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Vertcoin (VTC)

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Vertcoin ranks #188 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1403: 1215 of the 1402 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 1654 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 61% are tokens, 31% are claims on other assets, 6% are memecoins and 1% are NFT collections.

CoinSpectrum Grade	pending — no market data
Rank among cryptocurrencies	#188
Rank counting claims	#1403
Market capitalisation	$3M
Price	$0.0410
Circulating supply	74,628,929 VTC
Maximum supply	84,000,000 VTC
Consensus family	Proof of Work
Consensus mechanism	Verthash
Own hashrate	666 MH/s
Active addresses a day	456 October 2026 median
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. No market cap or no daily volume is reported for Vertcoin 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	9.5	the supply scale times 0.9, and a point for a fixed cap that holds
Supply (21 million scores 10)	9.4	fixed maximum supply of 84 million
Distribution	8	average of 4 parts
Holder concentration (Source)	–	Not yet measured
Active addresses	1.8	456 addresses active a day, the median of October 2026's 31 days (counted by CoinSpectrum from the chain's own blocks) source
Premine (allocated at launch)	10	Fair launch: no premine
Fundraising (share sold) (Source)	10	No sale of the coin
Developer share (after launch)	10	No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners who produce blocks
Decentralisation	8.8	average of 4 parts
Governance (Source)	10	No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol-level party can freeze, blacklist or claw back coins or halt the chain. source
No central team (Source)	10	No central team: Volunteer developers maintain Vertcoin Core in the vertcoin-project GitHub organisation (MIT licence); no company or foundation controls it. source
Who can mint (Source)	10	Open to anyone with hardware: anyone can produce blocks by mining, no permission needed
Nodes (Source)	5.2	36 reachable nodes (distinct IP addresses at the chain's tip, crawled by CoinSpectrum on 2026-11-08; clearnet only)
Security	4	3.2 of 8 points source
Pool diversity (Largest pool 50% 0 to 20% 10, largest three 90% 0 to 50% 10; 2 points)	0.3	largest 51%, largest three 87.8%
Network activity (Transactions a day, 250 0, 500,000 or more 10; 2 points)	0.1	about 276 transactions a day
Hashrate (Own work 5, its power 1 kW 0 to 10 GW 5; 1 point)	6.5	own work 5; about 110 kW, 1.5 of 5; the largest on its algorithm
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)	5	one client, no new version in 24 months (latest Oct 2023)
Open source (Node software)	✓
No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years)	✓
Scalability	7.4	average of 5 parts source
Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0)	10	typical fee $0.0000057
Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 121, the median of the ten busiest, 5)	3.4	about 47 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)	9.3	4 MB limit, 16 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 probabilistic blocks, and Vertcoin Core (Bitcoin Core 23 base) relays BIP125 opt-in replace-by-fee, with no double-spend proofs or instant locks.
Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7)	✓	Vertcoin Core 23.2 (rebased on Bitcoin Core 23.2, 2023) keeps -prune.
Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8)	✓	Bitcoin Core 23.2-based node serves BIP37 merkleblocks and BIP157 compact block filters (-peerblockfilters).
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; Bisq.
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	0.7	average of 3 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)	–	no order book on the nine exchanges read
Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10)	1.2	$3.1M, 1.2 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold
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 2014-01-20, 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, 3 negative source
Positive
Steady work, 1 of 6	✓	60 commits in 2 of the last 12 months (github.com/vertcoin-project/vertcoin-core); Last release Vertcoin Core v23.2, 2023-10-02, more than 24 months ago; since then only README edits (December 2025) on master.
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 Vertcoin v23.2. bitcoincore.org github.com
Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-10-08, −1	✗	CVE-2024-35202: a crafted blocktxn message trips the assert in compact-block reconstruction and crashes the node; still in Vertcoin v23.2. bitcoincore.org github.com
Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2026-05-05, −1	✗	CVE-2024-52911: a crafted invalid block can make script-check threads read freed precomputed transaction data and crash the node; still in Vertcoin v23.2. 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

74,628,929 of a maximum 84,000,000 VTC are in circulation — 88.8% of the total that will ever exist.

How it was launched

No premine. No premine, no founder allocation, no public sale — the chain started empty and every coin was earned through mining or validating.

The work behind it

Vertcoin is secured by 666 MH/s of its own work. Hashrate does not compare across algorithms — a SHA-256 hash and a Scrypt hash cost different amounts to produce.

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 Vertcoin

Vertcoin is #188 among cryptocurrencies and #1403 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 1215 places between Vertcoin'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).