Ixcoin (IXC)
Ixcoin ranks #364 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #5410: 5046 of the 5409 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.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — no market data |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #364 |
| Rank counting claims | #5410 |
| Price | $0.00522 |
| Circulating supply | 0 IXC |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | SHA-256 (merge-mined) |
| Own hashrate | — |
| Network purpose | Payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | 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 Ixcoin 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 | — | Supply not reported |
| Distribution | 9.9 | average of 3 parts |
| Holder concentration (Source) | – | Not yet measured |
| Active addresses | – | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 9.7 | 2.7% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. The Ixcoin Core 0.14 chainparams state that the block rewards of the initial 6,050 blocks (6,050 x 96 = 580,800 IXC) 'are the premine'; 580,800 / 21.54M current supply = 2.70%. 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. The whole coinbase goes to the miner. The original 96 IXC subsidy ended at height 227,499; since height 450,000 miners may also claim up to 1 IXC per block from a 'mining fund' created by the 0.14 hard fork (initially 580,800 IXC, equal to the premine) plus any burned coins. source |
| Decentralisation | 10 | average of 3 parts |
| Governance (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol party can freeze, blacklist or claw back coins or halt the chain. source |
| No central team (Source) | 10 | No central team: Ixcoin Core (a Namecoin-derived merge-mining client) was maintained by volunteers in the IXCore GitHub organisation; no company or foundation and no activity since 2018; MIT licence. 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 | 2.4 of 6 points, 2 not yet measured source |
| 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) | 0 | about 1 transactions a day |
| Hashrate (Own work 5, its power 1 kW 0 to 10 GW 5; 1 point) | 1 | merge-mined: its blocks are found by another chain's miners, 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) | 3 | one client, no new version in 48 months (latest Jan 2018) |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Scalability | 6.8 | 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) | 0.4 | about 7.4 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 9.6 | a block every 7.7 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) | 7.2 | 4 MB limit, 5.23 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) | ✗ | Ten-minute proof-of-work blocks merge-mined with Bitcoin; no instant locks or double-spend proofs. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | ✓ | Ixcoin 0.14.1 (Jan 2018, Bitcoin Core 0.13-era code): -prune keeps the UTXO set and recent blocks. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✓ | Ixcoin 0.14.1 (Jan 2018, Bitcoin Core 0.13-era code) serves BIP37 Merkle proofs to SPV clients, which check the merge-mined SHA-256 proof of work in headers. |
| 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 | Ixcoin's Bitcoin-derived node (ixcore/ixcoin) has no identity rule: anyone generates keys and receives and sends the coin. |
| 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 Bitcoin-style amounts; no confidential transactions. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | 0 | Transparent addresses and inputs; no ring signatures or stealth addresses. |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | 0 | Ixcoin 0.14.1 (Jan 2018, Bitcoin Core 0.13-era code): no Dandelion; Tor is only used if the operator runs and configures it. |
| 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 | Ixcoin runs Bitcoin-style Script limited to spending conditions (signatures, hash locks, multisig); no contract VM or token introspection. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | OP_CHECKMULTISIG plus CLTV, enforced from BIP65Height 450,000 (the chain is past block 1,064,000); the CSV deployment is undefined. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✓ | HTLCs built from Script hash locks (OP_SHA256/OP_HASH160) with a CLTV refund branch are standard Script, so cross-chain hash-locked swaps work on Ixcoin. |
| 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) | ✗ | Ixcoin nodes verify no other chain; no protocol-level cross-chain messaging. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✗ | No token or NFT type in the Ixcoin consensus rules. |
| Demand | 0.5 | average of 2 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) | – | not measured |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | – | not measured |
| 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 2013-05-08, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities) | 0 | 0 positive, 6 negative source |
| Negative | ||
| Steady work, 0 of 6 | ✗ | 0 commits in 0 of the last 12 months (github.com/IXCore/IXCoin); Last release 'Version 0.14.1 Update' on 2018-01-30 (IXCore/IXCoin); last commit 2018-09-10. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-03, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-52914: crafted orphan transactions can stall the node for hours in the uninterruptible orphan-resolution loop; still in Ixcoin v0.14.1. bitcoincore.org github.com |
| 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 Ixcoin v0.14.1. bitcoincore.org github.com github.com |
| 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 Ixcoin v0.14.1. 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 Ixcoin v0.14.1. 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 Ixcoin v0.14.1. 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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0 IXC are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
Launch and allocation
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 2.7% 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 |
The Ixcoin Core 0.14 chainparams state that the block rewards of the initial 6,050 blocks (6,050 x 96 = 580,800 IXC) 'are the premine'; 580,800 / 21.54M current supply = 2.70%.
No ICO or presale; the 2011 launch included a creator premine of 580,800 IXC.
What happened to the 2011 premine is not documented.
The whole coinbase goes to the miner. The original 96 IXC subsidy ended at height 227,499; since height 450,000 miners may also claim up to 1 IXC per block from a 'mining fund' created by the 0.14 hard fork (initially 580,800 IXC, equal to the premine) plus any burned coins.
clients is 0 because the only client has had no release since 2018. The 2017-18 hard fork re-created an amount equal to the premine as a mining fund paid out to miners, so supply now exceeds the advertised 21M cap. The input circulating supply of 0 is wrong: chainz reports 21.54M at height 1,063,773.
Sources: github.com · github.com · github.com · chainz.cryptoid.info. Researched 2026-10-26, medium confidence.
The work behind it
No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for Ixcoin.
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 Ixcoin
Ixcoin is #364 among cryptocurrencies and #5410 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 5046 places between Ixcoin'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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