FIO Protocol (FIO)
FIO Protocol ranks #269 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #2460: 2191 of the 2459 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 2760 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 61% are tokens, 34% are claims on other assets, 4% are memecoins and 1% are NFT collections.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — launch under review |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #269 |
| Rank counting claims | #2460 |
| Market capitalisation | $319,189 |
| Price | $0.000345 |
| Circulating supply | 926,483,908 FIO |
| Maximum supply | 1,000,000,000 FIO |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | DPoS |
| Network purpose | Payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
Market figures from the 10 November 2026 build. Open the live view for every exchange's price, and charts.
CoinSpectrum Grade (Source)
Grade pending. FIO Protocol's launch — how much went to insiders, whether it was sold to investors — is still being researched. A grade is not given until it is, so that a coin is never rated higher for what is not yet known.
| Section and criteria | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Consensus | 9.1 | average of 2 criteria |
| By leader (its largest chain's market cap) (Source) | 9.1 | Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| By family (all its chains' market cap) (Source) | 9.1 | Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Supply | 8.5 | the supply scale times 0.9, and a point for a fixed cap that holds |
| Supply (21 million scores 10) | 8.3 | fixed maximum supply of 1 billion |
| Distribution | — | not yet measured |
| Holder concentration (Source) | – | Not yet measured |
| Active addresses | – | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | – | Launch not yet researched |
| Fundraising (share sold) (Source) | – | Launch not yet researched |
| Developer share (after launch) | – | Not yet researched |
| Decentralisation | — | too few measures yet |
| Governance (Source) | – | Not yet researched |
| No central team (Source) | – | Not yet researched |
| Who can mint (Source) | 4 | Gated by election: a delegated set voted in by holders produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | – | Not yet counted |
| Security | — | 0.1 of 1 points, 7 not yet measured |
| 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) | – | |
| Hashrate (Own work 5, its power 1 kW 0 to 10 GW 5; 1 point) | 1 | not mined: another consensus, 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) | – | |
| Open source (Node software) | – | |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | – | |
| Scalability | 2.6 | average of 3 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 7.9 | typical fee $0.0042 |
| 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) | 0 | a block every 0.53 seconds |
| 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) | – | |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | – | nodeos can start from a state snapshot, but whether FIO 3.5.1 can discard its block log was not established. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✗ | No light-client protocol in FIO 3.5; wallets query API nodes. |
| Privacy | 7 | 7 of 10: whitepaper privacy 7 of 7, extra features 0 of 3, 2 not yet researched source |
| Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10) | 10 | Accounts are derived from user-generated keys, and FIO Handles are optional names, not identity checks. |
| UTXO ledger (Separate outputs, change to a new address · Whitepaper §2, §9) | – | |
| HD addresses (A new address for each payment, unlinked · Whitepaper §10) | – | |
| Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential) | 0 | Transparent transfers. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | 0 | Public FIO handles and accounts. |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | 0 | EOSIO-derived nodeos gossips without origin hiding. |
| Programmability | 1.1 | 1 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts | 0 | Users cannot deploy contracts; only system contracts installed by a block-producer multisig run on FIO. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | eosio.msig proposals with m-of-n account permissions, and transfer_locked_tokens (FIP-6, final) sending FIO under unlock periods. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✗ | No hash-locked transfer in the system contracts. |
| 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) | ✗ | FIO token and domain wrapping to Ethereum and Polygon relies on oracles, not light-client verification. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✗ | No NFT type; FIO domains become NFTs only when wrapped on other chains, and NFT signatures merely map NFTs to FIO handles. |
| Demand | 2.9 | average of 7 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 1 | 1 exchange |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 0 | $180 traded in 24 hours; #3273 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $1,236) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 3.8 | 0.33% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (±2% of the price ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 4.8 | $89 within 2% of the price on 1 exchange, 0.03% of its market cap, median of the last 15 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 0 | $319K, 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 | — | average of 3 criteria |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 6 | 6 full years since 2020-07-19, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities) | — | Not yet measured: no commit count and no release research |
| Conduct (origin, claims, halts) | — | Not yet reviewed |
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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926,483,908 of a maximum 1,000,000,000 FIO are in circulation — 92.6% of the total that will ever exist.
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 FIO Protocol
FIO Protocol is #269 among cryptocurrencies and #2460 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 2191 places between FIO Protocol'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).