Flux (FLUX)
Flux ranks #111 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #741: 630 of the 740 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 756 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 53% are tokens, 37% are claims on other assets, 9% are memecoins and 1% are NFT collections.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | A · 73/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #111 |
| Rank counting claims | #741 |
| Market capitalisation | $22M |
| Price | $0.0526 |
| Circulating supply | 423,710,945 FLUX |
| Maximum supply | 440,000,000 FLUX |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | PoUW v2 (FluxNode collateral) |
| Network purpose | Distributed compute |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | No premine |
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CoinSpectrum Grade (Source)
A — 73 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 67 to 73 (A to A).
| 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 | 8.8 | the supply scale times 0.9, and a point for a fixed cap that holds |
| Supply (21 million scores 10) | 8.7 | fixed maximum supply of 440 million |
| 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. ZelCash launched on 31 Jan 2018 as a GPU-mined coin with no ICO, IEO, pre-sale or premine; the 123M ZEL circulating at the March 2021 hard fork converted 1:1 to FLUX; current supply ~422.4M (CoinGecko). source |
| Fundraising (share sold) (Source) | 10 | No sale of the coin source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | Developer share: about 0.12% of today's supply received so far; 3.6% of each new block reward goes to them today. Since the PoUW v2 fork at block 2,020,001 (25 Oct 2025), 0.5 of the 14 FLUX per 30-second block goes to an ecosystem development fund held by the Flux Foundation (t3hPu1YDeGUCp8m7BQCnnNUmRMJBa5RadyA); the rest pays Cumulus, Nimbus and Stratus nodes, which now produce blocks. Before the fork the 37.5-FLUX reward was split between miners and FluxNodes with no foundation share. 1,044,807 blocks × 0.5 = 522k FLUX = 0.12% of 422.49M (explorer). source |
| Decentralisation | 6.8 | average of 4 parts |
| Governance (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No freeze or admin key over user coins. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: InFlux Technologies / the Flux team develops fluxd (Zcash-derived, MIT), the only node. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 7 | Gated by stake: any holder with enough stake can validate: access bought with coins |
| Nodes (Source) | 10 | 2,778 reachable nodes (source: api.runonflux.io) |
| Security | 6.4 | 5.1 of 8 points source |
| Pool diversity (Largest pool 50% 0 to 20% 10, largest three 90% 0 to 50% 10; 2 points) | 10 | largest 12.4%, largest three 26.8% |
| Network activity (Transactions a day, 250 0, 500,000 or more 10; 2 points) | 1.4 | about 720 transactions a day |
| 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) | 7 | one client, latest version May 2026 |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Scalability | 6.7 | average of 4 parts 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) | 6.3 | about 267 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 5.3 | a block every 30 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) | 10 | 2 MB limit, 40 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 5 | 1 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper abstract, §1, §2 and §11) | ✗ | 30-second blocks with probabilistic confirmation; no instant-lock mechanism. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | – | fluxd release notes do not document pruning. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✓ | Bitcoin/Zcash-style headers with Merkle roots support SPV verification (Bitcoin §8). |
| 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 | Transparent UTXO transfers; no shielded pool in use. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | 0 | Addresses are public. |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | 0 | fluxd (Zcash-derived) has no Dandelion relay or built-in Tor. |
| Programmability | 4.4 | 4 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts (Scripting for spending conditions) | 1 | Zcash-derived Bitcoin Script, spending conditions only. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | P2SH multisig and CLTV, which fluxd enforces in every block's script flags. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✓ | HTLCs expressible with CLTV; FLUX is swap-enabled in the Komodo atomic swap coin list. |
| Native DEX (Trades the coin itself, not a claim) | ✓ | Traded as itself, not as a wrapped token or a claim: Komodo DeFi; Bisq. |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | ✗ | No protocol-level cross-chain feature; its wrapped tokens on other chains run through a project-operated swap service. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✗ | No token or NFT rules in consensus. |
| Demand | 6.1 | average of 7 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 10 | 12 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 3.7 | $552,355 traded in 24 hours; #762 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $742,760) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 8.6 | 2.7% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (±2% of the price ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 10 | $280,173 within 2% of the price on 5 exchanges, 1.3% of its market cap, median of the last 15 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 3.4 | $22M, 3.4 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | 6.1 | futures, options and margin positions 15% of its market cap |
| Wallet support (wallets that hold it, 10 or more: 10) | 1 | 1 wallet in the site's wallet directory |
| Record | 7.7 | average of 3 criteria |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 8 | 8 full years since 2018-08-02, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities) | 5 | 2 positive, 2 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 502 commits in 11 of the last 12 months (github.com/RunOnFlux/fluxd); fluxd v9.1.0, 19 May 2026; 12 stable releases in the last 24 months. |
| Shipped a scaling upgrade in two years, +1 | ✓ | fluxd v9.0.0, hard fork at height 2,020,000 (Oct 2025): PoUW v2 cut the target block time from 120 s to 30 s. |
| Negative | ||
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-03, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2020-14198: misbehaving peers are auto-banned into an unbounded ban list, so many attacker addresses can exhaust CPU and memory; still in Flux v9.1.0. bitcoincore.org github.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 Flux v9.1.0. bitcoincore.org github.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.
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423,710,945 of a maximum 440,000,000 FLUX are in circulation — 96.3% of the total that will ever exist.
Launch and allocation
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 0% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Developer share received since launch | 0.12% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 3.6% |
| Nodes or validators | 2,778 |
| Fundraising | No sale and no investor round |
ZelCash launched on 31 Jan 2018 as a GPU-mined coin with no ICO, IEO, pre-sale or premine; the 123M ZEL circulating at the March 2021 hard fork converted 1:1 to FLUX; current supply ~422.4M (CoinGecko).
No sale of the coin or investor round found. At the 2021 hard fork the Flux Foundation received 10M native FLUX plus 10M in parallel assets (locked, for DAO governance), and a share of each block reward goes to the Foundation.
Since the PoUW v2 fork at block 2,020,001 (25 Oct 2025), 0.5 of the 14 FLUX per 30-second block goes to an ecosystem development fund held by the Flux Foundation (t3hPu1YDeGUCp8m7BQCnnNUmRMJBa5RadyA); the rest pays Cumulus, Nimbus and Stratus nodes, which now produce blocks. Before the fork the 37.5-FLUX reward was split between miners and FluxNodes with no foundation share. 1,044,807 blocks × 0.5 = 522k FLUX = 0.12% of 422.49M (explorer).
Sources: runonflux.com · explorer.runonflux.io · runonflux.com · runonflux.com · shop.runonflux.com · coinbase.com. Researched 2026-10-24, high confidence.
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 Flux
Flux is #111 among cryptocurrencies and #741 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 630 places between Flux'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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