Elastos (ELA)
Elastos ranks #145 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #950: 805 of the 949 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 1205 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 59% are tokens, 32% are claims on other assets, 8% are memecoins and 1% are NFT collections.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | B · 60/100 · provisional, C to A |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #145 |
| Rank counting claims | #950 |
| Market capitalisation | $9M |
| Price | $0.3855 |
| Circulating supply | 23,088,698 ELA |
| Maximum supply | 28,219,999 ELA |
| Consensus family | Hybrid |
| Consensus mechanism | AuxPoW SHA-256 (merge-mined) + DPoS |
| Own hashrate | 407 EH/s |
| Network purpose | Smart-contract platform |
| Ledger type | Multi-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Presale |
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CoinSpectrum Grade (Source)
B — 60 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 49 to 66 (C to A).
| Section and criteria | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Consensus | 4.5 | average of 2 criteria |
| By leader (its largest chain's market cap) (Source) | 4.5 | Hybrid: 4.5 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| By family (all its chains' market cap) (Source) | 4.5 | Hybrid: 4.5 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Supply | 9.9 | fixed maximum supply of 28.2 million |
| Distribution | 5.6 | average of 3 parts |
| Holder concentration (Source) | – | Not yet measured |
| Active addresses | – | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 2.2 | 77.7% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. Genesis 33M ELA, all allocated (angel 4.95M, public sale 6.88M, Elastos Foundation the rest); 13M was burned by community vote in July 2020, leaving a 20M base. Against a current total of ~25.74M (CoinPaprika), that is 77.7%. 30% of block rewards go to the Cyber Republic DAO treasury, run by an elected council. It is not counted here; counting it would add ~6-7 points. source |
| Fundraising (share sold) (Source) | 5.4 | Sold by its issuer or insiders: 46% of supply sold. Public sale ended Jan 23 2018: 6.88M ELA (20.84%) at $13.68 for $94.07M, paid in BTC and NEO. Angel round: 4.95M ELA (15%), amount not listed. Sold = 11.83M / 25.74M = 46%. source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 9.3 | Developer share: about 6.7% of today's supply received so far; 30% of each new block reward goes to them today. 30% of every ELA block reward has gone to the Elastos DAO / Cyber Republic treasury since the Dec 2017 mainnet (council-governed since 2020; held by the Foundation before). Merge-miners get 35% and BPoS validators 35%. Issued since genesis ≈ 25.74M current (CoinPaprika) − 20M base after the 2020 burn = 5.74M; 30% ≈ 1.72M = 6.7%. The halving schedule (every 1,051,200 blocks; reward now 0.761 ELA) gives ~5.0M issued and ~6.0%. source |
| Decentralisation | 6.1 | average of 4 parts |
| Governance (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No standing freeze or clawback key; after a July 2026 CrossChain-transaction validation exploit, v0.9.9.6 added a consensus-level 'mainchain address restriction' for the exploit path by mandatory upgrade rather than by any party's key. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: The ELA main chain (Go) is developed by the Elastos Foundation's core team under the elastos GitHub organisation, funded through the Cyber Republic council treasury; MIT-licensed, though github.com/elastos/Elastos.ELA returned 404 on 2026-10-26 and binaries for v1.0.x are distributed from download.elastos.io. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 8 | Open, with a stake vote: anyone can mine, and stakeholders vote on the blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | 6.2 | 70 active validators or block producers (source: ~70) |
| Security | 3.9 | 3.1 of 8 points source |
| Pool diversity (Largest pool 50% 0 to 20% 10, largest three 90% 0 to 50% 10; 2 points) | 0 | largest 50.7%, largest three 99.5% |
| Network activity (Transactions a day, 250 0, 500,000 or more 10; 2 points) | 1.5 | about 770 transactions a day |
| Hashrate (Own work 5, its power 1 kW 0 to 10 GW 5; 1 point) | 1 | merge-mined: its blocks are found by another chain's miners, 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 Jul 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) | 7.5 | a block every 2 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) | – | not yet measured |
| Features (3 checks) | 0 | 0 of 1 passed, 2 not yet researched |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper abstract, §1, §2 and §11) | ✗ | Two-minute merge-mined blocks confirmed by BPoS arbiters each block; no instant-lock or double-spend-proof mechanism, so finality takes minutes, not seconds. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | – | Not established. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | – | Not established. |
| 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 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) | – | |
| Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential) | 0 | Amounts are public. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | 0 | Addresses are public. |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | 0 | No Dandelion or built-in Tor documented for the ELA main-chain node. |
| Programmability | 3.8 | 3 of 8 points, 1 not yet researched source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts (Scripting for spending conditions) | 1 | The main chain's UTXO programs cover signatures, multisig and output locks; contracts run only on the Elastos Smart Chain sidechain. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | Main-chain multisig addresses and OutputLock, a CLTV-like lock height on each UTXO that the spending transaction's lock time must exceed. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | – | Not established: a secret-and-key unlock condition is described, but no source shows a hash lock with a refund path on the main chain. |
| Native DEX (Trades the coin itself, not a claim) | ✓ | Traded as itself, not as a wrapped token or a claim: its own chain's DEXes (Elastos, DefiLlama). |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | ✗ | Deposits to sidechains are verified by sidechain SPV, but withdrawals need an 8-of-12 multisignature of Council-run arbiters. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✗ | The main chain carries only ELA; NFTs live on the ESC sidechain. |
| Demand | 4.9 | average of 7 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 5 | 5 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 1.9 | $219,729 traded in 24 hours; #1632 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $85,065) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 6.7 | 1.2% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (±2% of the price ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 7.1 | $12,100 within 2% of the price on 3 exchanges, 0.14% of its market cap, median of the last 15 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 2.4 | $8.9M, 2.4 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 | 8 | average of 3 criteria |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 8 | 8 full years since 2018-02-01, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities) | 6 | 1 positive, 0 negative, 5 not yet researched source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | ELA main-chain node v1.0.2 published 2026-07-30 on download.elastos.io (v1.0.0 2026-07-29, v0.9.9.6 2026-07-14, v0.9.9.4/0.9.9.5 2026-01-19); more than two releases in 24 months. |
| Not yet researched | ||
| Shipped a security fix in two years | – | |
| Shipped a privacy improvement in two years | – | |
| Shipped a scaling upgrade in two years | – | |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years | – | |
| Unfixed vulnerabilities and exploits | – | |
| 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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23,088,698 of a maximum 28,219,999 ELA are in circulation — 81.8% of the total that will ever exist.
Launch and allocation
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 77.7% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 46% of today's supply |
| Developer share received since launch | 6.7% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 30% |
| Nodes or validators | 70 |
| Fundraising | Public sale |
Genesis 33M ELA, all allocated (angel 4.95M, public sale 6.88M, Elastos Foundation the rest); 13M was burned by community vote in July 2020, leaving a 20M base. Against a current total of ~25.74M (CoinPaprika), that is 77.7%. 30% of block rewards go to the Cyber Republic DAO treasury, run by an elected council. It is not counted here; counting it would add ~6-7 points.
Public sale ended Jan 23 2018: 6.88M ELA (20.84%) at $13.68 for $94.07M, paid in BTC and NEO. Angel round: 4.95M ELA (15%), amount not listed. Sold = 11.83M / 25.74M = 46%.
30% of every ELA block reward has gone to the Elastos DAO / Cyber Republic treasury since the Dec 2017 mainnet (council-governed since 2020; held by the Foundation before). Merge-miners get 35% and BPoS validators 35%. Issued since genesis ≈ 25.74M current (CoinPaprika) − 20M base after the 2020 burn = 5.74M; 30% ≈ 1.72M = 6.7%. The halving schedule (every 1,051,200 blocks; reward now 0.761 ELA) gives ~5.0M issued and ~6.0%.
Consistent with the site's current 'presale' label. Whose holdings the 13M burn came from is not stated in the sources found; it is treated as insider supply removed. The current total supply is from an aggregator.
Sources: elastos-docs.onrender.com · elastos-docs.onrender.com · icodrops.com · api.coinpaprika.com. Researched 2026-10-24, medium confidence.
The work behind it
Elastos is secured by 407 EH/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 Elastos
Elastos is #145 among cryptocurrencies and #950 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 805 places between Elastos'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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