Osmosis (OSMO)
Osmosis ranks #112 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #750: 638 of the 749 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 763 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 53% are tokens, 37% are claims on other assets, 9% are memecoins and 1% are NFT collections.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | A · 72/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #112 |
| Rank counting claims | #750 |
| Market capitalisation | $22M |
| Price | $0.0318 |
| Circulating supply | 692,817,078 OSMO |
| Maximum supply | 1,000,000,000 OSMO |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | Tendermint (CometBFT) |
| Ledger type | Multi-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Presale |
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CoinSpectrum Grade (Source)
A — 72 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 67 to 73 (A 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 | 7.5 | 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 | 8.8 | average of 3 parts |
| Holder concentration (Source) | – | Not yet measured |
| Active addresses | – | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 8.7 | 12.6% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. 100M OSMO at genesis (June 2021): 50M airdrop to ATOM holders (founder-designed 'fairdrop') and 50M strategic reserve (Osmosis Foundation), against current total supply 793,315,669 OSMO (Osmosis bank module, 2026-10-23). source |
| Fundraising (share sold) (Source) | 9.9 | Sold by its issuer or insiders: 0.9% of supply sold. The Osmosis Foundation sold $21M of OSMO from its treasury in Oct 2021 (Paradigm-led); units undisclosed, estimated 4.2M-10.5M OSMO at $2-5. 4.2M-10.5M / 793,315,669 OSMO (bank module, 2026-10-23) = 0.5-1.3%, midpoint 0.9%. The 50M genesis fairdrop was not a sale. $21M private/strategic sale of OSMO from the Osmosis Foundation treasury (Oct 2021) led by Paradigm, with Robot Ventures, Nascent, Ethereal, Figment and Do Kwon. source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 7.8 | Developer share: about 21.9% of today's supply received so far; 92% of each new block reward goes to them today. Osmosis mint params (2026-10-24) split each daily emission into staking 8%, pool incentives 0%, developer rewards 25% (paid from the pre-minted 225M developer-vesting module to multisig osmo1f3w7…) and community pool 67%, so 92% goes to non-validators. Developer rewards released since June 2021 = 225M − 51.58M left = 173.4M OSMO = 21.9% of 793.4M supply. Community-pool inflows come on top (the pool holds 119.1M OSMO now) but their cumulative total was not reconstructed, so 21.9 is a lower bound. source |
| Decentralisation | 2.5 | average of 4 parts |
| Governance (Source) | 0 | An authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: Validators and core developers deliberately halted the chain at block 4,713,064 in Jun 2022 after an LP-share bug, restarting only with a patched release. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: Osmosis Labs maintains the only node, osmosis-labs/osmosis (Apache-2.0); upgrades pass on-chain governance. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 5 | Gated by stake rank: only a capped set of the largest stakes produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | 4.9 | 30 reachable nodes source |
| Security | 7.7 | 6.1 of 8 points source |
| Pool diversity (Largest pool 50% 0 to 20% 10, largest three 90% 0 to 50% 10; 2 points) | 10 | largest 12.56%, largest three 28.22% |
| Network activity (Transactions a day, 250 0, 500,000 or more 10; 2 points) | 6.7 | about 40,300 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 | 8.5 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 9.7 | typical fee $0.0012 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 121, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 10 | about 2,895 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 2.8 | a block every 6 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 | 3 MB limit, 300 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 10 | 3 of 3 passed |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper abstract, §1, §2 and §11) | ✓ | CometBFT gives deterministic finality with ~1.5 s blocks. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | ✓ | Cosmos SDK state pruning and state sync; Osmosis publishes pruned osmosis-1 snapshots for nodes that do not keep full history. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✓ | CometBFT light client protocol verifies signed headers against the validator set (>2/3 trust, skipping/bisection), as used by IBC. |
| 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 key can hold and send OSMO; the Cosmos SDK bank and auth modules 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 | All transfers are public. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | 0 | Accounts are public; no ring signatures or stealth addresses. |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | 0 | CometBFT mempool gossip with no Dandelion-style relay or built-in Tor. |
| Programmability | 10 | 9 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance (At protocol level) | 2 | The Token Factory module lets any account create a native denom for a fee; CosmWasm CW-20 contracts also run on the chain. |
