Compound
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Compound is a system that lets people supply crypto assets as collateral so they can borrow another asset against them. Its pages make no dated promises we could check. It trades at $19.12, #175 of all coins by size, 98% below its highest ever price.
This week in the news: ETF or institution, funding.
A real job, real backing. No dated promises on its pages. Nothing dated ahead. #5 of 36 lending/borrowing protocols. Nothing to be careful of on the record.
Is it real?
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3 of 4
- ✓A real-world jobReal-world purpose: lending and borrowing
- ✓Real backingBacking: backed by Paradigm; trades on Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken
- –Something aheadA dated step, deliveries on record, or demand showing up in the news.
- ✓Room to growRoom: worth $191.14M, 10 times smaller than Aave, the biggest coin within reach doing the same thing (Lending/Borrowing Protocols)
Backed by Paradigm and 1 more
- Origin11 May 2021about about 5 yearsTagged Made in USA on CoinGeckocompound.xyz, GitHub, Whitepaper
- DevelopersNot namedNeither Wikidata nor its listing names the foundersCode activity not checked
- BackingParadigm, Polychain CapitalInvestor tags from CoinGeckoListed on Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken, Bitstamp
- Standing on the recordNo recordNo dated promise to judge yet13 headlines last month, 2 about government95,452 people keep it on a CoinGecko watchlistNo corrections needed so far
It is already worth more than the typical coin in Lending/Borrowing Protocols ($10.72M). To match the leader, Aave ($1.95B), its price would need to rise 922%, to about $195.37.
Still to check
- No dated promise on record yet, so delivery cannot be judged
What to do Nothing dated is ahead and nothing has been delivered on record. There is no event to wait for yet, which is itself the answer.
A gap is not a forecast. Most small coins never close it. The site never picks.
Four tests, printed. Passing all four means a real job, real backing, something ahead, and a price far below the leader of its group. A filter on facts, never a verdict.
Every line has a source: the coin's own listing, CoinGecko's tags, the record, or the news feed. Reputation here is a count, never an opinion.
Does it deliver?
No dated promise has been found on the pages this project publishes. Its pages are saved every night, so anything it commits to from now on appears here.
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Every line is quoted from the project's own pages, with the copy we stored and, where one exists, the article that reported it
What is next, and when?
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Nothing dated
The project has not put a date on anything still open. That is a fact worth knowing.
How big is it next to its rivals?
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Only coins within a hundred times its worth; a coin a thousand times bigger is another world
Lending and borrowing
39 coins tagged Lending/Borrowing Protocols, worth $4.84B together. #5 of 39 by worth.
Lending/Borrowing Protocols: this coin against its direct competitors
- CoinWorth, as a barWorthAgainst this coinToday, and the gapSupplyPromises
Compound$191.14Mthis coin−2.9%100% outnone dated
Aave$1.95B10.2× bigger, +$1.76B+0.2%, gap +3.096% outno record
Morpho$1.47B7.7× bigger, +$1.28B−4.2%, gap −1.369% outnone dated
Olympus$301.26M1.6× bigger, +$110.13M−0.9%, gap +2.0no maxnone dated
Maple Finance$242.3M1.3× bigger, +$51.17M−4.0%, gap −1.1no max0 of 1 delivered
Kamino$137.37M1.4× smaller, −$53.77M−0.2%, gap +2.755% out0 of 1 delivered
Cap$94.28M2.0× smaller, −$96.86M+25.3%, gap +28.116% out3 of 10 delivered
Spark$60.53M3.2× smaller, −$130.61M−3.0%, gap −0.133% outno record
Lending/Borrowing Protocols: this coin next to Aave, the biggest rival within reach. People go to the bigger coin unless the smaller one does something it does not.
- Compound says
- Compound is a system that lets people supply crypto assets as collateral so they can borrow another asset against them.
- Aave says
- Aave is a decentralized money market protocol where users can lend and borrow cryptocurrency across 20 different assets as collateral.
Two claims, side by side, in their own words. Whether the difference is real is for the record to show over time, and for you to judge.
Compound is a system that lets people supply crypto assets as collateral so they can borrow another asset against them.
Its listing puts it this way: The Compound Governance Token is a governance token on the Compound Finance lending protocol, COMP allows the owner to delegate voting rights to the address of their choice; the owner’s wallet, another user, an application, or a DeFi expert.
