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ZClassic ranks #176 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1267: 1091 of the 1266 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 1517 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 61% are tokens, 32% are claims on other assets, 7% are memecoins and 1% are NFT collections.

CoinSpectrum Grade	A · 72/100 · provisional
Rank among cryptocurrencies	#176
Rank counting claims	#1267
Market capitalisation	$4M
Price	$0.4318
Circulating supply	9,287,024 ZCL
Maximum supply	11,462,487 ZCL
Consensus family	Proof of Work
Consensus mechanism	Equihash (192,7) — Zcash fork
Own hashrate	15 kH/s
Network purpose	Private payments
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)

A — 72 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 65 to 72 (A 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	9.6	the supply scale times 0.9, and a point for a fixed cap that holds
Supply (21 million scores 10)	9.5	fixed maximum supply of 11.5 million
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. Zcash fork launched 6 Nov 2016 with the 20% founders' reward removed; no pre-mine, coin sale, ICO or developer tax. 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. ZClassic forked Zcash (Nov 2016) with the 20% founders' reward removed. The founders'-address list survives in chainparams.cpp, but neither block validation nor the miner enforces it, so the whole subsidy goes to miners. source
Decentralisation	8.3	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: zclassicd is maintained by volunteers in the ZclassicCommunity GitHub organisation (MIT licence, CC0 site); 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)	3	8 reachable nodes (distinct IP addresses at the chain's tip, crawled by CoinSpectrum on 2026-11-08; clearnet only)
Security	4.3	3.5 of 8 points source
Pool diversity (Largest pool 50% 0 to 20% 10, largest three 90% 0 to 50% 10; 2 points)	0	largest 90.8%, largest three 100%
Network activity (Transactions a day, 250 0, 500,000 or more 10; 2 points)	0	about 103 transactions a day
Hashrate (Own work 5, its power 1 kW 0 to 10 GW 5; 1 point)	6.6	own work 5; about 162 kW (estimated from its miner pay), 1.6 of 5; 0.000046% of its algorithm's largest, not scored
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)	8	one client, latest version Jun 2026; ZClassic23, a second client, runs on 4 of 8 nodes at the tip (crawled 2026-11-08): one client 7, a second running 1
Open source (Node software)	✓
No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years)	✓
Scalability	7.9	average of 5 parts source
Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0)	10	typical fee $0.000082
Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 121, the median of the ten busiest, 5)	3.6	about 53 simple transactions a second
Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side)	6.7	a block every 1.3 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	2 MB limit, 16 MB per 10 minutes
Features (3 checks)	10	3 of 3 passed
Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper abstract, §1, §2 and §11)	✓	zclassicd (Zcash fork on a pre-BIP125 Bitcoin base) has transaction replacement disabled, so nodes relay the first-seen spend; blocks alone (75 s) would not qualify. With ~91% of recent blocks paid to one address, that protection rests on a single miner.
Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7)	✓	zclassic 2.1.1 keeps the inherited -prune option (deletes old blocks; disables the wallet).
Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8)	✓	zcashd-derived node serves BIP37 bloom-filtered merkleblocks for SPV checks of transparent payments.
Privacy	8.7	8.7 of 10: whitepaper privacy 7 of 7, extra features 1.7 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)	5	Sapling shielded transactions, active since block 476,969 (2018), hide amounts. Optional: 5 of 10.
Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden)	5	Sapling zk-SNARK spends hide the sender and shielded addresses the receiver. Optional: 5 of 10.
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	3.3	3 of 9 points source
Token issuance	0	No token issuance on the chain itself
Smart contracts (Scripting for spending conditions)	1	Zcash-derived transparent Script with spending conditions only.
Multisig and time locks (Without a third party)	✓	OP_CHECKMULTISIG and OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY in its script interpreter.
Atomic swaps (With other chains)	✓	Transparent P2SH scripts 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	2.3	average of 6 measures
Exchanges (10 or more: 10)	1	1 exchange
Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10)	0	$447 traded in 24 hours; #3149 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 15, $1,870)
Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10)	0	0.04% of its market cap a day, median of the last 15 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)	1.5	$4.0M, 1.5 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)	10	10 full years since 2016-11-10, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated).
Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities)	2	1 positive, 4 negative source
Positive
Steady work, 6 of 6	✓	184 commits in 5 of the last 12 months (github.com/ZclassicCommunity/zclassic); zclassicd v2.1.2-beta6, 2026-06-05; releases in the last 24 months also include v2.1.2-beta5 (2026-06-02) and v2.1.1.60 (2024-12-02). An independent C23 node (Z23) is in pre-v1 development with no release yet.
Negative
Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-03, −1	✗	CVE-2020-14198: misbehaving peers are auto-banned into an unbounded ban list, so many attacker addresses can exhaust CPU and memory; still in ZClassic v2.1.2-beta6. bitcoincore.org github.com 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 ZClassic v2.1.2-beta6. bitcoincore.org github.com
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 ZClassic v2.1.2-beta6. bitcoincore.org github.com 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 ZClassic v2.1.2-beta6. bitcoincore.org github.com 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

9,287,024 of a maximum 11,462,487 ZCL are in circulation — 81.0% 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

Zcash fork launched 6 Nov 2016 with the 20% founders' reward removed; no pre-mine, coin sale, ICO or developer tax.

No sale or venture round.

ZClassic forked Zcash (Nov 2016) with the 20% founders' reward removed. The founders'-address list survives in chainparams.cpp, but neither block validation nor the miner enforces it, so the whole subsidy goes to miners.

Sources are thin; the claim rests on the project's description repeated by Coinbase and on the known design (Zcash code without the founders' reward).

Sources: github.com · github.com · coinbase.com · github.com. Researched 2026-10-24, high confidence.

The work behind it

ZClassic is secured by 15 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 ZClassic

ZClassic is #176 among cryptocurrencies and #1267 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 1091 places between ZClassic'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).