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Riecoin (RIC)

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Riecoin ranks #240 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1399: 1159 of the 1398 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 2202 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 61% are tokens, 33% are claims on other assets, 4% are memecoins and 1% are NFT collections.

CoinSpectrum Grade	pending — launch under review
Rank among cryptocurrencies	#240
Rank counting claims	#1399
Market capitalisation	$947,942
Price	$0.0131
Circulating supply	72,339,770 RIC
Maximum supply	0 RIC
Consensus family	Proof of Work
Consensus mechanism	Prime constellations (Riecoin PoW)
Own hashrate	—
Network purpose	Payments
Ledger type	Single-asset ledger
Launch distribution	No premine

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 Riecoin 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	10	average of 2 criteria
By leader (its largest chain's market cap) (Source)	10	Proof of work: 10 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap
By family (all its chains' market cap) (Source)	10	Proof of work: 10 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; 72.3 million in circulation
Distribution	10	average of 3 parts
Holder concentration (Source)	–	Not yet measured
Active addresses	–	Not yet measured
Premine (allocated at launch)	10	0% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. Launched 2014-02-11 with a documented fair launch: no reward for the first 576 blocks, then a linear ramp over the next 576 (comment in GetBlockSubsidy); no genesis allocation or sale. source
Fundraising (share sold) (Source)	10	No sale of the coin source
Developer share (after launch)	10	No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. The whole subsidy goes to the miner; there is no developer or foundation output in the consensus code. Since the 2024 rules at least half of fees are burnt rather than paid to anyone. source
Decentralisation	10	average of 3 parts
Governance (Source)	10	No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol party can freeze, blacklist or claw back coins or halt the chain. source
No central team (Source)	10	No central team: Riecoin Core is maintained by a small volunteer team (RiecoinTeam on GitHub, led by its pseudonymous lead developer Pttn); no company or foundation; MIT licence. source
Who can mint (Source)	10	Open to anyone with hardware: anyone can produce blocks by mining, no permission needed
Nodes (Source)	–	Not yet counted
Security	3.9	2.7 of 7 points, 1 not yet measured source
Pool diversity (Largest pool 50% 0 to 20% 10, largest three 90% 0 to 50% 10; 2 points)	0	largest 54.9%, largest three 95.1%
Network activity (Transactions a day, 250 0, 500,000 or more 10; 2 points)	0	about 24 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 Jun 2026
Open source (Node software)	✓
No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years)	✓
Scalability	7	average of 5 parts source
Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0)	10	typical fee $2e-8
Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 121, the median of the ten busiest, 5)	2.3	about 24 simple transactions a second
Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side)	7.8	a block every 2.5 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)	8	2 MB limit, 8 MB per 10 minutes
Features (3 checks)	6.7	2 of 3 passed
Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper abstract, §1, §2 and §11)	✗	2.5-minute proof-of-work blocks on a Bitcoin Core-derived node with replace-by-fee; no instant-lock or double-spend proofs.
Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7)	✓	Riecoin Core 2606 (Bitcoin Core 29+-era CMake base) keeps -prune.
Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8)	✓	Bitcoin Core-based node serves BIP37 merkleblocks and BIP157 compact block filters.
Privacy	7	7 of 10: whitepaper privacy 7 of 7, extra features 0 of 3, 1 not yet researched 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)	–
Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential)	0	Transparent UTXO amounts; no confidential-transaction or shielded feature.
Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden)	0	Transparent addresses; no ring signatures, ZK proofs or stealth addresses.
Network privacy (Origin hidden by default)	0	Bitcoin-derived node relays its own transactions over clearnet by default; Tor (-proxy/-onion) needs user setup and there is no Dandelion.
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	Bitcoin Core-derived Script with spending conditions only.
Multisig and time locks (Without a third party)	✓	OP_CHECKMULTISIG, OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY and OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY in its script interpreter.
Atomic swaps (With other chains)	✓	Script can express HTLCs (hash check plus CLTV/CSV refund).
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 cross-chain feature in the protocol.
NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules)	✗	No token or NFT type in the protocol.
Demand	2.9	average of 6 measures
Exchanges (10 or more: 10)	1	1 exchange
Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10)	0	$7,446 traded in 24 hours; #2684 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 14, $7,676)
Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10)	5.7	0.79% of its market cap a day, median of the last 15 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	$948K, 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	5.3	average of 3 criteria
Age (years since genesis) (Source)	1	1 full year since 2025-07-08, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated).
Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities)	5	1 positive, 1 negative source
Positive
Steady work, 6 of 6	✓	8 commits in 2 of the last 12 months (github.com/RiecoinTeam/Riecoin); Riecoin Core 2606 released 2026-06-14; 2511, 2507, 2505 and 2501 also in the last 24 months.
Negative
Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-09-18, −1	✗	CVE-2019-25220: a long low-difficulty header chain can exhaust memory because the node has no headers pre-synchronisation; still in Riecoin v2606. bitcoincore.org github.com github.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.

Proof of Work coins

Proof of Stake coins

Supply

72,339,770 of a maximum 0 RIC are in circulation — effectively all of them.

Launch and allocation

Premine (allocated at launch)	0% of today's supply
Sold by the issuer or insiders	0% of today's supply
Developer share received since launch	0% of today's supply
Developer share of new coins today	0%
Fundraising	No sale and no investor round

Launched 2014-02-11 with a documented fair launch: no reward for the first 576 blocks, then a linear ramp over the next 576 (comment in GetBlockSubsidy); no genesis allocation or sale.

No ICO, presale or venture round.

No sale of supply.

The whole subsidy goes to the miner; there is no developer or foundation output in the consensus code. Since the 2024 rules at least half of fees are burnt rather than paid to anyone.

Two coinbase addresses produced 87% of the last 1,000 blocks; one address alone holds a majority of block production. No 51% attack, deep reorg or halt found in the window.

Sources: github.com · github.com · github.com · miningpoolstats.stream · chainz.cryptoid.info. Researched 2026-10-26, medium confidence.

The work behind it

No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for Riecoin.

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 Riecoin

Riecoin is #240 among cryptocurrencies and #1399 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 1159 places between Riecoin'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).