Qtum ranks #65 of 508 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #303: 238 of the 302 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 314 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 52% are tokens, 42% are claims on other assets and 6% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | B · 67/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #65 |
| Rank counting claims | #303 |
| Market capitalisation | $89M |
| Price | $0.8386 |
| Circulating supply | 106,136,807 QTUM |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | Mutualized PoS (UTXO) |
| Ledger type | Multi-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Presale |
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B — 67 out of 100, provisional (from 16 of 17 criteria, 28 October 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 63 to 69 (C to B).
| 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 | 6.7 | group average, 5 of 6 measured |
| Properties (10 whitepaper checks) (Source) | 5 | 5 of 10 passed source |
| Anyone can mint (permissionless) | ✓ | Mutualized PoS (UTXO) |
| Limited supply | ✗ | no fixed maximum |
| No pre-issuance or developer mint | ✗ | |
| No developer tax | ✓ | |
| No authority that can halt the chain or freeze funds | ✓ | No protocol-level freeze or halt authority over ordinary coins. |
| No central team | ✗ | The Qtum node is developed in the Qtum Foundation's qtumproject repository. |
| Fees under one cent | ✓ | typical fee $0.00075 |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✗ | 32-second PoS blocks with probabilistic confirmation; nothing protects zero-confirmation payments. |
| UTXO ledger | ✓ | |
| Privacy built into the protocol | ✗ | |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space) | 7.4 | average of 4 measures source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.00075 |
| Throughput (1,000 transactions a second or more 10) | 6.1 | about 69 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 5.4 | a block every 32 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 7.9 | 0.5 MB limit, 9.38 MB per 10 minutes |
| Security (9 checks) | 4 | 4 of 9 passed source |
| Miners paid over $1 million a day | ✗ | not mined |
| Miners paid over $100,000 a day | ✗ | |
| Its own hashrate: at least half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined | ✗ | not mined |
| Largest pool or validator under 50% | ✓ | 22.6% |
| Largest three under 75% | ✓ | 53.6% |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 1 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | The Qtum node is developed in the Qtum Foundation's qtumproject repository. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✗ | about 151 a day |
| No 51% attack or deep reorganisation in five years | ✓ | |
| Decentralisation: who can mint (Source) | 8.6 | Proof of stake: 8.6 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Decentralisation: nodes (Source) | 8.5 | 347 reachable nodes source |
| Decentralisation: holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Capabilities (protocol features) | 1.7 | 1 of 6 passed source |
| Decentralisation | ||
| Network-level privacy: the node hides where a transaction came from (Dandelion++, Tor or I2P, on by default) | ✗ | Qtum Core relays transactions directly; Tor is optional configuration. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✗ | Qtum 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. |
| Scalability | ||
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✓ | Qtum Core -prune deletes old blocks. |
| Native payment channels or instant payments | ✗ | No live payment-channel network. |
| Security | ||
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | No confidential transactions. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | No sender or receiver hiding. |
| Issuance | 3.7 | group average |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 0.6 | 94.2% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. 100M QTUM created at genesis (Sep 2017): 51M to crowdsale buyers, 20M founders/early backers/team, 29M community/foundation, against current supply 106,133,609 QTUM (qtum.info, 2026-10-23). source |
| Fundraising | 0.6 | Sold by its issuer or insiders: 94.2% of supply was theirs to sell, 48.1% sold so far. The March 2017 crowdsale sold 51M QTUM for ~11,000 BTC and ~75,000 ETH (~$15.6M). 51M / 106,133,609 QTUM current supply (qtum.info, 2026-10-23) = 48.1%. Excluded: the Jan 2017 ~$1M angel round from 11 investors, whose QTUM sit inside the 20M founders/early-backers/team bucket and were not broken out. ~$1M angel round from 11 investors (Jan 2017), then the March 2017 crowdsale raising ~$15.6M in BTC and ETH. source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. Qtum's PoS block reward (4 QTUM at launch, halving about every four years) goes entirely to the staker who produces the block. No developer or foundation share is taken; the founders' and foundation's coins came from the 2017 genesis (premine). source |
| Supply & Demand | 7 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 5.5 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 10 | 34 exchanges |
| Volume rank among the top 200 | 0 | $364,609 traded in 24 hours; #734 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (ranked on the median day of the last 30, $790,485) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 5.8 | 0.80% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 8.2 | $249,917 within 2% of the price on 8 exchanges, 0.28% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 4.9 | $89M, 4.9 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Futures exposure (open interest ÷ market cap, less is better) | 4 | perpetual open interest 9.7% of its market cap |
| Supply (smaller is better) | 8.5 | no fixed maximum; 106 million in circulation |
| Record | 9.7 | 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) | 9 | 9 full years since 2017-05-24, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 10 | 5 positive, 0 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 259 commits in 12 of the last 12 months (github.com/qtumproject/qtum); Qtum Core v30.2, released 2026-07-22 (v29.1 2025-11-04, v27.1 2024-11-03). |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | Qtum Core v29.1 hard fork, Jan 2026: security fixes including the 32-bit -maxmempool/-dbcache overflow cap. |
| Shipped a privacy improvement in two years, +1 | ✓ | Qtum Core v27.1, Nov 2024 (hard fork Feb 2025): BIP 324 v2 encrypted P2P transport. |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1 | ✓ | v27.1 hard fork at block 4,590,000, Feb 2025: EVM Dencun (transient storage, MCOPY); v29.1, Jan 2026: Pectra precompiles. |
| Token issuance at protocol level, validated by its own nodes, +2 | ✓ | QRC-20 (ERC-20 compatible) contracts on its EVM, run over a UTXO account abstraction layer and open to any account. |
Seventeen criteria, weighted equally. The Cryptocurrency Standards group four parts: properties (ten checks drawn from the Bitcoin whitepaper), scalability (four measures), security (nine checks) and decentralisation (three scales). 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.
106,136,807 QTUM are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 94.2% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 48.1% of today's supply |
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
| Nodes or validators | 347 |
| Fundraising | Private or venture funding |
100M QTUM created at genesis (Sep 2017): 51M to crowdsale buyers, 20M founders/early backers/team, 29M community/foundation, against current supply 106,133,609 QTUM (qtum.info, 2026-10-23).
~$1M angel round from 11 investors (Jan 2017), then the March 2017 crowdsale raising ~$15.6M in BTC and ETH.
The March 2017 crowdsale sold 51M QTUM for ~11,000 BTC and ~75,000 ETH (~$15.6M). 51M / 106,133,609 QTUM current supply (qtum.info, 2026-10-23) = 48.1%. Excluded: the Jan 2017 ~$1M angel round from 11 investors, whose QTUM sit inside the 20M founders/early-backers/team bucket and were not broken out.
Qtum's PoS block reward (4 QTUM at launch, halving about every four years) goes entirely to the staker who produces the block. No developer or foundation share is taken; the founders' and foundation's coins came from the 2017 genesis (premine).
Sources: financemagnates.com · blog.qtum.org · qtum.info · github.com · altfins.com · cbinsights.com. Researched 2026-10-24, medium confidence.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
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Qtum is #65 among cryptocurrencies and #303 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 238 places between Qtum'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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