DeFi Pulse Index DPI

What DPI actually is on-chain

DeFi Pulse Index is an ERC-20 deployed on Ethereum, at contract address 0x1494ca1f11d487c2bbe4543e90080aeba4ba3c2b. That address, not the ticker DPI, is what uniquely identifies this asset: anyone can deploy a second token calling itself DPI, but the contract is unforgeable. Verify it against etherscan.io before sending funds or approving a spend.

Because it lives on Ethereum, DPI is held in any EVM-compatible wallet, transfers are paid for in ETH rather than in DPI 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 DPI the project publishes a public source repository and an active account as @indexcoop. That is a partial paper trail — enough to check claims against, not enough to audit. 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 DPI sits in the market

DeFi Pulse Index sits at #1764, inside the lower small-cap band. Depth here is shallow enough that one large order walks the book several percent and the print mean-reverts within the same session — which is why a single fixed price level is a fragile trigger, and a condition that tolerates one wick is the more useful construction. Listings are concentrated across a small number of venues, so volume-driven delisting is an active risk here rather than a hypothetical one.

We are not currently receiving a live DPI order book from any of the exchanges connected to this site, so no real-time quote is shown above. That is itself information: it usually means the pair is unlisted on the venues we track, or trading has been halted. DPI is a Ethereum asset, so whatever turnover exists is most likely in Uniswap-style AMM pools rather than on a centralised book, and every fill there costs ETH in gas on top of the pool's own fee.

DPI against its all-time high

DeFi Pulse Index's record high is $656.49, set on 2021-05-12. A high in this range means DPI carries a meaningful unit price, so round-number levels near the peak tend to be watched as references in their own right. It was set 5 years ago. A peak that old describes a supply structure and a holder base that have almost certainly turned over since. We are not quoting a drawdown from it because no tracked venue is giving us a live DPI price — a stale or single-pool number would make that percentage look precise when it is not.

DPI across its historical range

The recorded range runs 22.5x, from $29.12 to $656.49 — wide by the standards of traditional assets, moderate for this one's class.

The record low of $29.12 was printed on 2025-09-02 — about a year ago. We have no live quote to measure the current distance from it.

DPI supply and valuation data

Supply figures for DPI are self-reported at this rank rather than reconciled against the chain, so we publish the valuation we have and not a circulating-supply number we cannot check. What we do have is a fully diluted valuation of $4.9 million as of 2026-05-12. That is in the upper quartile of tracked assets by fully diluted value.

That valuation is a point-in-time snapshot, not a live figure, so we deliberately avoid dividing it back into a token count — the price has moved since, and the arithmetic would yield a precise-looking supply number that is simply wrong. Read the current supply from the project's own explorer before relying on any per-token valuation. The authoritative figure is the one etherscan.io reports for this contract.

What kind of asset DPI is

DeFi Pulse Index 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 DPI under 8 categories, including Index, TokenSets Ecosystem, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), DeFi Index, Polygon Ecosystem. CoinGecko also records deployments on Polygon (531 tracked tokens), Ethereum (3,072 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 DeFi Pulse Index alert that is worth receiving

DeFi Pulse Index is the ERC-20 at 0x1494…3c2b on Ethereum — high dated 2021-05-12 — rank #1764. On this profile the condition that carries signal is a two-sided price threshold beyond the recent band plus a 4-hour or daily RSI condition.

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