Chains where transaction amounts and participants are hidden by default — via zero-knowledge proofs, ring signatures, or Mimblewimble-style aggregation. Payment as the primary use, privacy as the property that distinguishes them.
| # | Asset | Consensus | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ZcashZEC | Equihash (200,9) | $17.5B |
| 2 | MoneroXMR | RandomX (CPU) | $10.4B |
| 3 | ZanoZANO | ProgPoWZ PoW + PoS | $56M |
| 4 | Pirate ChainARRR | Equihash (privacy) | $34M |
| 5 | VergeXVG | MultiAlgo (5 PoW algos: Scrypt/X17/Lyra2REv2/Myr-Groestl/Blake2s) | $32M |
| 6 | MobileCoinMOB | MobileCoin Consensus Protocol (SCP-based) | $15M |
| 7 | Epic Private Internet CashEPIC | ProgPoW + RandomX + Cuckoo Cycle (MimbleWimble) | $14M |
| 8 | FiroFIRO | FiroPoW (ProgPoW) | $13M |
| 9 | AbelianABEL | Chameleon Hash PoW (post-quantum) | $10M |
| 10 | BytecoinBCN | CryptoNight | $5M |
| 11 | Ycash (y.cash)YEC | Equihash (192,7) | $5M |
| 12 | ZClassicZCL | Equihash (192,7) — Zcash fork | $4M |
| 13 | ParticlPART | PoSv3 (Peercoin lineage) | $4M |
| 14 | PlatONLAT | CBFT (Concurrent BFT with PPoS) | $4M |
| 15 | GrinGRIN | Cuckatoo32 (MimbleWimble) | $3M |
| 16 | PIVXPIVX | Time Protocol v2 (PoS) | $3M |
| 17 | StealthXST | qPoS (Junaeth) | $2M |
| 18 | SecretSCRT | Tendermint (CometBFT) | $2M |
| 19 | Zephyr ProtocolZEPH | RandomX (CPU) | $2M |
| 20 | CryptonCRP | CryptoNight (Utopia) | $1M |
| 21 | XELISXEL | XelisHash-v3 (BlockDAG) | $1M |
| 22 | CloakCoinCLOAK | PoSA (Enigma privacy) | $1M |
| 23 | PRivaCY CoinPRCY | PoSv3 + Proof-of-Audit (hash-mined audit blocks) + masternodes | $24,481 |
| 24 | InitVerseINI | VersaHash | $8,732 |
| 25 | NeptuneXNT | Neptune memory-hard PoW (Tip5 guesser buffer) | $0 |
| 26 | xx networkXX | NPoS (BABE + GRANDPA) | $0 |
| 27 | NavioNAV | Proof-of-Private-Stake (BLSCT, new Navio chain) | $0 |
| 28 | DigitalNoteXDN | BMW512 PoW + PoS | $0 |
| 29 | ALIASALIAS | PoSv3 with anonymous staking (PoAS) | $0 |
| 30 | NervaXNV | CryptoNight-Adaptive v6 (CPU, solo mining) | $0 |
| 31 | KryptokronaXKR | CryptoNight Turtle | $0 |
Methodology — the rules under which each chain's purpose was decided. Assets that don't fit one of the categories are left unclassified rather than filed under a guess.