Zano ranks #76 of 508 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #402: 326 of the 401 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 410 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 54% are tokens, 39% are claims on other assets and 8% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | C · 58/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #76 |
| Rank counting claims | #402 |
| Market capitalisation | $60M |
| Price | $3.90 |
| Circulating supply | 15,475,839 ZANO |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Hybrid |
| Consensus mechanism | ProgPoWZ PoW + PoS |
| Own hashrate | 226 GH/s |
| Network purpose | Private payments |
| Ledger type | Multi-asset ledger |
Market figures from the 28 October 2026 build. Open the live view for every exchange's price, and charts.
C — 58 out of 100, provisional (from 15 of 17 criteria, 28 October 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 51 to 66 (D to B).
| 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 | 5.6 | group average, 4 of 6 measured |
| Properties (10 whitepaper checks) (Source) | 4 | 4 of 10 passed source |
| Anyone can mint (permissionless) | ✓ | ProgPoWZ PoW + PoS |
| Limited supply | ✗ | no fixed maximum |
| No pre-issuance or developer mint | ✗ | |
| No developer tax | ✓ | |
| No authority that can halt the chain or freeze funds | ✗ | In Sep 2026 the core team shipped software restarting the chain from block 3,833,000, reversing about a month of transactions after an issuance bug. |
| No central team | ✗ | The Zano core team (hyle-team, led by Andrey Sabelnikov) maintains the only node (MIT) and the roadmap. |
| Fees under one cent | ✗ | typical fee $0.038 |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✗ | About one-minute alternating PoW/PoS blocks with probabilistic confirmation (10 recommended). |
| UTXO ledger | ✓ | |
| Privacy built into the protocol | ✓ | Mandatory ring signatures, stealth addresses and hidden amounts (Zarcanum) for every transaction. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space) | 6.1 | average of 2 measures source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 4.7 | typical fee $0.038 |
| Throughput (1,000 transactions a second or more 10) | – | not yet measured |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 7.5 | a block every 2 minutes |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | – | not yet measured |
| Security (9 checks) | 5.1 | 4 of 9 passed, 2 not yet measured source |
| Miners paid over $1 million a day | ✗ | about $2,808 a day |
| Miners paid over $100,000 a day | ✗ | |
| 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 Zano core team (hyle-team, led by Andrey Sabelnikov) maintains the only node (MIT) and the roadmap. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✓ | about 1,191 a day |
| No 51% attack or deep reorganisation in five years | ✓ | |
| Decentralisation: who can mint (Source) | 7.1 | Hybrid: 7.1 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Decentralisation: nodes (Source) | — | Not yet counted |
| Decentralisation: holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Capabilities (protocol features) | 4 | 2 of 6 passed, 1 not yet measured source |
| Decentralisation | ||
| Network-level privacy: the node hides where a transaction came from (Dandelion++, Tor or I2P, on by default) | ✗ | Zano's privacy layers are on-chain; no Dandelion or built-in Tor relay for the node. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✗ | No SPV-style light client; light wallets use a remote node. |
| Scalability | ||
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | – | No documented pruning mode found. |
| Native payment channels or instant payments | ✗ | No payment channels. |
| Security | ||
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✓ | Amount commitments with Bulletproofs+ and Zarcanum (HF4, 2024) hide all amounts, mandatory. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✓ | d/v-CLSAG ring signatures hide the sender and one-time stealth addresses hide the receiver, mandatory. |
| Issuance | 5.1 | group average |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 2.6 | 74.2% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. At the 2019 launch 17.52M ZANO were reserved before mining: a 3.69M development premine (foundation 2.03M, team 1.11M, loan repayment 0.55M) and a 13.83M pool for a 1:1 coinswap from Boolberry, of which ~7.78M were claimed and the rest burned; 3.69M + 7.78M = 11.47M against ~15.47M current supply (CoinGecko). source |
| Fundraising | 2.6 | Sold by its issuer or insiders: 74.2% of supply was theirs to sell, 3.6% sold so far. There was no sale. The only coins delivered for money were the 553,500 ZANO from the premine used to repay Boolberry shareholders' 2018 development loan, effectively a pre-sale. 0.5535M / ~15.47M supply (CoinGecko) = 3.6%. No ICO/IEO/VC round. Boolberry shareholders lent development funds in early 2018; the loan was repaid with 553,500 ZANO from the premine. source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. The 1 ZANO block reward goes to the PoW miner or PoS staker who produces the block, and fees are burned. There is no dev fee; the 3.69M development share was a launch premine. source |
