MobileCoin ranks #133 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #818: 685 of the 817 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 1060 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 67% are tokens, 24% are claims on other assets and 9% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | C · 57/100 · provisional, D to B |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #133 |
| Rank counting claims | #818 |
| Market capitalisation | $14M |
| Price | $0.0700 |
| Circulating supply | 198,399,727 MOB |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Federated |
| Consensus mechanism | MobileCoin Consensus Protocol (SCP-based) |
| Network purpose | Private payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Presale |
Market figures from the 28 October 2026 build. Open the live view for every exchange's price, and charts.
C — 57 out of 100, provisional (from 18 of 20 criteria, 28 October 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 49 to 64 (D to B).
| Criterion | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Leading Consensus Mechanisms (Source) | 8.2 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 8.2 | Federated: 8.2 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 8.2 | Federated: 8.2 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 5.4 | group average, 10 of 12 measured |
| Sound Money Properties (6 checks) (Source) | 8.5 | 3.4 of 4 points, 2 not yet measured source |
| Scarcity (Limited supply · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §6) | 4.4 | no fixed maximum; 198 million in circulation: supply scale 8.7, cap 0 |
| Durability (Sustainability · 1 Store of value) | ✓ | 5 full years since its first recorded price, no halt, freeze or reversal in five years |
| Fungibility (Interchangeability · 3 Unit of account) | ✓ | every unit identical and worth any other |
| Portability (Scalability · 2 Medium of exchange) | – | typical fee $0.00003 |
| Divisibility (Flexibility · 3 Unit of account) | ✓ | 12 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $7.0e-14 |
| Verifiability (Authenticity check · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §8) | – | node software open source |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 8.4 | average of 3 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.00003 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | – | not yet measured |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 5.1 | a block every 26 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | – | not yet measured |
| Features (3 checks) | 10 | 1 of 1 passed, 2 not yet researched |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper §11) | ✓ | The SCP-based consensus finalises blocks deterministically in a few seconds (stated under 5 s). |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | – | Not established. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | – | The mobilecoin repo has a light-client verifier crate, but what it verifies for wallets was not confirmed. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 3 | 2 of 6 points, 3 not yet measured source |
| Miner pay (A day, $1,000 0 to $10 million 10; 2 points) | 0 | not mined |
| Own hashrate (Half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined) | ✗ | not mined |
| Largest pool (Pool or validator under 50%) | – | |
| Largest three (Under 75% together) | – | |
| Clients (More than one maintained) | ✗ | 1 |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | MobileCoin Inc. and the MobileCoin Foundation maintain the only node, mobilecoinfoundation/mobilecoin (crates under GPL-3.0 / Apache-2.0). |
| Real use (1,000+ transactions a day) | – | |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Decentralisation | 4.3 | section average, 6 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol-level freeze or clawback of MOB. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: MobileCoin Inc. and the MobileCoin Foundation maintain the only node, mobilecoinfoundation/mobilecoin (crates under GPL-3.0 / Apache-2.0). source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 5.7 | Federated: 5.7 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | — | Not yet counted |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 0 | 100% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. All 250M MOB were created in the genesis block (December 2020). There are no block rewards and no open minting. Fees are burned. source |
| Fundraising | 0 | Sold by its issuer or insiders: 100% of supply was theirs to sell, 15% sold so far. May 2018 SAFT: $29.7M led by Binance Labs for 37.5M MOB (15% of 250M). The March 2021 Series A ($11.35M; General Catalyst, Future Ventures) and the August 2021 Series B ($66M; Alameda, Coinbase Ventures and others) were company rounds, and no token amounts were disclosed. source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. MobileCoin has no block rewards or issuance: all 250M MOB were created at genesis (Dec 2020), and fees are burned. There is nothing to cut. source |
| Privacy | 8 | section average |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 8 | 4 of 5 passed source |
| Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10) | ✓ | Anyone can create keys and receive and send coins; the protocol carries no identity check. |
| UTXO ledger (A new key for each payment · Whitepaper §2, §9) | ✓ | |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | ✗ | Clients submit transactions to consensus enclaves over attested channels; no Dandelion or built-in Tor. |
| Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential) | ✓ | RingCT hides amounts in every transaction. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | ✓ | Ring signatures hide the sender and one-time (stealth) addresses hide the receiver in every transaction. |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 0 | 0 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts | 0 | Private UTXO transactions with no scripting; signed contingent inputs are a fixed feature. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✗ | No multisig spending condition; the tombstone block only expires unconfirmed transactions. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✗ | Signed contingent inputs (mobilecoind atomic swaps since v4.1.0) trade token types on MobileCoin itself; no hash or time lock exists for swaps with another chain. |
| Native exchange (Built into the protocol) | ✗ | Contingent-input quotes are matched off-chain (deqs), not by an order book in the ledger. |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | ✗ | No cross-chain feature in the protocol. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✗ | Additional token IDs are governor-minted fungible tokens; no NFT type. |
| Supply & Demand | 5.6 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 2.6 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 1 | 1 exchange |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 0 | $3,641 traded in 24 hours; #3464 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $712) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 0 | 0.00% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 1.9 | $501 within 2% of the price on 1 exchange, 0.00% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 2.9 | $14M, 2.9 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 |
| Supply (smaller is better) | 8.7 | no fixed maximum; 198 million in circulation |
| Record | 7 | group average |
| Record (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 | ✓ | |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 5 | 5 full years since 2020-12-07, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 6 | 1 positive, 0 negative, 4 not yet researched source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 21 commits in 4 of the last 12 months (github.com/mobilecoinfoundation/mobilecoin); mobilecoinfoundation/mobilecoin v7.2.2, 2026-10-19; several releases in 24 months (v7.0.x to v7.2.2). |
| Not yet researched | ||
| Shipped a security fix in two years | – | |
| Shipped a privacy improvement in two years | – | |
| Shipped a scaling upgrade in two years | – | |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years | – | |
Twenty criteria, weighted equally. The Cryptocurrency Standards have five sections: sound money (six qualities: scarcity, durability, fungibility, portability, divisibility, verifiability), scalability (four measures and three features), security (miner pay and seven checks), decentralisation (censorship resistance, no central team, who can mint, nodes, holders, premine, fundraising and developer share) and privacy (five checks); programmability (token issuance, smart contracts and five checks) follows them. Provisional: criteria 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.
198,399,727 MOB are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 100% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 15% 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 250M MOB were created in the genesis block (December 2020). There are no block rewards and no open minting. Fees are burned.
May 2018 SAFT: $29.7M led by Binance Labs for 37.5M MOB (15% of 250M). The March 2021 Series A ($11.35M; General Catalyst, Future Ventures) and the August 2021 Series B ($66M; Alameda, Coinbase Ventures and others) were company rounds, and no token amounts were disclosed.
MobileCoin has no block rewards or issuance: all 250M MOB were created at genesis (Dec 2020), and fees are burned. There is nothing to cut.
soldPct = 15 is a floor, counting only the 2018 SAFT tokens. Token sales by MobileCoin Inc. or the Foundation afterwards are not disclosed.
Sources: github.com · mobilecoin.foundation · en.wikipedia.org · theblock.co · coindesk.com. Researched 2026-10-24, high confidence.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
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MobileCoin is #133 among cryptocurrencies and #818 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 685 places between MobileCoin'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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