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Viacoin (VIA)

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Viacoin ranks #383 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #5435: 5052 of the 5434 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	#383
Rank counting claims	#5435
Price	$0.1377
Circulating supply	0 VIA
Maximum supply	23,176,392 VIA
Consensus family	Proof of Work
Consensus mechanism	Scrypt (AuxPoW)
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 Viacoin 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	10	fixed maximum supply of 23.2 million
Distribution	7.9	average of 2 parts
Holder concentration (Source)	–	Not yet measured
Active addresses	–	Not yet measured
Premine (allocated at launch)	5.7	43.1% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. Block 1 (2014-07-17) paid 10,000,000 VIA (the code's 'first distribution') to one address, VbVUXA4JdNiA7cFmcRHcinxDTK1G4YnwF4, which sent it all out in about 3,900 transactions within the first hours, before mining rewards started at block 10,002; 10M / ~23.2M current supply = 43.1%. 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. GetBlockSubsidy pays the whole reward to the miner; no developer or foundation output. Issuance is now negligible. 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: Viacoin Core is maintained by a small volunteer team in the viacoin GitHub organisation; 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	7	2.8 of 4 points, 4 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)	1	merge-mined: its blocks are found by another chain's miners, 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 Jul 2026
Open source (Node software)	✓
No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years)	✓
Scalability	6.2	average of 5 parts source
Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0)	10	typical fee $0.00002
Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 121, the median of the ten busiest, 5)	1.8	about 17.8 simple transactions a second
Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side)	5	a block every 24.1 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)	7.5	0.24 MB limit, 5.98 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)	✗	24-second proof-of-work blocks with probabilistic confirmation on a Bitcoin Core 30 base, which relays full replace-by-fee by default.
Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7)	✓	Viacoin Core 30.2.0 (Jul 2026, Bitcoin Core 30 base): -prune keeps the UTXO set and recent blocks.
Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8)	✓	Viacoin Core 30.2.0 serves BIP37 Merkle proofs and BIP157 filters (Bitcoin Core 30 base) to SPV clients checking Scrypt proof of work.
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	Viacoin's Bitcoin-derived node (viacoin/viacoin) 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	Viacoin Core 30.2.0 (Jul 2026, Bitcoin Core 30 base): no Dandelion; Tor is only used if the operator runs and configures it.
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 for spending conditions; the 2015 ClearingHouse layer was a metaprotocol read by its own software, not by Viacoin nodes.
Multisig and time locks (Without a third party)	✓	OP_CHECKMULTISIG plus CLTV from BIP65Height 598,725 and a 2017 BIP9 CSV deployment (Viacoin Core, Bitcoin Core base).
Atomic swaps (With other chains)	✓	HTLCs built from Script hash locks (OP_SHA256/OP_HASH160) with a CLTV refund branch are standard Script, so cross-chain hash-locked swaps work on Viacoin.
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)	✗	Viacoin 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 Viacoin 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	7.7	average of 3 criteria
Age (years since genesis) (Source)	10	12 full years since 2014-07-18, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated).
Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities)	3	2 positive, 0 negative source
Positive
Steady work, 2 of 6	✓	84 commits in 4 of the last 12 months (github.com/viacoin/viacoin); Viacoin Core 30.2.0 (rebased on Bitcoin Core 30, released 2026-07) is the only release in the last 24 months; previous release 0.16.3 in 2019.
Shipped a security fix in two years, +1	✓	Viacoin Core 30.2.0 (19 Jul 2026), the first release since 0.16.3 (2019), rebases on Bitcoin Core 30.x and so carries upstream fixes such as CVE-2024-35202 (Core 25.0).
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 of a maximum 23,176,392 VIA are in circulation — 0.0% of the total that will ever exist.

Launch and allocation

Premine (allocated at launch)	43.1% of today's supply
Developer share received since launch	0% of today's supply
Developer share of new coins today	0%

Block 1 (2014-07-17) paid 10,000,000 VIA (the code's 'first distribution') to one address, VbVUXA4JdNiA7cFmcRHcinxDTK1G4YnwF4, which sent it all out in about 3,900 transactions within the first hours, before mining rewards started at block 10,002; 10M / ~23.2M current supply = 43.1%.

No primary record of an ICO or presale was found; the 10M block-1 distribution is visible on chain but its purpose is undocumented.

Who received the 10M block-1 distribution and on what terms is not documented in any source found.

GetBlockSubsidy pays the whole reward to the miner; no developer or foundation output. Issuance is now negligible.

Surprising: a 10M VIA block-1 allocation (43% of all supply) distributed by a single address before open mining began; a BitcoinTalk ANN or other primary account of who received it was not found. Merge-mined (Scrypt AuxPoW). Input circulating supply of 0 is wrong: the chain is live at height 14,147,108.

Sources: github.com · explorer.viacoin.org · explorer.viacoin.org · github.com · tiki-toki.com. Researched 2026-10-26, medium confidence.

The work behind it

No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for Viacoin.

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 Viacoin

Viacoin is #383 among cryptocurrencies and #5435 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 Viacoin'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).