Problem it says it solves: lending and borrowing. 39 coins are working on it and together they are worth $4,841,364,013. This coin is 4% of that.
Where it trades: Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken, Bitstamp, Binance
Each bar is a coin's worth today (price × coins out), longest first. The lit bar is this coin; grey bars are the others doing the same job.
Bars are market cap. Order is size, nothing else. Differences are measured from the coin you are looking at.
What should make me careful?
Nothing printed today
None of the six tests fails. A missed promise counts only on a record a person has checked.
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Lending/Borrowing Protocols: this coin next to the group's largest, Aave.
| Compound | Aave | |
|---|---|---|
| Years trading | 5 years | 6 years |
| Major exchanges | 10 | 10 |
| Named backers | 2 | 1 |
| Headlines, last month | 13 | 55 |
| Promises delivered | no record | no record |
What it says is different: The Compound Governance Token is a governance token on the Compound Finance lending protocol, COMP allows the owner to delegate voting rights to the address of their choice; the owner’s wallet, another user, an…
It is 9.8% the size of Aave. On the facts above it is behind on headlines, last month. For that gap to close, the record would need deliveries showing up in its record. Nothing here says it will; the site does not predict.
The tests: nothing to hold it for, more missed than delivered, priced ahead of its record, half the supply still to come, rivals ship while it does not, a big release of coins soon.
The homework: the coin itself, the news, the record
The coin itself
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The last 7 days
Where today sits against its highest ever price
Highest ever: $854.45 on 11 May 2021. Today is 2% of that.
100%
of all COMP that will ever exist is already out in public hands: 10M coins.
Nothing is held back. Every coin is already out.
out held back. Each dot is 1%.
A vote, nothing more by itself
Holders vote on how the project runs. The coin does not pay for anything on its own.
- A vote on how the project is run
That is all a market cap is: today's price times the coins in public hands. It moves every time the price does. It says what buyers are paying, not what the coin is worth.
- of the maximum supply is in circulation: 10M of 10M.
- Nothing left to release. Every coin that will ever exist is already out.
- of its all-time high of $854.45 on 11 May 2021. That is −97.8% from the top.
- #175by market cap, $191,135,069.
- Not checkedwho holds the most coins, and how much has been burned. Those need on-chain data this site does not read yet.
Supply and value figures from CoinGecko, refreshed hourly. Not part of the record.
What the news says
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Headlines per day, last 30 days
13 headlines named this coin in the last month.
What they were about
- Shelby Newsad — Crypto Profile, Projects & Funding Rounds
- David Hirsch — Crypto Profile, Projects & Funding Rounds
- Compound opens USDC market with up to 87% LTV
- Compound Opens Institutional-Only Lending Market
- DAOs are forcing crypto protocols to choose between code and emergency brakes
- Bofur Capital loses $2M in address poisoning attack after Compound withdrawal
- Compound Foundation Adds Executive Team and Directs $52M to Institutional DeFi
- Compound revamps leadership and allocates $52M to boost DeFi growth and product development
- Compound Approves Record $52M Budget for Institutional DeFi ExpansionGovernment
- Compound bets $52 million, new leadership team in switch to institutional focus
- Compound Pivots to Institutions With $52M as DeFi Demand Cools
- Compound approves $52M institutional DeFi programGovernment
- Compound bets $52 million, new leadership team in switch to institutional focus
13 headlines in the last month.
Headlines are the publishers' own. News is never placed next to price.
The record itself
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Six facts, the project's own replies, its peers, contract facts, references and every stored copy
Compound is a system that lets people supply crypto assets as collateral so they can borrow another asset against them.
“Compound III is an EVM compatible protocol that enables supplying of crypto assets as collateral in order to borrow the base asset.”source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-10
Live. The record does not yet cite when this stage began.
No dated or committed promises have been recorded yet.
Others in lending protocols: Cap 3 of 10, XRP 2 of 3, Fluid 0 of 7, Kamino 0 of 1, and 3 more.No public code repository is listed in this record.
None of the project's captured pages has changed since capture began on 10 September 2026.
Nothing further to flag from the record as it stands.
This record was drafted by a machine from captured pages and has not yet been checked by a person. Treat every line as unverified until that note changes.