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LUKSO ranks #165 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1150: 985 of the 1149 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 1400 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 60% are tokens, 32% are claims on other assets, 7% are memecoins and 1% are NFT collections.

CoinSpectrum Grade	A · 68/100 · provisional, B to A
Rank among cryptocurrencies	#165
Rank counting claims	#1150
Market capitalisation	$6M
Price	$0.1804
Circulating supply	30,535,907 LYX
Maximum supply	no fixed cap
Consensus family	Proof of Stake
Consensus mechanism	Casper FFG + LMD-GHOST (Ethereum-clone)
Network purpose	Smart-contract platform
Ledger type	Multi-asset ledger
Launch distribution	Presale

Market figures from the 10 November 2026 build. Open the live view for every exchange's price, and charts.

CoinSpectrum Grade (Source)

A — 68 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 61 to 73 (B to A).

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	8.8	the supply scale times 0.9, and a point for a fixed cap that holds
Supply (21 million scores 10)	9.8	no fixed maximum; 30.5 million in circulation
Distribution	6.2	average of 3 parts
Holder concentration (Source)	–	Not yet measured
Active addresses	–	Not yet measured
Premine (allocated at launch)	0.2	98.5% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. The LYX mainnet launched on 23 May 2023 with a 42M genesis supply (chosen by 84.2% of genesis validators). It went to LYXe holders, who migrate 1:1, and to the LUKSO Foundation. Current supply is about 42.6M LYX: execution-layer balances of 50.33M (Blockscout coinsupply) minus 13.04M held in the deposit contract plus 5.33M on the beacon chain (consensus explorer, 2026-10-23). source
Fundraising (share sold) (Source)	8.4	Sold by its issuer or insiders: 16.4% of supply sold. In 2020 LUKSO sold LYXe in an eight-month reversible ICO open to the public, receiving nearly 10,000 ETH, plus a KuCoin IEO. ByteTree puts these at about 6% and 1% of the 100M LYXe supply (about 7M), counted here as sold. Another roughly 8% for 'sales and marketing fees' is not counted. source
Developer share (after launch)	10	No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. Ethereum-style beacon chain: new LYX is issued only as consensus rewards to validators (~0.6M LYX since genesis); there is no treasury share. source
Decentralisation	5.7	average of 3 parts
Governance (Source)	10	No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol-level freeze, blacklist or halt key; consensus is the unmodified Ethereum beacon-chain specification. source
No central team (Source)	0	A central team directs it: The node clients are Ethereum's (Geth, Erigon, Besu, Nethermind; Prysm, Lighthouse, Teku, Nimbus, all open source), but the LUKSO network configs, fork schedule and LSP standards are set by the LUKSO team (LUKSO Blockchain GmbH / lukso-network GitHub org). source
Who can mint (Source)	7	Gated by stake: any holder with enough stake can validate: access bought with coins
Nodes (Source)	–	Not counted: the LUKSO consensus explorer lists 156,235 active validator keys (32 to 2,048 LYX each, epoch 281559, 2026-10-26), but one operator can run any number of keys, as on Ethereum, and no node crawler covers the network.
Security	6.7	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)	4.5	about 7,692 transactions a day
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)	10	Ethereum's clients with LUKSO's network configs: Geth, Erigon, Besu and Nethermind, each its own codebase and team
Open source (Node software)	✓
No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years)	✓
Scalability	6.5	average of 5 parts source
Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0)	10	typical fee $0.0000037
Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 121, the median of the ten busiest, 5)	5.5	about 167 simple transactions a second
Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side)	3.9	a block every 12 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	1.05 MB limit (converted from its gas, compute, mass or count limit), 52.5 MB per 10 minutes
Features (3 checks)	3.3	1 of 3 passed
Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper abstract, §1, §2 and §11)	✗	Ethereum-style Casper FFG + LMD-GHOST: 12-second slots, finality after two epochs (about 13 minutes).
Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7)	✗	Geth history pruning drops only pre-merge blocks on Ethereum mainnet and Sepolia; LUKSO has no pre-merge history, so nodes prune state only and keep every block.
Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8)	✓	Ethereum-style beacon chain with sync committees, which consensus light clients verify without trusting a server.
Privacy	3.5	3.5 of 10: whitepaper privacy 3.5 of 7, extra features 0 of 3, 1 not yet researched source
Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10)	10	Any secp256k1 key can hold and send LYX; the chain's account and transfer rules carry no identity check.
UTXO ledger (Separate outputs, change to a new address · Whitepaper §2, §9)	0	An account ledger: one running balance for each address, so the remainder stays at the sending address and its payments share one public history.
HD addresses (A new address for each payment, unlinked · Whitepaper §10)	–
Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential)	0	Public EVM ledger.
Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden)	0	Accounts are public.
Network privacy (Origin hidden by default)	0	Runs upstream Ethereum clients (Geth, Erigon, Besu, Nethermind) with no Dandelion or built-in Tor.
Programmability	8.9	8 of 9 points source
Token issuance (At protocol level)	2	EVM chain on which any account can deploy LSP7 (and ERC-20) token contracts.
Smart contracts (General-purpose)	2	EVM-based Layer 1 running the same technology as Ethereum, unmodified.
Multisig and time locks (Without a third party)	✓	Universal Profiles with the LSP6 Key Manager, plus multisig and time-lock contracts on its EVM.
Atomic swaps (With other chains)	✓	Solidity HTLCs can be deployed on its EVM.
Native DEX (Trades the coin itself, not a claim)	✓	Traded as itself, not as a wrapped token or a claim: its own chain's DEXes (LUKSO, DefiLlama).
Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself)	✗	No protocol-level cross-chain messaging.
NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules)	✓	LSP8 identifiable digital asset (NFT) and ERC-721 contracts run by its EVM.
Demand	4.8	average of 7 measures
Exchanges (10 or more: 10)	4	4 exchanges
Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10)	2	$124,506 traded in 24 hours; #1548 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $100,579)
Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10)	7.4	1.6% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days
Order-book depth (±2% of the price ÷ market cap, 1%: 10)	7.3	$8,729 within 2% of the price on 3 exchanges, 0.16% of its market cap, median of the last 15 days
Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10)	1.9	$5.5M, 1.9 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	7.7	average of 3 criteria
Age (years since genesis) (Source)	5	5 full years since 2021-10-20, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated).
Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities)	8	3 positive, 0 negative, 1 not yet researched source
Positive
Steady work, 6 of 6	✓	2 commits in 1 of the last 12 months (github.com/lukso-network/tools-lukso-cli); LUKSO runs Ethereum's client software with its own network configs; the LUKSO CLI (lukso-network/tools-lukso-cli) shipped 8 releases in the last 24 months, latest v0.26.0 on 2026-04-04, network-configs updated 2026-08-19, and the Electra fork activated 2025-09-17.
Shipped a security fix in two years, +1	✓	LUKSO runs upstream Geth/Prysm clients; Geth 1.14.13+ (Feb 2025) fixed CVE-2025-24883, carried into the Pectra-ready client releases
Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1	✓	Pectra (Electra) fork at epoch 190,800, ~17 Sep 2025: EIP-7702 account abstraction
Not yet researched
Shipped a scaling upgrade 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 Stake coins

