Chains where transaction amounts and participants are hidden by default — via zero-knowledge proofs, ring signatures, or Mimblewimble-style aggregation. Payment as the primary use, privacy as the property that distinguishes them.
| # | Asset | Consensus | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | ZcashZEC | Equihash (200,9) | $23.0B |
| 10 | MoneroXMR | RandomX (CPU) | $11.4B |
| 77 | ZanoZANO | ProgPoWZ PoW + PoS | $58M |
| 89 | VergeXVG | MultiAlgo (5 PoW algos: Scrypt/X17/Lyra2REv2/Myr-Groestl/Blake2s) | $41M |
| 101 | Pirate ChainARRR | Equihash (privacy) | $37M |
| 125 | AbelianABEL | Chameleon Hash PoW (post-quantum) | $20M |
| 130 | FiroFIRO | FiroPoW (ProgPoW) | $16M |
| 131 | Epic Private Internet CashEPIC | ProgPoW + RandomX + Cuckoo Cycle (MimbleWimble) | $15M |
| 133 | MobileCoinMOB | MobileCoin Consensus Protocol (SCP-based) | $14M |
| 142 | ColossusXTCOLX | PoS + Masternodes (PIVX lineage) | $10M |
| 171 | BytecoinBCN | CryptoNight | $5M |
| 172 | Ycash (y.cash)YEC | Equihash (200,9) | $5M |
| 176 | SecretSCRT | Tendermint (CometBFT) | $5M |
| 179 | PIVXPIVX | Time Protocol v2 (PoS) | $4M |
| 180 | ZClassicZCL | Equihash (200,9) — Zcash fork | $4M |
| 184 | ParticlPART | PoSv3 (Peercoin lineage) | $4M |
| 187 | PlatONLAT | CBFT (Concurrent BFT with PPoS) | $4M |
| 193 | GrinGRIN | Cuckatoo32 (MimbleWimble) | $3M |
| 197 | Zephyr ProtocolZEPH | RandomX (CPU) | $3M |
| 200 | StealthXST | qPoS (Junaeth) | $2M |
| 210 | XELISXEL | XelisHash-v2 (BlockDAG) | $2M |
| 224 | CryptonCRP | CryptoNight (Utopia) | $1M |
| 233 | CloakCoinCLOAK | PoSA (Enigma privacy) | $1M |
| 311 | PRivaCY CoinPRCY | PoSv3 + Proof-of-Audit (hash-mined audit blocks) + masternodes | $17,835 |
| 312 | InitVerseINI | VersaHash | $12,838 |
| 353 | NeptuneXNT | Neptune memory-hard PoW (Tip5 guesser buffer) | $0 |
| 358 | xx networkXX | NPoS (BABE + GRANDPA) | $0 |
| 387 | NavioNAV | Proof-of-Private-Stake (BLSCT, new Navio chain) | $0 |
| 389 | DigitalNoteXDN | BMW512 PoW + PoS | $0 |
| 456 | ALIASALIAS | PoSv3 with anonymous staking (PoAS) | $0 |
| 470 | DeepOnionONION | X13 PoW + PoS | $0 |
| 476 | PRiVCYPRIV | YesPower | $0 |
| 478 | NervaXNV | CryptoNight-Adaptive v6 (CPU, solo mining) | $0 |
| 487 | KryptokronaXKR | CryptoNight Turtle | $0 |
Methodology — the rules under which each chain's purpose was decided. Assets that don't fit one of the categories are left unclassified rather than filed under a guess.