QIE Blockchain ranks #135 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #875: 740 of the 874 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 1116 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 68% are tokens, 24% are claims on other assets and 9% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — launch under review |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #135 |
| Rank counting claims | #875 |
| Market capitalisation | $12M |
| Price | $0.1447 |
| Circulating supply | 84,369,093 QIE |
| Maximum supply | 150,000,565 QIE |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | dPoS + QBFT |
| Ledger type | Multi-asset ledger |
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Grade pending. QIE Blockchain'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) | 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) | 6.2 | group average, 8 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 6.3 | 2.5 of 4 points, 2 not yet measured source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 4.5 | fixed maximum supply of 150 million, but an issuer or vote can mint outside the schedule: supply scale 8.9, cap 0 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✗ | 4 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 | ✓ | 18 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $1.4e-19 |
| 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 |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 2 | 1 of 5 passed source |
| Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity | ✓ | Any secp256k1 key can hold and send QIE; the chain's account and transfer 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) | ✗ | EVM chain with standard p2p gossip; no origin-hiding feature described. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | Public EVM ledger. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Accounts 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) | 2 | a block every 3.65 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | – | not yet measured |
| Features (3 checks) | 10 | 1 of 1 passed, 2 not yet researched |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✓ | QBFT gives deterministic finality in each block of about 3.6 seconds. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | – | Not established. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | – | Not established. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 5 | 5 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% | ✓ | 25.6% |
| Largest three under 75% | ✓ | 71.1% |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 0 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | The QIE team publishes qie-blockchain/qi-chain (Apache-2.0), an EVM client with no tagged release and no commit since 2025-04-01. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✓ | about 1,800 a day |
| No 51% attack or deep reorganisation in five years | ✓ | |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 7.8 | 7 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance at protocol level, validated by its own nodes | 2 | EVM-compatible chain (chain ID 5656) on which any account can deploy ERC-20 contracts. |
| Smart contracts: a general-purpose contract system | 2 | EVM-compatible chain (chain ID 5656). |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | Multisig and time-lock contracts on its EVM. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | Solidity HTLCs can be deployed on its EVM. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | No exchange in the protocol; QIEDEX is a contract application. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | No protocol-level cross-chain messaging documented. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✓ | ERC-721 contracts run by its EVM. |
| Decentralisation | 7.2 | section average, 4 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol-level freeze or clawback of QIE is documented. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: The QIE team publishes qie-blockchain/qi-chain (Apache-2.0), an EVM client with no tagged release and no commit since 2025-04-01. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 8.6 | Proof of stake: 8.6 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | — | Not yet counted |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | — | Not established. The cap is 150,000,565 QIE, of which 66M is a pool for validator and delegator rewards (open stakers, so it doesn't count). How the other ~84M (about the 84-90M now circulating) was created and distributed is not documented in the whitepaper or by any aggregator. |
| 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. Staking rewards are paid to validators and delegators out of a fixed 66M QIE emission pool plus fees. No foundation or treasury share of the reward stream is documented, though the official documentation is thin. source |
| Supply & Demand | 6.1 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 3.2 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 1 | 1 exchange |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 0 | $788 traded in 24 hours; #4025 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $37) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 0 | 0.00% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 5.5 | $5,303 within 2% of the price on 1 exchange, 0.04% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 2.7 | $12M, 2.7 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) | 8.9 | fixed maximum supply of 150 million |
| Record | 4.7 | 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) | 4 | 4 full years since 2022-09-28, 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, 1 negative, 5 not yet researched source |
| Negative | ||
| Steady work, 0 of 6 | ✗ | 0 commits in 0 of the last 12 months (github.com/qie-blockchain/qi-chain); Public repository qie-blockchain/qi-chain has no tagged releases; last commit 2025-04-01. |
| Not yet researched | ||
| Shipped a security fix in two years | – | |
| Shipped a privacy improvement in two years | – | |
| Shipped a scaling upgrade in two years | – | |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years | – | |
| Unfixed vulnerabilities and exploits | – | |
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.
84,369,093 of a maximum 150,000,565 QIE are in circulation — 56.2% of the total that will ever exist.
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
Not established. The cap is 150,000,565 QIE, of which 66M is a pool for validator and delegator rewards (open stakers, so it doesn't count). How the other ~84M (about the 84-90M now circulating) was created and distributed is not documented in the whitepaper or by any aggregator.
An exchange page (BingX) claims there was no ICO, private sale or VC round. That claim is unverified.
Staking rewards are paid to validators and delegators out of a fixed 66M QIE emission pool plus fees. No foundation or treasury share of the reward stream is documented, though the official documentation is thin.
The whitepaper's tokenomics section only lists the 150M max supply, the fee burn and validator halving. The origin of the non-reward ~84M (PoW-mined, or allocated at the dPoS migration) is unknown.
Sources: coindesk.com · coinranking.com · qie.digital · coingecko.com · bingx.com. Researched 2026-10-24, low confidence.
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.
QIE Blockchain is #135 among cryptocurrencies and #875 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 740 places between QIE Blockchain'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).