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The current price of cheqd is $0.001429 with a 0.70% change in the last 24 hours.
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cheqd is a public, permissionless blockchain built with the Cosmos SDK that specialises in decentralized identity: it lets organisations create Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs), publish the supporting data behind Verifiable Credentials, and charge for access to trusted data. CHEQ is the network's native token, used to pay for identity writes, to stake with validators and to vote on governance. It matters because most digital identity today lives in closed databases run by single companies, and cheqd tries to give issuers, holders and verifiers a shared, open registry plus a way to be paid for the credentials they issue.
The project describes its focus as "trust and payment infrastructure" for digital credential businesses, eID schemes and, more recently, AI agents that need verifiable identities. Official site: cheqd.io. Developer documentation: docs.cheqd.io. Token and network explainers: learn.cheqd.io.
cheqd was built by a team that set out, in its own words, to "establish the payment rails and commercial models for self-sovereign identity". The network's software history is public: the genesis ceremony for the cheqd testnet took place on 21 July 2021 with four Cosmos validator nodes, one from each founding launch partner, and mainnet software upgrades have been published every year since (the 1.x family arrived in 2023, 2.x and 3.x in 2024). Identity-write pricing in CHEQ was implemented on-ledger as part of the January 2023 release.
The documentation pages reviewed for this article do not name individual founders or give a company registration, so treat any founder attribution from other sources as something to verify on the official site.
cheqd is a Layer 1 chain in the Cosmos ecosystem secured by delegated proof of stake. Validators run the cheqd-node software, CHEQ holders delegate stake to them, and block rewards plus fees are paid in CHEQ.
On top of that base layer, cheqd adds identity-specific modules:
cheqd supports several credential formats, including W3C Verifiable Credentials, SD-JWT and AnonCreds, and its docs list support for OpenID4VC and the European eIDAS 2.0 framework.
0x70EDF1c215D0ce69E7F16FD4E6276ba0d99d4de7, and the token also moves over IBC to other Cosmos chains such as Osmosis.Paying for identity writes Every DID write, update or deactivation and every resource creation costs CHEQ. The docs set prices in dollar terms that governance converts to CHEQ, for example about $2.00 for a DID write, $1.00 for a DID update and $0.10 to $0.40 for resource creation.
Staking and security Holders delegate CHEQ to validators and share in block rewards. The genesis target for bonded stake was 60%.
Governance Proposals, deposits and votes all use CHEQ, and network parameters (including identity pricing) can be changed on-ledger.
Burn Part of each identity fee can be burnt through a governance-set "burn factor", with the stated aim of pulling total supply back toward the initial one billion CHEQ.
Fixed tokenomics published by the team: an initial supply of 1,000,000,000 CHEQ at the token generation event, with inflation bounded between a 1% minimum and a maximum under 4%. The launch distribution allocated 50% to shareholders across three tranches, 29.3% to the foundation, 10.2% to the team, 5.5% to community and grants, and 5.0% to advisors, each with its own vesting period of one to five years.
Most general-purpose chains can store identity data, but cheqd prices identity actions directly and builds payment rails into the credential flow itself. The verifier-pays-issuer model gives credential issuers a revenue path, which is the commercial gap that earlier identity networks left open.
cheqd's own comparison is with Hyperledger Indy, the permissioned ledger behind networks such as Sovrin. cheqd lists more than 5,000 transactions per second against 4 for Indy, public dPoS governance against a trustee vote, and support for JWT, JSON-LD and SD-JWT credentials alongside AnonCreds. Compared with identity projects that focus on proof of personhood, such as Worldcoin, cheqd is infrastructure for any organisation issuing credentials rather than a single identity product.
Security comes from Cosmos-style delegated proof of stake: validators bond CHEQ, can be slashed or tombstoned for misbehaviour, and are chosen by delegated stake. Protocol upgrades pass through on-chain governance. The source code is public on GitHub.
Verifiable credentials are becoming part of regulation (eIDAS 2.0) and of AI agent design. cheqd is one of the few public chains built specifically for that job, with a live pricing and payment model rather than a roadmap promise.
CHEQ trades on centralized exchanges and on decentralized venues in the Cosmos ecosystem, such as Osmosis, where the IBC version of the token is available. The ERC-20 version can be traded on Ethereum-based decentralized exchanges. The project's get involved page lists current options.
Native CHEQ lives in Cosmos wallets such as Leap or Keplr, which also support staking and voting (setup guides are in the cheqd wallet docs). The ERC-20 version can be held in any Ethereum wallet. Check transactions on the cheqd explorer or on Etherscan.
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Read the complete paper trading guideThe current price of cheqd is $0.001429 with a 0.70% change in the last 24 hours.
The daily trading volume is $152,730 representing a 2.69% change in the past 24 hours.
The market capitalization of cheqd is $1,382,328, ranking #872 globally.
The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of cheqd is $1,795,579, calculated assuming the total supply of 1,256,573,801 CHEQ is in circulation.
Circulating: 967,374,098. Total: 1,256,573,801. Max: N/A.
In the last 24 hours, cheqd traded between a low of $0.001423 and a high of $0.001537.
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