TERA ranks #484 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #5592: 5108 of the 5591 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 | #484 |
| Rank counting claims | #5592 |
| Price | $0.00000899 |
| Circulating supply | 0 TERA |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Other |
| Consensus mechanism | — not yet curated |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
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Grade pending. TERA'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) | 4.8 | group average, 2 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | — | 1 of 1 points, 5 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 | – | 7 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 | ✓ | 9 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $9.0e-15 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | – | |
| Verifiability: open-source nodes and checking without a trusted server | – | |
| 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 opened by anyone with a key; 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) | ✗ | TERA node (build 2653, Jan 2023): no stem relay or built-in Tor; nodes connect over plain IP. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | TERA 2.0: transparent account ledger (sha3, secp256k1); no shielded transfers. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | TERA 2.0: transparent numbered accounts; no ring signatures or zero-knowledge spends. |
| 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) | 1.7 | a block every 3 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | – | not yet measured |
| Features (3 checks) | 0 | 0 of 1 passed, 2 not yet researched |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | – | |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | – | TERA node constants (CONSTANTS.MD) show no pruning option, but whether the JINN database drops old blocks is not documented. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✗ | TERA light/web wallet (terawallet.org) reads state from full nodes through their wallet API (USE_API_WALLET); no proof-checking light client. |
| 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) | 7.1 | 5 of 7 points, 2 not yet researched source |
| Token issuance | – | Issuance is in the protocol, but the mainnet could not be reached to confirm it is live. |
| Smart contracts: a general-purpose contract system | 2 | TERA 2.0: JavaScript smart contracts (DApps) deployable by anyone, with DEX, option-token and other DApps on its own chain; the last release (2653) dates from Jan 2023 and the foundation site was offline, so current liveness is unverified. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | TERA smart contracts (update 2468) have checksign/ecrecover signature checks and block-number context, so m-of-n and time-locked releases are expressible in a contract. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | TERA smart contracts have sha256/keccak256 and block-height checks (update 2468), so a hash-locked, time-locked HTLC is expressible. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | TERA's exchange is a DApp (user-deployed contract), not part of the protocol. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | TERA's SendMessage (update 2468) only reaches its own shards; there is no verified messaging to other chains. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✓ | Update 2600 (Sep 2021) added a smart-contract format in which each contract can be a software token, with ERC/NFT token IDs carried in transfer transactions. |
| 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 | group average, 1 of 2 measured |
| 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) | — | Supply not reported |
| Record | 7 | group average, 1 of 3 measured |
| Record (origin, claims, halts) | — | Not yet reviewed |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 7 | 7 full years since 2019-05-21, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | — | Not yet measured: no commit count and no release research |
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 TERA 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.
TERA is #484 among cryptocurrencies and #5592 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 5108 places between TERA'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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