Decred is a cryptocurrency where coin holders vote on network changes and treasury spending, and development is paid for from the network's own treasury. Its pages make no dated promises we could check. It trades at $16.59, #141 of all coins by size, 93% below its highest ever price.
This week Nothing changed on its record.
A real job, real backing. No dated promises on its pages. Nothing dated ahead. #3 of 15 privacy coins. Nothing to be careful of on the record.
Is it real?
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- ✓A real-world jobReal-world purpose: payments
- ✓Real backingBacking: backed by Blockchain Capital; trades on Kraken, Binance, KuCoin
- –Something aheadA dated step, deliveries on record, or demand showing up in the news.
- ✓Room to growRoom: worth $292.12M, 66 times smaller than Zcash, the biggest coin within reach doing the same thing (Privacy Coins)
Backed by Blockchain Capital
- Origin8 February 2016about about 10 yearsTagged Made in USA on CoinGeckodecred.org, GitHub, Whitepaper
- DevelopersNot namedNeither Wikidata nor its listing names the foundersCode activity not checked
- BackingBlockchain CapitalInvestor tags from CoinGeckoListed on Kraken, Binance, KuCoin
- Standing on the recordNo recordNo dated promise to judge yet1 headline last month21,547 people keep it on a CoinGecko watchlistNo corrections needed so far
It is already worth more than the typical coin in Privacy Coins ($14.85M). To match the leader, Zcash ($19.3B), its price would need to rise 6505%, to about $1,096.
Still to check
- No dated promise on record yet, so delivery cannot be judged
- Only 1 headline named it last month
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
Payments
18 coins we checked say they are for payments, worth $1.64T together. #9 of 18 by worth.
Privacy Coins: this coin against its direct competitors
- CoinWorth, as a barWorthAgainst this coinToday, and the gapSupplyPromises
Decred$292.12Mthis coin−0.1%84% outnone dated
Zcash$19.3B66.1× bigger, +$19B−0.1%, gap −0.081% outnone dated
Monero$9.7B33.2× bigger, +$9.41B+0.5%, gap +0.6no max0 of 7 delivered
Zano$95.17M3.1× smaller, −$196.96M−1.7%, gap −1.6no max51 of 69 delivered
Nockchain$89.88M3.3× smaller, −$202.24M−11.5%, gap −11.554% out20 of 30 delivered
Verge$44.49M6.6× smaller, −$247.63M−2.5%, gap −2.4no maxno record
Pirate Chain$43.7M6.7× smaller, −$248.42M−2.0%, gap −2.0no maxno record
Zclassic$15.54M18.8× smaller, −$276.58M+231.2%, gap +231.290% outno record
Privacy Coins: this coin next to Zcash, the biggest rival within reach. People go to the bigger coin unless the smaller one does something it does not.
- Decred says
- Decred is a cryptocurrency where coin holders vote on network changes and treasury spending, and development is paid for from the network's own treasury.
- Zcash says
- Zcash is a digital currency built to let people send private, encrypted payments to each other.
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.
Decred is a cryptocurrency where coin holders vote on network changes and treasury spending, and development is paid for from the network's own treasury.
Its listing puts it this way: Decred aims to build a community-directed digital currency whose security, adaptability, and sustainability make it a superior long-term store of value. It is achieving this aim by building the world's first truly decentralized autonomous organization.
Problem it says it solves: payments. 41 coins we have checked say the same; together they are worth $1,745,498,830,279.
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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Privacy Coins: this coin next to the group's largest, Zcash.
| Decred | Zcash | |
|---|---|---|
| Years trading | 11 years | 10 years |
| Major exchanges | 3 | 7 |
| Named backers | 1 | 1 |
| Headlines, last month | 1 | 245 |
| Promises delivered | no record | no record |
What it says is different: Decred aims to build a community-directed digital currency whose security, adaptability, and sustainability make it a superior long-term store of value. It is achieving this aim by building the world's first truly…
It is 1.5% the size of Zcash. On the facts above it is behind on major exchanges, headlines, last month. For that gap to close, the record would need deliveries showing up in its record, news that names it. 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: $247.35 on 16 April 2021. Today is 7% of that.
84%
of all DCR that will ever exist is already out in public hands: 17.6M coins.
16% (3.4M coins) is not yet created or held by the project. That is a small share. Those coins can be sold later, which can push the price down.
out held back. Each dot is 1%.
Pays for every use of its network
Every transaction on its network pays a fee in it. That is the built-in reason anyone needs it.
- Every transaction on its network pays a fee in it
- Can be staked to earn a share of network rewards
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: 17.6M of 21M.
- 3.4Mcoins still to be released, 16% of the maximum. Releases can add selling pressure.
- of its all-time high of $247.35 on 16 April 2021. That is −93.3% from the top.
- #141by market cap, $292,124,354.
- 8 February 2016first block, as listed by CoinGecko.
- 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
1 headline named this coin in the last month.
What they were about
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
Decred is a cryptocurrency where coin holders vote on network changes and treasury spending, and development is paid for from the network's own treasury.
“Decred (/ˈdi:ˈkred/, /dɪˈkred/, dee-cred) is a blockchain-based cryptocurrency with a strong focus on community input, open governance, and sustainable funding for development.”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 payments networks: Nockchain 20 of 30, Beldex 10 of 48, eCash 8 of 10, ADI 7 of 15, and 19 more.Others in privacy networks: Zano 51 of 69, Internet Computer 20 of 23, Nockchain 20 of 30, Beldex 10 of 48, and 7 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.