Horizen describes itself as a network for private decentralized finance that runs as an EVM-compatible chain built on top of another blockchain called Base. Its pages make no dated promises we could check. It trades at $6.25, #242 of all coins by size, 96% 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. #12 of 68 privacy coins. Nothing to be careful of on the record.
Is it real?
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- ✓A real-world jobReal-world purpose: private payments
- ✓Real backingBacking: trades on Coinbase, Binance, Binance US
- –Something aheadA dated step, deliveries on record, or demand showing up in the news.
- ✓Room to growRoom: worth $114.55M, 85 times smaller than Monero, the biggest coin within reach doing the same thing (Privacy)
Listed on 6 big exchanges
- Origin16 October 2019about about 6 yearsTagged Made in USA on CoinGeckohorizen.io, GitHub, Whitepaper
- DevelopersNot namedNeither Wikidata nor its listing names the foundersCode activity not checked
- BackingNo named investorListed on Coinbase, Binance, Binance US, OKX
- Standing on the recordNo recordNo dated promise to judge yet1 headline last month33,738 people keep it on a CoinGecko watchlistNo corrections needed so far
It is already worth more than the typical coin in Privacy ($15.19M). To match the leader, Monero ($9.7B), its price would need to rise 8369%, to about $529.34.
Still to check
- No dated promise on record yet, so delivery cannot be judged
- No named investor among its tags
- Only 1 headline named it last month
- Years younger than the group's leader
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?
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Nothing dated
The project has not put a date on anything still open. That is a fact worth knowing.
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
8 coins we checked say they are for private payments, worth $30.09B together. #5 of 8 by worth.
Privacy: this coin against its direct competitors
- CoinWorth, as a barWorthAgainst this coinToday, and the gapSupplyPromises
Horizen$114.55Mthis coin−1.5%87% outnone dated
Monero$9.7B84.7× bigger, +$9.59B+0.5%, gap +2.0no max0 of 7 delivered
Chainlink$8.5B74.2× bigger, +$8.38B−0.4%, gap +1.175% outnone dated
Litecoin$4.08B35.6× bigger, +$3.96B−2.6%, gap −1.292% outno record
NEAR Protocol$3.08B26.9× bigger, +$2.97B−2.5%, gap −1.0no maxnone dated
Dash$680.68M5.9× bigger, +$566.13M−2.1%, gap −0.668% out1 of 9 delivered
Beldex$595.09M5.2× bigger, +$480.55M−0.9%, gap +0.6no max10 of 48 delivered
Midnight$333.17M2.9× bigger, +$218.62M−1.7%, gap −0.269% outno record
Privacy: this coin next to Monero, the biggest rival within reach. People go to the bigger coin unless the smaller one does something it does not.
- Horizen says
- Horizen describes itself as a network for private decentralized finance that runs as an EVM-compatible chain built on top of another blockchain called Base.
- Monero says
- Monero is a digital currency built to keep who sent money, who received it, and how much was sent hidden from public view.
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.
Horizen describes itself as a network for private decentralized finance that runs as an EVM-compatible chain built on top of another blockchain called Base.
Its listing puts it this way: What is the project about? Horizen is a modular privacy-first platform designed to make privacy technology, such as zero-knowledge proofs and TEEs accessible and usable across the web.
Problem it says it solves: private payments. 21 coins we have checked say the same; together they are worth $42,412,926,293.
Where it trades: Coinbase, Binance, Binance US, OKX, Bybit
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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Privacy: this coin next to the group's largest, Monero.
| Horizen | Monero | |
|---|---|---|
| Years trading | 7 years | 12 years |
| Major exchanges | 6 | 2 |
| Named backers | 0 | 1 |
| Headlines, last month | 1 | 88 |
| Promises delivered | no record | 0 of 7 |
What it says is different: What is the project about? Horizen is a modular privacy-first platform designed to make privacy technology, such as zero-knowledge proofs and TEEs accessible and usable across the web.
It is 1.2% the size of Monero. On the facts above it is behind on years trading, named backers, headlines, last month. For that gap to close, the record would need deliveries showing up in its record, news that names it. 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: $165.92 on 7 May 2021. Today is 4% of that.
87%
of all ZEN that will ever exist is already out in public hands: 18.33M coins.
13% (2.67M coins) is already created but not in public hands, held by the project or locked in escrow. 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: 18.33M of 21M.
- 2.67Mcoins still to be released, 13% of the maximum. Releases can add selling pressure.
- 1.1×fully diluted value versus today's market cap. The gap is coins not yet released.
- of its all-time high of $165.92 on 7 May 2021. That is −96.2% from the top.
- #242by market cap, $114,545,247.
- 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
1 headline named this coin in the last month.
What they were about
Headlines are the publishers' own. News is never placed next to price.
The record itself
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Six facts, the project's own replies, its peers, contract facts, references and every stored copy
Horizen describes itself as a network for private decentralized finance that runs as an EVM-compatible chain built on top of another blockchain called Base.
“Horizen is the ecosystem for private DeFi. EVM-native, built on Base.”source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-11
Live. The record does not yet cite when this stage began.
No dated or committed promises have been recorded yet.
Others in privacy networks: Zano 51 of 69, Internet Computer 20 of 23, Nockchain 20 of 30, Beldex 10 of 48, and 7 more.Others in smart-contract platforms: Internet Computer 20 of 23, Ethereum 15 of 20, Ozone Chain 13 of 30, Starknet 10 of 24, and 29 more.
No public code repository is listed in this record.
None of the project's captured pages has changed since capture began on 10 September 2026.
Nothing further to flag from the record as it stands.
This record was drafted by a machine from captured pages and has not yet been checked by a person. Treat every line as unverified until that note changes.