralisation | 8.3 | 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 NEXA or halt the chain. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: The reference client nexad is developed in the gitlab.com/nexa repository by the Bitcoin Unlimited organisation, which designed the protocol; 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) | 10 | 0% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. Launched 21 June 2022 by the Bitcoin Unlimited team with no premine, no ICO and no developer or organisation carve-out; all coins are mined. 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. No cut. All 10M NEXA per block goes to miners; there is no developer fund or treasury share. source |
| Supply & Demand | 2.4 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 4.7 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 2 | 2 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 1.9 | $73,749 traded in 24 hours; #1650 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $85,596) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 7.1 | 1.4% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 5.6 | $2,076 within 2% of the price on 1 exchange, 0.05% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 1.6 | $4.3M, 1.6 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) | 0 | fixed maximum supply of 21 trillion |
| Record | 6 | 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) | 3 | 3 full years since 2023-02-02, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 5 | 3 positive, 3 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 215 commits in 11 of the last 12 months (gitlab.com/nexa/nexa); Nexa 2.2.0.0 released 2026-09-01 on GitLab; 2.1.0.0 (2025-08-26), 2.0.0.0 (2025-02-18) and 1.4.1.0 (2024-11) also fall in the last 24 months. |
| Shipped a scaling upgrade in two years, +1 | ✓ | Nexa 2.0 hard fork, 31 Mar 2025: minimum (floor) block size raised to 2 MB. |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1 | ✓ | Nexa 2.0 hard fork, 31 Mar 2025: new opcodes OP_MERKLEROOT, OP_JUMP loops, OP_STORE/OP_LOAD, OP_PARSE, input/output introspection, read-only inputs. |
| 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 Nexa nexa2.2.0.0. |
| 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 Nexa nexa2.2.0.0. |
| 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 Nexa nexa2.2.0.0. |
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.
5,859,620,000,000 of a maximum 21,000,000,000,000 NEXA are in circulation — 27.9% 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 21 June 2022 by the Bitcoin Unlimited team with no premine, no ICO and no developer or organisation carve-out; all coins are mined.
No sale, ICO or venture allocation.
No cut. All 10M NEXA per block goes to miners; there is no developer fund or treasury share.
The no-premine claim comes from project and secondary sources and wasn't checked against the genesis block. Supply figures disagree widely: CMC shows 5.86T circulating, CoinGecko 11.13T. The reward schedule (10M NEXA per block) supports CoinGecko's figure.
Sources: nexa.org · gitlab.com · bitget.com · app.thebigwhale.io · coinbase.com. Researched 2026-10-24, high confidence.
Nexa is secured by 2.60 TH/s of its own work. Hashrate does not compare across algorithms — a SHA-256 hash and a Scrypt hash cost different amounts to produce.
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.
Nexa is #181 among cryptocurrencies and #1307 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 1126 places between Nexa'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).