DigitalNote ranks #393 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #5423: 5030 of the 5422 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 | #393 |
| Rank counting claims | #5423 |
| Price | $0.00000239 |
| Circulating supply | 0 XDN |
| Maximum supply | 10,000,000,000 XDN |
| Consensus family | Hybrid |
| Consensus mechanism | BMW512 PoW + PoS |
| Own hashrate | — |
| Network purpose | Private payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
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Grade pending. DigitalNote'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) | 4.5 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 4.5 | Hybrid: 4.5 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 4.5 | Hybrid: 4.5 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 5.9 | group average, 8 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 7.2 | 4.3 of 6 points source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 3.2 | fixed maximum supply of 10 billion, but an issuer or vote can mint outside the schedule: supply scale 6.4, cap 0 |
| 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 $2.4e-14 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✓ | typical fee $2e-10; about 562 transactions a second (7.6 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; no light clients or pruned nodes |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 4 | 2 of 5 passed source |
| Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity | ✓ | DigitalNote's Bitcoin-derived node (DigitalNoteXDN/DigitalNote-2) 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) | ✗ | DigitalNote v2.0.0.8 (Jul 2026, PPCoin-era code): 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) | ✗ | Stealth addresses can hide the receiver, but inputs are public (no ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs). |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 7.8 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $2e-10 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 7.6 | about 562 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 8.2 | a block every 3.1 minutes |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 10 | 15.3 MB limit, 48.4 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 3.3 | 1 of 3 passed |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✓ | Masternode InstantX locks are built in, and the node has transaction replacement disabled (first-seen relay); two-minute blocks alone would not qualify. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✗ | DigitalNote v2.0.0.8 (Jul 2026, PPCoin-era code) has no pruning mode; nodes keep every block. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✗ | DigitalNote (PoW/PoS) (pre-BIP37 code) serves no Merkle proofs or block filters, so light wallets trust servers. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | — | 2 of 3 points, 6 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% | – | |
| Largest three under 75% | – | |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 1 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | The DigitalNote team (MIT licence, DigitalNoteXDN GitHub) maintains the only client, receives the hard-coded DevOps reward and used a mandatory update to mint 1B XDN. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | – | |
| No 51% attack or deep reorganisation in five years | ✓ | |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 1.1 | 1 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts: scripting for spending conditions | 1 | DigitalNote runs Bitcoin-style Script limited to spending conditions (signatures, hash locks, multisig); no contract VM or token introspection. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✗ | OP_CHECKMULTISIG is present, but DigitalNote 2's opcode list (src/enums/opcodetype.h) has no OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY or OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY (0xb1 is still OP_NOP2), so Script cannot enforce a time lock. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✗ | Without a consensus-enforced CLTV or CSV, DigitalNote Script cannot express the time-locked refund of an HTLC; only pre-signed nLockTime refunds, which pre-SegWit malleability makes unsafe. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | No exchange or order book in the DigitalNote consensus rules. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | DigitalNote nodes verify no other chain; no protocol-level cross-chain messaging. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✗ | No token or NFT type in the DigitalNote consensus rules. |
| Decentralisation | 6.8 | section average, 4 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No mechanism to freeze or blacklist user coins was found; the team's power is over issuance (developer address and mandatory-update mints), not individual balances. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: The DigitalNote team (MIT licence, DigitalNoteXDN GitHub) maintains the only client, receives the hard-coded DevOps reward and used a mandatory update to mint 1B XDN. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 7.1 | Hybrid: 7.1 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | — | Not yet counted |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | — | The v2 chain (Bitcoin code base, 2018) minted 80M XDN per block until supply reached 8B (nBlockRewardReserve, 'Reserve for swap from XDN cryptonote codebase'), all paid to the developers for the swap, and update 1.0.4.2 minted another 1,000,000,000 XDN at block 403,117 to the developer address ('Bittrex 1 billion payout'). If the swap reserve matched holders' balances, only the 1B is a discretionary mint (~12.4% of the 8.07B supply), but no reconciliation of the reserve against swapped balances is published, so no figure is given. |
| Fundraising | — | Launch not yet researched |
| Developer share (after launch) | 9.9 | Developer share: about 0.7% of today's supply received so far; 16.7% of each new block reward goes to them today. Of every 300 XDN block reward, 150 goes to a masternode and 50 to the DevOps (developer) address hard-coded in fork.h (since the first developer address in May 2019), leaving 100 for the staker or miner: 50/300 = 16.7%. Estimated so far: ~1.2M blocks x 50 = ~60M XDN / 8.07B = ~0.7% (the block-403,117 1B payment is counted under premine, not here). source |
| Supply & Demand | 3.2 | 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) | 6.4 | fixed maximum supply of 10 billion |
| 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 2014-06-24, 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, 2 of 6 | ✓ | 144 commits in 4 of the last 12 months (github.com/DigitalNoteXDN/DigitalNote-2); v2.0.0.8, 2026-06-13, is the only release in the last 24 months; the previous was v2.0.0.6 (2022-12-03). |
| Negative | ||
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-03, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-52914: crafted orphan transactions can stall the node for hours in the uninterruptible orphan-resolution loop; still in DigitalNote v2.0.0.8. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-03, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2020-14198: misbehaving peers are auto-banned into an unbounded ban list, so many attacker addresses can exhaust CPU and memory; still in DigitalNote v2.0.0.8. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-31, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-52919: addr-message spam can overflow the address manager's 32-bit id counter and crash the node, with no addr rate limit; still in DigitalNote v2.0.0.8. |
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 10,000,000,000 XDN are in circulation — 0.0% of the total that will ever exist.
| Developer share received since launch | 0.7% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Developer share of new coins today | 16.7% |
The v2 chain (Bitcoin code base, 2018) minted 80M XDN per block until supply reached 8B (nBlockRewardReserve, 'Reserve for swap from XDN cryptonote codebase'), all paid to the developers for the swap, and update 1.0.4.2 minted another 1,000,000,000 XDN at block 403,117 to the developer address ('Bittrex 1 billion payout'). If the swap reserve matched holders' balances, only the 1B is a discretionary mint (~12.4% of the 8.07B supply), but no reconciliation of the reserve against swapped balances is published, so no figure is given.
No ICO found; whether the developers sold reserve coins is undocumented.
Not documented.
Of every 300 XDN block reward, 150 goes to a masternode and 50 to the DevOps (developer) address hard-coded in fork.h (since the first developer address in May 2019), leaving 100 for the staker or miner: 50/300 = 16.7%. Estimated so far: ~1.2M blocks x 50 = ~60M XDN / 8.07B = ~0.7% (the block-403,117 1B payment is counted under premine, not here).
The block height and live supply could not be read (explorer down), so the reward-cut total is an estimate; v2.0.0.8 plans a developer-address rotation at block 1,280,000, which implies the chain was below that height in mid-2026. Whether the original 2014 CryptoNote XDN had a premine was not checked.
Sources: github.com · github.com · github.com · github.com · github.com. Researched 2026-10-26, low confidence.
No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for DigitalNote.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
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DigitalNote is #393 among cryptocurrencies and #5423 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 DigitalNote'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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