Proof of Work coins

Supply

30,535,907 LYX are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.

Launch and allocation

Premine (allocated at launch)	98.5% of today's supply
Sold by the issuer or insiders	16.4% of today's supply
Developer share received since launch	0% of today's supply
Developer share of new coins today	0%
Fundraising	Public sale

The LYX mainnet launched on 23 May 2023 with a 42M genesis supply (chosen by 84.2% of genesis validators). It went to LYXe holders, who migrate 1:1, and to the LUKSO Foundation. Current supply is about 42.6M LYX: execution-layer balances of 50.33M (Blockscout coinsupply) minus 13.04M held in the deposit contract plus 5.33M on the beacon chain (consensus explorer, 2026-10-23).

In 2020 LUKSO sold LYXe in an eight-month reversible ICO open to the public, receiving nearly 10,000 ETH, plus a KuCoin IEO. ByteTree puts these at about 6% and 1% of the 100M LYXe supply (about 7M), counted here as sold. Another roughly 8% for 'sales and marketing fees' is not counted.

Ethereum-style beacon chain: new LYX is issued only as consensus rewards to validators (~0.6M LYX since genesis); there is no treasury share.

The site has no label yet. Premine is solid: about 0.6M LYX has been minted since genesis. Sold share is approximate because no primary source gives the exact LYXe sold in the rICO. One pre-launch report put the Foundation at 26.8% of the 42M option. CoinGecko's 42.1M total is slightly stale.

Sources: docs.lukso.tech · docs.lukso.network · explorer.execution.mainnet.lukso.network · explorer.consensus.mainnet.lukso.network · bytetree.com. Researched 2026-10-26, high confidence.

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 LUKSO

LUKSO is #165 among cryptocurrencies and #1150 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 985 places between LUKSO'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).