Vertcoin ranks #189 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1433: 1244 of the 1432 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 1662 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 74% are tokens, 20% are claims on other assets and 6% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | A · 74/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #189 |
| Rank counting claims | #1433 |
| Market capitalisation | $3M |
| Price | $0.0434 |
| Circulating supply | 74,628,929 VTC |
| Maximum supply | 84,000,000 VTC |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | Verthash |
| Own hashrate | 703 MH/s |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | No premine |
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A — 74 out of 100, provisional (from 19 of 20 criteria, 28 October 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 71 to 76 (B to A).
| 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) | 7.6 | group average, 12 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 8.3 | 5 of 6 points source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 9.6 | fixed maximum supply of 84 million: supply scale 9.2, cap 10 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✓ | 12 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 | ✓ | 8 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $4.3e-10 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✗ | typical fee $0.0000057; about 47 transactions a second (3.5 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) | 7.4 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.0000057 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 3.5 | about 47 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) | 8.8 | 4 MB limit, 16 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 6.7 | 2 of 3 passed |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✗ | 2.5-minute probabilistic blocks, and Vertcoin Core (Bitcoin Core 23 base) relays BIP125 opt-in replace-by-fee, with no double-spend proofs or instant locks. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✓ | Vertcoin Core 23.2 (rebased on Bitcoin Core 23.2, 2023) keeps -prune. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✓ | Bitcoin Core 23.2-based node serves BIP37 merkleblocks and BIP157 compact block filters (-peerblockfilters). |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 3 | 3 of 9 points source |
| Miners paid a day ($1,000 0, $10 million or more 10), 2 points | 0 | about $156 a day |
| Its own hashrate: at least half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined | ✓ | |
| Largest pool or validator under 50% | ✗ | 51% |
| Largest three under 75% | ✗ | 87.8% |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 0 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | Volunteer developers maintain Vertcoin Core in the vertcoin-project GitHub organisation (MIT licence); no company or foundation controls it. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✗ | about 276 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 | 9.3 | section average, 7 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol-level party can freeze, blacklist or claw back coins or halt the chain. source |
| No central team (Source) | 10 | No central team: Volunteer developers maintain Vertcoin Core in the vertcoin-project GitHub organisation (MIT licence); no company or foundation controls it. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 10 | Proof of work: 10 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | 5.2 | 37 reachable nodes (distinct IP addresses at the chain's tip, crawled by CoinSpectrum on 2026-10-27; clearnet only) |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 10 | Fair launch: no premine |
| Fundraising | 10 | No sale of the coin |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners who produce blocks |
| Supply & Demand | 4.9 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 0.7 | average of 2 measures |
| 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) | – | no order book on the nine exchanges read |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 1.3 | $3.2M, 1.3 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | – | not measured |
| Supply (smaller is better) | 9.2 | fixed maximum supply of 84 million |
| Record | 6.7 | 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) | 10 | 12 full years since 2014-01-20, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 0 | 1 positive, 3 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 0.5 of 6 | ✓ | 1 commit in 1 of the last 12 months (github.com/vertcoin-project/vertcoin-core); Last release Vertcoin Core v23.2, 2023-10-02, more than 24 months ago; since then only README edits (December 2025) on master. |
| 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 Vertcoin v23.2. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-10-08, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-35202: a crafted blocktxn message trips the assert in compact-block reconstruction and crashes the node; still in Vertcoin v23.2. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2026-05-05, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-52911: a crafted invalid block can make script-check threads read freed precomputed transaction data and crash the node; still in Vertcoin v23.2. |
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.
74,628,929 of a maximum 84,000,000 VTC are in circulation — 88.8% of the total that will ever exist.
No premine. No premine, no founder allocation, no public sale — the chain started empty and every coin was earned through mining or validating.
Vertcoin is secured by 703 MH/s of its own work. Hashrate does not compare across algorithms — a SHA-256 hash and a Scrypt hash cost different amounts to produce.
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.
Vertcoin is #189 among cryptocurrencies and #1433 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 1244 places between Vertcoin'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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