Chia (XCH)
Chia ranks #109 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #734: 625 of the 733 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 748 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 53% are tokens, 37% are claims on other assets, 9% are memecoins and 1% are NFT collections.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | A · 70/100 · provisional, B to A+ |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #109 |
| Rank counting claims | #734 |
| Market capitalisation | $23M |
| Price | $1.19 |
| Circulating supply | 19,226,492 XCH |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Proof of Space / Storage |
| Consensus mechanism | Proof of Space and Time |
| Ledger type | Multi-asset ledger |
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CoinSpectrum Grade (Source)
A — 70 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 77 (B to A+).
| Section and criteria | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Consensus | 5.5 | average of 2 criteria |
| By leader (its largest chain's market cap) (Source) | 5.5 | Proof of space: 5.5 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| By family (all its chains' market cap) (Source) | 5.5 | Proof of space: 5.5 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Supply | 8.9 | the supply scale times 0.9, and a point for a fixed cap that holds |
| Supply (21 million scores 10) | 9.9 | no fixed maximum; 19.2 million in circulation |
| Distribution | 7.1 | average of 2 parts |
| Holder concentration (Source) | – | Not yet measured |
| Active addresses | – | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 4.1 | 59.1% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. 21M XCH prefarm (strategic reserve) paid in the first block to Chia Network Inc., against a current total supply of 35,517,517 XCH (CoinGecko, 2026-10-23). source |
| Fundraising (share sold) (Source) | – | Sold by its issuer or insiders: share sold not yet researched. Not established. Chia Network Inc. has sold XCH from its 21M prefarm since Oct 2023 through its market maker (blog-announced transfers of 45,000 and 50,000 XCH, with a reported 200k XCH sale) and through direct 'Buy XCH with ACH' sales (2025). It publishes no cumulative sales total. The confirmed transfers alone are ~95k XCH (0.3% of 35.5M), so the true figure is above that but unknown. Chia Network Inc. has sold prefarm XCH through its market maker since October 2023, and directly to buyers through its 'Buy XCH with ACH' offer in 2025. It publishes no cumulative total. source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. All block rewards (2 XCH a block at launch, halving every three years) go to farmers: 1/8 to the farmer and 7/8 to the pool or farmer reward address. The 21M strategic reserve was a one-time prefarm in the genesis block, already counted as premine, and no ongoing share goes to Chia Network Inc. source |
| Decentralisation | 6.7 | average of 3 parts |
| Governance (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol-level party can freeze coins or halt the chain. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: chia-blockchain, the reference and only full node, is developed by Chia Network Inc., which sets the roadmap. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 10 | Open to anyone with disk space: anyone can produce blocks by proof of space, no permission needed |
| Nodes (Source) | – | Not yet counted |
| Security | 7 | 2.8 of 4 points, 4 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) | 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) | 4.5 | a block every 18 seconds |
| 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) | 5 | 1 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper abstract, §1, §2 and §11) | ✗ | Transaction blocks arrive about every 52 seconds with probabilistic confirmation. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | – | No pruning mode for the Chia full-node database was documented. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✓ | Protocol weight proofs (FlyClient-style sub-epoch sampling) let light wallets verify chain weight and sync without downloading every block. |
| 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 | 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) | 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 | Coin amounts are public. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | 0 | Puzzle hashes (addresses) are public; no ring signatures or stealth addresses. |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | 0 | chia-blockchain full nodes gossip transactions directly; no Dandelion or built-in Tor. |
| Programmability | 7.8 | 7 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance (At protocol level) | 2 | Chia Asset Tokens (CAT2), a ChiaLisp coin standard validated by full nodes, open to anyone. |
| Smart contracts (General-purpose) | 2 | Chialisp puzzles lock every coin; CATs, NFT1, DIDs, offers and vaults are built as Chialisp on mainnet. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | AGG_SIG conditions combine keys in Chialisp puzzles for m-of-n spends, and ASSERT_SECONDS/HEIGHT_RELATIVE and ABSOLUTE conditions set time locks. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✓ | A preimage-or-delay puzzle (p2_delayed_or_preimage) is used for XCH-for-Bitcoin Lightning swaps (chiaswap). |
| 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) | ✗ | No protocol-level cross-chain messaging; warp.green is run by its own validator set. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✓ | NFT1 (CHIP-0005) NFTs as Chialisp singleton coins validated by full nodes. |
| Demand | 5.8 | average of 7 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 7 | 7 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 3.4 | $335,643 traded in 24 hours; #876 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $520,924) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 7.9 | 2.0% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (±2% of the price ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 7.6 | $43,432 within 2% of the price on 4 exchanges, 0.19% of its market cap, median of the last 15 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 3.4 | $23M, 3.4 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 | 7.3 | average of 3 criteria |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 5 | 5 full years since 2021-04-30, 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, 2 not yet researched source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 1,870 commits in 12 of the last 12 months (github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain); chia-blockchain 2.7.5, released 2026-10-14. |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | chia-blockchain 2.7.1, May 2026: rejects malformed weight-proof segments (SEC-615); 2.7.0, Mar 2026: soft fork with network hardening. |
| Not yet researched | ||
| Shipped a scaling upgrade in two years | – | |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years | – | |
| 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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19,226,492 XCH are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
Launch and allocation
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 59.1% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
| Fundraising | Public sale |
21M XCH prefarm (strategic reserve) paid in the first block to Chia Network Inc., against a current total supply of 35,517,517 XCH (CoinGecko, 2026-10-23).
Chia Network Inc. has sold prefarm XCH through its market maker since October 2023, and directly to buyers through its 'Buy XCH with ACH' offer in 2025. It publishes no cumulative total.
Not established. Chia Network Inc. has sold XCH from its 21M prefarm since Oct 2023 through its market maker (blog-announced transfers of 45,000 and 50,000 XCH, with a reported 200k XCH sale) and through direct 'Buy XCH with ACH' sales (2025). It publishes no cumulative sales total. The confirmed transfers alone are ~95k XCH (0.3% of 35.5M), so the true figure is above that but unknown.
All block rewards (2 XCH a block at launch, halving every three years) go to farmers: 1/8 to the farmer and 7/8 to the pool or farmer reward address. The 21M strategic reserve was a one-time prefarm in the genesis block, already counted as premine, and no ongoing share goes to Chia Network Inc.
Sources: chia.net · chia.net · coinmarketcap.com · docs.chia.net · chia.net · docs.chia.net. Researched 2026-10-24, low confidence.
What a regulator has said
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
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How CoinSpectrum ranks Chia
Chia is #109 among cryptocurrencies and #734 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 625 places between Chia'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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