eCash (XEC)
eCash ranks #60 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #243: 183 of the 242 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 245 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 51% are claims on other assets, 42% are tokens, 7% are memecoins and 1% are NFT collections.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | A+ · 82/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #60 |
| Rank counting claims | #243 |
| Market capitalisation | $112M |
| Price | $0.00000555 |
| Circulating supply | 20,108,782,797,580 XEC |
| Maximum supply | 21,000,000,000,000 XEC |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | SHA-256 (+ Avalanche finality) |
| Own hashrate | 46 PH/s |
| Network purpose | Payments |
| Ledger type | Overlay-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | No premine |
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CoinSpectrum Grade (Source)
A+ — 82 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 83 (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 | 10 | fixed maximum supply of 21 trillion, denominated in units of 100 satoshis: 21 million coins of 100 million satoshis |
| Distribution | 10 | average of 3 parts |
| Holder concentration (Source) | – | Not yet measured |
| Active addresses | – | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 10 | Fair launch: no premine |
| Fundraising (share sold) (Source) | 10 | No sale of the coin |
| Developer share (after launch) | 9.9 | Developer share: about 1.3% of today's supply received so far; 32% of each new block reward goes to them today. Every block pays a share of its reward to the miner fund that finances Bitcoin ABC development: 8% from the 15 Nov 2020 fork, raised to 32% at the 15 Nov 2023 upgrade (a separate 10% goes to Avalanche stakers and is not a cut). A consensus rule until the 15 May 2023 upgrade made it a block policy: nodes park a block that skips the payment and Avalanche finalisation decides, so a majority of stakers could drop it; every block pays it today. ≈157,000 blocks × 6.25M × 8% (78.5B) + ≈21,350 × 6.25M × 32% (42.7B) + 132,464 × 3.125M × 32% after the block-840,000 halving to height 972,464 (132.5B) ≈ 253.7B XEC = 1.3% of 20.10T (Blockchair). source |
| Decentralisation | 7 | average of 4 parts |
| Governance (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: Avalanche stakers can park or finalise blocks but cannot freeze or claw back user coins; no deliberate halts. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: Bitcoin ABC (led by Amaury Sechet) maintains the only node, Bitcoin-ABC/bitcoin-abc (MIT), and the roadmap. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 10 | Open to anyone with hardware: anyone can produce blocks by mining, no permission needed |
| Nodes (Source) | 7.8 | 223 reachable nodes (distinct IP addresses at the chain's tip, crawled by CoinSpectrum on 2026-11-08; clearnet only) |
| Security | 6.7 | 4 of 6 points, 2 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) | 3.2 | about 2,767 transactions a day |
| Hashrate (Own work 5, its power 1 kW 0 to 10 GW 5; 1 point) | 7 | own work 5; about 620 kW, 2 of 5; 0.0050% of its algorithm's largest, not scored |
| 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 | 9.2 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.000015 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 121, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 6.1 | about 236 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 10 | a block every 10 minutes |
| 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 | 32 MB limit |
| Features (3 checks) | 10 | 3 of 3 passed |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper abstract, §1, §2 and §11) | ✓ | Avalanche pre-consensus finalises transactions in about 3 s, on top of first-seen relay with no replace-by-fee. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | ✓ | Bitcoin ABC -prune deletes old blocks. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✓ | Bitcoin-style SPV with headers and Merkle proofs. |
| Privacy | 7 | 7 of 10: whitepaper privacy 7 of 7, extra features 0 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; CashFusion is a wallet tool. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | 0 | No protocol-level sender or receiver hiding. |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | 0 | Bitcoin ABC relays transactions directly; Tor is optional configuration. |
| Programmability | 5.6 | 5 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance (Through a metaprotocol) | 1 | SLP, ALP (eTokens): read by indexers, not validated by the chain's nodes |
| Smart contracts (Scripting for spending conditions) | 1 | Bitcoin-derived Script (with OP_CHECKDATASIG and OP_REVERSEBYTES) limited to spending conditions; Agora offers are script covenants, and eTokens are indexer-validated. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | P2SH multisig plus CLTV (BIP 65) and CSV, active since the pre-fork Bitcoin heights 388,381 and 419,328. |
| 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; Agora, a covenant order book on eCash. |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | ✗ | No protocol messaging to other chains; Avalanche finality is internal. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✗ | SLP and ALP NFTs are metaprotocols validated by indexers such as Chronik, not by nodes. |
| Demand | 7.4 | average of 7 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 10 | 30 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 4.6 | $685,165 traded in 24 hours; #408 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $2,030,078) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 7.3 | 1.5% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (±2% of the price ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 6.5 | $101,504 within 2% of the price on 4 exchanges, 0.09% of its market cap, median of the last 15 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 5.1 | $112M, 5.1 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | 8.6 | futures, options and margin positions 1.9% of its market cap |
| Wallet support (wallets that hold it, 10 or more: 10) | 10 | 14 wallets in the site's wallet directory |
| Record | 9.3 | average of 3 criteria |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 10 | 17 full years since genesis. Split from Bitcoin Cash on 15 November 2020 after block 661,647, keeping the ledger: its history runs from Bitcoin's genesis block of 3 January 2009. |
| Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities) | 8 | 3 positive, 0 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 1,746 commits in 12 of the last 12 months (github.com/Bitcoin-ABC/bitcoin-abc); Bitcoin-ABC/bitcoin-abc v0.34.2, 2026-10-20; 53 releases in 24 months. |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | Bitcoin ABC 0.32.2, Nov 2025: backported CVE-2025-46597/46598/54604/54605; 0.34.1, Oct 2026: walletnotify command-execution fix. |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1 | ✓ | Network upgrade, 15 Nov 2025: 64-bit script integers and arithmetic, Avalanche pre-consensus. |
| 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
Bitcoin BTCA+
Zcash ZECA+
Dogecoin DOGEA+
Pearl PEARLA
Bitcoin SV BSVA+
Quantum Resistant Ledger QRLB
DigiByte DGBA+All Proof of Work chains →Proof of Stake coins
Ethereum ETHA+
BNB BNBA
Solana SOLA+
TRON TRXA
Hyperliquid HYPEB
Cardano ADAA
NEAR Protocol NEARAAll Proof of Stake chains →Supply
20,108,782,797,580 of a maximum 21,000,000,000,000 XEC are in circulation — 95.8% of the total that will ever exist.
Launch and allocation
| Developer share received since launch | 1.3% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Developer share of new coins today | 32% |
Every block pays a share of its reward to the miner fund that finances Bitcoin ABC development: 8% from the 15 Nov 2020 fork, raised to 32% at the 15 Nov 2023 upgrade (a separate 10% goes to Avalanche stakers and is not a cut). A consensus rule until the 15 May 2023 upgrade made it a block policy: nodes park a block that skips the payment and Avalanche finalisation decides, so a majority of stakers could drop it; every block pays it today. ≈157,000 blocks × 6.25M × 8% (78.5B) + ≈21,350 × 6.25M × 32% (42.7B) + 132,464 × 3.125M × 32% after the block-840,000 halving to height 972,464 (132.5B) ≈ 253.7B XEC = 1.3% of 20.10T (Blockchair).
Sources: bitcoinabc.org · github.com · api.blockchair.com. Researched 2026-10-24, high confidence.
The work behind it
eCash is secured by 46 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 eCash
eCash is #60 among cryptocurrencies and #243 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 183 places between eCash'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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