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Startcoin (START)

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Startcoin ranks #380 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #5432: 5052 of the 5431 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.

CoinSpectrum Grade	pending — no market data
Rank among cryptocurrencies	#380
Rank counting claims	#5432
Price	$0.000983
Circulating supply	0 START
Maximum supply	no fixed cap
Consensus family	Proof of Work
Consensus mechanism	X11
Own hashrate	—
Network purpose	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. No market cap or no daily volume is reported for Startcoin by any source the site reads. 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	—	Supply not reported
Distribution	8.3	average of 3 parts
Holder concentration (Source)	–	Not yet measured
Active addresses	–	Not yet measured
Premine (allocated at launch)	4.9	51.2% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. GetBlockValue mints 42,024,000 START in block 1 and a 1,000,000 START 'compensation' block 2, then 40 START per block halving yearly. The ANN says the coin was '50% pre-mined, 90% of which will be donated to projects and active users of StartJOIN'. 43.02M of the 84M cap = 51.2%; the final supply is unknown because the chain is defunct, so the true share is at least this. 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. No developer output in GetBlockValue; the chain no longer appears to produce blocks. source
Decentralisation	6.7	average of 3 parts
Governance (Source)	10	No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol freeze key found. source
No central team (Source)	0	A central team directs it: Single project team tied to the StartJOIN crowdfunding site (startcoin-project on GitHub); MIT licence inherited from Bitcoin. 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	—	2.3 of 3 points, 5 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)	–
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)	3	one client, no new version in 48 months (latest Apr 2016)
Open source (Node software)	✓
No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years)	✓
Scalability	5.6	average of 4 parts 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)	4.2	about 74 simple transactions a second
Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side)	6.4	a block every 1 minute
Block space per 10 minutes (24 MB or more 10: the ten busiest networks' median demand, 16.4 MB, and half again for growth)	8.4	1 MB limit, 10 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 chain is not verified to be producing blocks; its Bitcoin 0.8-era code would relay first-seen without replace-by-fee.
Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7)	✗	StartCOIN 2.0.1 (Apr 2016) has no pruning mode; nodes keep every block.
Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8)	✓	StartCOIN 2.0.1 (Apr 2016) serves BIP37 Merkle proofs to SPV clients, which check the X11 proof of work in headers.
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	Startcoin's Bitcoin-derived node (startcoin-project/startcoin) has no identity rule: anyone generates keys and receives and sends the coin.
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 Bitcoin-style amounts; no confidential transactions.
Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden)	0	Transparent addresses and inputs; no ring signatures or stealth addresses.
Network privacy (Origin hidden by default)	0	StartCOIN 2.0.1 (Apr 2016): no Dandelion; Tor is only used if the operator runs and configures it.
Programmability	1.1	1 of 9 points source
Token issuance	0	No token issuance on the chain itself
Smart contracts (Scripting for spending conditions)	1	Startcoin runs Bitcoin-style Script limited to spending conditions (signatures, hash locks, multisig); no contract VM or token introspection.
Multisig and time locks (Without a third party)	✗	OP_CHECKMULTISIG is present, but StartCOIN 2.0.1's src/script.h has no OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY or OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY (0xb1 is still OP_NOP2), so Script cannot enforce a time lock.
Atomic swaps (With other chains)	✗	Without a consensus-enforced CLTV or CSV, Startcoin Script cannot express the time-locked refund of an HTLC; only pre-signed nLockTime refunds, which pre-SegWit malleability makes unsafe.
Native DEX (Trades the coin itself, not a claim)	✗	No DEX found trading the coin itself: none on its own chain (DefiLlama), and not on THORChain, Maya, Chainflip, Komodo DeFi, BasicSwap, Bisq or Haveno (checked 2026-11-04).
Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself)	✗	Startcoin nodes verify no other chain; no protocol-level cross-chain messaging.
NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules)	✗	No token or NFT type in the Startcoin consensus rules.
Demand	0.5	average of 2 measures
Exchanges (10 or more: 10)	0	no exchange the site reads trades it
Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10)	–	no volume reported
Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10)	–	not measured
Order-book depth (±2% of the price ÷ market cap, 1%: 10)	–	not measured
Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10)	–	not measured
Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0)	–	not measured
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	6.7	average of 3 criteria
Age (years since genesis) (Source)	10	12 full years since 2014-06-15, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated).
Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities)	0	0 positive, 3 negative source
Negative
Steady work, 0 of 6	✗	0 commits in 0 of the last 12 months (github.com/startcoin-project/startcoin); Last release StartCOIN 2.0.1 (2016-04-26); last commit 2018-06-25.
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 exhaust memory; still in Startcoin StartCOIN-v2.0.1. bitcoincore.org github.com github.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 Startcoin StartCOIN-v2.0.1. bitcoincore.org 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

0 START are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.

Launch and allocation

Premine (allocated at launch)	51.2% 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

GetBlockValue mints 42,024,000 START in block 1 and a 1,000,000 START 'compensation' block 2, then 40 START per block halving yearly. The ANN says the coin was '50% pre-mined, 90% of which will be donated to projects and active users of StartJOIN'. 43.02M of the 84M cap = 51.2%; the final supply is unknown because the chain is defunct, so the true share is at least this.

No ICO; premine controlled by the StartJOIN operators for donations to projects and users.

No sale; the premine was to be given away through the StartJOIN crowdfunding community.

No developer output in GetBlockValue; the chain no longer appears to produce blocks.

Launched June 2014 (X11, 60 s blocks). Forum users disputed whether the launch was instamined. clients is 0 because there has been no release in 24 months.

Sources: github.com · bitcointalk.org · github.com · api.coinpaprika.com. Researched 2026-10-26, low confidence.

The work behind it

No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for Startcoin.

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 Startcoin

Startcoin is #380 among cryptocurrencies and #5432 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 5052 places between Startcoin'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).