ExchangeCoin (EXCC)
ExchangeCoin ranks #200 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #4288: 4088 of the 4287 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 1855 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 61% are tokens, 32% are claims on other assets, 5% are memecoins and 1% are NFT collections.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | B · 60/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #200 |
| Rank counting claims | #4288 |
| Market capitalisation | $2M |
| Price | $0.0641 |
| Circulating supply | 30,956,577 EXCC |
| Maximum supply | 32,003,078 EXCC |
| Consensus family | Hybrid |
| Consensus mechanism | Equihash (144,5) PoW + PoS tickets |
| Own hashrate | 3.55 kH/s |
| Network purpose | Payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Presale |
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CoinSpectrum Grade (Source)
B — 60 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 52 to 62 (B to B).
| 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 | 9.8 | fixed maximum supply of 32 million |
| Distribution | 8.1 | average of 2 parts |
| Holder concentration (Source) | – | Not yet measured |
| Active addresses | – | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 6.1 | 39.2% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. Block 1 (2018-07-18) paid 12,144,736 EXCC to 3,307 outputs (on-chain, explorer.excc.co); 12.14M / 30.94M mined supply = 39.2%. The ledger appears to convert pre-chain ICO holdings plus team allocations; it is dominated by a few large payouts (one of ~5.88M and five of 1M in the repository ledger). source |
| Fundraising (share sold) (Source) | – | Sold by its issuer or insiders: share sold not yet researched. The founders held an ICO before the chain was built (Pragmatic Coders case study) and block 1 distributed the coins, but the split between sale buyers and team inside the block-one ledger is not published. ICO in 2017-2018 before mainnet (amount not found); CEO Sylwester Szczepanek; chain built by contractor Pragmatic Coders from February 2018. source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. Decred-derived subsidy split 70% PoW / 30% PoS voters with no treasury or block tax (mainnetparams.go has WorkRewardProportion 7, StakeRewardProportion 3, no BlockTaxProportion); the site states there is no developer fee. source |
| Decentralisation | 6 | average of 3 parts |
| Governance (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol key can freeze or claw back coins; PoS ticket voting validates blocks but has no freeze power. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: All node, wallet and explorer code lives in the EXCCoin GitHub organisation run by the ExchangeCoin team (ISC licence), originally built for it by contractor Pragmatic Coders. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 8 | Open, with a stake vote: anyone can mine, and stakeholders vote on the blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | – | Not yet counted |
| Security | 4.9 | 3.9 of 8 points source |
| Pool diversity (Largest pool 50% 0 to 20% 10, largest three 90% 0 to 50% 10; 2 points) | 0 | largest 94.8%, largest three 100% |
| Network activity (Transactions a day, 250 0, 500,000 or more 10; 2 points) | 3.1 | about 2,650 transactions a day |
| Hashrate (Own work 5, its power 1 kW 0 to 10 GW 5; 1 point) | 5.6 | own work 5; about 6.1 kW, 0.6 of 5; 0.000011% 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 Aug 2026 |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Scalability | 6.2 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.00002 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 121, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 1.2 | about 12 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 7.9 | a block every 2.6 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) | 5 | 0.393 MB limit, 1.51 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) | ✓ | exccd is a dcrd fork that relays the first-seen transaction and has no replace-by-fee; blocks are 150 s apart and there are no double-spend proofs. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | ✗ | dcrd-derived exccd has no pruning mode; nodes keep all blocks. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✓ | exccd (dcrd fork) builds version-2 committed GCS block filters (gcs/blockcf2) for SPV wallets. |
| 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 | Addresses are hashes of keys users generate themselves; the node checks scripts and signatures, with no identity condition in its consensus rules. |
| 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 | Transparent UTXO amounts. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | 0 | Transparent addresses; no ring signatures or stealth addresses. |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | 0 | dcrd-derived node relays directly; Tor needs user setup. |
| Programmability | 3.3 | 3 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts (Scripting for spending conditions) | 1 | Decred-derived txscript with spending conditions only. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | OP_CHECKMULTISIG, OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY and OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY in exccd's txscript. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✓ | txscript can express HTLCs (hash check plus CLTV refund), as in Decred's atomic swaps. |
| 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) | ✗ | No token or NFT type in the protocol. |
| Demand | 3.3 | average of 4 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | – | exchanges not yet counted |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 1.9 | $84,724 traded in 24 hours; #1571 by volume |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 9.6 | 4.3% of its market cap a day |
| 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) | 0.7 | $2.0M, 0.7 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | – | not measured |
| 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 | 7.3 | average of 3 criteria |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 5 | 5 full years since 2021-05-05, 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 | ✓ | 49 commits in 2 of the last 12 months (github.com/EXCCoin/exccd); exccd v2.8.2 released 2026-08-05 (v2.8.0 2026-07-31, v2.8.1 2026-08-03); before that v2.7.6 in November 2023. |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | exccd v2.8.1–v2.8.2, Aug 2026: Equihash validation with historical exceptions, enforcement of the inactive DCP0010 agenda, rejection of invalid headers before reading payloads, inbound connection-flood limits. |
| 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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30,956,577 of a maximum 32,003,078 EXCC are in circulation — 96.7% of the total that will ever exist.
Launch and allocation
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 39.2% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
| Fundraising | Public sale |
Block 1 (2018-07-18) paid 12,144,736 EXCC to 3,307 outputs (on-chain, explorer.excc.co); 12.14M / 30.94M mined supply = 39.2%. The ledger appears to convert pre-chain ICO holdings plus team allocations; it is dominated by a few large payouts (one of ~5.88M and five of 1M in the repository ledger).
ICO in 2017-2018 before mainnet (amount not found); CEO Sylwester Szczepanek; chain built by contractor Pragmatic Coders from February 2018.
The founders held an ICO before the chain was built (Pragmatic Coders case study) and block 1 distributed the coins, but the split between sale buyers and team inside the block-one ledger is not published.
Decred-derived subsidy split 70% PoW / 30% PoS voters with no treasury or block tax (mainnetparams.go has WorkRewardProportion 7, StakeRewardProportion 3, no BlockTaxProportion); the site states there is no developer fee.
subsidydefinitions.go in the current repository lists 17.14M across 3,305 payouts, 5M more than block 1 actually paid; the on-chain figure is used. The website calls EXCC 'privacy-focused' and Equihash 144,5 'ASIC-resistant': the ledger is transparent (the wallet offers only CoinShuffle++ mixing) and Bitmain's Z15 mines Equihash 144,5. No 51% attack or reorg found.
Sources: github.com · explorer.excc.co · explorer.excc.co · github.com · pragmaticcoders.com · github.com. Researched 2026-10-26, medium confidence.
The work behind it
ExchangeCoin is secured by 3.55 kH/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 ExchangeCoin
ExchangeCoin is #200 among cryptocurrencies and #4288 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 4088 places between ExchangeCoin'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).