Should TXC be a Top 100 coin?
We're going through every coin in CoinMarketCap's Top 100 and asking one question: why are you here? Some earned it. Some are coasting on 2023 momentum. Some are leftovers. This is who we're measuring ourselves against — and who we're coming for.
Where we stand today
Two years, receipts only.
- Jan '24Genesis block mined in McKinney, TX. Fair launch, zero premine.
- Aug '24Listed on CoinMarketCap. TXC hits every screener on earth.
- May '25On stage at Bitmain's WDMS. First global mining conference for TXC.
- Feb '26TSSB cease & desist. We cooperated, defended, kept shipping.
- Jun '26TEXITcoin Core open-sourced. Fully permissionless network.
- Jun '26In-Home Miner program — mining goes beyond Texas.
- NowThe Hit List. We start coming for the Top 100.
The CLARITY Act — the permission slip we didn't need.
Wall Street is waiting on H.R. 3633 to touch crypto. Here's the plain-English breakdown of what CLARITY actually does, what it doesn't, and why a fair-launched, no-premine, proof-of-work coin like TXC was already a digital commodity — with or without a bill from Congress.
First target: Dash.
The full case study — live market data, X account signals, heuristic fake-follower score, the argument, and where the gap actually is.
Dash (DASH)
A "payments coin" that processes about 20 transactions per block. Payment money that can't handle payments.
www.dash.orgLive from CoinMarketCap
@Dashpay
view on X- +30Very low engagement rate0.019% engagement per follower is far below the ~0.5% crypto baseline
Why Dash is a leftover
Dash sold itself for a decade as "digital cash for payments." The pitch was InstantSend, PrivateSend, merchant adoption, and a masternode-governed treasury that would fund real-world usage.
A decade later, the average Dash block carries roughly 20 transactions. Twenty. On a chain that markets itself as a payments network. Bitcoin — the chain Dash was supposed to be faster and better than for payments — processes 2,000–4,000 transactions per block. Dash is doing 1% of that on a network built specifically for the job.
That's not a scaling problem. That's a demand problem. Nobody is paying with Dash. The merchants moved on. The masternode treasury still pays for marketing, but there's no one on the other end of the transaction.
What Dash has that TXC doesn't
- Age. Launched 2014. A decade of brand and exchange listings.
- A treasury. Masternode governance funds ongoing dev and BD, even without organic demand.
- Muscle memory. Old-school crypto holders still recognize the ticker.
What TXC has that Dash doesn't
- A reason to exist in 2026. "Faster Bitcoin for merchants" was solved by Lightning, stablecoins, and card rails. "Honest PoW money issued in Texas as a hedge against federal monetary policy" is a thesis you can defend today.
- A story people can repeat. "Texit money" fits in a sentence. "Masternode-governed InstantSend privacy payments coin" does not.
- An actual on-chain reason for the transactions — the Omni L2, real issuance, real settlement.
The honest verdict
Dash isn't dead — it has a treasury and a floor of loyalists. But it's a leftover from the 2014–2017 payments-coin era, holding a top-100 seat on legacy listings and masternode-locked supply, not on usage. If we're picking targets by "who is holding a seat they can no longer defend on merit," Dash is on the short list.
Case studies queued up next
Working up the ladder — lower ranks first, moving toward the top.
Their original @KaspaCurrency handle now bills itself as an "Unaffiliated commentary account" with only ~2.1K followers. The community rallied around @kaspaunchained (~240K followers) — a "non-representative community account" — because the project itself has no official voice.
Top-50 seat held on brand and 2013 nostalgia. A few hundred transactions per block on a chain designed to be "silver to Bitcoin's gold."
A joke coin from 2013 sitting in the top 10 because one billionaire keeps tweeting about it. No roadmap, no fixed supply cap, and a security budget propped up by merge-mining with Litecoin.
Drop it in the ecosystem chat and we'll add it to the queue. The goal is honest signal, not attacks — if a project earned its spot, we'll say so.