XDAG ranks #246 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #2010: 1764 of the 2009 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 2258 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 | B · 72/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #246 |
| Rank counting claims | #2010 |
| Market capitalisation | $904,671 |
| Price | $0.000706 |
| Circulating supply | 1,281,403,840 XDAG |
| Maximum supply | 1,446,294,144 XDAG |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | Mining DAG (RandomX-family) |
| Own hashrate | 674 kH/s |
| 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.
B — 72 out of 100, provisional (from 18 of 20 criteria, 28 October 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 64 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) | 7.1 | group average, 11 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 7.3 | 2.9 of 4 points, 2 not yet measured source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 8.8 | fixed maximum supply of 1.45 billion: supply scale 7.5, cap 10 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✗ | 6 full years since its first recorded price, one 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 | ✓ | 9 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $7.1e-13 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | – | typical fee $0.00009 |
| Verifiability: open-source nodes and checking without a trusted server | – | node software open source |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 2 | 1 of 5 passed source |
| Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity | ✓ | Accounts are created from keys users generate themselves; transfers are validated by signature, with no identity condition in the protocol. |
| 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) | ✗ | xdagj relays blocks and transactions directly; no Dandelion or Tor. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | Balances and transfers are public. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Sender and receiver addresses are public. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 5.5 | average of 3 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.00009 |
| 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) | 6.5 | a block every 1.1 minutes |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | – | not yet measured |
| Features (3 checks) | 0 | 0 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✗ | 64-second main blocks in a DAG with probabilistic confirmation; no instant locks or double-spend proofs. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | – | Pruning in xdagj not established. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✗ | No proof-based light client; wallets use node APIs. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 3.4 | 3 of 8 points, 1 not yet measured source |
| Miners paid a day ($1,000 0, $10 million or more 10), 2 points | 0 | about $30 a day |
| Its own hashrate: at least half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined | ✓ | |
| Largest pool or validator under 50% | ✗ | 88.1% |
| Largest three under 75% | ✗ | 100% |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 1 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | xdagj is maintained by community developers in the XDagger GitHub organisation (MIT); the founder left in 2018 and no company owns it, though the dominant XDAG.ORG pool is run from the project's own domain. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | – | |
| No 51% attack or deep reorganisation in five years | ✓ | |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 0 | 0 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts | 0 | XDAGJ mainnet carries plain transfers; XRC token support and later DeFi features are unchecked roadmap items. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✗ | No multisig or time-locked transaction type in XDAGJ. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✗ | No hash-locked or time-locked transaction type. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | No exchange in the protocol. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | Cross-chain protocols are an unchecked roadmap item. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✗ | No token or NFT type on mainnet. |
| Decentralisation | 10 | section average, 6 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol key can freeze coins or halt the chain; the 2024 snapshot restart was a coordinated client upgrade. source |
| No central team (Source) | 10 | No central team: xdagj is maintained by community developers in the XDagger GitHub organisation (MIT); the founder left in 2018 and no company owns it, though the dominant XDAG.ORG pool is run from the project's own domain. 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. Mainnet launched 2018-01-05 by the anonymous developer 'Cheatoshi' with no premine and no ICO (project README and third-party profiles); all coins mined from the first main block. 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. Consensus pays the whole main-block reward (32 XDAG now) to the block's producer. The xdagj pool code has a configurable default 5% 'fund' donation (fund.ration) to a community address, but it is pool-operator policy, not consensus; a sampled XDAG.ORG POOL block (4,277,100) paid 1% to the pool and 99% to the miner with no fund output. source |
| Supply & Demand | 4.9 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 2.2 | average of 5 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 1 | 1 exchange |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 0 | $15 traded in 24 hours; #4117 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $22) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 0 | 0.00% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 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 | $905K, 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) | 7.5 | fixed maximum supply of 1.45 billion |
| Record | 7.3 | group average |
| Record (origin, claims, halts) | 9 | 2 positive, 1 negative source |
| Positive record | ||
| Launched with a stated purpose, not as a joke | ✓ | |
| No claims by its founders that contradict its own design | ✓ | |
| Negative record | ||
| Halt, freeze or reversal, 2024-07-01 | ✗ | A 'link-bomb' bug forked mainnet around block 3,077,971 (about May-June 2024); the developers restored consistency by upgrading the mainnet from a snapshot of wallet-node data with xdagj v0.7.2 (released 2024-07-01). Exact outage dates are not published. |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 6 | 6 full years since 2020-04-27, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 7 | 2 positive, 0 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 35 commits in 7 of the last 12 months (github.com/XDagger/xdagj); xdagj v0.8.3 released 2026-04-27 (v0.8.0 2025-05-27, v0.8.1 and v0.8.2 2026-04-22): four releases in the last 24 months; the C client has had no release since v0.4.0 (2021). |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | XDAGj Firefly v0.8.2, Apr 2026: critical fix for balances wrongly deducted during rollbacks, labelled a security upgrade. |
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.
1,281,403,840 of a maximum 1,446,294,144 XDAG are in circulation — 88.6% of the total that will ever exist.
| 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 |
Mainnet launched 2018-01-05 by the anonymous developer 'Cheatoshi' with no premine and no ICO (project README and third-party profiles); all coins mined from the first main block.
No ICO, presale or private placement.
No sale of any kind documented.
Consensus pays the whole main-block reward (32 XDAG now) to the block's producer. The xdagj pool code has a configurable default 5% 'fund' donation (fund.ration) to a community address, but it is pool-operator policy, not consensus; a sampled XDAG.ORG POOL block (4,277,100) paid 1% to the pool and 99% to the miner with no fund output.
One pool run under the project's own domain produced 88% of sampled main blocks. xdagj v0.8.1-v0.8.2 (April 2026) fixed balance errors during chain rollbacks, suggesting reorg problems that month, but no incident report was found. Network hashrate shown by the explorer is under 1 MH/s.
Sources: github.com · github.com · github.com · explorer.xdag.io · explorer.xdag.io. Researched 2026-10-26, medium confidence.
XDAG is secured by 674 kH/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.
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XDAG is #246 among cryptocurrencies and #2010 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 1764 places between XDAG'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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