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| 1h | 24h | 7d | 30d | 60d | 90d |
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| 0.23% | 12.32% | 28.79% | 44.33% | 46.20% | 39.92% |
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| # | Exchange | Pair | Price | +2% depth | -2% depth | Volume (24h) | volume % |
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| 1 | OOKXCEX | CORE/USDT | $0.1342 | $34,732 | $43,921 | $2,117,093 | 63.95% |
| 2 | BBitgetCEX | CORE/USDT | $0.134 | $20,084 | $17,364 | $295,735 | 8.93% |
| 3 | BBybitCEX | CORE/USDT | $0.1337 | $9,475 | $8,384 | $250,334 | 7.56% |
| 4 | CORECHAIN/USD | $0.1341 | $19,805 | $39,027 | $174,665 | 5.28% | |
| 5 | BBithumbCEX | CORE/KRW | $0.135 | $23,838 | $12,070 | $127,844 | 3.86% |
| 6 | BBingXCEX | CORE/USDT | $0.134 | $26,952 | $30,382 | $124,248 | 3.75% |
| 7 | HHTXCEX | CORE/USDT | $0.1352 | $1,284 | $1,797 | $37,079 | 1.12% |
| 8 | PPhemexCEX | CORE/USDT | $0.1335 | $1,496 | $1,439 | $5,001 | 0.15% |
| 9 | OOKXCEX | CORE/USD | $0.1337 | $1,575 | $3,124 | $122 | 0.00% |
| 10 | PPoloniexCEX | CORE/USDT | $0.1199 | $0 | $0 | $37 | 0.00% |
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About Core
Core is a Bitcoin sidechain-style layer 1 launched in 2022. Its Satoshi Plus consensus combines Bitcoin miners' hashpower, CORE holder staking and validator election: miners delegate hashpower to validators, holders vote in proportion to stake, the top validators produce blocks, and block headers are anchored to Bitcoin for deeper finality. EVM compatibility lets Solidity contracts deploy directly, with the aim of bringing idle bitcoin into lending, staking and yield strategies without a centralized custodian.
The product line is built around BTCFi: non-custodial bitcoin staking, a liquid staking receipt, and the payments product SatPay, which opened public beta in July. A mainnet gas economy upgrade in August routes chain fees to the treasury for buying CORE on the secondary market, replacing the old model of burning a share of block rewards, with repurchase size floating with fee revenue. Its position is the application layer for bitcoin assets; unlike wrappers that only bridge BTC, it wires the security budget directly to miners.
Core DAO has achieved several milestones with long-term significance. The first Bitcoin staking ETP, powered by Core, was listed on the London Stock Exchange, offering 1.4% yield on BTC holdings and marking a major step for Bitcoin staking in traditional finance. The Core Fusion upgrade was completed, redefining Bitcoin staking and Bitcoin finance by introducing Dual Staking and LstBTC, a liquid staking token that enhances capital efficiency. The Core Commit Program was launched to fund and support early-stage projects, fostering ecosystem growth. Abdoulaye Ndiaye was appointed as a research advisor, bringing academic rigor to protocol development. Core executives announced plans to launch a Bitcoin yield ETF in the U.S. within five years, signaling long-term institutional ambitions. Additionally, the proposal to expand validators to 31 by Q2 2025 was approved, improving decentralization and network resilience. These developments collectively position Core as a leading Bitcoin-aligned EVM blockchain, bridging Bitcoin security with DeFi innovation.
Buyback model: The 2026 roadmap routes all BTCFi ecosystem fees into a treasury earmarked for open-market CORE buybacks, replacing the inflation-funded burn of block rewards; the team pledges quarterly disclosure of revenue and buyback data, with recurring buybacks starting alongside SatPay's July public beta.
Developments: On October 1 it announced that block production will pass entirely from its own validators to independent operators over the coming months; an August mainnet gas-economics upgrade followed, with sub-second finality targeted in 2026, while SatPay opened its global beta in July and iterates through the fourth quarter.
Between August 28 and 31, 2026, Core's block reward accounting was exploited and about 255 million CORE were released ahead of schedule. The team disclosed the issue on August 31, contained excess claims on September 1, and activated the v1.0.26 hard fork on mainnet at 13:00 UTC on September 3 without rolling back transactions or halting the network; user and staker funds were unaffected.
Reconciliation removed about 186 million CORE from supply permanently, while roughly 69 million had been moved off before the upgrade and the foundation is working with law enforcement to recover them. Coinbase paused CORE deposits and withdrawals on August 31. Earlier, on April 30, Core published a long-term roadmap aimed at AI payments.
Core will make Bitcoin staking and DeFi yield the main entry point, advance the Hermes upgrade and the Bitcoin power grid plan, and tighten audit and transparency around reward accounting and validator oversight.
Rich Rines — Initial Contributor; ex-Coinbase engineering lead (money movement), now CEO of Element Wallet, Boston College graduate.
Brendon Sedo — Initial Contributor; co-founded Joist (acquired by EverCommerce).
Ryan Hong — Venture Contributor at Core Ventures. Core has no single public founder; much of the team is anonymous, governed via the Core Foundation and Core Ventures.
Core recently underwent a significant team change: Head of Institutional Hong Sun departed in June 2026, ending nearly two years of service since August 2024. During his tenure, he led key initiatives such as the institutional Bitcoin yield platform Core Alpha and the revenue-sharing program RevPlus, helping establish Core as a leading Bitcoin sidechain. Following his departure, Hong Sun joined zerohash, a digital asset infrastructure firm, as VP of Enterprise Sales in July 2026. This transition may impact the continuity of Core's institutional business strategy going forward.