| Supply & Demand | 7.6 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 5.2 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 6 | 6 exchanges |
| Volume rank among the top 200 | 0 | $1,078,685 traded in 24 hours; #626 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (ranked on the median day of the last 30, $1,100,254) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 7.3 | 1.5% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 3.5 | $6,598 within 2% of the price on 1 exchange, 0.01% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 4.5 | $60M, 4.5 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Futures exposure (open interest ÷ market cap, less is better) | 10 | no perpetual futures on the exchanges read |
| Supply (smaller is better) | 10 | no fixed maximum; 15.5 million in circulation |
| 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, 2026-09-27 | ✗ | After a Gateway Address bug introduced in Hard Fork 6 let unauthorised ZANO and fUSD be issued, the core team released software restarting the chain from block 3,833,000 (26 Aug 2026), reversing about a month of transactions; exchanges paused deposits at the team's request. |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 6 | 6 full years since 2020-01-17, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 7 | 3 positive, 2 negative, 3 not yet researched source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 733 commits in 12 of the last 12 months (github.com/hyle-team/zano); hyle-team/zano 2.2.3.603, 2026-10-05; 31 stable releases in 24 months. |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | Zano v2.1.15.457, Feb 2026: security fixes in alt-block validation; v2.2.3.600, Sep 2026: emergency HF7 and rollback after an attack on coin and asset supply. |
| Token issuance at protocol level, validated by its own nodes, +2 | ✓ | Confidential Assets in the protocol since the Zarcanum hard fork (HF4) of March 2024, deployable by any wallet for a fee. |
| Negative | ||
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2025-02-15, −1 | ✗ | Monero/epee CVE-2025-26819 (High) lets RPC clients exhaust node memory because HTTP server connections have no response size limit; Zano 2.2.3.608 still ships the older epee abstract_tcp_server2 with only a send-queue count limit and none of the ec74ff4 response limits added in Monero v0.18.4.0. |
| Exploit of the chain, 2026-08-29, −1 | ✗ | An attacker used a flaw in Gateway Addresses (added in Hard Fork 6) to mint about 36.9M unauthorised ZANO on 29 Aug and 25 Sep 2026, plus fUSD; the team restarted the chain from block 3,833,000, reversing about a month of transactions, and disabled gateway addresses. |
| Not yet researched | ||
| Shipped a privacy improvement in two years | – | |
| Shipped a scaling upgrade in two years | – | |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years | – | |
Seventeen criteria, weighted equally. The Cryptocurrency Standards group four parts: properties (ten checks drawn from the Bitcoin whitepaper), scalability (four measures), security (nine checks) and decentralisation (three scales). 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.
15,475,839 ZANO are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 74.2% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 3.6% of today's supply |
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
| Fundraising | Private or venture funding |
At the 2019 launch 17.52M ZANO were reserved before mining: a 3.69M development premine (foundation 2.03M, team 1.11M, loan repayment 0.55M) and a 13.83M pool for a 1:1 coinswap from Boolberry, of which ~7.78M were claimed and the rest burned; 3.69M + 7.78M = 11.47M against ~15.47M current supply (CoinGecko).
No ICO/IEO/VC round. Boolberry shareholders lent development funds in early 2018; the loan was repaid with 553,500 ZANO from the premine.
There was no sale. The only coins delivered for money were the 553,500 ZANO from the premine used to repay Boolberry shareholders' 2018 development loan, effectively a pre-sale. 0.5535M / ~15.47M supply (CoinGecko) = 3.6%.
The 1 ZANO block reward goes to the PoW miner or PoS staker who produces the block, and fees are burned. There is no dev fee; the 3.69M development share was a launch premine.
Sources: docs.zano.org · coingecko.com · github.com · altfins.com · medium.com · medium.com. Researched 2026-10-24, low confidence.
Zano is secured by 226 GH/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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Zano is #76 among cryptocurrencies and #402 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 326 places between Zano'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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