Stealth (XST)
Stealth ranks #197 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1171: 974 of the 1170 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 1768 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 61% are tokens, 32% are claims on other assets, 6% are memecoins and 1% are NFT collections.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | A · 63/100 · provisional, C to A |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #197 |
| Rank counting claims | #1171 |
| Market capitalisation | $2M |
| Price | $0.0590 |
| Maximum supply | 0 XST |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | qPoS (Junaeth) |
| Network purpose | Private payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Premine |
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CoinSpectrum Grade (Source)
A — 63 out of 100, provisional (from 9 of 10 sections, 10 November 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 43 to 70 (C 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 | — | Supply not reported |
| Distribution | 10 | average of 3 parts |
| Holder concentration (Source) | – | Not yet measured |
| Active addresses | – | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 9.9 | 0.6% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. Blocks 1–10 paid 23,300 XST each, a 233,000 XST premine labelled as such in GetProofOfWorkReward. That is 0.59% of the 39,630,019 XST current supply (CoinPaprika, 2026-10-23). After a 16-XST 'fairness' period at blocks 11–260, PoW (about 23.3M total) and PoS rewards were open. 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. qPoS rewards (GetQPoSReward: money supply divided by a fixed divisor) go to the StealthNode stakers who produce blocks; earlier PoW/PoS rewards were open. No treasury or developer share was found in the consensus code. source |
| Decentralisation | 5.7 | average of 3 parts |
| Governance (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol key can freeze or claw back users' XST; qPoS only disables StealthNodes that miss too many slots, and docks their stake by protocol rule. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: The only node, StealthCoind (MIT), is developed and released by Stealth R&D LLC in its GitHub organisation. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 7 | Gated by stake: any holder with enough stake can validate: access bought with coins |
| 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 | 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 Apr 2026 |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Scalability | 5.3 | average of 3 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0 |
| 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) | 2.5 | a block every 5 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) | – | not yet measured |
| Features (3 checks) | 3.3 | 1 of 3 passed |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper abstract, §1, §2 and §11) | ✓ | Bitcoin/NovaCoin-derived node with first-seen mempool relay and no replace-by-fee, and qPoS blocks scheduled every 5 s. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | ✗ | Old Bitcoin/NovaCoin-derived codebase without a prune option. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✗ | The node has no BIP37 merkleblock service for SPV clients. |
| Privacy | 8 | 8 of 10: whitepaper privacy 7 of 7, extra features 1 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. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | 0 | Stealth addresses hide the receiver, but nothing hides the sender (no ring signatures or ZK proofs). |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | 10 | Stealth v3.3.5.0 defaults to its built-in Tor: without -onlynet the node limits itself to NET_TOR (client/init.cpp "default to built-in tor"). |
| Programmability | 3.3 | 3 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts (Scripting for spending conditions) | 1 | Bitcoin-lineage Script with spending conditions only. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | OP_CHECKMULTISIG and OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY in its script code (no CSV). |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✓ | Script can express HTLCs (hash check plus CLTV 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) | ✗ | No cross-chain feature in the protocol. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✗ | No token or NFT type in the protocol. |
| Demand | 0.6 | average of 4 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | – | exchanges not yet counted |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 0 | $1,702 traded in 24 hours; #3088 by volume |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 0.3 | 0.07% of its market cap a day |
| 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) | 0.9 | $2.3M, 0.9 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 | 7.5 | average of 3 criteria |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | — | Genesis date not yet researched |
| Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities) | 5 | 2 positive, 2 negative source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 19 commits in 5 of the last 12 months (github.com/Stealth-R-D-LLC/Stealth); Reference client Stealth-R-D-LLC/Stealth v3.3.5.0 released 2026-04-18, after v3.3.0-v3.3.4 (March 2026) and v3.2.1.3-v3.2.1.6 (July-December 2025). |
| Shipped a security fix in two years, +1 | ✓ | Stealth v3.3.1.0, Mar 2026: fixed a money-supply calculation bug that could cause consensus failures (operators told to update ASAP). |
| Negative | ||
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-03, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2020-14198: misbehaving peers are auto-banned into a ban map with no size bound, so many attacker addresses can exhaust memory; still in Stealth v3.4.0.0. bitcoincore.org 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 Stealth v3.4.0.0. 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 Stake coins
Ethereum ETHA+
BNB BNBA
Solana SOLA+
PIVX PIVXA
BitShares BTSA
Secret SCRTA
Mintlayer MLAll Proof of Stake chains →Proof of Work coins
Bitcoin BTCA+
Zcash ZECA+
Dogecoin DOGEA+
Monero XMRA+
Bitcoin Cash BCHA++
Litecoin LTCA+
Ethereum Classic ETCAAll Proof of Work chains →Supply
Circulating supply is not published by our source.
Launch and allocation
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 0.6% 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 |
Blocks 1–10 paid 23,300 XST each, a 233,000 XST premine labelled as such in GetProofOfWorkReward. That is 0.59% of the 39,630,019 XST current supply (CoinPaprika, 2026-10-23). After a 16-XST 'fairness' period at blocks 11–260, PoW (about 23.3M total) and PoS rewards were open.
No sale found.
qPoS rewards (GetQPoSReward: money supply divided by a fixed divisor) go to the StealthNode stakers who produce blocks; earlier PoW/PoS rewards were open. No treasury or developer share was found in the consensus code.
The site has no label yet. The premine is clear in code. Whether the original StealthNode NFT allocation in qPoS (nft-mainnet-data.cpp) gave the team any minting privilege was not examined. The queue's null circulating supply and max 0 should read about 39.6M and uncapped.
Sources: github.com · github.com · coinpaprika.com · coinbase.com. Researched 2026-10-24, medium confidence.
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 Stealth
Stealth is #197 among cryptocurrencies and #1171 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 974 places between Stealth'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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