Top hybrid-consensus coins

Chains that make blocks with two of the mechanisms above. Most often a proof-of-work backbone with stakers voting on or finalising the mined blocks, or the two taking turns — the intent is that an attacker needs both the hashrate and the stake.

How it works

Who makes a blockBoth mechanisms take part. Miners produce blocks and stakers vote to accept them (Decred's tickets), the two take turns (the Peercoin lineage), or one issues coins and the other finalises them.
Who may take partAnyone with the hardware for the work side, and anyone holding coins for the stake side.
How the chain agreesBy a rule that combines both: on Decred a mined block counts only once three of five randomly chosen tickets vote for it.
When a block is finalUsually sooner than with work alone, where the stake vote acts as a checkpoint.
What an attack costsThe hashrate and the stake at once, which is the point of combining them.
Chains counted
28
Combined market cap
$602M
Paid to miners / day
$6,909
Snapshot
10 November 2026
#AssetConsensusHashrateBlock timePaid to miners / dayIssuance / yrDifficulty 24hMarket cap
1 ConfluxCFX Tree-Graph PoW + PoS finality 659 GH/s 1 s $1,415 0.2% — $215M
2 DecredDCR BLAKE3 PoW + PoS 5.74 TH/s 5 min $169 0.03% — $208M
3 ZanoZANO ProgPoWZ PoW + PoS 229 GH/s 2 min $2,592 1.7% — $56M
4 AbeyABEY DPoS/PBFT + PoW oversight — 10 s — — — $38M
5 XphereXP PoW Proof-Chain + XPBFT PoS — 1 min — — — $26M
6 CoreCORE Satoshi Plus (DPoS + delegated Bitcoin hashpower) — 3 s $844 1.7% — $18M
7 VerusVRSC VerusHash PoW + PoS (50/50) — 1 min — — — $16M
8 ElastosELA AuxPoW SHA-256 (merge-mined) + DPoS 407 EH/s 2 min $74 0.3% — $9M
9 PeercoinPPC SHA-256 PoW + PoS — 10 min $1,757 7.9% — $8M
10 SyscoinSYS SHA-256 PoW (merge-mined with BTC) + PoS masternodes 386 EH/s 2.5 min $23 0.3% +3.3% $2M
11 ExchangeCoinEXCC Equihash (144,5) PoW + PoS tickets 3.55 kH/s 2.5 min $35 0.7% — $2M
12 MinimaMINIMA PoW + Cascading-Chain PoS — 50 s $0 0.00% — $2M
13 NexusNXS Prime + Hash PoW + PoS (3 channels) — — — — — $2M
14 CypheriumCPH HotStuff BFT + PoW (dual-chain) — 1 s — — — $1M
15 Deutsche eMarkDEM SHA-256 PoW + PoS — 2 min — — — $347,333
16 TalerTLR Lyra2Z PoW + PoS 2.37 MH/s 1 min — — — $92,000
17 NovacoinNVC Scrypt PoW + PoS (Peercoin-derived) — 10 min — — — $34,180
18 PRivaCY CoinPRCY PoSv3 + Proof-of-Audit (hash-mined audit blocks) + masternodes — — — — — $24,481
19 DigitalNoteXDN BMW512 PoW + PoS — — — — — $0
20 Universal CurrencyUNIT SHA-256 PoW + PoS — 1 min — — — $0
21 SwingSWING SHA-256 PoW + PoS — 2.9 min — — — $0
22 BERNcashBERN X14 PoW + PoS — 1 min — — — $0
23 Bitcoin 21XBTC21 SHA-256 PoW + PoS — 3.5 min — — — $0
24 2GIVE2GIVE Scrypt PoW + PoS — — — — — $0
25 PlatinumBARXPTX Quark PoW + PoS — 2 min — — — $0
26 ICOBIDICOB Scrypt PoW + PoS — 1 min — — — $0
27 GeyserCoinGSR Scrypt PoW + PoS (alternating 10,080-block phases) — 1.1 min — — — $0
28 OC ProtocolOCP SHA256T PoW + PoS — 5 min — — — $0

Paid to miners / day is block reward × blocks per day at the protocol's target block time × price — what the network spends on its own security, and the budget an attacker would have to outspend. Block rewards are read from each chain's own explorer or node: the coinbase of recent blocks, fees included; where none is readable, the reward is derived from the halving schedule. Issuance / yr is new supply at today's subsidy against circulating supply. Difficulty 24h is the chain's difficulty now against a day of blocks earlier. Blank means no source publishes it.

Methodology — the rules under which each chain's family was decided. Wrapped, staked and pegged claims are listed separately and never counted toward this total.