Viacoin ranks #395 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #5425: 5030 of the 5424 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 | #395 |
| Rank counting claims | #5425 |
| Price | $0.1377 |
| Circulating supply | 0 VIA |
| Maximum supply | 23,176,392 VIA |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | Scrypt (AuxPoW) |
| Own hashrate | — |
| Network purpose | Payments |
| 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. Viacoin'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) | 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, 9 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 | 10 | fixed maximum supply of 23.2 million: supply scale 9.9, 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 $1.4e-9 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✗ | typical fee $0.00002; about 18 transactions a second (1.9 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 | ✓ | Viacoin's Bitcoin-derived node (viacoin/viacoin) has no identity rule: anyone generates keys and receives and sends the coin. |
| 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) | ✗ | Viacoin Core 30.2.0 (Jul 2026, Bitcoin Core 30 base): no Dandelion; Tor is only used if the operator runs and configures it. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | Transparent Bitcoin-style amounts; no confidential transactions. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Transparent addresses and inputs; no ring signatures or stealth addresses. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 6.1 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.00002 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 1.9 | about 17.8 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 5 | a block every 24.1 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 7.1 | 0.24 MB limit, 5.98 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 6.7 | 2 of 3 passed |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✗ | 24-second proof-of-work blocks with probabilistic confirmation on a Bitcoin Core 30 base, which relays full replace-by-fee by default. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✓ | Viacoin Core 30.2.0 (Jul 2026, Bitcoin Core 30 base): -prune keeps the UTXO set and recent blocks. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✓ | Viacoin Core 30.2.0 serves BIP37 Merkle proofs and BIP157 filters (Bitcoin Core 30 base) to SPV clients checking Scrypt proof of work. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | — | 2 of 4 points, 5 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 | ✗ | merge-mined: its blocks are found by another chain's miners |
| Largest pool or validator under 50% | – | |
| Largest three under 75% | – | |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 1 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | Viacoin Core is maintained by a small volunteer team in the viacoin GitHub organisation; no company or foundation; MIT licence. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions 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 for spending conditions; the 2015 ClearingHouse layer was a metaprotocol read by its own software, not by Viacoin nodes. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | OP_CHECKMULTISIG plus CLTV from BIP65Height 598,725 and a 2017 BIP9 CSV deployment (Viacoin Core, Bitcoin Core base). |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | HTLCs built from Script hash locks (OP_SHA256/OP_HASH160) with a CLTV refund branch are standard Script, so cross-chain hash-locked swaps work on Viacoin. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | No exchange or order book in the Viacoin consensus rules. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | Viacoin nodes verify no other chain; no protocol-level cross-chain messaging. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✗ | No token or NFT type in the Viacoin consensus rules. |
| Decentralisation | 9.1 | section average, 5 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: Viacoin Core is maintained by a small volunteer team in the viacoin GitHub organisation; 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) | 5.7 | 43.1% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. Block 1 (2014-07-17) paid 10,000,000 VIA (the code's 'first distribution') to one address, VbVUXA4JdNiA7cFmcRHcinxDTK1G4YnwF4, which sent it all out in about 3,900 transactions within the first hours, before mining rewards started at block 10,002; 10M / ~23.2M current supply = 43.1%. source |
| Fundraising | — | Launch not yet researched |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. GetBlockSubsidy pays the whole reward to the miner; no developer or foundation output. Issuance is now negligible. source |
| Supply & Demand | 5 | group average |
| 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) | 9.9 | fixed maximum supply of 23.2 million |
| Record | 7.7 | 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 2014-07-18, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 3 | 2 positive, 0 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 2 of 6 | ✓ | 84 commits in 4 of the last 12 months (github.com/viacoin/viacoin); Viacoin Core 30.2.0 (rebased on Bitcoin Core 30, released 2026-07) is the only release in the last 24 months; previous release 0.16.3 in 2019. |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | Viacoin Core 30.2.0 (19 Jul 2026), the first release since 0.16.3 (2019), rebases on Bitcoin Core 30.x and so carries upstream fixes such as CVE-2024-35202 (Core 25.0). |
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 of a maximum 23,176,392 VIA are in circulation — 0.0% of the total that will ever exist.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 43.1% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
Block 1 (2014-07-17) paid 10,000,000 VIA (the code's 'first distribution') to one address, VbVUXA4JdNiA7cFmcRHcinxDTK1G4YnwF4, which sent it all out in about 3,900 transactions within the first hours, before mining rewards started at block 10,002; 10M / ~23.2M current supply = 43.1%.
No primary record of an ICO or presale was found; the 10M block-1 distribution is visible on chain but its purpose is undocumented.
Who received the 10M block-1 distribution and on what terms is not documented in any source found.
GetBlockSubsidy pays the whole reward to the miner; no developer or foundation output. Issuance is now negligible.
Surprising: a 10M VIA block-1 allocation (43% of all supply) distributed by a single address before open mining began; a BitcoinTalk ANN or other primary account of who received it was not found. Merge-mined (Scrypt AuxPoW). Input circulating supply of 0 is wrong: the chain is live at height 14,147,108.
Sources: github.com · explorer.viacoin.org · explorer.viacoin.org · github.com · tiki-toki.com. Researched 2026-10-26, medium confidence.
No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for Viacoin.
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.
Viacoin is #395 among cryptocurrencies and #5425 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 5030 places between Viacoin'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).