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DigiByte ranks #74 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #406: 332 of the 405 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 416 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 47% are claims on other assets, 46% are tokens, 7% are memecoins and under 1% are NFT collections.

CoinSpectrum Grade	A+ · 79/100 · provisional
Rank among cryptocurrencies	#74
Rank counting claims	#406
Market capitalisation	$55M
Price	$0.00297
Circulating supply	18,553,115,492 DGB
Maximum supply	21,000,000,000 DGB
Consensus family	Proof of Work
Consensus mechanism	MultiAlgo (5 PoW algos: SHA256/Scrypt/Skein/Qubit/Odocrypt)
Own hashrate	35 PH/s
Active addresses a day	2,951 October 2026 median
Network purpose	Payments
Ledger type	Overlay-asset ledger
Launch distribution	No premine

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

CoinSpectrum Grade (Source)

A+ — 79 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 77 to 79 (A+ to A+).

Section and criteria	Score	Basis
Consensus	10	average of 2 criteria
By leader (its largest chain's market cap) (Source)	10	Proof of work: 10 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap
By family (all its chains' market cap) (Source)	10	Proof of work: 10 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains
Supply	7.3	the supply scale times 0.9, and a point for a fixed cap that holds
Supply (21 million scores 10)	7	fixed maximum supply of 21 billion
Distribution	8.5	average of 4 parts
Holder concentration (Source)	–	Not yet measured
Active addresses	4	2,951 addresses active a day, the median of October 2026's 31 days (counted by CoinSpectrum from the chain's own blocks) source
Premine (allocated at launch)	10	Fair launch: no premine
Fundraising (share sold) (Source)	10	No sale of the coin
Developer share (after launch)	10	No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners who produce blocks
Decentralisation	9.8	average of 4 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)	10	No central team: DigiByte Core is maintained by volunteer developers in the DigiByte-Core repository, with no controlling company. source
Who can mint (Source)	10	Open to anyone with hardware: anyone can produce blocks by mining, no permission needed
Nodes (Source)	9.3	635 reachable nodes source
Security	6	4.8 of 8 points source
Pool diversity (Largest pool 50% 0 to 20% 10, largest three 90% 0 to 50% 10; 2 points)	4	largest 41.3%, largest three 70%
Network activity (Transactions a day, 250 0, 500,000 or more 10; 2 points)	2.7	about 1,905 transactions a day
Hashrate (Own work 5, its power 1 kW 0 to 10 GW 5; 1 point)	7.5	own work 5; about 3.5 MW (estimated from its miner pay), 2.5 of 5; several algorithms
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	7.6	average of 5 parts source
Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0)	10	typical fee $0.000047
Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 121, the median of the ten busiest, 5)	7.3	about 473 simple transactions a second
Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side)	4.2	a block every 15 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	4 MB limit, 160 MB per 10 minutes
Features (3 checks)	6.7	2 of 3 passed
Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper abstract, §1, §2 and §11)	✗	DigiByte Core 9.26 (a Bitcoin Core 26 base) relays BIP125 opt-in replace-by-fee, and its wallet marks every transaction replaceable by default (walletrbf), so an unconfirmed payment can be replaced by a higher-fee spend; there are no double-spend proofs or instant locks. Blocks come every 15 seconds, but a block is a confirmation, not protection for a payment before it.
Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7)	✓	DigiByte Core -prune deletes old blocks.
Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8)	✓	Bitcoin-style SPV with headers and Merkle proofs.
Privacy	8	8 of 10: whitepaper privacy 7 of 7, extra features 1 of 3 source
Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10)	10	Anyone can generate keys and receive and send coins; the consensus rules carry 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)	10	BIP32 extended public key (xpub): a watch-only wallet derives each new receiving address without the private key
Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential)	0	No confidential transactions.
Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden)	0	Dandelion++ hides the origin IP only; no ring signatures or stealth addresses.
Network privacy (Origin hidden by default)	10	DigiByte Core relays transactions by Dandelion++ by default (-dandelion, DEFAULT_DANDELION = true, since 7.17; still on in v9.26.7, Oct 2026).
Programmability	5.6	5 of 9 points source
Token issuance (Through a metaprotocol)	1	DigiAssets: read by indexers, not validated by the chain's nodes
Smart contracts (Scripting for spending conditions)	1	Bitcoin-derived Script limited to spending conditions.
Multisig and time locks (Without a third party)	✓	P2SH multisig plus CLTV (BIP 65, block 4,394,880) and the CSV deployment of 2017.
Atomic swaps (With other chains)	✓	HTLCs (hash lock plus CLTV/CSV refund) in standard Script, as in BIP 199.
Native DEX (Trades the coin itself, not a claim)	✓	Traded as itself, not as a wrapped token or a claim: Komodo DeFi.
Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself)	✗	No protocol messaging to other chains.
NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules)	✗	DigiAssets live in OP_RETURN data read by their own software, not consensus.
Demand	7.3	average of 7 measures
Exchanges (10 or more: 10)	10	23 exchanges
Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10)	4	$364,695 traded in 24 hours; #633 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $1,023,828)
Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10)	7.4	1.6% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days
Order-book depth (±2% of the price ÷ market cap, 1%: 10)	5.3	$20,739 within 2% of the price on 4 exchanges, 0.04% of its market cap, median of the last 15 days
Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10)	4.4	$55M, 4.4 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)	10	10 wallets in the site's wallet directory
Record	9	average of 3 criteria
Age (years since genesis) (Source)	10	12 full years since 2014-02-06, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated).
Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities)	7	3 positive, 1 negative, 1 not yet researched source
Positive
Steady work, 6 of 6	✓	1,569 commits in 11 of the last 12 months (github.com/DigiByte-Core/digibyte); DigiByte Core v9.26.7, released 2026-10-06.
Shipped a security fix in two years, +1	✓	DigiByte v9.26.2, 30 Jun 2026: fixed the retired-algorithm (Groestl) block acceptance exploit.
Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1	✓	DigiDollar activated on mainnet at block 23,869,440, 17 Jul 2026 (v9.26.2-v9.26.5).
Negative
Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2026-05-05, −1	✗	CVE-2024-52911: a crafted invalid block can make script-check threads read freed precomputed transaction data and crash the node; still in DigiByte v9.26.7. bitcoincore.org github.com github.com
Not yet researched
Shipped a scaling upgrade 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.

Proof of Work coins

Proof of Stake coins

Supply

18,553,115,492 of a maximum 21,000,000,000 DGB are in circulation — 88.3% of the total that will ever exist.

Launch and allocation

Nodes or validators	635

The work behind it

DigiByte is secured by 35 PH/s of its own work. Hashrate does not compare across algorithms — a SHA-256 hash and a Scrypt hash cost different amounts to produce.

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 DigiByte

DigiByte is #74 among cryptocurrencies and #406 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 332 places between DigiByte'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).

Wallets that hold DigiByte

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