BCH — Bitcoin Cash
BCH is the native token of Bitcoin Cash, currently ranked #19 by market capitalisation in the Payments L1 category with an approximate circulating market cap of 5B. This page provides live price data, tokenomics, recent news flow, and peer comparison drawn from the DeFi Intel research database.
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Tokenomics
Issuer
Decentralised — no single issuing entity — BCH has no centralised issuer; it is mined or minted by an open network of participants.
Chains
BCH is live on the following chains:
- Bitcoin Cash
Recent news
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Comparison to peers
The closest peers of BCH in the Payments L1 category by market-cap rank:
- XRP (XRP) — rank #7; compare BCH vs XRP
- Litecoin (LTC) — rank #18; compare BCH vs LTC
Audit history
BCH is a base-layer protocol token; its security model rests on the underlying chain consensus rather than on an audited smart contract. Reference clients are open-source, multi-team-maintained, and subject to extensive informal review.
Risk factors
Key risk factors for BCH: competitive pressure from other chains and L2s, validator/sequencer centralisation. Sizing should reflect the principal's tolerance for these risks; the DeFi Intel research desk views BCH risk as commensurate with its category mean.
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