Theta Fuel (TFUEL)
Theta Fuel ranks #72 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #401: 329 of the 400 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 412 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 47% are claims on other assets, 46% are tokens, 7% are memecoins and under 1% are NFT collections.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | A · 67/100 · provisional, B to A |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #72 |
| Rank counting claims | #401 |
| Market capitalisation | $56M |
| Price | $0.00742 |
| Circulating supply | 7,525,054,042 TFUEL |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | Multi-Level BFT (Theta chain) |
| Ledger type | Multi-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Premine |
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CoinSpectrum Grade (Source)
A — 67 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 60 to 70 (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 | 6.7 | the supply scale times 0.9, and a point for a fixed cap that holds |
| Supply (21 million scores 10) | 7.4 | no fixed maximum; 7.53 billion in circulation |
| Distribution | 7.8 | average of 3 parts |
| Holder concentration (Source) | – | Not yet measured |
| Active addresses | – | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 3.3 | 66.9% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. 5B TFUEL were created at Theta mainnet genesis (Mar 2019) and airdropped 5:1 to THETA holders, against a current total supply of about 7.476B TFUEL (Finary, 2026). 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. New TFUEL (about 5% a year) is paid to staked validator and guardian nodes, plus Elite Edge Nodes, which stake TFUEL. No share goes to Theta Labs or a treasury. Gas fees and part of edge-network payments are burned. source |
| Decentralisation | 4 | average of 3 parts |
| Governance (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol freeze power located; no halts on record. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: Theta Labs maintains the only node, thetatoken/theta-protocol-ledger (GPL-3.0). source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 2 | Gated by registration: producers admitted by name, licence or company registration: an allow list, federation, council or proof of authority |
| Nodes (Source) | – | Not yet counted |
| Security | 6.6 | 5.2 of 8 points source |
| Pool diversity (Largest pool 50% 0 to 20% 10, largest three 90% 0 to 50% 10; 2 points) | 6.9 | largest 26.7%, largest three 65.9% |
| Network activity (Transactions a day, 250 0, 500,000 or more 10; 2 points) | 5.3 | about 13,659 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 May 2026 |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Scalability | 6.3 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.0007 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 121, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 5.2 | about 134 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 3.1 | a block every 7.08 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 | 12.6 MB limit, 1070 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) | ✗ | Same chain as THETA: ~7 s blocks finalised by the guardian layer afterwards, so above 5 s. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | ✓ | Theta ledger reference-counting history pruning (storage.statePruningEnabled). |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✗ | No light-client protocol for users. |
| 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 | Same Theta ledger; nodes relay transactions directly. |
| Programmability | 8.8 | 7 of 8 points, 1 not yet researched source |
| Token issuance (At protocol level) | 2 | TNT-20 (ERC-20 compatible) contracts on the Theta EVM, where TFUEL pays gas, open to any account since Mainnet 3.0 in 2021. |
| Smart contracts (General-purpose) | 2 | TFUEL pays gas on the EVM-compatible Theta Virtual Machine of the Theta chain. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | Multisig and timelock contracts on the Theta VM. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✓ | EVM HTLC contracts (hash lock plus timelock refund). |
| 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) | – | Metachain subchains have a built-in interchain channel to the main chain, but the docs do not say who verifies transfers. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✓ | TNT-721 contracts on the Theta VM. |
| Demand | 6 | average of 7 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 10 | 14 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 3.3 | $425,959 traded in 24 hours; #932 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $445,770) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 5.4 | 0.67% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (±2% of the price ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 7.6 | $108,618 within 2% of the price on 4 exchanges, 0.19% of its market cap, median of the last 15 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 4.4 | $56M, 4.4 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) | 1 | its own node and wallet, counted as 1: no wallet in the site's directory lists it yet |
| Record | 7.7 | average of 3 criteria |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 7 | 7 full years since 2019-03-19, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities) | 6 | 1 positive, 0 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 12 commits in 7 of the last 12 months (github.com/thetatoken/theta-protocol-ledger); thetatoken/theta-protocol-ledger v4.1.3, 2026-05-07; 4 releases in 24 months. |
| 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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7,525,054,042 TFUEL are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
Launch and allocation
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 66.9% 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 |
5B TFUEL were created at Theta mainnet genesis (Mar 2019) and airdropped 5:1 to THETA holders, against a current total supply of about 7.476B TFUEL (Finary, 2026).
TFUEL itself was never sold: it was distributed at genesis to THETA holders, 5 TFUEL per THETA. The 2017 private sale was of THETA.
TFUEL itself was never sold: the 5B genesis TFUEL (Mar 2019) was airdropped 5:1 to all THETA holders, and airdrops are excluded. The 2017 THETA private sale predates TFUEL's design. If the sale-derived share of that airdrop were counted (300M THETA x 5 = 1.5B / ~7.476B current supply), it would be 20.1%.
New TFUEL (about 5% a year) is paid to staked validator and guardian nodes, plus Elite Edge Nodes, which stake TFUEL. No share goes to Theta Labs or a treasury. Gas fees and part of edge-network payments are burned.
Sources: icodrops.com · finary.com · docs.thetatoken.org · blockchain.com · coin360.com · blockchaingamer.biz. Researched 2026-10-24, medium confidence.
What a regulator has said
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
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How CoinSpectrum ranks Theta Fuel
Theta Fuel is #72 among cryptocurrencies and #401 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 329 places between Theta Fuel'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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