DigiByte DGB

Where DGB sits in the market

#409 places DigiByte in the lower mid-cap band. At this end of the mid-cap band listing status is not a fixed property. Exchanges review names like DGB on volume grounds, and a delisting notice repricing the asset faster than any chart pattern is a more realistic tail risk than anything in the indicator set.

CryptoPingAi is currently streaming 3 live DGB order books (Binance, Gate.io, HTX). That is coverage in line with a #409 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 DGB 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.

DGB against its all-time high

DGB is down more than 95% from its $0.1781 peak (on 2021-04-30), leaving a 54.1x 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 DGB the informative reference is the downside, which makes the range section below more relevant than this 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.

DGB across its historical range

DGB has traded across a 5,746x range, between $0.00003099 and $0.1781. Any volatility figure quoted for this asset depends heavily on which part of that range it is measured over.

At 106x above the $0.00003099 record low (on 2015-01-13), 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.

DGB supply structure

DGB is capped at 21.00 billion DGB, of which only 18.28 billion is circulating — 87.0% issued, leaving 2.72 billion 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 DGB is

DigiByte is a base-layer network, so DGB is simultaneously the chain's security budget and its unit of account rather than a claim on a business. Value accrual runs through validator economics and through whatever activity settles on the chain itself. Because it is secured by proof of work, new DGB arrives on a fixed schedule and is paid to miners who carry real energy costs — a structural, price-insensitive source of sell pressure that proof-of-stake chains do not have.

CoinGecko files DGB under 5 categories, including Internet of Things (IOT), Layer 1 (L1), Proof of Work (PoW), Made in USA. Worth flagging from the metadata: DGB is tagged as US-originated.

How to set a DigiByte alert that is worth receiving

DigiByte (DGB) — quoted on 3 venues we stream — high dated 2021-04-30 — rank #409. 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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