Compound COMP

What COMP actually is on-chain

Compound is an ERC-20 deployed on Ethereum, at contract address 0xc00e94cb662c3520282e6f5717214004a7f26888. That address, not the ticker COMP, is what uniquely identifies this asset: anyone can deploy a second token calling itself COMP, but the contract is unforgeable. Verify it against etherscan.io before sending funds or approving a spend.

Because it lives on Ethereum, COMP is held in any EVM-compatible wallet, transfers are paid for in ETH rather than in COMP itself, and secondary liquidity sits in Uniswap-style AMM pools. Two consequences follow for anyone setting alerts: you need ETH in the same wallet to move the token at all, and a quoted price taken from a pool is a pool price — it includes slippage that an order-book quote would not.

For COMP the project publishes a whitepaper, a public source repository and an active account as @Compound_xyz. Both a written specification and readable code exist, which is a materially higher bar than most assets in this size range clear. None of it is a quality judgement about the asset; it is simply what can be independently checked before the chart is worth looking at.

Where COMP sits in the market

#177 places Compound in the upper mid-cap band. Liquidity is already fragmented at this depth: a large share of real COMP volume can sit on two or three venues, so a quote on a secondary exchange may lag the primary market by seconds and by more than a basis point. Position size matters more than entry timing here.

CryptoPingAi is currently streaming 7 live COMP order books (Binance, Bybit, Bitget, Gate.io, HTX, Upbit…). That is wider coverage than most assets ranked near #177 carry, so a divergence on any one of them is far more likely to be a local liquidity event than a genuine repricing. One of them is a Korean won market, so the Kimchi-premium spread between the KRW and USDT quote is visible on this page.

COMP against its all-time high

COMP is more than 95% below its all-time high of $854.45 (on 2021-05-12) — a 42.3x gap. At this point the record has essentially no analytical value: it belongs to a different supply structure, a different holder base and often a different market cycle. The useful reference for COMP is the downside, not the peak, so the range section below matters more than this one. It was set 5 years ago. A reference that old says more about the cycle it belongs to than about the asset as it trades now.

COMP across its historical range

The recorded range runs 56.2x, from $15.21 to $854.45 — wide by the standards of traditional assets, moderate for this one's class.

COMP is within 32.7% of its all-time low of $15.21, printed on 2026-02-06. This is the part of a chart with no history: there is no prior trading below this level, so there is no support to reference, no volume shelf and no cost-basis cluster to lean on. Because that low is itself recent, the asset is in an active downtrend rather than sitting at an old floor — each new low invalidates the previous one as a reference.

COMP supply structure

Of a capped 10.0 million COMP, 9.7 million is circulating — 96.7% issued, with 331,811 still to be created. The remaining issuance is small enough that emission is a second-order influence on price, but the schedule still matters for anyone modelling multi-year supply.

What kind of asset COMP is

Compound is a DeFi protocol token, which ties it to total value locked and to the interest-rate environment on-chain. These assets carry a beta to the market plus a second exposure that is easy to miss: protocol risk. A contract exploit or an oracle failure repriced instantly and independently of any market move, and that tail is a real component of holding the token.

CoinGecko files COMP under 10 categories, including Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Yield Farming, BNB Chain Ecosystem, Lending/Borrowing Protocols, Avalanche Ecosystem. CoinGecko also records deployments on BNB Chain (2,027 tracked tokens), Avalanche (256 tracked tokens), Polygon (531 tracked tokens), so on-chain liquidity is split across several networks and the cheapest venue depends on which deployment you are trading.

How to set a Compound alert that is worth receiving

Compound is the ERC-20 at 0xc00e…6888 on Ethereum — quoted on 7 venues we stream — high dated 2021-05-12 — rank #177. On this profile the condition that carries signal is thresholds anchored to the recent range rather than to the all-time high.

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