Zetacoin ranks #377 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #5403: 5026 of the 5402 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 | #377 |
| Rank counting claims | #5403 |
| Price | $0.000988 |
| Circulating supply | 0 ZET |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | SHA-256 |
| Own hashrate | — |
| Network purpose | Payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
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Grade pending. Zetacoin'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) | 7.6 | group average, 7 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 10 | 4 of 4 points, 2 not yet measured source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | – | |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✓ | 13 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 $9.9e-12 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✓ | typical fee $4e-8; about 147 transactions a second (5.4 on the throughput scale; 5 is the busiest networks' median demand) |
| Verifiability: open-source nodes and checking without a trusted server | – | 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 | ✓ | Zetacoin's Bitcoin-derived node (zetacoin/zetacoin) 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) | ✗ | Zetacoin public source v0.13.2.1 (2018); the network's 0.14.1.x builds are not public: 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) | 8.2 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $4e-8 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 5.4 | about 147 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 5.4 | a block every 30.9 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 10 | 4 MB limit, 77.7 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 10 | 2 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | – | Not established: the 0.14.1.x node source was not found, so its replace-by-fee policy is unknown; blocks are about 30 s apart with probabilistic confirmation. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✓ | Zetacoin public source v0.13.2.1 (2018); the network's 0.14.1.x builds are not public: -prune keeps the UTXO set and recent blocks. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✓ | Zetacoin public source v0.13.2.1 (2018); the network's 0.14.1.x builds are not public serves BIP37 Merkle proofs to SPV clients, which check the SHA-256 proof of work in headers. |
| 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% | ✓ | 43.7% |
| Largest three under 75% | – | |
| More than one maintained client | – | |
| Node software is open source | – | Not established: whoever restarted the chain in November 2021 and ships the 0.14.1.x nodes is not identified, and their source was not found. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✗ | about 149 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 | Zetacoin runs Bitcoin-style Script limited to spending conditions (signatures, hash locks, multisig); no contract VM or token introspection. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✗ | In the public source (v0.13.2.1) CLTV starts at BIP65_HEIGHT 8,570,810, beyond the chain's current height of about 4,647,000, and CSV needs BIP9 signalling that version-7 blocks do not give; the live 0.14.1.x nodes' source is not public. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✗ | Without a consensus-enforced CLTV or CSV, Zetacoin 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 Zetacoin consensus rules. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | Zetacoin nodes verify no other chain; no protocol-level cross-chain messaging. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✗ | No token or NFT type in the Zetacoin consensus rules. |
| Decentralisation | 10 | section average, 3 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: Not established (closed or unlocated node source). source |
| No central team (Source) | — | Not yet researched |
| 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) | — | Not established. The chain chainz serves as ZET is not the 2013 ledger: its block 1 is dated 16 Nov 2021, and blocks 1 to at least 160 (to 17 Nov 2021, 02:15 UTC, at near-minimum difficulty) each minted 1,000,000 ZET, i.e. at least 160M, while chainz reports only 59.94M total coins today. No announcement explains the mint (a swap of 2013 balances is possible but unconfirmed). The 2013 code paid 1,000 ZET per 30 s block halving every 80,640 blocks, with no premine. |
| 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. Recent blocks pay 0.1 ZET (PoW) or 0.0625 ZET (PoS) to the block producer; no developer output was seen, but the 0.14.1.x node source behind the 2021 chain was not found, so the history cannot be checked. source |
| Supply & Demand | 0 | group average, 1 of 2 measured |
| 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) | — | Supply not reported |
| Record | 10 | 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) | 10 | 13 full years since 2013-09-11, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | — | Not yet measured: no commit count and no release research |
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 ZET are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
|---|
Not established. The chain chainz serves as ZET is not the 2013 ledger: its block 1 is dated 16 Nov 2021, and blocks 1 to at least 160 (to 17 Nov 2021, 02:15 UTC, at near-minimum difficulty) each minted 1,000,000 ZET, i.e. at least 160M, while chainz reports only 59.94M total coins today. No announcement explains the mint (a swap of 2013 balances is possible but unconfirmed). The 2013 code paid 1,000 ZET per 30 s block halving every 80,640 blocks, with no premine.
None documented.
Not established.
Recent blocks pay 0.1 ZET (PoW) or 0.0625 ZET (PoS) to the block producer; no developer output was seen, but the 0.14.1.x node source behind the 2021 chain was not found, so the history cannot be checked.
zetac.org now hosts an unrelated casino-review site. The 2013 Zetacoin (genesis 3 Aug 2013, SHA-256, 30 s) and the chain live today share a name but not, apparently, a ledger.
Sources: chainz.cryptoid.info · chainz.cryptoid.info · github.com · github.com · bugs.freebsd.org. Researched 2026-10-26, low confidence.
No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for Zetacoin.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
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Zetacoin is #377 among cryptocurrencies and #5403 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 5026 places between Zetacoin'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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