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Zest Protocol

ZEST#938 by market cap

Qualifies for a record and its pages are captured daily, but the record has not been written yet.

#7of 17 btcfi protocolsthe typical one is worth $8.96M#880of all coins by sizeworth $18.46M today85%of the supply still to come854M coins can still reach the market4 monthson the markettrading since 19 May 2026

Zest Protocol is for lending and borrowing. We have not written its record yet, so its promises are not checked. It trades at $0.1265, #880 of all coins by size, 64% 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. #7 of 17 btcfi protocols. 1 reason to be careful.

Is it real?

4 of 4tests passeda real job, real backing, something ahead, room to grow
nonenamed backersno investor or index on file
4 monthson the marketsince 19 May 2026

Reasons to be careful:Half the supply still to come

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Passes all four

  • ✓A real-world jobReal-world purpose: lending and borrowing
  • ✓Real backingBacking: trades on KuCoin
  • ✓Something aheadAhead: news this month about upgrade
  • ✓Room to growRoom: worth $18.46M, 22 times smaller than Pendle, the biggest coin within reach doing the same thing (BTCfi Protocol)

No named backer

  • Origin19 May 2026about about 4 monthszestprotocol.com, GitHub
  • DevelopersNot namedNeither Wikidata nor its listing names the foundersCode activity not checked
  • BackingNo named investorListed on KuCoin
  • Standing on the recordNo recordNo dated promise to judge yet8 headlines last monthNo corrections needed so far
Why it is worth a look
  • Real-world purpose: lending and borrowing
  • Backing: trades on KuCoin
  • Ahead: news this month about upgrade
  • Room: worth $18.46M, 22 times smaller than Pendle, the biggest coin within reach doing the same thing (BTCfi Protocol)
The gap, and what to do

It is already worth more than the typical coin in BTCfi Protocol ($8.96M). To match the leader, Pendle ($407.83M), its price would need to rise 2109%, to about $2.79.

Still to check

  • No dated promise on record yet, so delivery cannot be judged
  • Listed on fewer than two big exchanges (KuCoin)
  • No named investor among its tags
  • Only 8 headlines named it last month
  • Years younger than the group's leader

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?

Nothing dated has been found on its pages, so there is no date to wait for yet.

How big is it next to its rivals?

#7of 17 btcfi protocolsthe typical one is worth $8.96M
$18.46Mworth todayprice × coins out
$8.96Mthe typical rival is worthBTCfi Protocol
$407.83Mthe leader is worthPendle
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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 $4.86B together. #16 of 39 by worth.

BTCfi Protocol: this coin against its direct competitors

  • CoinWorth, as a barWorthAgainst this coinToday, and the gapSupplyPromises
  • Zest Protocol$18.46Mthis coin+4.0%15% outno record
  • Pendle$407.83M22.1× bigger, +$389.37M+6.1%, gap +2.1no maxnone dated
  • Bedrock$105.56M5.7× bigger, +$87.09M−15.2%, gap −19.230% outnone dated
  • Threshold Network$53.29M2.9× bigger, +$34.83M−6.5%, gap −10.4no maxno record
  • Babylon$49.4M2.7× bigger, +$30.93M−12.4%, gap −16.3no max0 of 8 delivered
  • Lombard$43.89M2.4× bigger, +$25.43M−2.2%, gap −6.235% outno record
  • Solv Protocol$25.6M1.4× bigger, +$7.14M−3.1%, gap −7.157% outno record
  • Bitlayer$13.09M1.4× smaller, −$5.37M−0.9%, gap −4.926% outno record
Same job, different how

BTCfi Protocol: this coin next to Pendle, the biggest rival within reach. People go to the bigger coin unless the smaller one does something it does not.

Zest Protocol says
$ZEST is the native token of Zest Protocol, the leading lending protocol across Bitcoin L2s and now expanding to Bitcoin L1 with Bitcoin Collateral Vaults.
Pendle says
Pendle describes itself as a platform for trading crypto yield.

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

$ZEST is the native token of Zest Protocol, the leading lending protocol across Bitcoin L2s and now expanding to Bitcoin L1 with Bitcoin Collateral Vaults.

Problem it says it solves: lending and borrowing. 39 coins are working on it and together they are worth $4,859,579,140. This coin is 0% of that.

Where it trades: KuCoin, Pancakeswap Infinity CLMM, Aerodrome Slipstream 3, Toobit, HTX

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?

1 reason to be careful

  • Half the supply still to come85% of the maximum supply is still to come
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Why is it this small?

BTCfi Protocol: this coin next to the group's largest, Pendle.

Zest ProtocolPendle
Years trading3 months4 years
Major exchanges19
Named backers00
Headlines, last month827
Promises deliveredno recordno record

What it says is different: $ZEST is the native token of Zest Protocol, the leading lending protocol across Bitcoin L2s and now expanding to Bitcoin L1 with Bitcoin Collateral Vaults.

It is 4.5% the size of Pendle. On the facts above it is behind on years trading, major exchanges. For that gap to close, the record would need deliveries showing up in its record, news that names it, listings on major exchanges. Nothing here says it will; the site does not predict.

Printed the same way as the reasons for: facts from the record, the tags and the market feed. Never a verdict, never the word sell.

The homework: the coin itself, the news, the record

The coin itself

$0.1265price of one+4.0% today
64%below its highest ever$0 on 9 June 2026
15%of the supply is out146M coins
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The last 7 days

7 days ago: $0.1337now: $0.1265 (−4.1%)

Where today sits against its highest ever price

$0.1265

Highest ever: $0.3466 on 9 June 2026. Today is 36% of that.

15%

of all ZEST that will ever exist is already out in public hands: 146M coins.

85% (854M coins) is already created but not in public hands, held by the project or locked in escrow. That is a majority. Those coins can be sold later, which can push the price down.

out held back. Each dot is 1%.

A share of the app's fees or votes

Apps like this usually pay holders from fees or give them a vote. Check which.

  • Nothing the project's own pages spell out.
$0.1265price of one
×
146Mcoins out
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$18.46Mworth today, #880 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
  • 15%of the maximum supply is in circulation: 146M of 1B.
  • 854Mcoins still to be released, 85% of the maximum. Releases can add selling pressure.
  • 6.8×fully diluted value versus today's market cap. The gap is coins not yet released.
  • 36%of its all-time high of $0.3466 on 9 June 2026. That is −63.5% from the top.
  • #880by market cap, $18,463,464.
  • 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

8headlines, last monththat name this coin
0about governmentregulation, courts, central banks
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Headlines per day, last 30 days

8 headlines named this coin in the last month.

What they were about

  • Upgrade2
  • Price1
  • Unlock1
In the news
What people are talking about, last month:

8 headlines in the last month.

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

The record itself

Qualifies for a record and its pages are captured daily, but the record has not been written yet.

Pages saveddailycaptured every night
Promisesnone yetno record drafted
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Six facts, the project's own replies, its peers, contract facts, references and every stored copy