Kyber Network Crystal KNC

What KNC actually is on-chain

Kyber Network Crystal is an ERC-20 deployed on Ethereum, at contract address 0xdefa4e8a7bcba345f687a2f1456f5edd9ce97202. That address, not the ticker KNC, is what uniquely identifies this asset: anyone can deploy a second token calling itself KNC, but the contract is unforgeable. Verify it against etherscan.io before sending funds or approving a spend.

Because it lives on Ethereum, KNC is held in any EVM-compatible wallet, transfers are paid for in ETH rather than in KNC 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 KNC the project publishes a public source repository and an active account as @kybernetwork. 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 KNC sits in the market

At #801, Kyber Network Crystal is in the upper small-cap band. Books at this depth are thin enough that one sizeable market order can move the printed price by several percent and retrace within minutes, which is precisely why a single static price target makes a poor trigger — you want a condition that survives one wick. Availability is concentrated in a handful of venues and volume-based delisting is a live risk rather than a theoretical one.

CryptoPingAi is currently streaming 6 live KNC order books (Binance, OKX, Gate.io, HTX, Upbit, Bithumb). That is wider coverage than most assets ranked near #801 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.

KNC against its all-time high

KNC is more than 95% below its all-time high of $5.70 (on 2022-04-29) — a 50.3x 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 KNC 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.

KNC across its historical range

The recorded range runs 46.3x, from $0.1230 to $5.70 — wide by the standards of traditional assets, moderate for this one's class.

KNC is within -7.9% of its all-time low of $0.1230, printed on 2026-03-08. 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. That low is recent, so this is an active downtrend rather than an old floor holding: each fresh low retires the previous one as a reference.

KNC supply and valuation data

Kyber Network Crystal sits just outside the band where circulating and total supply are independently verified, so we hold a valuation figure for KNC but not an audited token count. What we do have is a fully diluted valuation of $38.7 million as of 2026-05-12. That places it in the top 10% by fully diluted value.

Because that valuation is a snapshot rather than a live figure, we deliberately do not back out a supply number from it — the price has moved since, and the division would produce a confident-looking token count that is simply wrong. Check the project's own explorer for the current supply before using any per-token valuation. The authoritative figure is the one etherscan.io reports for this contract.

What kind of asset KNC is

Kyber Network Crystal is a decentralised exchange token. The economics are unusually legible for crypto: the protocol generates fees from trading volume, and the token's value proposition rests on whether it captures any of them. Volume on the underlying venue, the fee switch status and competitive pressure from other venues are the variables that actually matter — and DEX volume is itself highly cyclical, so revenue is not a stable base.

CoinGecko files KNC under 10 categories, including Automated Market Maker (AMM), Avalanche Ecosystem, Exchange-based Tokens, BNB Chain Ecosystem, Pantera Capital Portfolio. CoinGecko also records deployments on Avalanche (256 tracked tokens), BNB Chain (2,027 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 Kyber Network Crystal alert that is worth receiving

Kyber Network Crystal is the ERC-20 at 0xdefa…7202 on Ethereum — quoted on 6 venues we stream — high dated 2022-04-29 — rank #801. 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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