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FACTOR ranks #278 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #2665: 2387 of the 2664 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 2965 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 62% are tokens, 34% are claims on other assets, 3% are memecoins and 1% are NFT collections.

CoinSpectrum Grade	A · 65/100 · provisional, B to A
Rank among cryptocurrencies	#278
Rank counting claims	#2665
Market capitalisation	$202,644
Price	$0.1643
Circulating supply	1,233,015 FACT
Maximum supply	no fixed cap
Consensus family	Proof of Work
Consensus mechanism	Integer factorization PoW (semiprime factoring, CPU)
Own hashrate	—
Network purpose	Payments
Ledger type	Single-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 — 65 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 57 to 66 (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	6.8	the supply scale times 0.9, and a point for a fixed cap that holds
Supply (21 million scores 10)	7.5	no fixed maximum; 1.23 million in circulation
Distribution	10	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. Genesis 2022-04-20 has a zero reward; the README states there was no pre-sale, pre-allocation or pre-mining, and the reward function pays only the miner who factors the block's semiprime. source
Fundraising (share sold) (Source)	10	No sale of the coin source
Developer share (after launch)	10	No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. GetBlockSubsidy pays 0.111786 x 2^(factor bits/32) FACT to the miner only; no developer or treasury output. source
Decentralisation	6.7	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 or halt the chain. source
No central team (Source)	0	A central team directs it: The only node is developed in the ProjectFactor GitHub organisation by the Project Factor team (team@projectfactor.io), which controls releases and the Deadpool roadmap. 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	4.1	3.3 of 8 points source
Pool diversity (Largest pool 50% 0 to 20% 10, largest three 90% 0 to 50% 10; 2 points)	0	largest 58.8%, largest three 100%
Network activity (Transactions a day, 250 0, 500,000 or more 10; 2 points)	0	about 32 transactions a day
Hashrate (Own work 5, its power 1 kW 0 to 10 GW 5; 1 point)	6.1	own work 5; about 29.8 kW (estimated from its miner pay), 1.1 of 5
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 Apr 2026
Open source (Node software)	✓
No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years)	✓
Scalability	7.8	average of 5 parts source
Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0)	10	typical fee $3e-7
Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 121, the median of the ten busiest, 5)	4.3	about 79 simple transactions a second
Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side)	8	a block every 35.1 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)	9.9	80 MB limit, 22.8 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)	✗	30-minute blocks; the Bitcoin Core v22-derived node honours opt-in BIP125 replace-by-fee, so zero-confirmation payments are not protected.
Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7)	✓	-prune option inherited from Bitcoin Core 0.11 (2015): keeps the UTXO set and recent blocks.
Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8)	✓	Bitcoin Core 22-based PoW header chain with BIP37 Merkle proofs and BIP157 filters (SPV).
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 transactions: amounts are public on chain.
Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden)	0	Transparent addresses: sender and receiver are public on chain.
Network privacy (Origin hidden by default)	0	No Dandelion relay; Tor/onion is an optional -onion/-proxy setting in the Bitcoin-derived node, not on by default.
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	Bitcoin Core-derived Script (SegWit, Taproot) limited to spending conditions.
Multisig and time locks (Without a third party)	✓	CHECKMULTISIG plus CLTV and CSV active from block 1 in FACTOR mainnet parameters.
Atomic swaps (With other chains)	✓	HTLCs expressible with OP_SHA256/OP_HASH160 and OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY.
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 protocol-level cross-chain messaging.
NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules)	✗	No token or NFT type in the consensus rules.
Demand	2.7	average of 7 measures
Exchanges (10 or more: 10)	2	2 exchanges
Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10)	0	$428 traded in 24 hours; #3564 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $470)
Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10)	2.2	0.17% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days
Order-book depth (±2% of the price ÷ market cap, 1%: 10)	3.5	$22 within 2% of the price on 1 exchange, 0.01% of its market cap, median of the last 15 days
Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10)	0	$203K, 0 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	6.3	average of 3 criteria
Age (years since genesis) (Source)	3	3 full years since 2023-08-22, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated).
Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities)	6	3 positive, 2 negative source
Positive
Steady work, 6 of 6	✓	35 commits in 5 of the last 12 months (github.com/ProjectFactor/FACTOR); ProjectFactor/FACTOR (formerly FACT0RN/FACT0RN) v6.0.43 released 2026-04-16; v5.0.70 through v6.0.43 span 2025-2026.
Shipped a security fix in two years, +1	✓	FACT0RN/FACTOR v5.0.69, Jan 2025: patched Bitcoin vulnerabilities inherited from the v22.0 codebase.
Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1	✓	v5.0.69, Jan 2025: the 'deadpool' integer-factorization bounties, placed and claimed through on-chain transactions.
Negative
Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-09-18, −1	✗	CVE-2019-25220: a long low-difficulty header chain can exhaust memory because the node has no headers pre-synchronisation; still in FACTOR v6.0.43. bitcoincore.org raw.githubusercontent.com raw.githubusercontent.com
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 FACTOR v6.0.43. bitcoincore.org raw.githubusercontent.com
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

1,233,015 FACT are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.

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	0% of today's supply
Developer share of new coins today	0%
Fundraising	No sale and no investor round

Genesis 2022-04-20 has a zero reward; the README states there was no pre-sale, pre-allocation or pre-mining, and the reward function pays only the miner who factors the block's semiprime.

None documented; the README states no pre-sale or pre-launch distribution.

No sale; coins obtainable only by mining until exchange listing.

GetBlockSubsidy pays 0.111786 x 2^(factor bits/32) FACT to the miner only; no developer or treasury output.

Three payout addresses mined every sampled block in the last month, one with a majority (58.8%). The explorer node reports 27 peer connections, which is one node's peers rather than a network count, so nodes is null. No attack or halt reporting was found, but coverage of so small a chain is thin.

Sources: github.com · raw.githubusercontent.com · raw.githubusercontent.com · explorer.projectfactor.io · blog.coinbase.com. Researched 2026-10-26, medium confidence.

The work behind it

No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for FACTOR.

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 FACTOR

FACTOR is #278 among cryptocurrencies and #2665 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 2387 places between FACTOR'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).