MAP Protocol (MAPO)
MAP Protocol ranks #159 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1109: 950 of the 1108 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 1363 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 · 67/100 · provisional, B to A |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #159 |
| Rank counting claims | #1109 |
| Market capitalisation | $6M |
| Price | $0.000971 |
| Circulating supply | 6,261,677,263 MAPO |
| Maximum supply | 10,000,000,000 MAPO |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | HotStuff PoS (light-client bridge chain) |
| Ledger type | Multi-asset ledger |
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CoinSpectrum Grade (Source)
A — 67 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 59 to 71 (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 | 6.6 | the supply scale times 0.9, and a point for a fixed cap that holds |
| Supply (21 million scores 10) | 7.3 | fixed maximum supply of 10 billion |
| Distribution | 6.7 | average of 2 parts |
| Holder concentration (Source) | – | Not yet measured |
| Active addresses | – | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 3.3 | 67% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. All 10B MAPO were issued at launch with no traditional ICO. One aggregator (BitDegree) gives 32% to institutions/partners, 20% to the core team and 15% to the MAP Foundation, for 67% insider; the rest is community, mining and DAO. A January 2022 release said 'nearly 50%' would go to mining and the DAO. source |
| Fundraising (share sold) (Source) | – | Sold by its issuer or insiders: share sold not yet researched. Cannot be established. No primary tokenomics breaks out sold allocations; aggregators show a public-sale/funding split and an undisclosed strategic round (Nov 2024) without unit counts, and the 32% 'institutions/partners' bucket (BitDegree) does not separate sales from grants. Total supply is ~9.70B MAPO (MEXC/CryptoRank). Investors listed by PitchBook: Alpha Token Capital, DWF Labs, LK Ventures, Waterdrip Capital. Amounts not disclosed. CryptoRank lists a strategic round on 2024-11-08. source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. All 10B MAPO were issued at launch, and relay-chain validator rewards are paid from pre-allocated pools rather than new issuance, so there is no issuance to cut. This rests on aggregator descriptions, not on a primary source. source |
| Decentralisation | 5.7 | average of 3 parts |
| Governance (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No documented key can freeze or claw back native MAPO. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: The atlas client (mapprotocol/atlas, a Geth-derived codebase) is developed by the MAP Protocol team, which sets the roadmap. source |
| 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 | 7 | 5.6 of 8 points source |
| Pool diversity (Largest pool 50% 0 to 20% 10, largest three 90% 0 to 50% 10; 2 points) | 10 | largest 7.6%, largest three 22.9% |
| Network activity (Transactions a day, 250 0, 500,000 or more 10; 2 points) | 3.9 | about 4,900 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) | 7 | one client, latest version Oct 2026 |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Scalability | 5.8 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.000003 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 121, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 5.9 | about 202 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 3.1 | a block every 7.1 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 | 1.88 MB limit (converted from its gas, compute, mass or count limit), 158 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 0 | 0 of 1 passed, 2 not yet researched |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper abstract, §1, §2 and §11) | ✗ | Atlas BFT blocks are final when produced, but they come about every 6.5 seconds, over the 5-second bar. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | – | Not established. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | – | Atlas hosts light clients of other chains (precompiled Ethereum light client); a light client of MAP's own chain for wallets was not established. |
| 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 MAPO; 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 | Atlas nodes use standard devp2p gossip. |
| Programmability | 10 | 8 of 8 points, 1 not yet researched source |
| Token issuance (At protocol level) | 2 | EVM-compatible relay chain on which any account can deploy ERC-20 contracts (a contract-creation estimate from an arbitrary address succeeds on the public RPC). |
