Groestlcoin ranks #146 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #977: 831 of the 976 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 1233 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 59% are tokens, 32% are claims on other assets, 8% are memecoins and 1% are NFT collections.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — no market data |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #146 |
| Rank counting claims | #977 |
| Market capitalisation | $8M |
| Price | $0.0915 |
| Circulating supply | 91,288,914 GRS |
| Maximum supply | 105,000,000 GRS |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | Groestl |
| Own hashrate | 4.76 TH/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.
Grade pending. No market cap or no daily volume is reported for Groestlcoin 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 | 9.4 | the supply scale times 0.9, and a point for a fixed cap that holds |
| Supply (21 million scores 10) | 9.3 | fixed maximum supply of 105 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. Launched 22 March 2014 by Gruve_P on Bitcointalk as an open proof-of-work coin with no premine, ICO or developer reward reported. 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. Groestlcoin launched in March 2014 as open PoW with no premine, and the whole block subsidy goes to the miner. The consensus code has no developer fee or treasury output. source |
| Decentralisation | 10 | average of 3 parts |
| Governance (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol-level party can freeze coins or halt the chain. source |
| No central team (Source) | 10 | No central team: Groestlcoin Core is maintained by a small volunteer developer team, with no controlling 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 | 3.4 of 8 points source |
| Pool diversity (Largest pool 50% 0 to 20% 10, largest three 90% 0 to 50% 10; 2 points) | 0 | largest 95%, largest three 100% |
| Network activity (Transactions a day, 250 0, 500,000 or more 10; 2 points) | 0 | about 71 transactions a day |
| Hashrate (Own work 5, its power 1 kW 0 to 10 GW 5; 1 point) | 7 | own work 5; about 549 kW (estimated from its miner pay), 2 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 Apr 2026 |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Scalability | 7.1 | 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) | 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, 38 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) | ✗ | One-minute probabilistic PoW blocks with no network protection for zero-confirmation payments. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | ✓ | Groestlcoin Core inherits Bitcoin Core's -prune (0.11+). |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✓ | Bitcoin-format 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 | Amounts are public. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | 0 | Addresses are public. |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | 0 | Groestlcoin Core (Bitcoin Core base) uses Tor/I2P only if configured; no Dandelion. |
| 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 | Bitcoin Core-derived Script (with SegWit and Taproot); spending conditions only. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | OP_CHECKMULTISIG plus CSV (height 1,439,424) and CLTV (height 2,464,000) buried deployments. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✓ | HTLCs expressible with CLTV; GRS is swap-enabled in the Komodo coin list. |
| 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 cross-chain feature in the protocol. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✗ | No token or NFT rules in consensus. |
| Demand | 1.1 | 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) | 2.3 | $8.4M, 2.3 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 | 9 | average of 3 criteria |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 10 | 12 full years since 2014-04-11, 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 | ✓ | 181 commits in 12 of the last 12 months (github.com/Groestlcoin/groestlcoin); Groestlcoin Core 31.0, released 2026-04-26 (30.2 Jan 2026, 29.0 May 2025). |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | Groestlcoin Core 29.0 (May 2025), 30.2 (Jan 2026) and 31.0 (Apr 2026) rebase on the matching Bitcoin Core releases and carry their disclosed fixes; the Groestlcoin notes themselves label none |
| 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.
91,288,914 of a maximum 105,000,000 GRS are in circulation — 86.9% of the total that will ever exist.
| 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 |
Launched 22 March 2014 by Gruve_P on Bitcointalk as an open proof-of-work coin with no premine, ICO or developer reward reported.
No sale or venture round.
Groestlcoin launched in March 2014 as open PoW with no premine, and the whole block subsidy goes to the miner. The consensus code has no developer fee or treasury output.
The no-premine claim comes from secondary sources. The project's own about page gives the launch date but doesn't state it, and the 2014 ANN thread wasn't checked.
Sources: github.com · groestlcoin.org · groestlcoin.org · coinbureau.com · miningboard.com. Researched 2026-10-24, high confidence.
Groestlcoin is secured by 4.76 TH/s of its own work. Hashrate does not compare across algorithms — a SHA-256 hash and a Scrypt hash cost different amounts to produce.
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.
Groestlcoin is #146 among cryptocurrencies and #977 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 831 places between Groestlcoin'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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