XDAG (XDAG)
XDAG ranks #242 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1971: 1729 of the 1970 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 2254 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 | B · 62/100 · provisional, B to A |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #242 |
| Rank counting claims | #1971 |
| Market capitalisation | $869,132 |
| Price | $0.000678 |
| Circulating supply | 1,281,403,840 XDAG |
| Maximum supply | 1,446,294,144 XDAG |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | Mining DAG (RandomX-family) |
| Own hashrate | 426 kH/s |
| 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)
B — 62 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 53 to 64 (B to A).
| 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 | 8.4 | the supply scale times 0.9, and a point for a fixed cap that holds |
| Supply (21 million scores 10) | 8.2 | fixed maximum supply of 1.45 billion |
| 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. Mainnet launched 2018-01-05 by the anonymous developer 'Cheatoshi' with no premine and no ICO (project README and third-party profiles); all coins mined from the first main block. 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. Consensus pays the whole main-block reward (32 XDAG now) to the block's producer. The xdagj pool code has a configurable default 5% 'fund' donation (fund.ration) to a community address, but it is pool-operator policy, not consensus; a sampled XDAG.ORG POOL block (4,277,100) paid 1% to the pool and 99% to the miner with no fund output. source |
| Decentralisation | 10 | average of 3 parts |
| Governance (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol key can freeze coins or halt the chain; the 2024 snapshot restart was a coordinated client upgrade. source |
| No central team (Source) | 10 | No central team: xdagj is maintained by community developers in the XDagger GitHub organisation (MIT); the founder left in 2018 and no company owns it, though the dominant XDAG.ORG pool is run from the project's own domain. 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 | 5.4 | 3.2 of 6 points, 2 not yet measured source |
| Pool diversity (Largest pool 50% 0 to 20% 10, largest three 90% 0 to 50% 10; 2 points) | 0 | largest 88.1%, largest three 100% |
| 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) | 5.3 | own work 5; about 2.9 kW, 0.3 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) | 7 | one client, latest version Apr 2026 |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Scalability | 5.5 | average of 3 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.00009 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 121, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | – | not yet measured |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 6.5 | a block every 1.1 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) | – | not yet measured |
| Features (3 checks) | 0 | 0 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper abstract, §1, §2 and §11) | ✗ | 64-second main blocks in a DAG with probabilistic confirmation; no instant locks or double-spend proofs. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | – | Pruning in xdagj not established. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✗ | No proof-based light client; wallets use node APIs. |
| 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 | Accounts are created from keys users generate themselves; transfers are validated by signature, with no identity condition in the protocol. |
| 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 | Balances and transfers are public. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | 0 | Sender and receiver addresses are public. |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | 0 | xdagj relays blocks and transactions directly; no Dandelion or Tor. |
| Programmability | 0 | 0 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts | 0 | XDAGJ mainnet carries plain transfers; XRC token support and later DeFi features are unchecked roadmap items. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✗ | No multisig or time-locked transaction type in XDAGJ. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✗ | No hash-locked or time-locked transaction type. |
| 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) | ✗ | Cross-chain protocols are an unchecked roadmap item. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✗ | No token or NFT type on mainnet. |
| Demand | 2 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 1 | 1 exchange |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 0 | $14 traded in 24 hours; #4166 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $22) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 0 | 0.00% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 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 | $869K, 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 | 7.3 | average of 3 criteria |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 6 | 6 full years since 2020-04-27, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities) | 7 | 2 positive, 0 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 39 commits in 8 of the last 12 months (github.com/XDagger/xdagj); xdagj v0.8.3 released 2026-04-27 (v0.8.0 2025-05-27, v0.8.1 and v0.8.2 2026-04-22): four releases in the last 24 months; the C client has had no release since v0.4.0 (2021). |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | XDAGj Firefly v0.8.2, Apr 2026: critical fix for balances wrongly deducted during rollbacks, labelled a security upgrade. |
| Conduct (origin, claims, halts) | 9 | 2 positive, 1 negative source |
| Positive record | ||
| Launched with a stated purpose, not as a joke | ✓ | |
| No claims by its founders that contradict its own design | ✓ | |
| Negative record | ||
| Halt, freeze or reversal, 2024-07-01 | ✗ | A 'link-bomb' bug forked mainnet around block 3,077,971 (about May-June 2024); the developers restored consistency by upgrading the mainnet from a snapshot of wallet-node data with xdagj v0.7.2 (released 2024-07-01). Exact outage dates are not published. github.com |
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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Dogecoin DOGEA+
Bitcoin 2 BTC2
Riecoin RIC
Luckycoin LKYA
Garlicoin GRLCAll Proof of Work chains →Proof of Stake coins
Ethereum ETHA+
BNB BNBA
Solana SOLA+
TRON TRXA
Hyperliquid HYPEB
Cardano ADAA
NEAR Protocol NEARAAll Proof of Stake chains →Supply
1,281,403,840 of a maximum 1,446,294,144 XDAG are in circulation — 88.6% of the total that will ever exist.
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 |
Mainnet launched 2018-01-05 by the anonymous developer 'Cheatoshi' with no premine and no ICO (project README and third-party profiles); all coins mined from the first main block.
No ICO, presale or private placement.
No sale of any kind documented.
Consensus pays the whole main-block reward (32 XDAG now) to the block's producer. The xdagj pool code has a configurable default 5% 'fund' donation (fund.ration) to a community address, but it is pool-operator policy, not consensus; a sampled XDAG.ORG POOL block (4,277,100) paid 1% to the pool and 99% to the miner with no fund output.
One pool run under the project's own domain produced 88% of sampled main blocks. xdagj v0.8.1-v0.8.2 (April 2026) fixed balance errors during chain rollbacks, suggesting reorg problems that month, but no incident report was found. Network hashrate shown by the explorer is under 1 MH/s.
Sources: github.com · github.com · github.com · explorer.xdag.io · explorer.xdag.io. Researched 2026-10-26, medium confidence.
The work behind it
XDAG is secured by 426 kH/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 XDAG
XDAG is #242 among cryptocurrencies and #1971 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 1729 places between XDAG'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).