Aergo (AERGO)
Aergo ranks #150 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1016: 866 of the 1015 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 1269 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 59% are tokens, 32% are claims on other assets, 8% are memecoins and 1% are NFT collections.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | B · 61/100 · provisional, B to A |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #150 |
| Rank counting claims | #1016 |
| Market capitalisation | $8M |
| Price | $0.0156 |
| Circulating supply | 489,999,996 AERGO |
| Maximum supply | 500,000,000 AERGO |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | DPoS + Raft (SBP-based) |
| Network purpose | Smart-contract platform |
| Ledger type | Multi-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Presale |
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CoinSpectrum Grade (Source)
B — 61 out of 100, provisional (from 9 of 10 sections, 10 November 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 51 to 68 (B to A).
| Section and criteria | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Consensus | 9.1 | average of 2 criteria |
| By leader (its largest chain's market cap) (Source) | 9.1 | Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| By family (all its chains' market cap) (Source) | 9.1 | Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Supply | 8.7 | the supply scale times 0.9, and a point for a fixed cap that holds |
| Supply (21 million scores 10) | 8.6 | fixed maximum supply of 500 million |
| Distribution | 5.6 | average of 3 parts |
| Holder concentration (Source) | – | Not yet measured |
| Active addresses | – | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 0 | 100% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. Fixed 500M supply, all allocated at TGE (Dec 2018); no open mining. Allocation: ecosystem 34.06%, private round 27.14%, team and advisors 25.30%, foundation reserve 9.50%, early supporters 4.00%. A chain with no open minting is 100. source |
| Fundraising (share sold) (Source) | 6.9 | Sold by its issuer or insiders: 31.1% of supply sold. Private sale Jul to Nov 2018: 135.72M AERGO at $0.187 for $25.38M (Sequoia, Arrington, FBG, Node, NGC, JD Capital, RockawayX and others). Early supporters: 20M at $0.168 for $3.36M. No public ICO. source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. Aergo has a fixed 500M supply, all allocated at TGE (Dec 2018), and no open issuance. Block-producer and voting rewards come from allocated tokens, not new minting, so nothing is cut. source |
| Decentralisation | 4.1 | average of 4 parts |
| Governance (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No freeze, blacklist or sudo key on the public DPoS chain (the enterprise admin contract applies only to private Raft deployments); but all 5 BPs appear to be run from one hosting provider, so a single operator could probably stop the chain. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: The single node implementation aergoio/aergo (MIT) is developed by the Aergo team (Blocko / Aergo foundation), which has since rebranded the project as House Party Protocol (HPP) on an Arbitrum Nitro L2. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 4 | Gated by election: a delegated set voted in by holders produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | 2.3 | 5 active validators or block producers (source: Active) |
| Security | 5 | 4 of 8 points source |
| Pool diversity (Largest pool 50% 0 to 20% 10, largest three 90% 0 to 50% 10; 2 points) | 6 | largest 25%, largest three 75% |
| Network activity (Transactions a day, 250 0, 500,000 or more 10; 2 points) | 0 | about 0 transactions a day |
| Hashrate (Own work 5, its power 1 kW 0 to 10 GW 5; 1 point) | 1 | not mined: another consensus, 1 |
| 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) | 7 | one client, latest version Oct 2026 |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Scalability | — | too few measures yet 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) | – | not yet measured |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 0 | a block every 1 second |
| Block space per 10 minutes (24 MB or more 10: the ten busiest networks' median demand, 16.4 MB, and half again for growth) | – | not yet measured |
| Features (3 checks) | 0 | 0 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper abstract, §1, §2 and §11) | ✗ | Blocks every second, but a block becomes final (LIB) only when it is double-confirmed by 2/3+ of the BPs, which with a 5-BP round-robin takes several rounds, roughly 8 s or more; this is an estimate from the spec, not a measured figure. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | – | Not established. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✗ | No light-client protocol; users rely on node RPC. |
| Privacy | 3.5 | 3.5 of 10: whitepaper privacy 3.5 of 7, extra features 0 of 3, 1 not yet researched source |
| Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10) | 10 | Anyone can create keys and receive and send coins; the protocol carries no identity check. |
| UTXO ledger (Separate outputs, change to a new address · Whitepaper §2, §9) | 0 | An account ledger: one running balance for each address, so the remainder stays at the sending address and its payments share one public history. |
| HD addresses (A new address for each payment, unlinked · Whitepaper §10) | – | |
| Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential) | 0 | Transfers are public. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | 0 | Accounts are public. |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | 0 | Aergo nodes gossip transactions directly; no Dandelion or built-in Tor. |
| Programmability | 7.8 | 7 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance (At protocol level) | 2 | Lua smart contracts deployable by any account, with the ARC-1 fungible token standard. |
| Smart contracts (General-purpose) | 2 | Lua 5.1 smart contracts deployable by any account on the BFT-dPoS mainnet. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | Multisig and time-lock logic is expressible in Lua contracts that read block height or time. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✓ | Hash- and time-locked Lua contracts can be written. |
| 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) | ✗ | The Merkle bridge to Ethereum is Lua and Solidity contracts plus off-chain proposer and validator operators, not a protocol feature. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✓ | ARC2 non-fungible token contracts run by its Lua VM. |
| Demand | 2.8 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 1 | 1 exchange |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 1.3 | $46,087 traded in 24 hours; #1883 by volume |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 5.1 | 0.60% of its market cap a day |
| Order-book depth (±2% of the price ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 6 | $4,868 within 2% of the price on 1 exchange, 0.06% of its market cap, median of the last 15 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 2.2 | $7.6M, 2.2 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| 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 | 8 | average of 3 criteria |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 7 | 7 full years since 2018-12-17, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities) | 7 | 2 positive, 0 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 139 commits in 11 of the last 12 months (github.com/aergoio/aergo); Reference node aergoio/aergo v2.8.3 released 2026-10-22; also v2.8.2 (2025-09-25), v2.8.1 (2025-07-18), v2.7.0 (2025-04-22) and v2.6.0-fix (2025-04-14) in the last 24 months. The chain itself is close to dormant (see note). |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | Aergo v2.7.0, Apr 2025: updated libraries flagged with CVEs; v2.8.0/2.8.1 hard fork V5 at block 196,150,000 (Jul 2025) tightened transaction and contract validation |
| 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.
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489,999,996 of a maximum 500,000,000 AERGO are in circulation — 98.0% of the total that will ever exist.
Launch and allocation
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 100% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 31.1% of today's supply |
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
| Nodes or validators | 5 |
| Fundraising | Private or venture funding |
Fixed 500M supply, all allocated at TGE (Dec 2018); no open mining. Allocation: ecosystem 34.06%, private round 27.14%, team and advisors 25.30%, foundation reserve 9.50%, early supporters 4.00%. A chain with no open minting is 100.
Private sale Jul to Nov 2018: 135.72M AERGO at $0.187 for $25.38M (Sequoia, Arrington, FBG, Node, NGC, JD Capital, RockawayX and others). Early supporters: 20M at $0.168 for $3.36M. No public ICO.
Aergo has a fixed 500M supply, all allocated at TGE (Dec 2018), and no open issuance. Block-producer and voting rewards come from allocated tokens, not new minting, so nothing is cut.
The token has reportedly migrated contracts and rebranded to House Party Protocol (HPP), per CryptoRank.
Sources: docs.aergo.io · coingecko.com · icodrops.com · dropstab.com · binance.com. Researched 2026-10-26, medium confidence.
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 Aergo
Aergo is #150 among cryptocurrencies and #1016 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 866 places between Aergo'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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