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Ardor (ARDR)

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Ardor ranks #114 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #766: 652 of the 765 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 779 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 54% are tokens, 37% are claims on other assets, 9% are memecoins and 1% are NFT collections.

CoinSpectrum Grade	B · 62/100 · provisional, B to A
Rank among cryptocurrencies	#114
Rank counting claims	#766
Market capitalisation	$21M
Price	$0.0214
Circulating supply	998,466,231 ARDR
Maximum supply	no fixed cap
Consensus family	Proof of Stake
Consensus mechanism	Pure PoS (Nxt-derived)
Ledger type	Multi-asset ledger
Launch distribution	Presale

Market figures from the 10 November 2026 build. Open the live view for every exchange's price, and charts.

CoinSpectrum Grade (Source)

B — 62 out of 100, provisional (from 10 of 10 sections, 10 November 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 57 to 66 (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	7.5	the supply scale times 0.9, and a point for a fixed cap that holds
Supply (21 million scores 10)	8.3	no fixed maximum; 998 million in circulation
Distribution	6.7	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. Ardor has no block subsidy: all 998,999,495 ARDR were created at once from a snapshot of Nxt, and Jelurida's docs say no new ARDR will ever be created. Forgers earn only fees, so the chain has no open minting. Current supply is 998,466,231 ARDR (CoinGecko, 2026-10-23). source
Fundraising (share sold) (Source)	10	Sold by its issuer or insiders: 0% of supply sold. ARDR itself was never sold. It was airdropped 1:1 to NXT holders, first as an asset on Nxt in 2016 and then converted into native ARDR at the Ardor genesis snapshot (Nxt block 1,636,363, 28 December 2017; launch 1 January 2018). The underlying 1B NXT had been distributed in a 2013 forum fundraising open to anyone, which raised 21 BTC (about $17,000 then). source
Developer share (after launch)	10	No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. Ardor has no block subsidy: forgers earn only fees and no new ARDR is ever created, so there is no issuance to cut. source
Decentralisation	5.7	average of 3 parts
Governance (Source)	10	No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No freeze or clawback power over ARDR; asset-control features apply to child-chain assets chosen by their issuers. source
No central team (Source)	0	A central team directs it: Jelurida maintains the only node; the source is public but under the Jelurida Public License, which binds derived chains to airdrop to ARDR/NXT holders, so it is not an OSI open-source licence. source
Who can mint (Source)	7	Gated by stake: any holder with enough stake can validate: access bought with coins
Nodes (Source)	–	Not yet counted
Security	3.5	2.8 of 8 points source
Pool diversity (Largest pool 50% 0 to 20% 10, largest three 90% 0 to 50% 10; 2 points)	3.9	largest 51.3%, largest three 58.7%
Network activity (Transactions a day, 250 0, 500,000 or more 10; 2 points)	0.9	about 499 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 Jun 2026
Open source (Node software)	✗
No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years)	✓
Scalability	3.9	average of 3 parts source
Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0)	5.3	typical fee $0.025
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)	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)	–	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)	✗	About one-minute blocks with probabilistic confirmation (rollback depth 720).
Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7)	–	Child-chain transaction pruning is part of Ardor's design and prunable attachments exist, but full pruning was experimental (3.0.0e testnet) and mainnet status was not confirmed.
Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8)	✗	Light wallet modes connect to remote nodes without header or Merkle proofs.
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	Ardor nodes relay transactions directly; Tor is only an optional user setting.
Programmability	7.8	7 of 9 points source
Token issuance (At protocol level)	2	Asset Exchange on its child chains (Ignis and others), whose transactions are validated by every Ardor node; any account can issue an asset for a fee.
Smart contracts (Scripting for spending conditions)	1	Phased transactions set conditions for execution (votes by accounts or balances, linked transactions, hashed secret, finish height, composite expressions); lightweight contracts run off-consensus on node operators' machines.
Multisig and time locks (Without a third party)	✓	Phasing by account vote with a whitelist and quorum gives m-of-n approval, and the finish height defers execution.
Atomic swaps (With other chains)	✓	Phasing by hashed secret (SHA-256 or RIPEMD-160) with a finish height expresses an HTLC.
Native DEX (Trades the coin itself, not a claim)	✓	Traded as itself, not as a wrapped token or a claim: an exchange in its own protocol (Asset Exchange and Coin Exchange between child chains are protocol features validated by every node).
Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself)	✗	Child chains share Ardor's own ledger; no messaging to external chains.
NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules)	✓	Singleton assets on Ignis, whose share increase is hard-coded to be rejected.
Demand	5	average of 6 measures
Exchanges (10 or more: 10)	2	2 exchanges
Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10)	4.6	$77,714 traded in 24 hours; #412 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $1,998,901)
Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10)	9	7.9% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days
Order-book depth (±2% of the price ÷ market cap, 1%: 10)	–	no order book on the nine exchanges read
Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10)	3.3	$21M, 3.3 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold
Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0)	10	no futures, options or margin on the exchanges read
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	9.3	average of 3 criteria
Age (years since genesis) (Source)	10	10 full years since 2016-07-23, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated).
Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities)	8	3 positive, 0 negative source
Positive
Steady work, 6 of 6	✓	Jelurida Ardor 2.6.3, 2026-06-24 (release count in 24 months not verified).
Shipped a security fix in two years, +1	✓	Ardor 2.6.1, Mar 2026: consensus fix to transaction-deadline validation, applied by hard fork at block 4,390,000.
Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1	✓	Ardor 2.6.0, hard fork at block 4,333,333 (1 Feb 2026): Atomic Transaction Chains enabled and Nxt migrated as a child chain.
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 Stake coins

Proof of Work coins

Supply

998,466,231 ARDR are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.

Launch and allocation

Premine (allocated at launch)	100% of today's supply
Sold by the issuer or insiders	0% of today's supply
Developer share received since launch	0% of today's supply
Developer share of new coins today	0%
Fundraising	Public sale

Ardor has no block subsidy: all 998,999,495 ARDR were created at once from a snapshot of Nxt, and Jelurida's docs say no new ARDR will ever be created. Forgers earn only fees, so the chain has no open minting. Current supply is 998,466,231 ARDR (CoinGecko, 2026-10-23).

ARDR itself was never sold. It was airdropped 1:1 to NXT holders, first as an asset on Nxt in 2016 and then converted into native ARDR at the Ardor genesis snapshot (Nxt block 1,636,363, 28 December 2017; launch 1 January 2018). The underlying 1B NXT had been distributed in a 2013 forum fundraising open to anyone, which raised 21 BTC (about $17,000 then).

Ardor has no block subsidy: forgers earn only fees and no new ARDR is ever created, so there is no issuance to cut.

The site has no label yet. This is a fixed-supply chain created entirely by the founders' distribution (an airdrop to NXT holders), so it scores 100 under the no-open-minting rule. The exact window of the 2016 Nxt snapshot was not confirmed against a Jelurida primary source. KuCoin gives July–October 2016.

Sources: ardordocs.jelurida.com · ardordocs.jelurida.com · jelurida.com · en.wikipedia.org · coingecko.com. Researched 2026-10-24, high 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 Ardor

Ardor is #114 among cryptocurrencies and #766 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 652 places between Ardor'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.

The price above is the median of the exchanges the site reads live, checked every minute and cross-checked against a market snapshot (how market data is gathered). The grade is scored on published criteria, each with its source (the method). The site is independent, nothing on it is a paid placement, and its statements are signed (about CoinSpectrum, the manifesto).