Tellor Tributes TRB

What TRB actually is on-chain

Tellor Tributes is an ERC-20 deployed on Ethereum, at contract address 0x88df592f8eb5d7bd38bfef7deb0fbc02cf3778a0. That address, not the ticker TRB, is what uniquely identifies this asset: anyone can deploy a second token calling itself TRB, but the contract is unforgeable. Verify it against etherscan.io before sending funds or approving a spend.

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

#471 places Tellor Tributes in the bottom of the mid-cap band. At this end of the mid-cap band listing status is not a fixed property. Exchanges review names like TRB 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 4 live TRB order books (Binance, OKX, Gate.io, HTX). That is coverage in line with a #471 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 TRB 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.

TRB against its all-time high

More than 95% separates TRB from its all-time high of $593.09 (on 2023-12-31) — a 37.2x recovery. At that distance the high stops working as a reference at all; it belongs to a different supply structure, a different holder base and typically a different cycle. What carries information for TRB now is the downside, so read the range section below before this one. That high was set 3 years ago, recently enough that it still anchors how most current holders frame the asset.

TRB across its historical range

The full recorded range for TRB spans 59,227x — from $0.0100 at the low to $593.09 at the high. A range that wide is not volatility in the ordinary sense; it is the signature of an asset that repriced from a near-zero base, and percentage-based indicators behave very differently across it.

Spot is roughly 1,594x above the $0.0100 low (on 2019-11-01). The practical consequence is a cost-basis distribution skewed by orders of magnitude: a slice of the supply was acquired at a price that rounds to zero against today's, and that supply is price-insensitive on the way up. Rallies in an asset like this do not fail because demand disappears — they fail because early supply meets them.

TRB supply structure

TRB has no hard cap. 2.8 million TRB of a 2.9 million total is in circulation (97.6%), leaving 69,678 held back. That overhang is modest but real — worth checking the unlock calendar before treating float as fixed.

What kind of asset TRB is

Tellor Tributes 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 TRB under 10 categories, including Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Oracle, Polygon Ecosystem, Gnosis Chain Ecosystem, Arbitrum Ecosystem. CoinGecko also records deployments on Polygon (531 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 Tellor Tributes alert that is worth receiving

Tellor Tributes is the ERC-20 at 0x88df…78a0 on Ethereum — quoted on 4 venues we stream — high dated 2023-12-31 — rank #471. 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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