Stealth ranks #201 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1243: 1042 of the 1242 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 1807 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 75% are tokens, 19% are claims on other assets and 5% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | B · 66/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #201 |
| Rank counting claims | #1243 |
| Market capitalisation | $2M |
| Price | $0.0589 |
| Maximum supply | 0 XST |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | qPoS (Junaeth) |
| Network purpose | Private payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Premine |
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B — 66 out of 100, provisional (from 15 of 20 criteria, 28 October 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 49 to 75 (D to A).
| Criterion | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Leading Consensus Mechanisms (Source) | 9.1 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 9.1 | Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 9.1 | Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 6.6 | group average, 10 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | — | 2 of 3 points, 3 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 | – | |
| 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 | ✓ | 6 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $5.9e-8 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | – | typical fee $0 |
| Verifiability: open-source nodes and checking without a trusted server | ✗ | node software open source; no light clients or pruned nodes |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 6 | 3 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) | ✓ | Stealth v3.3.5.0 defaults to its built-in Tor: without -onlynet the node limits itself to NET_TOR (client/init.cpp "default to built-in tor"). |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | Transparent UTXO amounts. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Stealth addresses hide the receiver, but nothing hides the sender (no ring signatures or ZK proofs). |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 5.3 | average of 3 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0 |
| 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) | 2.5 | a block every 5 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | – | not yet measured |
| Features (3 checks) | 3.3 | 1 of 3 passed |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✓ | Bitcoin/NovaCoin-derived node with first-seen mempool relay and no replace-by-fee, and qPoS blocks scheduled every 5 s. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✗ | Old Bitcoin/NovaCoin-derived codebase without a prune option. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✗ | The node has no BIP37 merkleblock service for SPV clients. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 3 | 2 of 6 points, 3 not yet measured source |
| 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 | ✗ | 1 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | The only node, StealthCoind (MIT), is developed and released by Stealth R&D LLC in its GitHub organisation. |
| 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-lineage Script with spending conditions only. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | OP_CHECKMULTISIG and OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY in its script code (no CSV). |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | Script can express HTLCs (hash check plus CLTV 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 | 8.1 | section average, 6 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol key can freeze or claw back users' XST; qPoS only disables StealthNodes that miss too many slots, and docks their stake by protocol rule. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: The only node, StealthCoind (MIT), is developed and released by Stealth R&D LLC in its GitHub organisation. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 8.6 | Proof of stake: 8.6 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | — | Not yet counted |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 9.9 | 0.6% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. Blocks 1–10 paid 23,300 XST each, a 233,000 XST premine labelled as such in GetProofOfWorkReward. That is 0.59% of the 39,630,019 XST current supply (CoinPaprika, 2026-10-23). After a 16-XST 'fairness' period at blocks 11–260, PoW (about 23.3M total) and PoS rewards were open. 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. qPoS rewards (GetQPoSReward: money supply divided by a fixed divisor) go to the StealthNode stakers who produce blocks; earlier PoW/PoS rewards were open. No treasury or developer share was found in the consensus code. source |
| Supply & Demand | 0.5 | group average, 1 of 2 measured |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 0.5 | average of 3 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | – | exchanges not yet counted |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 0 | $1,857 traded in 24 hours; #3079 by volume |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 0.5 | 0.08% of its market cap a day |
| 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) | 0.9 | $2.3M, 0.9 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) | — | Supply not reported |
| Record | 7 | group average, 2 of 3 measured |
| 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) | — | Genesis date not yet researched |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 4 | 2 positive, 3 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 19 commits in 5 of the last 12 months (github.com/Stealth-R-D-LLC/Stealth); Reference client Stealth-R-D-LLC/Stealth v3.3.5.0 released 2026-04-18, after v3.3.0-v3.3.4 (March 2026) and v3.2.1.3-v3.2.1.6 (July-December 2025). |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | Stealth v3.3.1.0, Mar 2026: fixed a money-supply calculation bug that could cause consensus failures (operators told to update ASAP). |
| 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 Stealth v3.3.4.0. |
| 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 Stealth v3.3.4.0. |
| 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 Stealth v3.3.4.0. |
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.
Circulating supply is not published by our source.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 0.6% 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 |
Blocks 1–10 paid 23,300 XST each, a 233,000 XST premine labelled as such in GetProofOfWorkReward. That is 0.59% of the 39,630,019 XST current supply (CoinPaprika, 2026-10-23). After a 16-XST 'fairness' period at blocks 11–260, PoW (about 23.3M total) and PoS rewards were open.
No sale found.
qPoS rewards (GetQPoSReward: money supply divided by a fixed divisor) go to the StealthNode stakers who produce blocks; earlier PoW/PoS rewards were open. No treasury or developer share was found in the consensus code.
The site has no label yet. The premine is clear in code. Whether the original StealthNode NFT allocation in qPoS (nft-mainnet-data.cpp) gave the team any minting privilege was not examined. The queue's null circulating supply and max 0 should read about 39.6M and uncapped.
Sources: github.com · github.com · coinpaprika.com · coinbase.com. Researched 2026-10-24, medium confidence.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
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Stealth is #201 among cryptocurrencies and #1243 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 1042 places between Stealth'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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