Shentu (CTK)
Shentu ranks #131 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #770: 639 of the 769 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 1036 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 57% are tokens, 33% are claims on other assets, 10% are memecoins and 1% are NFT collections.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — launch under review |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #131 |
| Rank counting claims | #770 |
| Market capitalisation | $14M |
| Price | $0.0818 |
| Circulating supply | 166,106,512 CTK |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Other |
| Consensus mechanism | — not yet curated |
| 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. Shentu's launch — how much went to insiders, whether it was sold to investors — is still being researched. 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 | — | average of 2 criteria |
| By leader (its largest chain's market cap) (Source) | — | Consensus not yet reviewed |
| By family (all its chains' market cap) (Source) | — | Consensus not yet reviewed |
| Supply | 8.2 | the supply scale times 0.9, and a point for a fixed cap that holds |
| Supply (21 million scores 10) | 9.1 | no fixed maximum; 166 million in circulation |
| Distribution | — | not yet measured |
| Holder concentration (Source) | – | Not yet measured |
| Active addresses | – | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | – | Launch not yet researched |
| Fundraising (share sold) (Source) | – | Launch not yet researched |
| Developer share (after launch) | – | Not yet researched |
| Decentralisation | — | not yet measured |
| Governance (Source) | – | Not yet researched |
| No central team (Source) | – | Not yet researched |
| Who can mint (Source) | – | Consensus not yet reviewed |
| Nodes (Source) | – | Not yet counted |
| Security | — | 0.1 of 1 points, 7 not yet measured |
| 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) | – | |
| Open source (Node software) | – | |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | – | |
| Scalability | 8.5 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.00026 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 121, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 10 | about 12,700 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 2.7 | a block every 5.75 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) | 10 | 22 MB limit, 2300 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 10 | 2 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper abstract, §1, §2 and §11) | – | |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | ✓ | Cosmos SDK state pruning and CometBFT state sync. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✓ | CometBFT light client protocol verifies signed headers against the validator set, as used by IBC. |
| Privacy | 7 | 7 of 10: whitepaper privacy 7 of 7, extra features 0 of 3, 2 not yet researched source |
| Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10) | 10 | Any key can hold and send CTK; the Cosmos SDK bank and auth modules carry no identity check. |
| UTXO ledger (Separate outputs, change to a new address · Whitepaper §2, §9) | – | |
| 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 | CometBFT mempool gossip with no Dandelion or built-in Tor. |
| Programmability | 1.1 | 1 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts | 0 | The Cosmos SDK app's modules (auth, bank, bounty, cert, gov, oracle, shield) include no CosmWasm or EVM. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✗ | Cosmos SDK threshold multisig keys exist, but the standard vesting module is absent and Shentu's manual vesting accounts are released by an unlocker, not by time. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✗ | No hash-lock module or contract system. |
| 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) | ✓ | IBC transfer and interchain-accounts modules (ibc-go v10) in the app. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✗ | No NFT module or contract system. |
| Demand | 5.1 | average of 7 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 7 | 7 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 2.5 | $140,731 traded in 24 hours; #1228 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 15, $187,718) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 7 | 1.4% of its market cap a day, median of the last 16 days |
| Order-book depth (±2% of the price ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 8.2 | $38,558 within 2% of the price on 3 exchanges, 0.28% of its market cap, median of the last 11 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 2.8 | $14M, 2.8 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | 7.4 | futures, options and margin positions 6.9% of its market cap |
| 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 | 4 | average of 3 criteria |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 6 | 6 full years since 2020-10-27, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities) | 2 | 2 positive, 0 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | Shentu v2.16.1 (Nov 2025) CometBFT v0.38.19 for GHSA-hrhf-2vcr-ghch; v2.16.2 (Jan 2026) CometBFT v0.38.20 for CSA-2026-001. |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1 | ✓ | Shentu v2.15.0 (Jul 2025): OpenMath on-chain formal-verification module; extended in v2.16–v2.18. |
| Conduct (origin, claims, halts) | — | Not yet reviewed |
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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166,106,512 CTK are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
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 Shentu
Shentu is #131 among cryptocurrencies and #770 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 639 places between Shentu'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).