Firo
FIRO#1068 by market capQualifies for a record and its pages are captured daily, but the record has not been written yet.
Firo is for private payments. We have not written its record yet, so its promises are not checked. It trades at $0.7548, #1007 of all coins by size, 99% below its highest ever price.
This week Nothing changed on its record.
A real job. No dated promises on its pages. Nothing dated ahead. #6 of 11 masternodes. Nothing to be careful of on the record.
Is it real?
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2 of 4
- ✓A real-world jobReal-world purpose: private payments
- –Real backingA named investor, an index, a major exchange, or a billion-dollar size.
- –Something aheadA dated step, deliveries on record, or demand showing up in the news.
- ✓Room to growRoom: worth $14.36M, 48 times smaller than Dash, the biggest coin within reach doing the same thing (Masternodes)
No named backer
- Origin28 September 2016about about 9 yearsfiro.org, GitHub
- DevelopersNot namedNeither Wikidata nor its listing names the foundersCode activity not checked
- BackingNo named investorNot on a big exchange we track
- Standing on the recordNo recordNo dated promise to judge yet5 headlines last monthNo corrections needed so far
It is already worth more than the typical coin in Masternodes ($13.15M). To match the leader, Dash ($684.92M), its price would need to rise 4669%, to about $36.00.
Still to check
- No dated promise on record yet, so delivery cannot be judged
- Listed on fewer than two big exchanges
- No named investor among its tags
- Only 5 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
Private payments
21 coins tagged Privacy Coins, worth $29.75B together. #9 of 21 by worth.
Masternodes: this coin against its direct competitors
- CoinWorth, as a barWorthAgainst this coinToday, and the gapSupplyPromises
Firo$14.36Mthis coin+4.0%89% outno record
Dash$684.92M47.7× bigger, +$670.56M−1.0%, gap −5.068% out1 of 9 delivered
Beldex$593.91M41.4× bigger, +$579.55M−1.0%, gap −5.0no max10 of 48 delivered
Ontology$50.47M3.5× bigger, +$36.11M−1.8%, gap −5.8no maxno record
Flux$24.06M1.7× bigger, +$9.7M+0.6%, gap −3.495% outno record
Divi$18.73M1.3× bigger, +$4.37M−8.5%, gap −12.5no maxno record
Exiom$7.57M1.9× smaller, −$6.79M+0.7%, gap −3.3no maxno record
Cosanta$5.38M2.7× smaller, −$8.98M−3.4%, gap −7.45% outno record
Masternodes: this coin next to Dash, the biggest rival within reach. People go to the bigger coin unless the smaller one does something it does not.
- Firo says
- Firo, launched in 2016 as Zcoin, is a leading privacy-focused cryptocurrency that focuses on being private digital cash.
- Dash says
- Dash describes itself as a form of digital cash that can be spent anywhere.
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.
Firo, launched in 2016 as Zcoin, is a leading privacy-focused cryptocurrency that focuses on being private digital cash.
Problem it says it solves: private payments. 21 coins are working on it and together they are worth $29,751,829,740. 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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Masternodes: this coin next to the group's largest, Dash.
| Firo | Dash | |
|---|---|---|
| Years trading | 10 years | 13 years |
| Major exchanges | 0 | 6 |
| Named backers | 0 | 0 |
| Headlines, last month | 5 | 75 |
| Promises delivered | no record | 1 of 9 |
What it says is different: Firo, launched in 2016 as Zcoin, is a leading privacy-focused cryptocurrency that focuses on being private digital cash.
It is 2.1% the size of Dash. On the facts above it is behind on years trading, major exchanges, headlines, last month, promises delivered. 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: $139.77 on 25 December 2017. Today is 1% of that.
89%
of all FIRO that will ever exist is already out in public hands: 19.04M coins.
11% (2.36M 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%.
Pays for every use of its network
Every transaction on its network pays a fee in it. That is the built-in reason anyone needs it.
- Every transaction on its network pays a fee in it
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: 19.04M of 21.4M.
- 2.36Mcoins still to be released, 11% of the maximum. Releases can add selling pressure.
- of its all-time high of $139.77 on 25 December 2017. That is −99.5% from the top.
- #1007by market cap, $14,362,349.
- 28 September 2016first 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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Headlines per day, last 30 days
5 headlines named this coin in the last month.
What they were about
Why it movedDown 18% this week. Headlines that name it: Privacy Coins Refuse To Die, With Firo And Zano Leading The Repricing (yellow.com, 1d ago) Vymopay Named Among the Best Anonymous Crypto Wallets of 2026 (CaptainAltcoin, 3d ago)
- Privacy Coins Refuse To Die, With Firo And Zano Leading The Repricing
- Vymopay Named Among the Best Anonymous Crypto Wallets of 2026
- Privacy Coins Refuse To Die, With Firo And Zano Leading The Repricing
- Privacy coin flaw risks endless token creation, leaving node operators with a deadline in hours to fix itUpcoming
- Privacy coin flaw risks endless token creation, leaving node operators with a deadline in hours to fix itUpcoming
Headlines are the publishers' own. News is never placed next to price.
The record itself
Qualifies for a record and its pages are captured daily, but the record has not been written yet.
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Six facts, the project's own replies, its peers, contract facts, references and every stored copy