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KuCoin

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Hot: burn or buyback, upgrade or launch liveFull record

KuCoin describes itself as a cryptocurrency exchange for trading bitcoin and other crypto. Of the 6 things it promised, it delivered 0, 6 are still open; the next dated step is October 2026. It trades at $6.89, #75 of all coins by size, 76% below its highest ever price.

This week in the news: ETF or institution, burn or buyback, exchange listing, funding, upgrade or launch live.

A real job, real backing. Delivered 0 of 6, none late. Next step in 46 days. #8 of 29 exchange tokens. Nothing to be careful of on the record.

Is it real?

4 of 4tests passeda real job, real backing, something ahead, room to grow
nonenamed backersno investor or index on file
9 yearson the marketsince 22 August 2017
64.86Kpeople watch iton CoinGecko lists
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Passes all four

  • A real-world jobReal-world purpose: an exchange's own token
  • Real backingBacking: trades on Bybit, KuCoin
  • Something aheadAhead: next dated step October 2026
  • Room to growRoom: worth $945.01M, 10 times smaller than WhiteBIT Coin, the biggest coin within reach doing the same thing (Centralized Exchange (CEX) Token)

Listed on 2 big exchanges

  • Origin22 August 2017about about 9 yearskucoin.com/ucenter/signup?rcode=e21sNJ, Wikipedia
  • DevelopersMichael GanFounders per WikidataNo public code repository listed
  • BackingNo named investorListed on Bybit, KuCoin
  • Standing on the record0 of 60 confirmed by outside news134 headlines last month, 17 about government64,856 people keep it on a CoinGecko watchlistNo corrections needed so far
Why it is worth a look
  • Real-world purpose: an exchange's own token
  • Backing: trades on Bybit, KuCoin
  • Ahead: next dated step October 2026
  • Room: worth $945.01M, 10 times smaller than WhiteBIT Coin, the biggest coin within reach doing the same thing (Centralized Exchange (CEX) Token)
The gap, and what to do

It is already worth more than the typical coin in Centralized Exchange (CEX) Token ($40.18M). To match the leader, WhiteBIT Coin ($9.37B), its price would need to rise 891%, to about $68.30.

Still to check

  • 6 dated promises, none delivered yet
  • No named investor among its tags

What to do Add it to My coins and come back on October 2026, when it says it will deliver: KuCoin says it will launch a rebuilt version of its platform. That step adds use of the coin, which is what a bigger market cap has to come from. If it lands, the record moves; if it slips, so does the case.

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?

0 of 6promises deliveredby the project's own pages
0confirmed outsideby a news report or a tagged release
0past their date
6still open
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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

0%delivered

0 of 6

promises delivered, by the project's own pages

0 of those confirmed by an outside news report

Promises by the year they were due

20266

delivered open past due

todayKuCoin says it will launch a rebuilt version of its platform, called KuCoin 5.0, in October 2026. — due October 2026, open. Click for details.KuCoin says it will launch a rebuilt…October 2026KuCoin says its new unified account will combine what were separate spot, margin and futures accounts into one account. — due October 2026, open. Click for details.KuCoin says its new unified account will…October 2026KuCoin says KuCoin 5.0 will add trading in stocks, indices and commodities alongside crypto. — due October 2026, open. Click for details.KuCoin says KuCoin 5.0 will add trading…October 2026KuCoin says it will offer tokenized exposure to real-world assets, such as commodities, inside its crypto accounts. — due October 2026, open. Click for details.KuCoin says it will offer tokenized…October 2026KuCoin says its KCUSD product will let users earn daily, auto-compounding interest on stablecoins, stated as a 4% yield. — due October 2026, open. Click for details.KuCoin says its KCUSD product will let…October 2026KuCoin says it will build a plain-language AI assistant into the platform that answers questions and explains market context. — due October 2026, open. Click for details.KuCoin says it will build a…October 2026

delivered open past due, not yet checked today. Click a point to open that promise.

Promises, one by one
  • OpenOctober 2026KuCoin says it will launch a rebuilt version of its platform, called KuCoin 5.0, in October 2026.46 days away
    Details
    “This October, KuCoin launches KuCoin 5.0, transforming KuCoin into a rebuilt platform.”

    source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-13

  • OpenOctober 2026KuCoin says its new unified account will combine what were separate spot, margin and futures accounts into one account.46 days away
    Details
    “KuCoin 5.0's unified account removes that entirely — deposit once, and everything is simply there.”

    source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-13

  • OpenOctober 2026KuCoin says KuCoin 5.0 will add trading in stocks, indices and commodities alongside crypto.46 days away
    Details
    “Stocks, indices, and commodities. KuCoin 5.0 expands beyond crypto into global markets.”

    source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-13

  • OpenOctober 2026KuCoin says it will offer tokenized exposure to real-world assets, such as commodities, inside its crypto accounts.46 days away
    Details
    “Real-world assets (RWA) . Tokenized exposure to traditional assets like commodities, right inside your crypto account.”

    source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-13

  • OpenOctober 2026KuCoin says its KCUSD product will let users earn daily, auto-compounding interest on stablecoins, stated as a 4% yield.46 days away
    Details
    “KCUSD lets your stablecoins earn daily, auto-compounding interest. The lowest-stress way to put your idle deposit to work for 4% yield.”

    source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-13

  • OpenOctober 2026KuCoin says it will build a plain-language AI assistant into the platform that answers questions and explains market context.46 days away
    Details
    “An AI assistant in plain language. Ask questions, get market context, understand what you're looking at — built into the platform, no jargon required.”

    source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-13

What is next, and when?

