Adzcoin (ADZ)
Adzcoin ranks #413 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #5473: 5060 of the 5472 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 — no market data |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #413 |
| Rank counting claims | #5473 |
| Price | $0.00125 |
| Circulating supply | 0 ADZ |
| Maximum supply | 84,000,000 ADZ |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | X11 |
| Own hashrate | — |
| Network purpose | Payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
Market figures from the 10 November 2026 build. Open the live view for every exchange's price, and charts.
CoinSpectrum Grade (Source)
Grade pending. No market cap or no daily volume is reported for Adzcoin by any source the site reads. A grade is not given until it is, so that a coin is never rated higher for what is not yet known.
| Section and criteria | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Consensus | 10 | average of 2 criteria |
| By leader (its largest chain's market cap) (Source) | 10 | Proof of work: 10 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| By family (all its chains' market cap) (Source) | 10 | Proof of work: 10 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Supply | 9.5 | the supply scale times 0.9, and a point for a fixed cap that holds |
| Supply (21 million scores 10) | 9.4 | fixed maximum supply of 84 million |
| Distribution | 5.8 | average of 2 parts |
| Holder concentration (Source) | – | Not yet measured |
| Active addresses | – | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 1.6 | 84.3% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. Block 1 paid 42,000,000 ADZ (GetBlockValue: nHeight == 1), half of the 84M maximum; 42M / 49.83M total supply (CMC) = 84.3%. source |
| Fundraising (share sold) (Source) | – | Launch not yet researched |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. After block 1, block rewards (40 ADZ halving every 525,600 blocks) go entirely to miners. source |
| Decentralisation | 6.7 | average of 3 parts |
| Governance (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol-level freeze or blacklist mechanism. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: Run by Jens Steyaert, named CEO/owner of Adzcoin/ADZbuzz/Buzzex/VMT in the ANN thread; MIT-licensed client in the AdzCoin GitHub account. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 10 | Open to anyone with hardware: anyone can produce blocks by mining, no permission needed |
| Nodes (Source) | – | Not yet counted |
| Security | — | 2.3 of 3 points, 5 not yet measured source |
| Pool diversity (Largest pool 50% 0 to 20% 10, largest three 90% 0 to 50% 10; 2 points) | – | |
| Network activity (Transactions a day, 250 0, 500,000 or more 10; 2 points) | – | |
| Hashrate (Own work 5, its power 1 kW 0 to 10 GW 5; 1 point) | – | |
| Clients (Separate code and teams 10, separate code or teams 9, a fork by the same team or a stale second 8; one client: a new version within 12 months 7, 24 months 6, none in 24 months 5, none in 48 months 3; a second in development +0.5, a second seen running +1, 8 at most with one client; chain ended 0; 1 point) | 3 | one client, never released as a version; no change to the code since Dec 2015 |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Scalability | 6.4 | average of 4 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | – | not yet measured |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 121, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 4.2 | about 73.7 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 6.4 | a block every 1 minute |
| Block space per 10 minutes (24 MB or more 10: the ten busiest networks' median demand, 16.4 MB, and half again for growth) | 8.4 | 1 MB limit, 10 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 6.7 | 2 of 3 passed |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper abstract, §1, §2 and §11) | ✓ | The Bitcoin 0.8-era client has transaction replacement disabled and relays the first-seen spend; one-minute blocks alone would not qualify. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | ✗ | Adzcoin source (last commit Dec 2015): no -prune option; the node keeps the full block history. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✓ | Adzcoin source (last commit Dec 2015): proof-of-work chain whose node serves BIP37 bloom-filtered merkleblock proofs, so an SPV client can check headers and Merkle proofs. |
| Privacy | 7 | 7 of 10: whitepaper privacy 7 of 7, extra features 0 of 3, 1 not yet researched source |
| Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10) | 10 | Adzcoin's Bitcoin-derived node (AdzCoin/adzcoin) has no identity rule: anyone generates keys and receives and sends the coin. |
| UTXO ledger (Separate outputs, change to a new address · Whitepaper §2, §9) | 10 | Coins are separate unspent outputs: a payment spends whole outputs and sends the change to a new address, so the coins in one wallet need not share a history. |
| HD addresses (A new address for each payment, unlinked · Whitepaper §10) | – | |
| Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential) | 0 | Adzcoin source (last commit Dec 2015): Bitcoin-style transparent outputs; no confidential amounts. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | 0 | Adzcoin source (last commit Dec 2015): Bitcoin-style transparent addresses; no ring signatures, zero-knowledge spends or stealth addresses. |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | 0 | Adzcoin source (last commit Dec 2015): no Dandelion relay in the node; Tor is only an optional proxy setting (-tor/-onion) the user must configure. |
