Feathercoin (FTC)
Feathercoin ranks #282 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #2729: 2447 of the 2728 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 3038 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 61% are tokens, 34% are claims on other assets, 3% are memecoins and 1% are NFT collections.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — no market data |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #282 |
| Rank counting claims | #2729 |
| Market capitalisation | $173,121 |
| Price | $0.000732 |
| Circulating supply | 236,600,238 FTC |
| Maximum supply | 336,000,000 FTC |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | NeoScrypt |
| Own hashrate | 116 MH/s |
| 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)
Grade pending. No market cap or no daily volume is reported for Feathercoin by any source the site reads. 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 | 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 | 8.9 | the supply scale times 0.9, and a point for a fixed cap that holds |
| Supply (21 million scores 10) | 8.8 | fixed maximum supply of 336 million |
| Distribution | 10 | average of 3 parts |
| Holder concentration (Source) | – | Not yet measured |
| Active addresses | – | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 10 | Fair launch: no premine |
| Fundraising (share sold) (Source) | 10 | No sale of the coin |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. No cut. GetBlockSubsidy pays the whole 80 FTC (halving) subsidy to miners; there is no dev fund or founder output in the consensus code. source |
| Decentralisation | 10 | average of 3 parts |
| Governance (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No party can freeze or claw back coins, but nodes enforce Advanced Checkpointing by default: a developer-held master key (checkpointPubKey) signs sync checkpoints every 5 blocks that override chain selection, giving that key holder power to pick between competing chains. source |
| No central team (Source) | 10 | No central team: Feathercoin Core is maintained by a small volunteer team in the FeatherCoin GitHub organisation (MIT); no company. 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 | 4.3 | 3.5 of 8 points source |
| Pool diversity (Largest pool 50% 0 to 20% 10, largest three 90% 0 to 50% 10; 2 points) | 1 | largest 44.1%, largest three 100% |
| Network activity (Transactions a day, 250 0, 500,000 or more 10; 2 points) | 0 | about 89 transactions a day |
| Hashrate (Own work 5, its power 1 kW 0 to 10 GW 5; 1 point) | 5.7 | own work 5; about 8.8 kW (estimated from its miner pay), 0.7 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 May 2026 |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Scalability | 7.6 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $1e-7 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 121, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 5 | about 118 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 6.5 | a block every 1.1 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) | 10 | 4 MB limit, 37.9 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) | ✗ | Bitcoin Core 0.21-based node that relays BIP125 opt-in replace-by-fee, so zero-confirmation is not network-protected; no double-spend proofs. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | ✓ | -prune in its Bitcoin Core 0.21.1 base (feature since 0.11, 2015). |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✓ | Feathercoin v0.21.0 (May 2026): NeoScrypt PoW header chain with BIP37 Merkle proofs and BIP157 compact block 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 | 4.4 | 4 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts (Scripting for spending conditions) | 1 | Litecoin-derived Script (SegWit) limited to spending conditions. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | CHECKMULTISIG plus CLTV (height 2,120,750) and CSV (height 2,157,120) in Feathercoin 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) | ✓ | Traded as itself, not as a wrapped token or a claim: Komodo DeFi. |
| 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 | 0.3 | average of 3 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 0 | no exchange the site reads trades it |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | – | no volume reported |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | – | not measured |
| 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 | $173K, 0 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 | 6.7 | average of 3 criteria |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 10 | 13 full years since 2013-05-03, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities) | 0 | 3 positive, 4 negative, 1 not yet researched source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 2 of 6 | ✓ | 75 commits in 3 of the last 12 months (github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin); Feathercoin v0.21.0 released 2026-05-30 and v0.19.2 on 2025-03-19: two releases in the last 24 months. |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | Feathercoin v0.21.0, May 2026: rebased from Bitcoin Core 0.19 to 0.21.1 (inheriting the upstream fixes of 0.20-0.21.1) and restored synchronized checkpointing against deep-reorganisation attacks. |
| Shipped a privacy improvement in two years, +1 | ✓ | Feathercoin v0.21.0, May 2026: BIP155 address relay for Tor v3 onion peers and BIP157 compact block filters for light clients. |
| Negative | ||
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-31, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-52919: addr-message spam can overflow the address manager's 32-bit id counter and crash the node, with no addr rate limit; still in Feathercoin v0.21.0. bitcoincore.org github.com |
| 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 Feathercoin v0.21.0. bitcoincore.org github.com |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-10-08, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-35202: a crafted blocktxn message trips the assert in compact-block reconstruction and crashes the node; still in Feathercoin v0.21.0. bitcoincore.org github.com 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 Feathercoin v0.21.0. bitcoincore.org github.com |
| Not yet researched | ||
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years | – | |
| 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
Bitcoin BTCA+
Zcash ZECA+
Dogecoin DOGEA+
FACTOR FACTA
BitcoinII BC2A
Bitgesell BGL
Satoshi Cash Network SCASHAAll Proof of Work chains →Proof of Stake coins
Ethereum ETHA+
BNB BNBA
Solana SOLA+
TRON TRXA
Hyperliquid HYPEB
Cardano ADAA
NEAR Protocol NEARAAll Proof of Stake chains →Supply
236,600,238 of a maximum 336,000,000 FTC are in circulation — 70.4% of the total that will ever exist.
Launch and allocation
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
No cut. GetBlockSubsidy pays the whole 80 FTC (halving) subsidy to miners; there is no dev fund or founder output in the consensus code.
Sources: github.com · feathercoin.com. Researched 2026-10-24, high confidence.
The work behind it
Feathercoin is secured by 116 MH/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 Feathercoin
Feathercoin is #282 among cryptocurrencies and #2729 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 2447 places between Feathercoin'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).