Zano remains actively maintained, but the evidence base is still too thin to justify a stronger fundamental view
| Grade | Verdict | Score | Rank | Price | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | Failed | Red | 38 / 100 | #51 of 203 | $5.87 | $90.8M |
F | Failed means: Score below 40, or any single hard red flag. Do not own — the story is irrelevant.
Data as of Sep 15, 2026 — scores are re-evaluated daily and this snapshot refreshes on each site publish. The live app always shows current data.
Zano is described as an open-source layer-one cryptocurrency and ecosystem focused on privacy, security, scalability, confidential assets, and decentralized applications. Its chain supports user-created privacy assets, including private stablecoins and shielded forms of existing assets. The supplied profile says transactions can conceal addresses, amounts, and selected transaction information through ring signatures, stealth addresses, and Bulletproofs+ proofs. Zano also has a stated fee-burning feature: network fees are destroyed, which could offset block-reward emissions as usage increases. At a high level, the project combines a privacy-focused base chain with tools for creating and transferring confidential assets. Its distinctiveness in the supplied record is the combination of private transactions, user-created privacy assets, and fee burning within one layer-one ecosystem.
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