Astar ranks #78 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #423: 345 of the 422 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 432 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 55% are tokens, 37% are claims on other assets and 8% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | C · 63/100 · provisional, C to B |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #78 |
| Rank counting claims | #423 |
| Market capitalisation | $56M |
| Price | $0.00635 |
| Circulating supply | 8,791,519,679 ASTR |
| Maximum supply | 10,000,000,000 ASTR |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | NPoS (Polkadot parachain) |
| Network purpose | Smart-contract platform |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Presale |
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C — 63 out of 100, provisional (from 18 of 20 criteria, 28 October 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 57 to 68 (C to B).
| Criterion | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Leading Consensus Mechanisms (Source) | 9.1 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 9.1 | Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 9.1 | Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 5.2 | group average, 10 of 12 measured |
| Sound Money Properties (6 checks) (Source) | 7.2 | 4.3 of 6 points source |
| Scarcity (Limited supply · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §6) | 3.2 | fixed maximum supply of 10 billion, but an issuer or vote can mint outside the schedule: supply scale 6.4, cap 0 |
| Durability (Sustainability · 1 Store of value) | ✗ | 4 full years since its first recorded price, no halt, freeze or reversal in five years |
| Fungibility (Interchangeability · 3 Unit of account) | ✓ | every unit identical and worth any other |
| Portability (Scalability · 2 Medium of exchange) | ✓ | typical fee $0.0001; about 434 transactions a second, 7.1 on the throughput scale (5 is the busiest networks' median demand) |
| Divisibility (Flexibility · 3 Unit of account) | ✓ | 18 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $6.3e-21 |
| Verifiability (Authenticity check · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §8) | ✓ | node software open source; light clients verify from headers or proofs |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 6.7 | average of 4 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.0001 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 7.1 | about 434 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 2.9 | a block every 6.58 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | – | no fixed byte limit (gas, compute units or mass instead), left out |
| Features (3 checks) | 6.7 | 2 of 3 passed |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper §11) | ✗ | About 6.5-second parachain blocks finalised through Polkadot GRANDPA after further relay-chain blocks; nothing protects zero-confirmation payments. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | ✓ | Substrate --state-pruning and --blocks-pruning. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✓ | Polkadot parachain: smoldot can follow it via relay-chain GRANDPA finality. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 5 | 5 of 9 points source |
| Miner pay (A day, $1,000 0 to $10 million 10; 2 points) | 0 | not mined |
| Own hashrate (Half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined) | ✗ | not mined |
| Largest pool (Pool or validator under 50%) | ✓ | 4% |
| Largest three (Under 75% together) | ✓ | 12% |
| Clients (More than one maintained) | ✗ | 1 |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | The Astar node is developed in the AstarNetwork repository by Startale Labs and the Astar Foundation. |
| Real use (1,000+ transactions a day) | ✓ | about 7,262 a day |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Decentralisation | 5.3 | section average, 6 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: The sudo key was removed and no protocol-level party can freeze ASTR balances. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: The Astar node is developed in the AstarNetwork repository by Startale Labs and the Astar Foundation. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 8.6 | Proof of stake: 8.6 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | — | Not yet counted |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 2 | 79.6% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. Genesis supply of 7B ASTR, allocated to users and early supporters 30%, parachain auction 20%, auction reserve 5%, protocol development 10%, on-chain DAO 5%, marketing 5%, early financial backers 10%, team 5%, foundation 10%. Measured against about 8.79B ASTR (CoinGecko circulating, used as a proxy for total since the genesis allocations have vested). source |
| Fundraising | 2 | Sold by its issuer or insiders: 79.6% of supply was theirs to sell, 8% sold so far. Early financial backers (Binance Labs-led 2020 round, Jan 2022 Polychain-led $22M strategic round) hold 10% of the 7B genesis (700M ASTR). Crowdloan rewards from the auction allocation were not a sale. 700M / ~8.79B current supply (CoinGecko) = 8.0%. Binance Labs-led round of $2.4M for Plasm (Feb 2020) and a $22M strategic round led by Polychain (Jan 2022) with Alameda, Crypto.com Capital and Digital Finance Group. A Polkadot crowdloan raised about 10M DOT from about 27k contributors, who were rewarded from the 20% auction allocation. source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 8.9 | Developer share: about 11% of today's supply received so far; 18% of each new block reward goes to them today. Tokenomics 2.0/3.0 (Feb 2024, revised March 2026) splits each cycle's emission budget 5% treasury, 13% dApp rewards to developers, 3.2% collators and 78.8% stakers. The adjustable staker part is only partly minted, so the treasury takes ~10% of actually minted ASTR and dApps up to ~26%. Under Tokenomics 1.0 (Dec 2021 to Dec 2023), 253 ASTR a block was split 10% treasury, 15% dApps, 10% collators, 20% stakers and 45% between stakers and treasury by TVL. Estimate: treasury ~0.6B plus dApps ~0.37B = ~0.97B of 8.79B, about 11% (treasury alone ~7%). It is rough because historical TVL and dApp-tier fill are approximated. source |
