PRiVCY ranks #479 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #5574: 5095 of the 5573 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.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — launch under review |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #479 |
| Rank counting claims | #5574 |
| Price | $0.000983 |
| Circulating supply | 0 PRIV |
| Maximum supply | 30,000,000 PRIV |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | YesPower |
| Own hashrate | — |
| Network purpose | Private payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
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Grade pending. PRiVCY'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) | 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) | 5.5 | group average, 9 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 7 | 3.5 of 5 points, 1 not yet measured source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 4.9 | fixed maximum supply of 30 million, but an issuer or vote can mint outside the schedule: supply scale 9.8, 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 $9.8e-12 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | – | about 138 transactions a second (5.3 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; no light clients or pruned nodes |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 6 | 3 of 5 passed source |
| Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity | ✓ | PRiVCY's Bitcoin-derived node (privcycoin/privcy) has no identity rule: anyone generates keys and receives and sends the coin. |
| 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) | ✓ | PRiVCY v1.3.0 (Oct 2019): PRiVCY starts an embedded Tor thread (ThreadTorNet / tor_main) whenever the node starts. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | PRiVCY v1.3.0 (Oct 2019): transparent amounts; no confidential-transaction scheme. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | PRiVCY v1.3.0 (Oct 2019): stealth addresses hide the receiver, but no ring signature or zero-knowledge proof hides the sender. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 5.1 | average of 4 parts 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) | 5.3 | about 138.3 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 7.3 | a block every 1.8 minutes |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 7.6 | 1.5 MB limit, 8.23 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 0 | 0 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | – | Not established for a live network: no running node or explorer found. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✗ | PRiVCY v1.3.0 (Oct 2019): no -prune option; the node keeps the full block history. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✗ | PRiVCY v1.3.0 (Oct 2019): hybrid PoW/PoS chain; stake blocks cannot be checked from headers without the UTXO set and the protocol has no light-client proof scheme. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | — | 2 of 3 points, 6 not yet measured source |
| Miners paid a day ($1,000 0, $10 million or more 10), 2 points | – | |
| 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 | ✗ | 0 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | A single team (privcycoin, MIT-licensed) maintained the client; nothing since 2019. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | – | |
| No 51% attack or deep reorganisation in five years | ✓ | |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 1.1 | 1 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts: scripting for spending conditions | 1 | PRiVCY v1.3.0 (Oct 2019): Bitcoin-style Script (signatures, hashes, CHECKMULTISIG) limited to spending conditions; no contract platform. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✗ | PRiVCY v1.3.0 (Oct 2019): CHECKMULTISIG is present, but the script interpreter has no OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY or OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY (the code base predates BIP65/BIP112), so no output can be time-locked. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✗ | PRiVCY v1.3.0 (Oct 2019): without a lock-time opcode Script cannot express the refund branch of an HTLC, and no adaptor-signature swap exists for the coin. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | PRiVCY v1.3.0 (Oct 2019): no order book or market maker in the ledger rules. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | PRiVCY v1.3.0 (Oct 2019): no cross-chain message or light-client verification in the protocol. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✗ | PRiVCY v1.3.0 (Oct 2019): no token or NFT type in the consensus rules. |
| Decentralisation | 6.1 | section average, 5 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No freeze or admin key in the code. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: A single team (privcycoin, MIT-licensed) maintained the client; nothing since 2019. 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) | 0.5 | 94.7% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. The README states 'Block 1 - Premine' and the code pays 21,000,000 PRIV in block 1 (blocks 2-49 pay 0, then 10 PRIV to block 1,000, then 7 halving every 131,400 PoW blocks). 21M / 22,175,970 (CoinMarketCap-listed supply after the 2019 v2.0 fork) = ~94.7%. source |
| Fundraising | — | Launch not yet researched |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. PoW and PoS rewards go to the block producer; no recurring developer output in the code (but see issuerMint). source |
| Supply & Demand | 4.9 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 0 | average of 1 measure |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 0 | no exchange the site reads trades it |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | – | no volume reported |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | – | not measured |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | – | not measured |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | – | not measured |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | – | not measured |
| Supply (smaller is better) | 9.8 | fixed maximum supply of 30 million |
| 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 2018-07-31, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 0 | 0 positive, 5 negative source |
| Negative | ||
| Steady work, 0 of 6 | ✗ | 0 commits in 0 of the last 12 months (github.com/privcycoin/privcy); privcycoin/privcy: v1.3.0 wallets released Aug-Oct 2019; last commit 19 Sep 2019. |
| 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 PRiVCY v1.3.0(Mac). |
| 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 PRiVCY v1.3.0(Mac). |
| 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 PRiVCY v1.3.0(Mac). |
| 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 PRiVCY v1.3.0(Mac). |
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.
0 of a maximum 30,000,000 PRIV are in circulation — 0.0% of the total that will ever exist.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 94.7% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
The README states 'Block 1 - Premine' and the code pays 21,000,000 PRIV in block 1 (blocks 2-49 pay 0, then 10 PRIV to block 1,000, then 7 halving every 131,400 PoW blocks). 21M / 22,175,970 (CoinMarketCap-listed supply after the 2019 v2.0 fork) = ~94.7%.
None documented.
Not established: the use of the block-1 premine (swap from an earlier chain, team or sale) is not documented in a source found.
PoW and PoS rewards go to the block producer; no recurring developer output in the code (but see issuerMint).
issuerMint: the code hard-codes '#define GEN_AMOUNT 6670030' at '#define GEN_HEIGHT 500000' (commented as new fund generation), a scheduled discretionary mint of 6.67M PRIV to a project address outside the block schedule. YesPower hybrid: PoW 180 s, PoS 60 s; MAX_MONEY 30M.
Sources: github.com · github.com · github.com · coinmarketcap.com. Researched 2026-10-26, low confidence.
No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for PRiVCY.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
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PRiVCY is #479 among cryptocurrencies and #5574 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 5095 places between PRiVCY'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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