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Epic Cash

EPIC · Field entry
PrivacyPayments & moneyPrivacyCaution flagNot on major US exchanges

A Grin-based Mimblewimble privacy coin with a Bitcoin-style 21 million cap

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$0.84137.70%Snapshot · October 20, 2026 · updates live
Market cap
$16.22M
24h volume
$82,396.00
Rank
#948
Circulating
19.28M EPIC
Max supply
21.00M EPIC
All-time high
$6.72 December 11, 2021

EPIC price chart

7-day snapshot. Chart data from CoinGecko.

Read this first — caution flag. Very thin trading, no major US exchange listing, and a small team and foundation steering the project. How to evaluate a project.
Not on major US exchanges. As of October 2026 Epic Cash is not tradable on Coinbase or Kraken and does not appear on Robinhood's coin list; the project's site points buyers to CoinEx and NonKYC. How to buy crypto safely.

What is Epic Cash?

Epic Cash is a proof-of-work privacy coin that started mining in 2019 using Grin's Mimblewimble codebase. Amounts are hidden and there are no on-chain addresses, while its supply follows a 21 million cap timed to line up with Bitcoin's. Blocks are shared between CPU, GPU and ASIC miners through three different mining algorithms.

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What Epic Cash actually does

Aims to offer private peer-to-peer digital cash with a fixed supply that mirrors Bitcoin's, mined on ordinary computers as well as specialized hardware.

Real-world usage
earlyThe chain and wallets work and hobby mining is active, but payment use and trading volume are small.
Token necessity
essentialEPIC is the only asset on the chain and pays miner rewards and fees.
Decentralization
moderateMining is open to CPUs, GPUs and ASICs, but a foundation receives a share of block rewards until 2028 and a small group of developers maintains the code.
Track record
provenMining began in 2019, giving it about seven years of operation; we found no major reported exploit, though its small hashrate limits security.

How we rate

What it’s used for

A small community mines EPIC on home computers and graphics cards and sends it privately between wallets. The project's site points buyers to a couple of smaller exchanges, and trading volume is low.

Role of the EPIC token:

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Evidence of real use

  • Epic Cash says it splits mining between RandomX for CPUs (48%), ProgPow for GPUs (48%) and Cuckatoo31+ for ASICs (4%). Source
  • The Epic Cash whitepaper says a share of block rewards, falling from 8.88% in 2019 to 0% in 2028, funds the EPIC Blockchain Foundation. Source
  • The Epic node software is still maintained, with release 4.1.1 published on GitHub on October 20, 2026. Source

Privacy: what’s hidden, what isn’t

Privacy model
default (every transaction)
What it hides
Transaction amounts on every payment, with no on-chain addresses; Dandelion++ relaying and optional Tor help hide the sender's IP address.
What stays visible
Which outputs are spent and created can often be linked by observers watching the network before transactions are merged, plus timing, fees and block data.
Reality check
Epic shares Mimblewimble's known weakness: research on Grin in 2019 showed most transaction links could be recovered from a well-connected node, though amounts stayed hidden. Major US exchanges do not list it, and EU rules restrict providers from handling privacy coins from July 2027.

Privacy coins, explained

How Epic Cash works

Epic Cash started from Grin's open-source code, so it inherits Mimblewimble. Coin values sit inside cryptographic commitments, there are no public addresses, and the wallets of both parties exchange data to build each payment. Transactions can be merged inside a block, which makes the chain smaller than one storing every payment in full. Before a transaction spreads across the network it travels along a random relay path using Dandelion++, which makes the sender's IP address harder to pinpoint.

The main difference from Grin is mining. Instead of one algorithm, Epic rotates three: RandomX for desktop processors, ProgPow for graphics cards and Cuckatoo31+ for ASIC machines. The project sets the share of blocks each one gets, currently 48%, 48% and 4%, and says those weights can be changed without restarting the chain. The goal is to keep home miners involved.

Supply is designed around Bitcoin's. Rewards fall in eras so that about 97% of the 21 million coins are mined in roughly nine years. After a point the whitepaper calls the Singularity, around May 2028, Epic is set to follow Bitcoin's own halving pattern, and the foundation's share of rewards ends; the whitepaper says a distributed autonomous corporation will then take over its role. Like Bitcoin, one coin divides into 100 million units, called freemen. Recent node releases have added built-in Tor support.

Key moments

  1. 2019Mining starts with zero supply and no ICO or premine, using a codebase derived from Grin.
  2. 2020The first reward era ends in June and block rewards drop from 16 to 8 EPIC.
  3. 2025Era five begins in August with a reward of 1 EPIC per block, and node releases add integrated Tor support.
  4. 2026Node version 4.1.1 is released on GitHub in October.
  5. 2028The whitepaper's planned Singularity, when emissions switch to tracking Bitcoin's halving pattern and the foundation's share ends.

Supply

Epic Cash is capped at 21 million EPIC. Rewards started at 16 EPIC per block and halve in a series of eras, with about 97% of the supply mined by around 2028, after which issuance follows Bitcoin's four-year halving pattern until about 2140. Until 2028 a declining percentage of each block reward goes to the EPIC Blockchain Foundation.

Risks to understand

  • Trading is thin and major US exchanges do not list EPIC, so buying or selling can be slow and costly.
  • A small hashrate split across three algorithms could make the chain cheaper to attack than larger proof-of-work networks.
  • As a Mimblewimble chain, it can leak links between transaction outputs to well-connected network observers, even though amounts stay hidden.
  • A small team and foundation steer development, so the project depends on a handful of people.
  • From July 10, 2027 the EU's anti-money-laundering regulation bars crypto service providers there from handling anonymity-enhancing coins.

Epic Cash FAQ

How is Epic Cash different from Grin?

Epic is built on Grin's code but uses a 21 million supply cap instead of Grin's endless emission, and it splits mining across CPU, GPU and ASIC algorithms.

Is Epic Cash legal in the US?

As of October 2026 owning EPIC is legal in the US, but Coinbase, Kraken and Robinhood do not offer it.

Who receives part of the block reward?

According to the whitepaper, a share that shrinks each year goes to the EPIC Blockchain Foundation until 2028.

Sources

  1. Epic Cash: The Evolution of Money — Epic Cash
  2. Epic Cash: Proof of Work Evolved — Epic Cash
  3. Epic Cash whitepaper v7.1b — EPIC Blockchain Foundation
  4. EpicCash/epic releases — GitHub
  5. Epic Private Internet Cash price page — Coinbase
  6. Epic Cash price page — Kraken
  7. What's Really Private in Crypto? Research on Grin Raises Questions — CoinDesk
  8. Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 (Anti-Money Laundering Regulation) — EUR-Lex, Official Journal of the EU

Last reviewed October 20, 2026. Written by . Utility Lens ratings are editorial judgments, not investment advice. Market data from CoinGecko. Spot an error? Request a correction.

About the author

Dave McNaught has worked in IT since 1999 and founded All Business Technologies (ABT) in 2003, a Boston-area firm providing Managed IT, Cybersecurity, Managed AI, Web Design and App Development. He publishes The Crypto Guide.

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