Perpetual Protocol PERP

What PERP actually is on-chain

Perpetual Protocol is an ERC-20 deployed on Ethereum, at contract address 0xbc396689893d065f41bc2c6ecbee5e0085233447. That address, not the ticker PERP, is what uniquely identifies this asset: anyone can deploy a second token calling itself PERP, but the contract is unforgeable. Verify it against etherscan.io before sending funds or approving a spend.

Because it lives on Ethereum, PERP is held in any EVM-compatible wallet, transfers are paid for in ETH rather than in PERP 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.

Another asset tracked on this site also uses the ticker PERP: Perpolator (Solana, 5UCNsN…pump). The asset on this page is specifically the Ethereum deployment at 0xbc39…3447. 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 PERP the project publishes an active account as @perpprotocol. 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 PERP sits in the market

Perpetual Protocol ranks #2457, in the top of the long tail, just below the band most screeners still cover, far outside the set of assets that carry continuous market-maker coverage. At this end of the table the first question is data integrity rather than valuation: a quote can originate from a single pool or a single venue, reported volume is difficult to verify independently, and the distance between the last print and a genuinely executable price can be wide. Treat any indicator computed on this series as provisional.

CryptoPingAi is currently streaming 1 live PERP order book (Gate.io). That is thinner coverage than a #2457 ranking would normally imply — a move on one of these books is close to the whole market for PERP, with no deep second venue to arbitrage it back. None of the books we see for PERP 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.

PERP against its all-time high

PERP is down more than 95% from its $24.40 peak (on 2021-08-30), leaving a 1,302x 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 PERP the informative reference is the downside, which makes the range section below more relevant 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.

PERP across its historical range

PERP has traded across a 1,466x range, between $0.0166 and $24.40. Any volatility figure quoted for this asset depends heavily on which part of that range it is measured over.

PERP trades within 12.5% of the all-time low of $0.0166 set on 2026-02-28. Below that mark the chart is blank — no prior trading means no support level to cite, no volume shelf and no cluster of cost basis to lean on. Because that low is itself recent, the asset is in an active downtrend rather than sitting at an old floor — each new low invalidates the previous one as a reference.

PERP supply and valuation data

Supply figures for PERP 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 $3.9 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 PERP is

Perpetual Protocol 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 PERP under 10 categories, including Decentralized Exchange (DEX), Exchange-based Tokens, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Automated Market Maker (AMM), BNB Chain Ecosystem. CoinGecko also records deployments on BNB Chain (2,027 tracked tokens), Arbitrum (391 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 Perpetual Protocol alert that is worth receiving

Perpetual Protocol is the ERC-20 at 0xbc39…3447 on Ethereum — quoted on 1 venue we stream — high dated 2021-08-30 — rank #2457. 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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