Peercoin ranks #142 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #936: 794 of the 935 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 1170 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 69% are tokens, 23% are claims on other assets and 8% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | B · 72/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #142 |
| Rank counting claims | #936 |
| Market capitalisation | $11M |
| Price | $0.3441 |
| Circulating supply | 30,517,668 PPC |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Hybrid |
| Consensus mechanism | SHA-256 PoW + PoS |
| Own hashrate | — |
| Network purpose | Payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | No premine |
Market figures from the 28 October 2026 build. Open the live view for every exchange's price, and charts.
B — 72 out of 100, provisional (from 17 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 78 (C to A).
| Criterion | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Leading Consensus Mechanisms (Source) | 4.5 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 4.5 | Hybrid: 4.5 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 4.5 | Hybrid: 4.5 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 7.7 | group average, 10 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 9 | 4.5 of 5 points, 1 not yet measured source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 4.9 | no fixed maximum; 30.5 million in circulation: supply scale 9.8, cap 0 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✓ | 13 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 | ✓ | 6 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $3.4e-7 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | – | |
| Verifiability: open-source nodes and checking without a trusted server | ✓ | node software open source; pruned nodes validate everything |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 4 | 2 of 5 passed source |
| Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity | ✓ | Anyone can generate keys and receive and send coins; the consensus rules carry no identity check. |
| 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) | ✗ | Peercoin client (rebased on Bitcoin Core 25.2 in v0.14.6) uses Tor/I2P only if the user configures them; no Dandelion. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | Amounts are public. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Addresses are public. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | — | too few measures yet source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | – | not yet measured |
| 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) | 9.7 | a block every 8.1 minutes |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | – | not yet measured |
| Features (3 checks) | 3.3 | 1 of 3 passed |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✗ | About 9-minute hybrid PoW/PoS blocks with probabilistic confirmation. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✓ | Inherits Bitcoin Core's -prune block pruning through its Bitcoin Core 25.2 rebase. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✗ | Peercoin is proof of stake, so Bitcoin-style SPV cannot check the stake behind its headers, and no shipped light client verifies it; light wallets trust a server. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 3.3 | 2.2 of 6 points, 3 not yet measured source |
| Miners paid a day ($1,000 0, $10 million or more 10), 2 points | 0.9 | about $2,283 a day |
| Its own hashrate: at least half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined | – | |
| Largest pool or validator under 50% | – | |
| Largest three under 75% | – | |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 1 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | Peercoin is maintained by a small volunteer developer team, with grants from the Peercoin Foundation but no controlling company. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✗ | about 104 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 | Bitcoin Core-derived Script; spending conditions only. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | OP_CHECKMULTISIG plus BIP65 CLTV, CSV and SegWit buried deployments in the mainnet params. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | HTLCs expressible with CLTV; PPC is swap-enabled in the Komodo coin list. |
| 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 rules in consensus. |
| Decentralisation | 9.5 | 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 coins or halt the chain. source |
| No central team (Source) | 10 | No central team: Peercoin is maintained by a small volunteer developer team, with grants from the Peercoin Foundation but no controlling company. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 7.1 | Hybrid: 7.1 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. Fair launch by Sunny King on 2012-08-19: PoW mining open from block 1, no genesis allocation, no ICO. 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. PoW rewards go entirely to the miner and PoS minting rewards to stakers; no developer or foundation share in the consensus code. source |
| Supply & Demand | 5.2 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 0.5 | average of 5 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 0 | no exchange the site reads trades it |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 0 | $2 traded in 24 hours; #4268 by volume |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 0 | 0.00% of its market cap a day |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 0 | $0 within 2% of the price on 1 exchange, 0.00% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 2.6 | $11M, 2.6 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) | 9.8 | no fixed maximum; 30.5 million in circulation |
| Record | 8.7 | 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) | 10 | 13 full years since 2013-04-28, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 6 | 2 positive, 1 negative, 1 not yet researched source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 22 commits in 1 of the last 12 months (github.com/peercoin/peercoin); Peercoin v0.15.2, released 2026-10-18 (v0.15.0 Feb 2025, v0.15.1 Jun 2025). |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | Peercoin v0.15.2, 18 Oct 2026: validation now rejects blocks/transactions with mismatched proof types (consensus-validation fix); v0.15.1 hardened checkpoints |
| Negative | ||
| 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 Peercoin v0.15.2ppc. |
| Not yet researched | ||
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years | – | |
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.
30,517,668 PPC are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
| 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 |
Fair launch by Sunny King on 2012-08-19: PoW mining open from block 1, no genesis allocation, no ICO.
No ICO, presale or venture round; development funded by donations.
No sale of supply.
PoW rewards go entirely to the miner and PoS minting rewards to stakers; no developer or foundation share in the consensus code.
Hybrid PoW/PoS; the PoW reward floats with PoW difficulty, so 46.08 is a current reading, not a fixed era value.
Sources: github.com · blockbook.peercoin.net · bitcointalk.org · chainz.cryptoid.info. Researched 2026-10-26, high confidence.
No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for Peercoin.
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.
Peercoin is #142 among cryptocurrencies and #936 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 794 places between Peercoin'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).