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What DASH actually is on-chain

Dash is not a token issued on someone else's network — it settles on its own base layer, which means there is no contract address to verify and no issuer who can freeze or reissue it. Supply and transfer rules are enforced by the chain's own consensus, so the risks worth tracking are protocol risks (client bugs, hash-rate or validator concentration) rather than token-contract risks.

Another asset tracked on this site also uses the ticker DASH: DASH (Ethereum, 0xedc3…f8dc). The asset on this page is the one that settles on its own base layer. These are unrelated tokens with separate contracts, separate supply and separate price histories — a price alert set on one of them says nothing about the others, and a ticker search is not enough to tell them apart.

For DASH the project publishes a whitepaper, a public source repository and an active account as @dashpay. 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 DASH sits in the market

At #90, Dash sits in the bottom of the large-cap band, adjacent to the mid-cap cut-off. Down here the large-cap label is doing less work than it appears to. DASH is one revision away from the mid-cap band, and the practical consequences of crossing that line — index eligibility, market-maker commitments, how much size the book absorbs — change well before the ranking does.

CryptoPingAi is currently streaming 5 live DASH order books (Binance, Bybit, Gate.io, MEXC, HTX). That is coverage in line with a #90 ranking: enough books to cross-check a quote, few enough that one of them can dominate price formation for hours at a time. None of the books we see for DASH are regulated US or Korean venues, so this is an offshore-quoted asset — availability, and the price itself, depend on which jurisdiction you trade from.

DASH against its all-time high

DASH is down more than 95% from its $1,494 peak (on 2017-12-20), leaving a 30.8x gap to reclaim. A drawdown this deep strips the record of analytical use: the supply structure, the holder base and usually the market cycle behind that print no longer exist. For DASH the informative reference is the downside, which makes the range section below more relevant than this one. It was set 9 years ago. A reference that old says more about the cycle it belongs to than about the asset as it trades now.

DASH across its historical range

DASH has traded across a 6,983x range, between $0.2139 and $1,494. Any volatility figure quoted for this asset depends heavily on which part of that range it is measured over.

At 226x above the $0.2139 record low (on 2014-02-14), long-term holders sit on returns large enough that ordinary drawdowns do not change their behaviour. Distribution pressure here is a function of holder age, not of the current chart.

DASH supply structure

DASH is capped at 18.9 million DASH, of which only 12.7 million is circulating — 67.1% issued, leaving 6.2 million still to come. At that ratio the emission schedule is a primary driver of the supply story, not a footnote: new supply arrives continuously and has to be absorbed by new demand before price can hold a level.

What kind of asset DASH is

Dash belongs to the privacy-coin category, which comes with a specific and unusual risk profile: the dominant driver of its trading environment is regulation, not technology or demand. Privacy assets have been removed from major regulated exchanges in several jurisdictions, and each delisting permanently narrows where the asset can be traded and how deep its books are. For this class, exchange availability is not a convenience question — it is the primary risk factor, and it moves in steps rather than continuously.

CoinGecko files DASH under 7 categories, including Masternodes, Payment Solutions, Alleged SEC Securities, Proof of Stake (PoS), Proof of Work (PoW). Worth flagging from the metadata: DASH has been named in SEC enforcement filings as an alleged security, and is tagged as US-originated.

How to set a Dash alert that is worth receiving

Dash settles on its own its own base layer base layer — quoted on 5 venues we stream — high dated 2017-12-20 — rank #90. On this profile the condition that carries signal is a price threshold plus venue-availability news, which moves this class faster than any candle.

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