| Programmability | 1.1 | 1 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts (Scripting for spending conditions) | 1 | Adzcoin source (last commit Dec 2015): Bitcoin-style Script (signatures, hashes, CHECKMULTISIG) limited to spending conditions; no contract platform. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✗ | Adzcoin source (last commit Dec 2015): CHECKMULTISIG is present, but the script interpreter has no OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY or OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY (the code base predates BIP65/BIP112), so no output can be time-locked. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✗ | Adzcoin source (last commit Dec 2015): without a lock-time opcode Script cannot express the refund branch of an HTLC, and no adaptor-signature swap exists for the coin. |
| Native DEX (Trades the coin itself, not a claim) | ✗ | No DEX found trading the coin itself: none on its own chain (DefiLlama), and not on THORChain, Maya, Chainflip, Komodo DeFi, BasicSwap, Bisq or Haveno (checked 2026-11-04). |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | ✗ | Adzcoin source (last commit Dec 2015): no cross-chain message or light-client verification in the protocol. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✗ | Adzcoin source (last commit Dec 2015): no token or NFT type in the consensus rules. |
| Demand | 0.5 | average of 2 measures |
| 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 (±2% of the price ÷ 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 |
| Wallet support (wallets that hold it, 10 or more: 10) | 1 | its own node and wallet, counted as 1: no wallet in the site's directory lists it yet |
| Record | 6.7 | average of 3 criteria |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 10 | 10 full years since 2015-12-26, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities) | 0 | 0 positive, 3 negative source |
| Negative | ||
| Steady work, 0 of 6 | ✗ | 0 commits in 0 of the last 12 months (github.com/AdzCoin/adzcoin); No GitHub releases; last commit to AdzCoin/adzcoin 2015-12-16. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-03, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2020-14198: misbehaving peers are auto-banned into a ban map that is never bounded or pruned, so many attacker addresses can exhaust memory; still in Adzcoin HEAD. bitcoincore.org github.com |
| 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 Adzcoin HEAD. bitcoincore.org github.com |
| Conduct (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 | ✓ | |
Ten sections, weighted equally, each 0 to 10: consensus (the two ladders), supply (the supply scale and a fixed cap that holds), distribution (premine, fundraising, developer share, holders), decentralisation (governance, no central team, who can mint, nodes), security, scalability, privacy, programmability (what the scripting layer can do beyond the whitepaper's payment system), demand, and record (age, development, conduct). They are built from the criteria in the second table: privacy, scalability, security and decentralisation are the Cryptocurrency Standards among them, as follows: privacy (the whitepaper's three checks a base of 7 of 10, three extra features up to 3 more), scalability (four measures and three features), security (pool diversity, network activity, hashrate, clients and two checks) and decentralisation (governance, no central team, who can mint, nodes, holders, premine, fundraising and developer share); programmability (token issuance, smart contracts and five checks) follows them, and supply and demand are two: the supply, scored against 21 million, and demand, the average of seven measures of the market and the wallets. Provisional: parts 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.
Proof of Work coins
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Dogecoin DOGEA+
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Comet CMTAll Proof of Work chains →Proof of Stake coins
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TRON TRXA
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Cardano ADAA
NEAR Protocol NEARAAll Proof of Stake chains →Supply
0 of a maximum 84,000,000 ADZ are in circulation — 0.0% of the total that will ever exist.
Launch and allocation
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 84.3% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
Block 1 paid 42,000,000 ADZ (GetBlockValue: nHeight == 1), half of the 84M maximum; 42M / 49.83M total supply (CMC) = 84.3%.
No sale documented; the coin was run by Jens Steyaert's ADZbuzz/Buzzex businesses, per the ANN thread.
Use of the premine is not documented.
After block 1, block rewards (40 ADZ halving every 525,600 blocks) go entirely to miners.
X11 (Hash9) with a 60 s target and an 84M cap, matching the input. clients is 0 because no client was released in the last 24 months. The ANN thread now carries an ImpulsX token-swap notice and BitcoinTalk 'red flag' warnings about the topic creator. The website returns 403 and the explorer 502.
Sources: github.com · github.com · bitcointalk.org. Researched 2026-10-26, low confidence.
The work behind it
No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for Adzcoin.
What a regulator has said
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
The regulator's position, reported as stated, not CoinSpectrum's. Assets nobody has ruled on are left unclassified rather than sorted by a guess.
How CoinSpectrum ranks Adzcoin
Adzcoin is #413 among cryptocurrencies and #5473 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 5060 places between Adzcoin'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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