PIVX ranks #180 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1295: 1115 of the 1294 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 1521 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 73% are tokens, 21% are claims on other assets and 6% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | A · 77/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #180 |
| Rank counting claims | #1295 |
| Market capitalisation | $4M |
| Price | $0.0404 |
| Circulating supply | 107,750,996 PIVX |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | Time Protocol v2 (PoS) |
| Network purpose | Private payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Premine |
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A — 77 out of 100, provisional (from 19 of 20 criteria, 28 October 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 73 to 78 (B to A).
| 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) | 8 | group average, 12 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 7.5 | 4.5 of 6 points source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 4.6 | no fixed maximum; 108 million in circulation: supply scale 9.1, cap 0 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✓ | 8 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 | ✓ | 8 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $4.0e-10 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✓ | typical fee $4e-7; about 147 transactions a second (5.4 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; no light clients or pruned nodes |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 8 | 4 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) | ✓ | SHIELD (Sapling-based zk-SNARK shielded transactions), live since PIVX 5.0 (2020), hides amounts. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✓ | SHIELD spends hide the sender and shielded addresses the receiver. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 6.9 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $4e-7 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 5.4 | about 147 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) | 9.2 | 2 MB limit, 20 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 3.3 | 1 of 3 passed |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✓ | The node relays first-seen transactions with no replace-by-fee: AcceptToMemoryPool rejects conflicting spends ('Disable replacement feature for now', txn-mempool-conflict) in v5.6.1; LLMQ ChainLocks exist in code but the V6.0 upgrade has no mainnet activation height. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✗ | PIVX Core v5.6.1 has no -prune option; nodes keep the full block history. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✗ | PIVX 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) | 4 | 4 of 9 points source |
| 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% | ✓ | 20% |
| Largest three under 75% | ✓ | 36.5% |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 1 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | PIVX Core (MIT) is maintained by community contributors (including PIVX Labs) funded through masternode-voted treasury proposals; no single company owns the client or roadmap. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✗ | about 640 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/Dash-lineage Script with spending conditions only (plus cold-staking opcodes). |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | OP_CHECKMULTISIG and OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY in its script interpreter (OP_NOP3, CSV's slot, stays a no-op). |
| 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 | 9.5 | section average, 7 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol key can freeze or claw back coins or halt the chain; spork keys exist in the Dash-derived codebase but only toggle network features. source |
| No central team (Source) | 10 | No central team: PIVX Core (MIT) is maintained by community contributors (including PIVX Labs) funded through masternode-voted treasury proposals; no single company owns the client or roadmap. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 8.6 | Proof of stake: 8.6 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | 10 | 1,279 reachable nodes (distinct IP addresses at the chain's tip, crawled by CoinSpectrum on 2026-10-27; clearnet only) |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 10 | 0.06% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. Block 1 paid 60,001 PIV ('premine for 6 masternodes', GetBlockValue in validation.cpp). 60,001 / 107,680,473 current supply (CoinGecko, 2026-10-23) = 0.06%. The PoW launch phase (250 PIV per block) was open mining. source |
| Fundraising | 10 | No sale of the coin source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 8 | Developer share: about 20% of today's supply received so far; 49% of each new block reward goes to them today. A masternode-voted treasury pays approved proposals by superblock every 43,200 blocks. Since V5.5 (block 3,715,200, early 2023) its cap equals 100% of the 10-PIV block value (432,000 PIV a month), so up to half of new PIV; before that the cap was 20% of block value. Unused budget is not minted. Supply rose ~10.28M from Sep 2025 to Sep 2026 against 5.26M of staker and masternode rewards, so the treasury took ~49%. Cumulatively: 107.69M supply (cryptoid) − 85.93M of scheduled block values (including the 60,001 premine) = 21.76M ≈ 20% minted outside block rewards, nearly all treasury (upper bound). source |
| Supply & Demand | 7 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 4.8 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 2 | 2 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 1.7 | $56,818 traded in 24 hours; #1755 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $69,717) |
| 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) | 6.4 | $3,664 within 2% of the price on 1 exchange, 0.08% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 1.6 | $4.4M, 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) | 9.1 | no fixed maximum; 108 million in circulation |
| 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) | 8 | 8 full years since 2018-01-24, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 0 | 1 positive, 3 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 1.5 of 6 | ✓ | 22 commits in 3 of the last 12 months (github.com/PIVX-Project/PIVX); Last release PIVX-Project/PIVX v5.6.1 on 2024-02-21 (v5.6.0 2024-02-18), more than 24 months ago, which meets the brief's 'no release in 24 months' rule; however master still receives commits (2026-10-21, v6.0 work with LLMQ ChainLocks on testnet). |
| Negative | ||
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-03, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-52914: crafted orphan transactions can stall the node for hours in the uninterruptible orphan-resolution loop; still in PIVX v5.6.1. |
| 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 PIVX v5.6.1. |
| 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 PIVX v5.6.1. |
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.
107,750,996 PIVX are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 0.06% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share received since launch | 20% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 49% |
| Fundraising | No sale and no investor round |
Block 1 paid 60,001 PIV ('premine for 6 masternodes', GetBlockValue in validation.cpp). 60,001 / 107,680,473 current supply (CoinGecko, 2026-10-23) = 0.06%. The PoW launch phase (250 PIV per block) was open mining.
No ICO or sale. Development is funded by the on-chain treasury: about 10% of emission, paid monthly to proposals approved by masternode votes.
A masternode-voted treasury pays approved proposals by superblock every 43,200 blocks. Since V5.5 (block 3,715,200, early 2023) its cap equals 100% of the 10-PIV block value (432,000 PIV a month), so up to half of new PIV; before that the cap was 20% of block value. Unused budget is not minted. Supply rose ~10.28M from Sep 2025 to Sep 2026 against 5.26M of staker and masternode rewards, so the treasury took ~49%. Cumulatively: 107.69M supply (cryptoid) − 85.93M of scheduled block values (including the 60,001 premine) = 21.76M ≈ 20% minted outside block rewards, nearly all treasury (upper bound).
The masternode-voted treasury (up to about 10% of issuance) is left out here as governance-spent rather than a founders' reward. If the site counts it as a developer tax, the insider share would be several percent higher; the cumulative treasury payout wasn't computed.
Sources: github.com · github.com · chainz.cryptoid.info · coinmarketcap.com · coingecko.com. Researched 2026-10-24, medium confidence.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
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PIVX is #180 among cryptocurrencies and #1295 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 1115 places between PIVX'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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