| Smart contracts (General-purpose) | 2 | CosmWasm contracts on mainnet (cosmwasmpool and third-party applications), with code uploads approved by governance. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | Cosmos SDK threshold multisig accounts, plus CosmWasm contracts and the smart-account module for time-based conditions. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✓ | Hash- and time-locked contracts can be written in CosmWasm. |
| Native DEX (Trades the coin itself, not a claim) | ✓ | Traded as itself, not as a wrapped token or a claim: an exchange in its own protocol (The gamm, concentrated-liquidity and poolmanager modules make the AMM part of the chain itself); its own chain's DEXes (Osmosis, DefiLlama). |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | ✓ | IBC light clients, with ibc-hooks and rate limits in the chain's modules. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✓ | CW-721 contracts run by the chain's CosmWasm module. |
| Demand | 6.8 | average of 7 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 10 | 11 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 4.9 | $1,295,358 traded in 24 hours; #320 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $2,819,713) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 8.6 | 9.2% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (±2% of the price ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 8.4 | $73,851 within 2% of the price on 6 exchanges, 0.34% of its market cap, median of the last 15 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 3.4 | $22M, 3.4 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) | 2 | 2 wallets in the site's wallet directory |
| Record | 7.3 | average of 3 criteria |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 5 | 5 full years since 2021-10-05, 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 source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 199 commits in 9 of the last 12 months (github.com/osmosis-labs/osmosis); osmosis-labs/osmosis v31.0.3, 2026-05-14 (v32.0.0 tagged 2026-10-22); 16 stable releases in 24 months. |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | Osmosis v30.0.0, Jul/Aug 2025: 'security patches and dependencies upgrade'; v31.0.1, Jan 2026: CometBFT bumped to v0.38.21 (includes the GHSA-hrhf-2vcr-ghch fix). |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1 | ✓ | Osmosis v30.0.0, Aug 2025: permissionless creation of supercharged (concentrated-liquidity) pools. |
| Conduct (origin, claims, halts) | 9 | 2 positive, 1 negative source |
| Positive record | ||
| Launched with a stated purpose, not as a joke | ✓ | |
| No claims by its founders that contradict its own design | ✓ | |
| Negative record | ||
| Halt, freeze or reversal, 2022-06-08 | ✗ | Validators and core developers halted the chain at block 4,713,064 after a v9 LP-share bug let ~$5M be drained; restarted only after a patched release. theblock.co github.com |
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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692,817,078 of a maximum 1,000,000,000 OSMO are in circulation — 69.3% of the total that will ever exist.
Launch and allocation
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 12.6% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 0.9% of today's supply |
| Developer share received since launch | 21.9% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 92% |
| Nodes or validators | 30 |
| Fundraising | Private or venture funding |
100M OSMO at genesis (June 2021): 50M airdrop to ATOM holders (founder-designed 'fairdrop') and 50M strategic reserve (Osmosis Foundation), against current total supply 793,315,669 OSMO (Osmosis bank module, 2026-10-23).
$21M private/strategic sale of OSMO from the Osmosis Foundation treasury (Oct 2021) led by Paradigm, with Robot Ventures, Nascent, Ethereal, Figment and Do Kwon.
The Osmosis Foundation sold $21M of OSMO from its treasury in Oct 2021 (Paradigm-led); units undisclosed, estimated 4.2M-10.5M OSMO at $2-5. 4.2M-10.5M / 793,315,669 OSMO (bank module, 2026-10-23) = 0.5-1.3%, midpoint 0.9%. The 50M genesis fairdrop was not a sale.
Osmosis mint params (2026-10-24) split each daily emission into staking 8%, pool incentives 0%, developer rewards 25% (paid from the pre-minted 225M developer-vesting module to multisig osmo1f3w7…) and community pool 67%, so 92% goes to non-validators. Developer rewards released since June 2021 = 225M − 51.58M left = 173.4M OSMO = 21.9% of 793.4M supply. Community-pool inflows come on top (the pool holds 119.1M OSMO now) but their cumulative total was not reconstructed, so 21.9 is a lower bound.
Sources: blockworks.co · cryptobriefing.com · invezz.com · lcd.osmosis.zone · github.com · stakin.com. Researched 2026-10-24, low confidence.
What a regulator has said
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
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How CoinSpectrum ranks Osmosis
Osmosis is #112 among cryptocurrencies and #750 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 638 places between Osmosis'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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