| Smart contracts (General-purpose) | 2 | EVM-compatible relay chain on which any account can deploy contracts. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | 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 (MAP Protocol, DefiLlama). |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | – | Not established: MAP describes peer-to-peer cross-chain messaging built on light clients, but no fetched source shows whether the clients are protocol components or user contracts relayed by messengers. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✓ | ERC-721 contracts run by its EVM. |
| Demand | 5.5 | average of 7 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 5 | 5 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 3.5 | $566,920 traded in 24 hours; #844 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $583,490) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 9 | 7.7% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (±2% of the price ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 8.2 | $17,035 within 2% of the price on 3 exchanges, 0.28% of its market cap, median of the last 15 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 2 | $6.1M, 2 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 | 6.7 | average of 3 criteria |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 6 | 6 full years since 2020-01-06, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities) | 4 | 2 positive, 3 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 29 commits in 6 of the last 12 months (github.com/mapprotocol/atlas); atlas v1.4.0 released 2026-10-16 (v1.3.1 2026-01-20, v1.3.0 2025-04-08). |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1 | ✓ | MAI hard fork at block 17,295,000 (~Apr 2025): PUSH0, MCOPY, warm COINBASE and EIP-6780 |
| Negative | ||
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2023-09-06, −1 | ✗ | go-ethereum GHSA-ppjg-v974-84cm (CVE-2023-40591, High) lets a flood of p2p pings spawn unbounded goroutines until the node runs out of memory; atlas v1.4.0 (the RPC reports atlas v1.4.0, with crypto/ecies taken from mapprotocol/go-ethereum v1.10.10-patch2) still answers pings in a new goroutine (fixed in 1.12.1). github.com github.com |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2026-01-13, −1 | ✗ | go-ethereum GHSA-mr7q-c9w9-wh4h (CVE-2026-22862, High): a too-short ECIES ciphertext crashes the decrypting node; in atlas v1.4.0 (crypto/ecies from mapprotocol/go-ethereum v1.10.10-patch2) the RLPx handshake rejects short messages, but a validator in the connection set can still crash elected validators through the encrypted enode URL of a queryEnode message. github.com github.com github.com |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2026-02-17, −1 | ✗ | go-ethereum GHSA-2gjw-fg97-vg3r (CVE-2026-26314, High) lets a crafted p2p message crash the node through unchecked secp256k1 point coordinates; atlas v1.4.0 (the RPC reports atlas v1.4.0, with crypto/ecies taken from mapprotocol/go-ethereum v1.10.10-patch2) lacks the 1.16.9 coordinate check. github.com github.com 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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6,261,677,263 of a maximum 10,000,000,000 MAPO are in circulation — 62.6% of the total that will ever exist.
Launch and allocation
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 67% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
| Fundraising | Private or venture funding |
All 10B MAPO were issued at launch with no traditional ICO. One aggregator (BitDegree) gives 32% to institutions/partners, 20% to the core team and 15% to the MAP Foundation, for 67% insider; the rest is community, mining and DAO. A January 2022 release said 'nearly 50%' would go to mining and the DAO.
Investors listed by PitchBook: Alpha Token Capital, DWF Labs, LK Ventures, Waterdrip Capital. Amounts not disclosed. CryptoRank lists a strategic round on 2024-11-08.
Cannot be established. No primary tokenomics breaks out sold allocations; aggregators show a public-sale/funding split and an undisclosed strategic round (Nov 2024) without unit counts, and the 32% 'institutions/partners' bucket (BitDegree) does not separate sales from grants. Total supply is ~9.70B MAPO (MEXC/CryptoRank).
All 10B MAPO were issued at launch, and relay-chain validator rewards are paid from pre-allocated pools rather than new issuance, so there is no issuance to cut. This rests on aggregator descriptions, not on a primary source.
There is no official allocation table. The 67% comes from a secondary aggregator and conflicts in spirit with the 2022 'nearly 50% to mining and DAO' plan. If the community/mining share were treated as insider too, preminePct would be 100. soldPct is not established.
Sources: cryptorank.io · mexc.com · mapprotocol.io · docs.mapprotocol.io · bitdegree.org · iq.wiki. Researched 2026-10-24, low 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 MAP Protocol
MAP Protocol is #159 among cryptocurrencies and #1109 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 950 places between MAP Protocol'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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