What is the current price of Core?
The current price of Core is $0.01993 with a 0.16% change in the last 24 hours.
Core is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain built to make Bitcoin productive without moving it off the Bitcoin network. It runs its own validator set, executes ordinary Solidity smart contracts, and ties its validator election to three separate sources of support: Bitcoin mining hash power, timelocked Bitcoin, and delegated CORE tokens. That hybrid design is called Satoshi Plus.
CORE is the native coin of the Core blockchain. It pays gas, is delegated to validators, backs validator bonds, and is used in on-chain governance. Core's mainnet went live on January 14, 2023, and the network runs at EVM chain ID 1116, which can be confirmed by querying the public endpoint at rpc.coredao.org.
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Core was built by an anonymous group of contributors. The project has never published the identities of its original founders or core developers, and it positions itself as a community-governed network coordinated through Core DAO and supported by the Core Foundation. Independent write-ups from the mainnet period describe the same thing: an undisclosed team that released Satoshi Plus as open-source software.
Since launch, Core has shifted its emphasis from an EVM chain secured by Bitcoin miners toward being the chain where Bitcoin earns yield. The key milestones in that shift were self-custodial Bitcoin staking and, later, Dual Staking, which links CORE holdings to the reward rate a Bitcoin staker receives. Liquid staking through stCORE was added to keep staked CORE usable in Core's decentralized finance ecosystem.
Satoshi Plus combines three delegation channels into a single validator election.
Delegated Proof of Work Bitcoin miners keep mining Bitcoin exactly as before. To participate, they place delegation metadata in the op_return field of their coinbase transaction, naming a Core validator and a CORE reward address. This requires no additional hardware or energy. Core computes validator scores using miner delegation data from one week earlier.
Self-custodial Bitcoin staking Bitcoin holders lock coins on the Bitcoin network using the native CheckLockTimeVerify opcode, with a minimum lock period of one day, and embed validator and reward-address metadata in the redeem script. The Bitcoin never leaves the holder's wallet, is never wrapped or bridged, and simply becomes unspendable until the timelock expires. There is no auto-renewal, so continued participation requires a new timelock transaction.
Delegated Proof of Stake CORE holders delegate tokens directly to validators on the Core network.
Relayers watch the Bitcoin chain and transmit the relevant blocks and transactions to Core, where an on-chain Bitcoin light client extracts the delegation data. Each validator receives a hybrid score blending the three sources with weights that sum to one, and the top 31 validators are elected for each round. A round lasts one day, a slot is three seconds, validators produce blocks in round-robin order, and the live set is refreshed every 200 blocks so jailed or slashed nodes do not stall production. Rewards are distributed at the end of each round.
The main pieces of the Core system are:
CORE has four documented functions on the network:
On supply, Core documents a fixed cap of 2.1 billion CORE, deliberately set at one hundred times Bitcoin's 21 million. Issuance follows an 81-year schedule with a 3.61% annual reduction in consensus block rewards, a smoother curve than Bitcoin's step halvings. The documented allocation is 39.995% to node mining, 25.029% to users, 15% to contributors, 10% to reserves, 9.5% to the treasury, and 0.476% to relayer rewards. A transaction fee burn percentage exists as an on-chain governance parameter and is currently set to zero.
Core's genuinely distinctive property is that Bitcoin can contribute to another network's security without being wrapped, bridged, or handed to a custodian. The timelock is enforced by Bitcoin's own consensus rules, so the staker keeps full custody and takes no smart contract risk on the principal. Reward and validator selection risk still exist; principal risk on the Bitcoin side does not.
The second is that Bitcoin miners can support Core using metadata they already publish, at no extra energy cost. Together these make Core one of the few chains where three economically independent constituencies feed into a single election formula.
Compared with general-purpose Layer 1 networks, Core makes a narrower bet. It is EVM-compatible like most of them, but its consensus imports Bitcoin's hash power and Bitcoin's timelock primitive rather than relying on token staking alone.
Compared with Bitcoin sidechains that need a federated or wrapped-asset peg, Core's staking channel does not move Bitcoin at all. Compared with restaking-style Bitcoin security protocols, Core is a full execution chain rather than a security marketplace layered on other chains, so it owns its own validator set, fee market, and application ecosystem, along with the responsibility for all three.
Security comes from the three delegation channels plus standard Byzantine fault tolerance assumptions. Core maintains liveness as long as fewer than one third of active validators are malicious, and validators can be jailed or slashed when verifiers report misbehavior. Documented mitigations include the economic cost of acquiring both hash power and stake in order to attack the chain, periodic checkpointing against long-range reorganizations, and a finality mechanism that fixes history after a defined number of confirmations.
Bitcoin is the largest crypto asset and, for most of its history, an unproductive one. Core matters because it offers a way for Bitcoin holders to earn a yield denominated in a different asset while keeping their coins under their own keys and inside Bitcoin's own security model. Whether that yield proves durable or not, the design is one of the more serious answers to the question of what holders can do with idle coins without accepting custodial or bridge risk.
CORE is listed on many centralized exchanges and trades on decentralized exchanges within the Core ecosystem. Availability varies by jurisdiction. Because CORE is the native coin of its own chain, confirm whether you are withdrawing native CORE on Core Chain or a bridged representation on another network.
CORE is commonly available on:
Common pairs include CORE/USDT and CORE/BTC where supported.
CORE can be stored:
Staking and delegation are handled through stake.coredao.org. Always verify the network and address format before deposits and withdrawals, and remember that a Bitcoin timelock cannot be unwound early, even by the owner.
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Read the complete paper trading guideThe current price of Core is $0.01993 with a 0.16% change in the last 24 hours.
The daily trading volume is $374,606 representing a 57.72% change in the past 24 hours.
The market capitalization of Core is $29,831,399, ranking #423 globally.
The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of Core is $41,847,394, calculated assuming the maximum supply of 2,100,000,000 CORE is in circulation.
Circulating: 1,497,009,325. Total: 2,100,000,000. Max: 2,100,000,000.
In the last 24 hours, Core traded between a low of $0.01982 and a high of $0.02032.
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