Karura (KAR)
Karura ranks #298 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #3141: 2843 of the 3140 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 3478 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 63% are tokens, 33% are claims on other assets, 3% are memecoins and 1% are NFT collections.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — no market data |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #298 |
| Rank counting claims | #3141 |
| Market capitalisation | $70,518 |
| Price | $0.000604 |
| Circulating supply | 116,666,660 KAR |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | NPoS (Kusama parachain) |
| Network purpose | Financial ledger |
| 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. No market cap or no daily volume is reported for Karura 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 | 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 | 8.4 | the supply scale times 0.9, and a point for a fixed cap that holds |
| Supply (21 million scores 10) | 9.3 | no fixed maximum; 117 million in circulation |
| 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) | 7 | Gated by stake: any holder with enough stake can validate: access bought with coins |
| 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 | 7.8 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.0000048 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 121, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 4.9 | about 116 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 3.9 | a block every 12.4 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 | 3.67 MB limit, 178 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 10 | 2 of 2 passed, 1 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) | ✓ | Substrate --state-pruning and --blocks-pruning with warp sync keep only recent state and blocks. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✓ | Kusama parachain: smoldot verifies relay-chain GRANDPA finality and the parachain head without a trusted server. |
| 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 user-generated sr25519/ECDSA keys checked by the balances pallet, with no identity condition on transfers. |
| 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 balances. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | 0 | Plain public accounts. |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | 0 | Substrate libp2p gossip has no origin hiding; no Dandelion or built-in Tor. |
| Programmability | 10 | 9 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance (At protocol level) | 2 | ERC-20 contracts on Karura's EVM+, live since 2022 (the canary network for Acala EVM+), where any account can take the developer role to deploy and pay a fee to publish. |
| Smart contracts (General-purpose) | 2 | Acala EVM+ (module_evm) on the Karura Kusama parachain, live since 2022; any account can take the developer role to deploy. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | pallet_multisig in the Karura runtime, plus time-lock contracts on EVM+. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✓ | Hash-time-locked contracts are expressible in Solidity on its EVM, as in EVM HTLC swap implementations. |
| Native DEX (Trades the coin itself, not a claim) | ✓ | Traded as itself, not as a wrapped token or a claim: an exchange in its own protocol (module_dex, a protocol AMM, plus the StableAsset pallet in the Karura runtime). |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | ✓ | XCM through pallet_xcm, XcmpQueue and orml_xtokens as a Kusama parachain. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✓ | module_nft (orml_nft) native NFT pallet in the Karura runtime, plus ERC-721 on EVM+. |
| 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 | $71K, 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 | 3 | average of 3 criteria |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 5 | 5 full years since 2021-07-21, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities) | 1 | 1 positive, 0 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | Acala & Karura 2.37.0 (Aug 2026): governance parameter changes to 'prevent spam attack'. |
| 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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116,666,660 KAR are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
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 Karura
Karura is #298 among cryptocurrencies and #3141 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 2843 places between Karura'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).