NEO (NEO)
NEO ranks #58 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #219: 161 of the 218 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 220 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 51% are claims on other assets, 42% are tokens, 6% are memecoins and under 1% are NFT collections.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | A · 67/100 · provisional, B to A |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #58 |
| Rank counting claims | #219 |
| Market capitalisation | $126M |
| Price | $1.79 |
| Circulating supply | 70,530,000 NEO |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | dBFT (delegated BFT) |
| Network purpose | Smart-contract platform |
| Ledger type | Multi-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Presale |
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CoinSpectrum Grade (Source)
A — 67 out of 100, provisional (from 9 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 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 | 8.6 | the supply scale times 0.9, and a point for a fixed cap that holds |
| Supply (21 million scores 10) | 9.5 | no fixed maximum; 70.5 million in circulation |
| Distribution | 5.2 | average of 3 parts |
| Holder concentration (Source) | – | Not yet measured |
| Active addresses | – | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 0 | 100% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. NEO has a fixed, indivisible 100M supply created at genesis (as AntShares): 50M sold to early investors and 50M held by the NEO Council/Foundation; nothing is mined (CoinGecko total 100M, circulating 70.53M). source |
| Fundraising (share sold) (Source) | 5.5 | Sold by its issuer or insiders: 45% of supply sold. Range 40-50%, midpoint given. The AntShares crowdsales of Oct 2015 (17.5M, 2,100 BTC) and Aug-Sep 2016 (22.5M, 6,119.53 BTC) sold 40M of the 100M fixed supply. NEO's later statements say 50M went to crowdfunding supporters, but the 2016 plan put 10M of that to early contributors including the team. 40-50M / 100M. Two AntShares crowdsales: Oct 2015 (2,100 BTC) and Aug-Sep 2016 (6,119 BTC). Sources disagree on whether 40M or 50M NEO were sold. source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. NEO itself has no issuance: its 100M supply was fixed at genesis. Block issuance on Neo N3 is in GAS (split among NEO holders, committee members and voters), not NEO, so NEO has no reward cut. source |
| Decentralisation | 1.7 | average of 4 parts |
| Governance (Source) | 0 | An authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: The N3 Policy native contract lets the committee block an account (blockAccount), stopping it from transacting. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: The Neo Foundation and Neo founders direct the protocol and the C# reference node; NeoSPCC maintains the independent neo-go node. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 4 | Gated by election: a delegated set voted in by holders produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | 2.8 | 7 reachable nodes (source: Neo) |
| Security | 7.2 | 5.8 of 8 points source |
| Pool diversity (Largest pool 50% 0 to 20% 10, largest three 90% 0 to 50% 10; 2 points) | 10 | largest 14.3%, largest three 42.9% |
| Network activity (Transactions a day, 250 0, 500,000 or more 10; 2 points) | 3.4 | about 3,237 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 | neo (C#, Neo core developers, v3.10.2, Oct 2026) and neo-go (Go, separate code by NeoSPCC, v0.123.0, Sep 2026) |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Scalability | — | too few measures yet source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | – | not yet measured |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 121, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | – | not yet measured |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 4.2 | a block every 15 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) | – | not yet measured |
| Features (3 checks) | 5 | 1 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper abstract, §1, §2 and §11) | ✓ | dBFT gives single-block finality, and N3 blocks now arrive about every 3 s. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | – | No documented pruning mode found. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✗ | Neo N3 publishes validator-signed state roots, but no light client that checks them ships for users; wallets trust RPC nodes. |
| 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 | Anyone can create keys and receive and send coins; the protocol carries 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 | No confidential transactions. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | 0 | No sender or receiver hiding. |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | 0 | neo-cli relays transactions directly. |
| Programmability | 8.9 | 8 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance (At protocol level) | 2 | NEP-17 token contracts on NeoVM, open to any account for a deployment fee. |
| Smart contracts (General-purpose) | 2 | NeoVM contracts on Neo N3, open to any account for a deployment fee. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | Native m-of-n multi-signature contracts (CreateMultiSigContract, CheckMultisig) plus time-locked contracts on NeoVM. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✓ | NeoVM contracts can hold funds against a hash preimage with a time-based refund (HTLC). |
| 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 (NEO, DefiLlama). |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | ✗ | No light-client or consensus-verified messaging in N3; Neo X is a separate EVM chain reached by a bridge. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✓ | NEP-11 NFT contracts on NeoVM. |
| Demand | 6.1 | average of 7 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 10 | 34 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 4.2 | $1,143,194 traded in 24 hours; #549 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $1,294,995) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 6.1 | 0.93% 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 | $358,105 within 2% of the price on 7 exchanges, 0.28% of its market cap, median of the last 15 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 5.3 | $126M, 5.3 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | 7.6 | futures, options and margin positions 5.7% of its market cap |
| Wallet support (wallets that hold it, 10 or more: 10) | 1 | 1 wallet in the site's wallet directory |
| Record | 9.7 | average of 3 criteria |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 10 | 10 full years since 2016-09-09, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities) | 9 | 4 positive, 0 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 340 commits in 12 of the last 12 months (github.com/neo-project/neo); neo v3.10.2, 23 Oct 2026; 8 releases in the last 24 months (Neo Legacy chain retired 31 Oct 2025; N3 continues). |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | Neo v3.10.2, 23 Oct 2026: fixed a transaction witness-verification bypass in IsMultiSigContract. |
| Shipped a scaling upgrade in two years, +1 | ✓ | Neo v3.9 Faun hard fork, Feb 2026: lower fees. |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1 | ✓ | Neo v3.8 Echidna hard fork, May 2025 (height 7,300,000): Notary contract and secp256k1 public key recovery. |
| 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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70,530,000 NEO are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
Launch and allocation
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 100% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 45% of today's supply |
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
| Nodes or validators | 7 |
| Fundraising | Public sale |
NEO has a fixed, indivisible 100M supply created at genesis (as AntShares): 50M sold to early investors and 50M held by the NEO Council/Foundation; nothing is mined (CoinGecko total 100M, circulating 70.53M).
Two AntShares crowdsales: Oct 2015 (2,100 BTC) and Aug-Sep 2016 (6,119 BTC). Sources disagree on whether 40M or 50M NEO were sold.
Range 40-50%, midpoint given. The AntShares crowdsales of Oct 2015 (17.5M, 2,100 BTC) and Aug-Sep 2016 (22.5M, 6,119.53 BTC) sold 40M of the 100M fixed supply. NEO's later statements say 50M went to crowdfunding supporters, but the 2016 plan put 10M of that to early contributors including the team. 40-50M / 100M.
NEO itself has no issuance: its 100M supply was fixed at genesis. Block issuance on Neo N3 is in GAS (split among NEO holders, committee members and voters), not NEO, so NEO has no reward cut.
Sources: steemit.com · neonewstoday.com · github.com · docs.neo.org · en.wikipedia.org · coinpost.jp. Researched 2026-10-24, medium 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 NEO
NEO is #58 among cryptocurrencies and #219 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 161 places between NEO'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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