| Privacy | 2 | section average |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 2 | 1 of 5 passed source |
| Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10) | ✓ | Any secp256k1 key can hold and send ASTR; the chain's account and transfer rules carry no identity check. |
| UTXO ledger (A new key for each payment · Whitepaper §2, §9) | ✗ | |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | ✗ | Substrate gossip relays extrinsics directly. |
| Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential) | ✗ | No confidential transactions. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | ✗ | No sender or receiver hiding. |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 8.9 | 8 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance (At protocol level) | 2 | ERC-20 contracts on the Astar chain's own EVM (and ink! contracts on its Wasm VM), open to any account. |
| Smart contracts (General-purpose) | 2 | EVM smart contracts on the Astar chain itself, open to any account. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | Multisig and timelock contracts on the EVM. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✓ | EVM HTLC contracts (hash lock plus timelock refund). |
| Native exchange (Built into the protocol) | ✗ | No exchange pallet; DEXs are contracts. |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | ✓ | XCM on Astar as a Polkadot parachain. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✓ | ERC-721 contracts on the EVM. |
| Supply & Demand | 6.9 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 7.3 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 10 | 31 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 4 | $734,598 traded in 24 hours; #671 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $976,935) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 7.5 | 1.7% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 9.8 | $492,757 within 2% of the price on 7 exchanges, 0.88% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 4.4 | $56M, 4.4 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | 7.9 | futures, options and margin positions 4.3% of its market cap |
| Supply (smaller is better) | 6.4 | fixed maximum supply of 10 billion |
| Record | 6.7 | group average |
| 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) | 4 | 4 full years since 2022-01-17, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 6 | 1 positive, 0 negative, 3 not yet researched source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 200 commits in 12 of the last 12 months (github.com/AstarNetwork/Astar); Astar runtime-2500, released 2026-09-23; node v5.50.0 on 2026-07-30. |
| Not yet researched | ||
| Shipped a security fix in two years | – | |
| Shipped a scaling upgrade in two years | – | |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years | – | |
Twenty criteria, weighted equally. The Cryptocurrency Standards have five sections: sound money (six qualities: scarcity, durability, fungibility, portability, divisibility, verifiability), scalability (four measures and three features), security (miner pay and seven checks), decentralisation (censorship resistance, no central team, who can mint, nodes, holders, premine, fundraising and developer share) and privacy (five checks); programmability (token issuance, smart contracts and five checks) follows them. 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.
8,791,519,679 of a maximum 10,000,000,000 ASTR are in circulation — 87.9% of the total that will ever exist.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 79.6% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 8% of today's supply |
| Developer share received since launch | 11% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 18% |
| Fundraising | Private or venture funding |
Genesis supply of 7B ASTR, allocated to users and early supporters 30%, parachain auction 20%, auction reserve 5%, protocol development 10%, on-chain DAO 5%, marketing 5%, early financial backers 10%, team 5%, foundation 10%. Measured against about 8.79B ASTR (CoinGecko circulating, used as a proxy for total since the genesis allocations have vested).
Binance Labs-led round of $2.4M for Plasm (Feb 2020) and a $22M strategic round led by Polychain (Jan 2022) with Alameda, Crypto.com Capital and Digital Finance Group. A Polkadot crowdloan raised about 10M DOT from about 27k contributors, who were rewarded from the 20% auction allocation.
Early financial backers (Binance Labs-led 2020 round, Jan 2022 Polychain-led $22M strategic round) hold 10% of the 7B genesis (700M ASTR). Crowdloan rewards from the auction allocation were not a sale. 700M / ~8.79B current supply (CoinGecko) = 8.0%.
Tokenomics 2.0/3.0 (Feb 2024, revised March 2026) splits each cycle's emission budget 5% treasury, 13% dApp rewards to developers, 3.2% collators and 78.8% stakers. The adjustable staker part is only partly minted, so the treasury takes ~10% of actually minted ASTR and dApps up to ~26%. Under Tokenomics 1.0 (Dec 2021 to Dec 2023), 253 ASTR a block was split 10% treasury, 15% dApps, 10% collators, 20% stakers and 45% between stakers and treasury by TVL. Estimate: treasury ~0.6B plus dApps ~0.37B = ~0.97B of 8.79B, about 11% (treasury alone ~7%). It is rough because historical TVL and dApp-tier fill are approximated.
Sources: docs.astar.network · forklog.com · docs.astar.network · docs.astar.network · docs.astar.network · docs.astar.network. Researched 2026-10-24, medium confidence.
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Astar is #78 among cryptocurrencies and #423 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 345 places between Astar'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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