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The current price of ResearchCoin is $0.05766 with a 5.17% change in the last 24 hours.
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ResearchCoin (RSC) is the reward and governance token of ResearchHub, a platform built on the idea that scientific publishing should work more like open source software. Researchers post papers, write peer reviews, run bounties, and fund work on the platform, and RSC is the unit used to pay for and reward those contributions.
RSC is not a blockchain and not a scaling network. It is an ERC-20 token on Ethereum, with a bridged representation on Base, whose purpose is to price and settle contributions inside one application. The short version: ResearchHub is the product, RSC is the incentive layer, and the ResearchHub Foundation created the token.
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ResearchHub was co-founded by Brian Armstrong, co-founder and chief executive of Coinbase, and Patrick Joyce. Armstrong published a post in early 2019 on structural problems in scientific publishing; Joyce, who had left a PhD program to build something similar, contacted him and the two started the project together. Armstrong is listed as co-founder and chief executive, Joyce as co-founder and chief operating officer.
The ResearchHub Foundation was later established as a separate entity, and it is the Foundation, not the company, that created ResearchCoin and manages its distribution. That separation matters when reading tokenomics claims, because the emission language published by ResearchHub describes Foundation distribution policy rather than anything enforced by a smart contract.
RSC circulates through a fairly small number of mechanisms, all of which live inside the ResearchHub application rather than in protocol code.
Earning Users earn RSC for uploading and curating papers, for discussion that the community upvotes, and for completing paid peer reviews. Programs that have been run under this model include an Editor program, an incentivized peer review program, and microgrants.
Bounties A user posts RSC against a specific request, such as a review, a replication, a dataset, or a piece of analysis, and the reward is released to whoever satisfies it. This is the mechanism that turns the token into a working marketplace rather than a participation badge.
Tipping and support Holders can direct RSC to content or authors they value, which also acts as a soft signal of quality.
Funding and fees The Foundation has described RSC being used to fund pre-registered research proposals and to pay article processing charges, which is an attempt to put the token on both sides of the publishing economy rather than only on the reward side.
Governance RSC is described as a governance token for community decisions on the platform.
Two things stand out, one social and one technical.
The social one is that RSC is a serious attempt to pay for peer review. Peer review is the one part of the scientific production chain that is almost universally unpaid, and ResearchHub's incentivized review program puts a price on it. Whether or not the price is right, that is a real economic experiment rather than a token attached to an existing product.
The technical one is what the contract actually does. On Ethereum, RSC lives at 0xd101dcc414f310268c37eeb4cd376ccfa507f571, reporting the name ResearchCoin, the symbol RSC, and 18 decimals. Reading the deployed bytecode shows a plain, compact ERC-20: there is no mint function, no burn function, no owner, no cap function, no pause, and no upgrade proxy. The full 1,000,000,000 RSC total supply was minted at deployment and the contract itself cannot create more.
That is worth stating precisely, because ResearchHub's documentation describes the network as having started with 7.5 million RSC released and a maximum annual increase of 50 million RSC. Those numbers describe a distribution schedule from Foundation-held reserves, not onchain issuance. The cap is enforced by the contract; the release schedule is policy the Foundation can revise.
Compared with other contribution-reward tokens, RSC is unusually narrow, which is both its strength and its limitation.
RSC inherits Ethereum's security for the canonical token. The Base deployment at 0xfbb75a59193a3525a8825bebe7d4b56899e2f7e1 is a standard bridge-mintable token: reading its bytecode shows mint and burn entry points together with bridge and remote-token references, which is the expected shape for a token minted on the Layer 2 against tokens locked by the canonical bridge on Ethereum. It is not a second, independent issuance.
Beyond the contract, the meaningful security question is application-level. Reward integrity depends on ResearchHub's moderation, on its voting and reputation mechanisms, and on the Foundation's control of undistributed reserves. None of that is enforced by code.
On the positive side of the ledger, the development signal is real rather than assumed: the ResearchHub backend and web repositories on GitHub show ongoing commits through 2026, so this is an actively maintained product rather than an abandoned one.
ResearchCoin is one of the few decentralized science projects with a shipped, continuously maintained product and a narrow, clear job for its token. It targets a specific failure, the unpaid and slow state of peer review, with a specific mechanism, paid bounties denominated in a token, and publishes both the platform code and the contract for anyone to check. That makes it a useful test of whether incentive tokens can change academic behavior.
RSC trades on a mix of centralized venues and decentralized exchanges on Ethereum and Base. Availability and pairs vary by jurisdiction, and liquidity for a token of this size is usually better on the decentralized venues where it is natively deployed.
RSC has been available on venues including:
Decentralized options include Uniswap on Ethereum and Aerodrome on Base. Listings change, so confirm current availability on the venue itself.
Before adding RSC manually, verify the contract address against ResearchHub's own documentation rather than a search result, and make sure you are adding the Ethereum contract or the Base contract deliberately and not by accident.
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Read the complete paper trading guideThe current price of ResearchCoin is $0.05766 with a 5.17% change in the last 24 hours.
The daily trading volume is $52,030.91 representing a 78.28% change in the past 24 hours.
The market capitalization of ResearchCoin is $14,040,147, ranking #606 globally.
The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of ResearchCoin is $57,664,763, calculated assuming the maximum supply of 1,000,000,000 RSC is in circulation.
Circulating: 243,478,794. Total: 999,799,788. Max: 1,000,000,000.
In the last 24 hours, ResearchCoin traded between a low of $0.05749 and a high of $0.06234.
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