Riecoin ranks #241 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1469: 1228 of the 1468 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 2218 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 78% are tokens, 18% are claims on other assets and 4% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — launch under review |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #241 |
| Rank counting claims | #1469 |
| Market capitalisation | $1M |
| Price | $0.0139 |
| Circulating supply | 72,292,495 RIC |
| Maximum supply | 0 RIC |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | Prime constellations (Riecoin PoW) |
| Own hashrate | — |
| Network purpose | Payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | No premine |
Market figures from the 28 October 2026 build. Open the live view for every exchange's price, and charts.
Grade pending. What Riecoin pays its miners is not yet measured. 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) | 7.5 | group average, 11 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 5.8 | 3.5 of 6 points source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 4.7 | no fixed maximum; 72.3 million in circulation: supply scale 9.3, cap 0 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✗ | 1 full year 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 $1.4e-10 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✗ | typical fee $2e-8; about 24 transactions a second (2.4 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; light clients verify from headers or proofs |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 4 | 2 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) | ✗ | Transparent UTXO amounts; no confidential-transaction or shielded feature. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Transparent addresses; no ring signatures, ZK proofs or stealth addresses. |
| 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 $2e-8 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 2.4 | about 24 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 7.8 | a block every 2.5 minutes |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 7.6 | 2 MB limit, 8 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 6.7 | 2 of 3 passed |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✗ | 2.5-minute proof-of-work blocks on a Bitcoin Core-derived node with replace-by-fee; no instant-lock or double-spend proofs. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✓ | Riecoin Core 2606 (Bitcoin Core 29+-era CMake base) keeps -prune. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✓ | Bitcoin Core-based node serves BIP37 merkleblocks and BIP157 compact block filters. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 3 | 2 of 6 points, 3 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% | ✗ | 54.9% |
| Largest three under 75% | ✗ | 95.1% |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 1 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | Riecoin Core is maintained by a small volunteer team (RiecoinTeam on GitHub, led by its pseudonymous lead developer Pttn); no company or foundation; MIT licence. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✗ | about 24 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 Core-derived Script with spending conditions only. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | OP_CHECKMULTISIG, OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY and OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY in its script interpreter. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | Script can express HTLCs (hash check plus CLTV/CSV 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 | 10 | section average, 6 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol party can freeze, blacklist or claw back coins or halt the chain. source |
| No central team (Source) | 10 | No central team: Riecoin Core is maintained by a small volunteer team (RiecoinTeam on GitHub, led by its pseudonymous lead developer Pttn); no company or foundation; MIT licence. 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) | 10 | 0% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. Launched 2014-02-11 with a documented fair launch: no reward for the first 576 blocks, then a linear ramp over the next 576 (comment in GetBlockSubsidy); no genesis allocation or sale. source |
| Fundraising | 10 | No sale of the coin source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. The whole subsidy goes to the miner; there is no developer or foundation output in the consensus code. Since the 2024 rules at least half of fees are burnt rather than paid to anyone. source |
| Supply & Demand | 6.3 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 3.3 | average of 5 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 1 | 1 exchange |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 0 | $7,431 traded in 24 hours; #2713 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 2, $7,691) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 5.6 | 0.75% of its market cap a day, median of the last 3 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | – | no order book on the nine exchanges read |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 0 | $1.0M, 0 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) | 9.3 | no fixed maximum; 72.3 million in circulation |
| Record | 5.3 | 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) | 1 | 1 full year since 2025-07-08, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 5 | 1 positive, 1 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 8 commits in 2 of the last 12 months (github.com/RiecoinTeam/Riecoin); Riecoin Core 2606 released 2026-06-14; 2511, 2507, 2505 and 2501 also in the last 24 months. |
| Negative | ||
| 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 Riecoin v2606. |
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.
72,292,495 of a maximum 0 RIC are in circulation — effectively all of them.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 0% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
| Fundraising | No sale and no investor round |
Launched 2014-02-11 with a documented fair launch: no reward for the first 576 blocks, then a linear ramp over the next 576 (comment in GetBlockSubsidy); no genesis allocation or sale.
No ICO, presale or venture round.
No sale of supply.
The whole subsidy goes to the miner; there is no developer or foundation output in the consensus code. Since the 2024 rules at least half of fees are burnt rather than paid to anyone.
Two coinbase addresses produced 87% of the last 1,000 blocks; one address alone holds a majority of block production. No 51% attack, deep reorg or halt found in the window.
Sources: github.com · github.com · github.com · miningpoolstats.stream · chainz.cryptoid.info. Researched 2026-10-26, medium confidence.
No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for Riecoin.
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.
Riecoin is #241 among cryptocurrencies and #1469 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 1228 places between Riecoin'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).