Kin
KIN#2485 by market capNot covered. The criterion it missed: market cap below the 5,000,000 USD floor.
Kin is for payments. We have not written its record yet, so its promises are not checked. It trades at $0.000000967, #2126 of all coins by size, 100% below its highest ever price.
This week Nothing changed on its record.
A real job, real backing. No dated promises on its pages. Nothing dated ahead. +51% to match its rivals. Nothing to be careful of on the record.
Is it real?
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3 of 4
- ✓A real-world jobReal-world purpose: payments
- ✓Real backingBacking: backed by Pantera Capital
- –Something aheadA dated step, deliveries on record, or demand showing up in the news.
- ✓Room to growRoom: worth $2.56M, 33 times smaller than Helium, the biggest coin within reach doing the same thing (Communication)
Backed by Pantera Capital
- Origin12 September 2017about about 9 yearskin.org, GitHub, Whitepaper
- DevelopersNot namedNeither Wikidata nor its listing names the foundersCode activity not checked
- BackingPantera CapitalInvestor tags from CoinGeckoNot on a big exchange we track
- Standing on the recordNo recordNo dated promise to judge yet0 headlines last monthNo corrections needed so far
To be worth what the typical coin in Communication is worth ($3.86M), its price would need to rise 51%, to about $0.00000146. To match the leader, Helium, 3169%.
Still to check
- No dated promise on record yet, so delivery cannot be judged
- Listed on fewer than two big exchanges
- Only 0 headlines named it last month
What to do Nothing dated is ahead and nothing has been delivered on record. There is no event to wait for yet, which is itself the answer.
A gap is not a forecast. Most small coins never close it. The site never picks.
Four tests, printed. Passing all four means a real job, real backing, something ahead, and a price far below the leader of its group. A filter on facts, never a verdict.
Every line has a source: the coin's own listing, CoinGecko's tags, the record, or the news feed. Reputation here is a count, never an opinion.
Does it deliver?
No dated promise has been found on the pages this project publishes. Its pages are saved every night, so anything it commits to from now on appears here.
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Every line is quoted from the project's own pages, with the copy we stored and, where one exists, the article that reported it
What is next, and when?
Nothing dated has been found on its pages, so there is no date to wait for yet.
How big is it next to its rivals?
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Only coins within a hundred times its worth; a coin a thousand times bigger is another world
Payments
70 coins tagged Payment Solutions, worth $1.64T together. #57 of 70 by worth.
Communication: this coin against its direct competitors
- CoinWorth, as a barWorthAgainst this coinToday, and the gapSupplyPromises
Kin$2.56Mthis coin+29.9%90% outno record
Helium$83.72M32.7× bigger, +$81.16M−4.1%, gap −33.985% outnone dated
XPIN Network$35.93M14.0× bigger, +$33.36M+8.5%, gap −21.342% outno record
Spacecoin$28.33M11.1× bigger, +$25.77M−2.1%, gap −31.929% outno record
NKN$5.02M2.0× bigger, +$2.46M−0.1%, gap −30.080% outno record
Towns$3.86M1.5× bigger, +$1.3M−1.8%, gap −31.714% outno record
Depinsim$3.53M1.4× bigger, +$964.04K−1.1%, gap −31.013% outno record
Session Token$2.64Mabout the same size−0.7%, gap −30.662% outno record
Communication: this coin next to Helium, the biggest rival within reach. People go to the bigger coin unless the smaller one does something it does not.
- Kin says
- Kin is a decentralized cryptocurrency that enables global permissionless transactions without the need for intermediaries.
- Helium says
- Helium is infrastructure that lets people build wireless internet coverage, plus software that runs it.
Two claims, side by side, in their own words. Whether the difference is real is for the record to show over time, and for you to judge.
Kin is a decentralized cryptocurrency that enables global permissionless transactions without the need for intermediaries. The Kin cryptocurrency is noninflationary, with a fully distributed supply that can't be increased.
Problem it says it solves: payments. 70 coins are working on it and together they are worth $1,644,638,480,898. This coin is 0% of that.
Each bar is a coin's worth today (price × coins out), longest first. The lit bar is this coin; grey bars are the others doing the same job.
Bars are market cap. Order is size, nothing else. Differences are measured from the coin you are looking at.
What should make me careful?
Nothing printed today
None of the six tests fails. A missed promise counts only on a record a person has checked.
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Communication: this coin next to the group's largest, Helium.
| Kin | Helium | |
|---|---|---|
| Years trading | 9 years | 6 years |
| Major exchanges | 0 | 6 |
| Named backers | 1 | 3 |
| Headlines, last month | 0 | 17 |
| Promises delivered | no record | no record |
What it says is different: Kin is a decentralized cryptocurrency that enables global permissionless transactions without the need for intermediaries. The Kin cryptocurrency is noninflationary, with a fully distributed supply that can't be…
It is 3.1% the size of Helium. On the facts above it is behind on major exchanges, named backers, headlines, last month. For that gap to close, the record would need deliveries showing up in its record, news that names it, listings on major exchanges. Nothing here says it will; the site does not predict.
The tests: nothing to hold it for, more missed than delivered, priced ahead of its record, half the supply still to come, rivals ship while it does not, a big release of coins soon.
The homework: the coin itself, the news, the record
The coin itself
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The last 7 days
Where today sits against its highest ever price
Highest ever: $0.0012 on 6 January 2018. Today is 0% of that.
90%
of all KIN that will ever exist is already out in public hands: 2.65T coins.
10% (288.44B coins) is not yet created or held by the project. That is a small share. Those coins can be sold later, which can push the price down.
out held back. Each dot is 1%.
Its pages do not say what holding it gets you
That is worth knowing before buying. A coin nobody needs is priced on hope.
- Nothing the project's own pages spell out.
That is all a market cap is: today's price times the coins in public hands. It moves every time the price does. It says what buyers are paying, not what the coin is worth.
- of the maximum supply is in circulation: 2.65T of 2.94T.
- 288.44Bcoins still to be released, 10% of the maximum. Releases can add selling pressure.
- of its all-time high of $0.0012 on 6 January 2018. That is −99.9% from the top.
- #2126by market cap, $2,561,103.
- 12 September 2017first block, as listed by CoinGecko.
- Not checkedwho holds the most coins, and how much has been burned. Those need on-chain data this site does not read yet.
Supply and value figures from CoinGecko, refreshed hourly. Not part of the record.
What the news says
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Nothing in the news this month.
Why it movedUp 30% today. No headline named it in the last three days, so the move is not explained by news we can see.
Nothing matched in the last month from the sources we read. CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, The Block, plus Google News searches for coins with a record and the top 100.
The record itself
Not covered. The criterion it missed: market cap below the 5,000,000 USD floor.
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Six facts, the project's own replies, its peers, contract facts, references and every stored copy