What 1inch governs
1inch is a DeFi protocol governance token, currently ranked 164th by market capitalization among the assets we track. Rather than being money itself, 1inch is a claim on a financial protocol. Its worth tracks the fees, liquidity, and usage of the application beneath it far more than any monetary narrative.
1INCH is a decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator that finds the best prices across various DEXes for users, optimizing token swaps to reduce costs and slippage. The platform's native utility token, 1INCH, governance features and rewards users for participating in the protocol.
How value is supposed to accrue
The economic question is whether 1inch captures the value its protocol creates. Total value locked and fee revenue are the inputs; the token's design decides how much of that reaches holders.
1INCH is not mined; it is issued as a token rather than secured by its own mining or staking layer.
Background & fundamentals
1inch first went live in 2020, giving it roughly 6 years of on-chain price history to draw on. 1inch operates under a semi-centralized structure, which concentrates protocol decisions in an identifiable issuer or foundation. CoinPaprika classifies the project's development status as "Working product".
In sector terms it is most often filed under Ethereum (ETH) Token (ERC-20), Decentralized Exchange (DEX), and Exchange.
Where 1inch sits in the market
Trading around $0.0733, 1inch carries a market capitalization of $102.41M. Around $6.37M changes hands across exchanges in a typical 24-hour window. That is a turnover of about 6.22% of the float — a healthy level of activity for an asset this size.
Almost the entire 1INCH supply is already in circulation (~100.0% of the 1.5B cap), so future dilution is effectively off the table. 1INCH remains -99% beneath its all-time high of $8.38, the kind of gap that historically takes a full cycle or a fresh catalyst to close.
What the price history shows
Across timeframes, 1INCH shows 24-hour -2.38%, 7-day +2.47%, 30-day -10.02%, 1-year -60.97%. Within its stored 365-day daily history, 1INCH mounted a low-to-high run of roughly 112% at its strongest stretch.
Volatility profile
Recent action puts 1inch in the Moderate-volatility band — it shows the kind of price movement common in mid-cap crypto assets — meaningful but not unusual. Over the last 30 days the move totals -10.02%, a useful input for stop placement and position sizing.
How to evaluate a DeFi token like 1inch
The honest checklist for 1INCH is short:
- Protocol revenue — fees the application actually earns, and whether any of it reaches 1INCH holders.
- Total value locked — how much capital trusts the protocol — and how sticky it is versus mercenary yield.
- Token utility — whether 1INCH is load-bearing (governance over real value, fee rights) or decorative.
This page pulls live market data, on-chain stats where available, exchange-by-exchange volume, and our forecast model into one view so you can work through those questions in a single place. None of it is investment advice — it is a structured starting point for your own research.
