PRivaCY Coin (PRCY)
PRivaCY Coin ranks #304 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #3517: 3213 of the 3516 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 3861 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 64% are tokens, 32% are claims on other assets, 3% are memecoins and 1% are NFT collections.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — launch under review |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #304 |
| Rank counting claims | #3517 |
| Market capitalisation | $24,481 |
| Price | $0.00169 |
| Circulating supply | 14,468,056 PRCY |
| Maximum supply | 70,000,000 PRCY |
| Consensus family | Hybrid |
| Consensus mechanism | PoSv3 + Proof-of-Audit (hash-mined audit blocks) + masternodes |
| Own hashrate | — |
| Network purpose | Private payments |
| 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. What PRivaCY Coin pays its miners is not yet measured. 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 | 4.5 | average of 2 criteria |
| By leader (its largest chain's market cap) (Source) | 4.5 | Hybrid: 4.5 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| By family (all its chains' market cap) (Source) | 4.5 | Hybrid: 4.5 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Supply | 9.6 | the supply scale times 0.9, and a point for a fixed cap that holds |
| Supply (21 million scores 10) | 9.5 | fixed maximum supply of 70 million |
| Distribution | 5.2 | average of 2 parts |
| Holder concentration (Source) | – | Not yet measured |
| Active addresses | – | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 0.4 | 95.55% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. The first 500 proof-of-work blocks paid 120,000 PRCY each (GetBlockValue: nHeight < LAST_POW_BLOCK), a 60,000,000 PRCY developer premine that the README lists as 'Premine 60,000,000 PRCY'; 60M / 62,789,705 supply (explorer, 2026-10-26) = 95.55%. source |
| Fundraising (share sold) (Source) | – | Launch not yet researched |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. Each block's 1 PRCY is split between the staker and a masternode, and Proof-of-Audit miners receive 0.5 PRCY per audited block; no developer or treasury share in the reward code. source |
| Decentralisation | 6 | average of 3 parts |
| Governance (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol-level freeze, blacklist or claw-back mechanism was found. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: The PRivaCY Coin team (18 members) maintains the only client (MIT licence) in the PRCYCoin GitHub organisation and holds the premine. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 8 | Open, with a stake vote: anyone can mine, and stakeholders vote on the blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | – | Not yet counted |
| Security | 5.4 | 2.7 of 5 points, 3 not yet measured source |
| 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) | 0 | about 251 transactions a day |
| Hashrate (Own work 5, its power 1 kW 0 to 10 GW 5; 1 point) | – | |
| 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 | — | 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) | 6.4 | a block every 1 minutes |
| Block space per 10 minutes (24 MB or more 10: the ten busiest networks' median demand, 16.4 MB, and half again for growth) | 9.7 | 2 MB limit, 19.9 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 3.3 | 1 of 3 passed |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper abstract, §1, §2 and §11) | ✓ | The PIVX/DAPS-derived node has transaction replacement disabled, so it relays the first-seen spend; one-minute PoS blocks alone would not qualify. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | ✗ | The PIVX-derived node has no -prune option (none in its init.cpp). |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✗ | Proof-of-stake (with PoA audit blocks) private UTXO chain: no light-client protocol; light wallets cannot check staker-signed headers or hidden outputs alone. |
| Privacy | 9.6 | 9.6 of 10: whitepaper privacy 7 of 7, extra features 2.6 of 3 source |
| Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10) | 10 | Addresses are hashes of keys users generate themselves; the node checks scripts and signatures, with no identity condition in its consensus rules. |
| UTXO ledger (Separate outputs, change to a new address · Whitepaper §2, §9) | 10 | Coins are separate unspent outputs: a payment spends whole outputs and sends the change to a new address, so the coins in one wallet need not share a history. |
| HD addresses (A new address for each payment, unlinked · Whitepaper §10) | 10 | One-time (stealth) addresses: every payment goes to a new address derived from the receiver's public address, unlinkable on chain |
| Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential) | 10 | RingCT with Bulletproofs (DAPS-derived PRCY 2.0.0.x) hides transaction amounts. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | 10 | RingCT ring signatures hide the sender and stealth addresses hide the receiver (PRCY 2.0.0.x). |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | 0 | No Dandelion; Tor is an optional -onion/-proxy setting in the PIVX-derived node. |
| Programmability | 4.4 | 4 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts (Scripting for spending conditions) | 1 | PIVX/DAPS-derived Script limited to spending conditions, with RingCT-style hidden amounts. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | CHECKMULTISIG plus CLTV, enforced from nBIP65ActivationHeight 125,000 in PRCY mainnet parameters. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✓ | HTLCs expressible with OP_SHA256/OP_HASH160 and OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY. |
| Native DEX (Trades the coin itself, not a claim) | ✓ | Traded as itself, not as a wrapped token or a claim: Komodo DeFi. |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | ✗ | No protocol-level cross-chain messaging. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✗ | No token or NFT type in the consensus rules. |
| Demand | 3.4 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 1 | 1 exchange |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 0 | $1,728 traded in 24 hours; #3186 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 15, $1,662) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 8.5 | 9.4% of its market cap a day, median of the last 16 days |
| Order-book depth (±2% of the price ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | – | no order book on the nine exchanges read |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 0 | $24K, 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 | 5 | average of 3 criteria |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 5 | 5 full years since 2021-03-04, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities) | 0 | 1 positive, 2 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 2 of 6 | ✓ | 270 commits in 4 of the last 12 months (github.com/PRCYCoin/PRCYCoin); 2.0.0.9 (tagged 2026-08-02, released 2026-10-08) is the only release in the last 24 months; the previous was 2.0.0.6 (2023-03-12). |
| Negative | ||
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-03, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2020-14198: misbehaving peers are auto-banned into an unbounded ban list, so many attacker addresses can grow its memory without limit (the quadratic GETADDR scan is absent); still in PRivaCY Coin 2.0.0.6. bitcoincore.org raw.githubusercontent.com |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-31, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-52919: addr-message spam can overflow the address manager's 32-bit id counter and crash the node, with no addr rate limit; still in PRivaCY Coin 2.0.0.6. bitcoincore.org raw.githubusercontent.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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14,468,056 of a maximum 70,000,000 PRCY are in circulation — 20.7% of the total that will ever exist.
Launch and allocation
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 95.55% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
The first 500 proof-of-work blocks paid 120,000 PRCY each (GetBlockValue: nHeight < LAST_POW_BLOCK), a 60,000,000 PRCY developer premine that the README lists as 'Premine 60,000,000 PRCY'; 60M / 62,789,705 supply (explorer, 2026-10-26) = 95.55%.
No ICO; the team holds the premine and describes the project as self-funded. Sales of premined coins on exchanges are possible but undocumented.
The project calls itself 'non-ICO' and 'self-funded' and has run buybacks, but how much of the premine has been sold is not disclosed.
Each block's 1 PRCY is split between the staker and a masternode, and Proof-of-Audit miners receive 0.5 PRCY per audited block; no developer or treasury share in the reward code.
Proof of stake with masternodes; the 'proof of work' is limited to the first 500 premine blocks and hourly Proof-of-Audit blocks, so it may not belong in the PoW set. CMC's 14.47M circulating figure excludes most of the team-held premine.
Sources: github.com · github.com · github.com · github.com · explorer.prcycoin.com. Researched 2026-10-26, medium confidence.
The work behind it
No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for PRivaCY Coin.
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 PRivaCY Coin
PRivaCY Coin is #304 among cryptocurrencies and #3517 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 3213 places between PRivaCY Coin'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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