Mezo (MEZO)
Mezo ranks #264 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #2379: 2115 of the 2378 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 2679 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 61% are tokens, 34% are claims on other assets, 4% are memecoins and 1% are NFT collections.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — launch under review |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #264 |
| Rank counting claims | #2379 |
| Market capitalisation | $364,300 |
| Price | $0.00424 |
| Circulating supply | 85,989,103 MEZO |
| Maximum supply | 1,000,000,000 MEZO |
| Consensus family | Proof of Authority |
| Consensus mechanism | CometBFT (PoA validators) |
| 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. Mezo's launch — how much went to insiders, whether it was sold to investors — is still being researched. 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 | 7.3 | average of 2 criteria |
| By leader (its largest chain's market cap) (Source) | 7.3 | Proof of authority: 7.3 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| By family (all its chains' market cap) (Source) | 7.3 | Proof of authority: 7.3 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Supply | 8.5 | the supply scale times 0.9, and a point for a fixed cap that holds |
| Supply (21 million scores 10) | 8.3 | fixed maximum supply of 1 billion |
| 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 | 1 | average of 2 parts |
| Governance (Source) | 0 | An authority can halt the chain or freeze funds |
| No central team (Source) | – | Not yet researched |
| Who can mint (Source) | 2 | Gated by registration: producers admitted by name, licence or company registration: an allow list, federation, council or proof of authority |
| 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 | 7.2 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 8.6 | typical fee $0.0026 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 121, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 5.2 | about 133 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 2 | a block every 3.58 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 | 0.25 MB limit (converted from its gas, compute, mass or count limit), 41.9 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) | ✓ | Cosmos SDK pruning ('default'/'everything') plus CometBFT min-retain-blocks and state sync let a node keep only recent state and blocks. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✓ | mezod runs CometBFT 0.38.21, whose light client verifies headers from validator signatures. |
| 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 created from user-generated keys in the Cosmos SDK auth and bank modules, with no identity check on holding or sending. |
| 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 | Account-based EVM transfers; amounts are public. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | 0 | Plain account addresses; sender and receiver are public. |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | 0 | CometBFT gossips transactions without origin hiding; no Dandelion or built-in Tor. |
| Programmability | 10 | 8 of 8 points, 1 not yet researched source |
| Token issuance (At protocol level) | 2 | ERC-20 contracts on Mezo's own EVM (Cosmos SDK chain, chain ID 31612); its docs state that anybody can deploy to Mezo Mainnet. |
| Smart contracts (General-purpose) | 2 | EVM in mezod (Cosmos SDK v0.50), chain ID 31612, producing blocks on 2026-10-28; its docs state anybody can deploy to Mezo Mainnet. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | m-of-n multisig and time-lock contracts (Safe-style wallets, timelock controllers) run on its EVM like on Ethereum. |
| 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: its own chain's DEXes (Mezo, DefiLlama). |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | – | IBC is not wired (ibc-go only an indirect dependency); a native x/bridge module carries assets to and from Ethereum on a bridge-validator quorum, but whether that quorum is the chain's own validator set could not be established. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✓ | ERC-721 contracts run on its EVM. |
| Demand | 4.9 | average of 7 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 4 | 4 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 1.4 | $157,716 traded in 24 hours; #1937 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $48,884) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 7.7 | 14% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (±2% of the price ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 10 | $9,282 within 2% of the price on 4 exchanges, 2.5% of its market cap, median of the last 15 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 0 | $364K, 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 | 1 | average of 3 criteria |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 0 | 0 full years since 2026-04-01, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities) | 2 | 2 positive, 0 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | mezod v12.0.0, Aug 2026 (mandatory, block 10,885,900): bounded eth_getProof keys and aligned StateDB account existence with go-ethereum; v10.0.0 (May 2026) enforces the BTC supply invariant on EVM commit. |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1 | ✓ | mezod v11.0.0, May 2026 (block 9,275,000): Osaka EVM with EIP-7702 SetCode transactions; v9.0.0 (Apr 2026) enabled the Triparty BTC bridge. |
| 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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85,989,103 of a maximum 1,000,000,000 MEZO are in circulation — 8.6% of the total that will ever exist.
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 Mezo
Mezo is #264 among cryptocurrencies and #2379 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 2115 places between Mezo'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).