Decred DCR

Where DCR sits in the market

#140 places Decred in the top of the mid-cap band. Liquidity is already fragmented at this depth: a large share of real DCR 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 3 live DCR order books (Binance, Gate.io, HTX). That is coverage in line with a #140 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 DCR 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.

DCR against its all-time high

DCR trades 94.5% below its $247.35 record (on 2021-04-17), which puts a 18.1x recovery between spot and that level. A drawdown of this size is usually a structural break rather than a correction — the market that set the high and the market trading today are not the same market. Using that print as a price objective is not a conservative assumption, it is a very aggressive one. It was set 6 years ago. A reference that old says more about the cycle it belongs to than about the asset as it trades now.

DCR across its historical range

DCR has traded across a 573x range, between $0.4315 and $247.35. Any volatility figure quoted for this asset depends heavily on which part of that range it is measured over.

Spot is about 31.6x above the all-time low of $0.4315 (on 2016-12-26) — a substantial recovery, but one where a meaningful share of the holder base still has a cost basis within the visible range rather than far beneath it.

DCR supply structure

DCR is capped at 21.0 million DCR, of which only 17.4 million is circulating — 82.9% issued, leaving 3.6 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 DCR is

Decred 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 DCR under 8 categories, including Privacy Coins, Layer 1 (L1), Proof of Stake (PoS), Proof of Work (PoW), Blockchain Capital Portfolio. Worth flagging from the metadata: DCR is tagged as US-originated.

How to set a Decred alert that is worth receiving

Decred (DCR) — quoted on 3 venues we stream — high dated 2021-04-17 — rank #140. On this profile the condition that carries signal is a price threshold plus venue-availability news, which moves this class faster than any candle.

Full alert-design method: thresholds, RSI/MACD and volume conditions →