Hybrid chains

Chains that combine two of the mechanisms above. Most often a proof-of-work backbone with a proof-of-stake finality layer, or a proof-of-stake chain reserving specific roles for a stake-weighted committee — the intent is to inherit one mechanism's security while borrowing another's throughput.

Chains counted
12
Combined market cap
$792M
Paid to miners / day
$7,546
Snapshot
24 September 2026
#AssetConsensusHashrateBlock timePaid to miners / dayIssuance / yrDifficulty 24hMarket cap
44 DecredDCR Blake-256 PoW + PoS 13 TH/s 5 min $273 0.03% +4.2% $324M
48 ConfluxCFX Tree-Graph PoW + PoS finality 471 GH/s 1 s $1,793 0.2% +1.7% $270M
61 ZanoZANO ProgPoWZ PoW + PoS 390 GH/s 2 min $5,479 1.7% −8.5% $118M
91 XphereXP PoW Proof-Chain + XPBFT PoS — 1 min — — — $40M
109 AbeyABEY DPoS/PBFT + PoW oversight — 10 s — — — $26M
125 ElastosELA AuxPoW SHA-256 (merge-mined) + DPoS — 2 min — — — $8M
169 MinimaMINIMA PoW + Cascading-Chain PoS — 50 s — — — $3M
173 SyscoinSYS SHA-256 PoW (merge-mined with BTC) + PoS masternodes — 2.5 min — — — $3M
212 CypheriumCPH HotStuff BFT + PoW (dual-chain) — 1 s — — — $942,934
282 TalerTLR Lyra2Z PoW + PoS 33 MH/s 1 min — — — $97,464
288 NovacoinNVC Scrypt PoW + PoS (Peercoin-derived) — 10 min — — — $43,433
518 VerusVRSC VerusHash PoW + PoS (50/50) — 1 min — — — $0

Paid to miners / day is block reward × blocks per day at the protocol's target block time × price — what the network spends on its own security, and the budget an attacker would have to outspend. Block rewards come from WhatToMine, which averages transaction fees in for some chains (Bitcoin) and lists the subsidy alone for others; where it doesn't list a chain, the reward is derived from the halving schedule. Issuance / yr is new supply at today's reward against circulating supply. Difficulty 24h is WhatToMine's difficulty now against 24 hours earlier. Blank means no source publishes it.

Methodology — the rules under which each chain's family was decided. Wrapped, staked and pegged claims are listed separately and never counted toward this total.