46days to the next stepOctober 2026
6dated steps aheadin the project's own words
0coin releases inside 90 daysfrom its own schedule
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Recorded 13 September 2026. Date moved 0 times. The ring is how much of the time between the promise and its date has passed.

How big is it next to its rivals?

#8of 29 exchange tokensthe typical one is worth $40.18M
$945.01Mworth todayprice × coins out
$40.18Mthe typical rival is worthCentralized Exchange (CEX) Token
$9.37Bthe leader is worthWhiteBIT Coin
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Only coins within a hundred times its worth; a coin a thousand times bigger is another world

An exchange's own token

136 coins tagged Exchange-based Tokens, worth $155.78B together. #13 of 136 by worth.

Centralized Exchange (CEX) Token: this coin against its direct competitors

  • CoinWorth, as a barWorthAgainst this coinToday, and the gapSupplyPromises
  • KuCoin$945.01Mthis coin−1.4%no max0 of 6 delivered
  • WhiteBIT Coin$9.37B9.9× bigger, +$8.42B−1.5%, gap −0.129% outno record
  • LEO Token$8.25B8.7× bigger, +$7.3B+0.0%, gap +1.4no maxno record
  • Cronos$2.78B2.9× bigger, +$1.83B−1.5%, gap −0.149% out1 of 4 delivered
  • OKB$2.36B2.5× bigger, +$1.41B−1.6%, gap −0.2100% outno record
  • HTX DAO$1.52B1.6× bigger, +$575.05M−0.2%, gap +1.290% outno record
  • Bitget Token$1.35B1.4× bigger, +$405.2M−0.4%, gap +1.035% outno record
  • Gate$988.22Mabout the same size+0.7%, gap +2.175% out0 of 1 delivered
Same job, different how

Centralized Exchange (CEX) Token: this coin next to WhiteBIT Coin, the biggest rival within reach. People go to the bigger coin unless the smaller one does something it does not.

KuCoin says
KuCoin describes itself as a cryptocurrency exchange for trading bitcoin and other crypto.
WhiteBIT Coin says
WhiteBIT Coin is the native utility token of the WhiteBIT cryptocurrency exchange and the primary asset of the Whitechain blockchain.

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.

What it is

KuCoin describes itself as a cryptocurrency exchange for trading bitcoin and other crypto.

Its listing puts it this way: KuCoin is an international cryptocurrency exchange based out of Seychelle that currently supports the trading of 250 digital assets. What’s unique about KuCoin is that they share 50% of their overall trading fee revenue with users holding their exchange-based token.

Problem it says it solves: an exchange's own token. 136 coins are working on it and together they are worth $155,781,582,331. This coin is 1% of that.

Where it trades: Bybit, KuCoin, Uniswap V3, BYDFi, MEXC

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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Why is it this small?

Centralized Exchange (CEX) Token: this coin next to the group's largest, WhiteBIT Coin.

KuCoinWhiteBIT Coin
Years trading9 years4 years
Major exchanges21
Named backers00
Headlines, last month1347
Promises delivered0 of 6no record

What it says is different: KuCoin is an international cryptocurrency exchange based out of Seychelle that currently supports the trading of 250 digital assets. What’s unique about KuCoin is that they share 50% of their overall trading fee…

It is 10.1% the size of WhiteBIT Coin, and the facts above do not show why. 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

$6.89price of one−1.4% today
76%below its highest ever$29 on 1 December 2021
100%of the supply is out137.16M coins
$130paid in fees, 30 dayswhat people paid to use it
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The last 7 days

7 days ago: $7.01now: $6.89 (−1.4%)

Where today sits against its highest ever price

$6.89

Highest ever: $28.83 on 1 December 2021. Today is 24% of that.

96%

of all KCS that will ever exist is already out in public hands: 137.16M coins.

4% (5M 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%.

Perks on its own exchange

Fee discounts and access on the exchange that issued it. Its demand follows that exchange.

  • Fee discounts and access on the exchange that issued it
$6.89price of one
×
137.16Mcoins out
=
$945.01Mworth today, #75 of all coins

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.

Basics
  • 137.16Min circulation of 142.16M total. No hard maximum is set, so more can be created.
  • 24%of its all-time high of $28.83 on 1 December 2021. That is −76.1% from the top.
  • #75by market cap, $945,013,279.
  • 22 August 2017first 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.

Real use, in dollars
  • $772.54K is locked in apps built on it right now
  • Users paid $130 in fees to use it in the last 30 days

From DefiLlama, refreshed nightly. Fees are what people paid to use the thing; value locked is what they trust it to hold. Facts, not a score.

What the news says

134headlines, last monththat name this coin
17about governmentregulation, courts, central banks
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Headlines per day, last 30 days

134 headlines named this coin in the last month.

What they were about

  • Price18
  • Upgrade16
  • ETF8
  • Partnership8
  • Tokenization5
  • AI5
  • Hack4
  • Treasury4
In the news
What people are talking about, last month:

134 headlines in the last month.

Headlines are the publishers' own. News is never placed next to price.

The record itself

Promises6from its own pages
Page copies168 pages watched
Confirmed0by outside news
Checkedmachinedraft until checked
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Six facts, the project's own replies, its peers, contract facts, references and every stored copy

What it says it is

KuCoin describes itself as a cryptocurrency exchange for trading bitcoin and other crypto.

“Crypto Exchange | Bitcoin Exchange | Bitcoin Trading | KuCoin”
source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-13
Stage and age

Live. The record does not yet cite when this stage began.

Promises

0 of 6 promises delivered. 6 open.

Last activity

No public code repository is listed in this record.
The project's blog page last changed on 14 September 2026.

Open flags

Next deadline: October 2026, in 46 days.

Checked?

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.