Qortal ranks #497 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #5881: 5384 of the 5880 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 | #497 |
| Rank counting claims | #5881 |
| Price | $0.1918 |
| Circulating supply | 0 QORT |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Other |
| Consensus mechanism | — not yet curated |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
Market figures from the 28 October 2026 build. Open the live view for every exchange's price, and charts.
Grade pending. Qortal'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) | — | group average, 0 of 2 measured |
| Consensus: leader ladder | — | Consensus not yet reviewed |
| Consensus: family ladder | — | Consensus not yet reviewed |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 5.6 | group average, 3 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | — | 1 of 2 points, 4 not yet measured |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | – | |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✗ | 3 full years since its first recorded price, record not yet reviewed |
| Fungibility: every unit interchangeable, none the protocol can freeze or set apart | – | |
| Divisibility: the smallest unit worth a cent or less | ✓ | 8 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $1.9e-9 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | – | about 159 transactions a second (5.5 on the throughput scale; 5 is the busiest networks' median demand) |
| Verifiability: open-source nodes and checking without a trusted server | – | pruned nodes validate everything |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 2.5 | 1 of 5 passed, 1 not yet measured source |
| Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity | ✓ | Accounts are keys anyone generates; no identity rule. |
| 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) | ✗ | Qortal Core (v6.1.x, 2026): no stem relay or built-in Tor/I2P transport in the node settings. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | Qortal Core: transparent account payments; no shielded transfers. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Qortal Core: transparent account addresses; no ring signatures or zero-knowledge spends. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 6.6 | 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) | 5.5 | about 158.9 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) | 9.3 | 2.1 MB limit, 21 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 5 | 1 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | – | |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✓ | Qortal Core Settings 'topOnly' mode: prunes old blocks and AT states, keeping the latest state and pruneBlockLimit (6,000) recent blocks. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✗ | Qortal Core Settings 'lite' mode: lite nodes do not sync blocks and request derived data from peers, trusting them. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | — | 0 of 3 points, 6 not yet measured |
| 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% | – | |
| Largest three under 75% | – | |
| More than one maintained client | – | |
| Node software is open source | – | |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions 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 | Native ISSUE_ASSET transactions in the Qortal core protocol, open to any account that pays the fee; 93 user-issued assets existed on 2026-10-27. |
| Smart contracts: a general-purpose contract system | 2 | Qortal Core: CIYAM Automated Transactions (DEPLOY_AT) are a bytecode contract system run by every node; the cross-chain Trade Portal runs on these ATs on mainnet. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | Qortal Core: no native multisig transaction, but ATs hold funds with block-height timeouts (as the trade ACCTs do) and can act only on messages from set accounts, so m-of-n and time-locked releases are expressible. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | Qortal Core: cross-chain trade ACCTs (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, DigiByte, Ravencoin, Pirate Chain) pair a Qortal AT with an HTLC on the other chain, live on mainnet. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✓ | Qortal Core: CREATE_ASSET_ORDER and CANCEL_ASSET_ORDER transaction types give a native order book between Qortal assets. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | Qortal Core: no protocol-verified messaging to other chains; trade bots watch foreign chains off-ledger. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✗ | Qortal Core: ISSUE_ASSET creates fungible assets; there is no non-fungible token type (names are sold as names, not tokens). |
| Decentralisation | — | section average, 0 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | — | Not yet researched |
| No central team (Source) | — | Not yet researched |
| Who can mint (Source) | — | Consensus not yet reviewed |
| Nodes (Source) | — | Not yet counted |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | — | Launch not yet researched |
| Fundraising | — | Launch not yet researched |
| Developer share (after launch) | — | Not yet researched |
| Supply & Demand | 0.5 | group average, 1 of 2 measured |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 0.5 | average of 2 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 1 | 1 exchange |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 0 | $1,395 traded in 24 hours; #3536 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 2, $543) |
| 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) | — | Supply not reported |
| Record | 2 | group average, 2 of 3 measured |
| Record (origin, claims, halts) | — | Not yet reviewed |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 3 | 3 full years since 2023-06-06, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 1 | 1 positive, 0 negative, 1 not yet researched source |
| Positive | ||
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1 | ✓ | Feature trigger multipleNamesPerAccountHeight, block 2,206,300 (5 Jul 2025): accounts may register more than one name, with primary-name lookups added in v6.1.5 (May 2026). |
| Not yet researched | ||
| Shipped a security fix 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.
0 QORT are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
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.
Qortal is #497 among cryptocurrencies and #5881 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 5384 places between Qortal'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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