Epic Private Internet Cash (EPIC)
Epic Private Internet Cash ranks #130 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #995: 865 of the 994 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 1029 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 | A · 69/100 · provisional, B to A |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #130 |
| Rank counting claims | #995 |
| Market capitalisation | $14M |
| Price | $0.7182 |
| Circulating supply | 19,275,959 EPIC |
| Maximum supply | 21,000,000 EPIC |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | ProgPoW + RandomX + Cuckoo Cycle (MimbleWimble) |
| Own hashrate | 25 GH/s |
| Network purpose | Private payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | No premine |
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CoinSpectrum Grade (Source)
A — 69 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 55 to 74 (B 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 million |
| Distribution | 9.8 | average of 3 parts |
| Holder concentration (Source) | – | Not yet measured |
| Active addresses | – | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 10 | 0% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. No premine, sale or genesis allocation; all EPIC is issued through block rewards. The foundation levy, previously counted here, is now scored as a block-reward cut. source |
| Fundraising (share sold) (Source) | 10 | No sale of the coin source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 9.3 | Developer share: about 6.6% of today's supply received so far; 1.11% of each new block reward goes to them today. The consensus.rs foundation levy takes a share of every block reward, paid out daily: 8.88% for the first 120 days (from Sep 2019), then 7.77%, 6.66%, 5.55%, 4.44%, 3.33%, 2.22%, 1.11% and 1.11% in successive 365-day eras, and 0 from about block 4.38M (late 2027). The current era (around block 3.6M) is 1.11%. Summing the code's schedule gives ~1.272M EPIC at today's supply of 19.30M, or 6.6%. 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: The epic node is developed by the Epic Cash core team in the EpicCash repository, funded by the protocol dev fund. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 10 | Open to anyone with hardware: anyone can produce blocks by mining, no permission needed |
| Nodes (Source) | – | Not yet counted |
| Security | 6 | 3.6 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) | 1 | largest 47% |
| 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) | 7.1 | own work 5; about 852 kW (estimated from its miner pay), 2.1 of 5; the largest on its algorithm |
| 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) | 6.4 | a block every 1 minute |
| 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) | 3.3 | 1 of 3 passed |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper abstract, §1, §2 and §11) | ✗ | One-minute probabilistic blocks with no instant-lock mechanism. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | ✓ | epic node default archive_mode=false runs a fast-sync, pruned node (Mimblewimble cut-through drops spent outputs). |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✗ | No light client; wallets connect to a node or remote node. |
| Privacy | 9.2 | 9.2 of 10: whitepaper privacy 7 of 7, extra features 2.2 of 3 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) | 10 | No addresses on chain: each output is a new commitment, so no two payments share a destination |
| Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential) | 10 | Mimblewimble Pedersen commitments hide every amount. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | 0 | Mimblewimble has no on-chain addresses, but inputs are spent openly with no ring or zero-knowledge sender set. |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | 10 | The Grin-derived epic node's transaction pool uses Dandelion++ by default (600 s epochs, 90% stem probability, always stems its own transactions); node 4.0.0 also integrated Tor. |
| Programmability | 0 | 0 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts | 0 | Grin-derived MimbleWimble chain with no scripts; kernels are Plain, Coinbase or HeightLocked. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✗ | HeightLocked kernels give an absolute lock height, but there is no native or wallet-supported m-of-n multisig. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✗ | No hash locks can be expressed and no working Epic adaptor-signature swap implementation was found. |
| 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 cross-chain feature in the protocol. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✗ | Outputs carry only EPIC. |
| Demand | 3.2 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 1 | 1 exchange |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 1.1 | $34,232 traded in 24 hours; #2086 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 15, $33,992) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 2.9 | 0.23% of its market cap a day, median of the last 16 days |
| Order-book depth (±2% of the price ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | – | no order book on the nine exchanges read |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 2.9 | $14M, 2.9 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 | 1 wallet in the site's wallet directory |
| Record | 7.3 | average of 3 criteria |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 5 | 5 full years since 2021-03-11, 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 source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 30 commits in 7 of the last 12 months (github.com/EpicCash/epic); Epic v4.1.1, released 2026-10-20. |
| Shipped a privacy improvement in two years, +1 | ✓ | Epic node 4.0.0 (15 Sep, most likely 2025 from release order): integrated Tor support (onion addresses, Tor API handler, transaction push over Tor). |
| 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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19,275,959 of a maximum 21,000,000 EPIC are in circulation — 91.8% of the total that will ever exist.
Launch and allocation
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 0% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share received since launch | 6.6% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 1.11% |
| Fundraising | No sale and no investor round |
No premine, sale or genesis allocation; all EPIC is issued through block rewards. The foundation levy, previously counted here, is now scored as a block-reward cut.
No ICO, presale or venture round. Development is funded by the foundation levy.
The consensus.rs foundation levy takes a share of every block reward, paid out daily: 8.88% for the first 120 days (from Sep 2019), then 7.77%, 6.66%, 5.55%, 4.44%, 3.33%, 2.22%, 1.11% and 1.11% in successive 365-day eras, and 0 from about block 4.38M (late 2027). The current era (around block 3.6M) is 1.11%. Summing the code's schedule gives ~1.272M EPIC at today's supply of 19.30M, or 6.6%.
Epic is marketed as 'no premine', but the developer levy counts as insider allocation under the method. The figure is computed from the consensus code and the current supply, not read from the chain.
Sources: github.com · cryptoslate.com · coingecko.com. Researched 2026-10-24, high confidence.
The work behind it
Epic Private Internet Cash is secured by 25 GH/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 Epic Private Internet Cash
Epic Private Internet Cash is #130 among cryptocurrencies and #995 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 865 places between Epic Private Internet Cash'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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