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Luckycoin (LKY)

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Luckycoin ranks #244 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1975: 1731 of the 1974 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 2258 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 61% are tokens, 33% are claims on other assets, 4% are memecoins and 1% are NFT collections.

CoinSpectrum Grade	A · 65/100 · provisional, B to A
Rank among cryptocurrencies	#244
Rank counting claims	#1975
Market capitalisation	$854,728
Price	$0.0445
Circulating supply	19,204,751 LKY
Maximum supply	20,000,000 LKY
Consensus family	Proof of Work
Consensus mechanism	Scrypt (AuxPoW merged mining since block 176000)
Own hashrate	—
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)

A — 65 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 57 to 66 (B to A).

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	10	fixed maximum supply of 20 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 24 May 2013 by the pseudonymous LuckyC as a Litecoin fork with no genesis allocation (block 1 pays the normal 88 LKY at minimum difficulty). When the dormant chain was restarted on 25 Aug 2024 at height 81,744, the first restart blocks (81,744-82,000) paid an unspendable script, so the revival did not mint coins to anyone. 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. GetLuckycoinBlockSubsidy pays the whole subsidy plus fees to the miner; there is no developer or foundation output in Luckycoin Core 5.0. source
Decentralisation	6.7	average of 3 parts
Governance (Source)	10	No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol-level party can freeze, blacklist or claw back LKY. source
No central team (Source)	0	A central team directs it: The reference client is maintained by the Luckycoin Foundation in the LuckycoinFoundation/luckycoin repository (MIT). 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	3.7	3 of 8 points source
Pool diversity (Largest pool 50% 0 to 20% 10, largest three 90% 0 to 50% 10; 2 points)	0.8	largest 46%, largest three 89%
Network activity (Transactions a day, 250 0, 500,000 or more 10; 2 points)	0	about 57 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)	7	one client, latest version Dec 2025
Open source (Node software)	✓
No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years)	✓
Scalability	7.1	average of 5 parts source
Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0)	10	typical fee $0.0001
Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 121, the median of the ten busiest, 5)	4.2	about 74 simple transactions a second
Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side)	6.4	a block every 1 minute
Block space per 10 minutes (24 MB or more 10: the ten busiest networks' median demand, 16.4 MB, and half again for growth)	8.4	1 MB limit, 10 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)	✗	The Dogecoin-derived Luckycoin Core sets DEFAULT_ENABLE_REPLACEMENT = true (opt-in replace-by-fee), and blocks are about a minute apart.
Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7)	✓	Luckycoin Core 5.0.1 (rebased on Dogecoin 1.14.9) keeps -prune.
Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8)	✓	Bitcoin-style SPV: block headers plus Merkle-branch proofs (BIP37 merkleblock) served by full nodes.
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 UTXO amounts; no confidential-transaction or shielded feature.
Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden)	0	Transparent addresses; no ring signatures, ZK proofs or stealth addresses.
Network privacy (Origin hidden by default)	0	Bitcoin-derived node relays its own transactions over clearnet by default; Tor (-proxy/-onion) needs user setup and there is no Dandelion.
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	Dogecoin-codebase Script with spending conditions only.
Multisig and time locks (Without a third party)	✓	OP_CHECKMULTISIG, OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY and OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY in its script interpreter.
Atomic swaps (With other chains)	✓	Script can express HTLCs (hash check plus CLTV refund).
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)	✗	No cross-chain feature in the protocol.
NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules)	✗	No token or NFT type in the protocol.
Demand	3.4	average of 6 measures
Exchanges (10 or more: 10)	1	1 exchange
Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10)	0.5	$19,205 traded in 24 hours; #2399 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $18,147)
Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10)	7.8	2.0% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days
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	$855K, 0 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold
Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0)	10	no futures, options or margin on the exchanges read
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	4	average of 3 criteria
Age (years since genesis) (Source)	2	2 full years since 2024-09-02, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated).
Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities)	0	2 positive, 3 negative source
Positive
Steady work, 2 of 6	✓	1 commit in 1 of the last 12 months (github.com/LuckycoinFoundation/luckycoin); LuckycoinFoundation/luckycoin: Luckycoin Core 5.0.1 (23 Dec 2025) and 5.0.0 (30 Oct 2025) are the only releases in the last 24 months.
Shipped a security fix in two years, +1	✓	Luckycoin Core 5.0.1, Dec 2025: mandatory security update adding a checkpoint at block 720,000.
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 (cheap with IPv6) can exhaust memory; still in Luckycoin v5.0.1. bitcoincore.org github.com 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 Luckycoin v5.0.1. 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 Luckycoin v5.0.1. 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.

Proof of Work coins

Proof of Stake coins

Supply

19,204,751 of a maximum 20,000,000 LKY are in circulation — 96.0% of the total that will ever exist.

Launch and allocation

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 24 May 2013 by the pseudonymous LuckyC as a Litecoin fork with no genesis allocation (block 1 pays the normal 88 LKY at minimum difficulty). When the dormant chain was restarted on 25 Aug 2024 at height 81,744, the first restart blocks (81,744-82,000) paid an unspendable script, so the revival did not mint coins to anyone.

No sale is documented for the 2013 launch or the 2024 revival.

GetLuckycoinBlockSubsidy pays the whole subsidy plus fees to the miner; there is no developer or foundation output in Luckycoin Core 5.0.

The queue's 20M maximum is not a supply cap: MAX_MONEY (20M) only bounds transaction values, and the 2024-25 client changed the original 2013 rule (subsidy halves every 100,000 blocks without limit, ~19.4M asymptote) to a perpetual 1.375 LKY floor. AuxPoW (merged mining with Litecoin) has been mandatory since block 176,000 (Nov 2024).

Sources: github.com · github.com · github.com · luckyscan.org · cryptoslate.com. Researched 2026-10-26, medium confidence.

The work behind it

1.68 PH/s is recorded against Luckycoin, but it is merge-mined in part and the split between its own blocks and a parent's is not published — so its own share reads as unknown.

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 Luckycoin

Luckycoin is #244 among cryptocurrencies and #1975 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 1731 places between Luckycoin'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).