What Chiliz powers
Chiliz (CHZ) is a gaming / NFT-ecosystem token, currently ranked 126th by market capitalization among the assets we track. Rather than a financial primitive, Chiliz is the economic layer of a game or metaverse project. Player demand and trading activity inside that world are the fundamentals that matter.
Chiliz (CHZ) is a blockchain-based platform designed for sports and entertainment, allowing fans to engage and interact with their favorite teams through tokenized voting and rewards. It aims to enhance fan experiences by enabling participation in club decisions and accessing exclusive content.
How game-economy tokens hold value
Chiliz has to balance rewarding players with not flooding the market. Sustainable in-game sinks for the token matter as much as sources, or emissions simply outrun demand.
CHZ is not mined; it is issued as a token rather than secured by its own mining or staking layer.
Background & fundamentals
Chiliz first went live in 2018, giving it roughly 8 years of on-chain price history to draw on. Chiliz operates under a centralized structure, which concentrates protocol decisions in an identifiable issuer or foundation. Chiliz lists a documented core team of 1, so the people behind the project are at least named on the record.
The project publishes a whitepaper documenting its original design, which is worth reading before sizing any position in CHZ. CoinPaprika classifies the project's development status as "Beta version". In sector terms it is most often filed under Ethereum (ETH) Token (ERC-20), Binance Coin (BNB) Token (BEP-20), and Sports.
Where Chiliz sits in the market
Trading around $0.0179, Chiliz carries a market capitalization of $178.55M. Around $42.59M changes hands across exchanges in a typical 24-hour window. That is a turnover of about 23.85% of the float — elevated, often a sign of narrative-driven trading.
Almost the entire CHZ supply is already in circulation (~106.3% of the 8.9B cap), so future dilution is effectively off the table. CHZ remains -98% beneath its all-time high of $0.8912, the kind of gap that historically takes a full cycle or a fresh catalyst to close. Measured from its all-time low of $0.0113, CHZ is up +58%.
What the price history shows
Across timeframes, CHZ shows 24-hour -2.25%, 7-day -7.54%, 30-day -9.21%, 1-year -9.21%. CHZ is currently trading near the bottom of its 365-day range (around the 23rd percentile of recent closes).
Volatility profile
Recent action puts Chiliz 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 -9.21%, a useful input for stop placement and position sizing.
How to evaluate a gaming token like Chiliz
The honest checklist for CHZ is short:
- Player activity — real, retained users inside the game or platform behind CHZ.
- Token sinks — whether the economy has durable demand for CHZ beyond reward emissions.
- Studio execution — the team's ability to ship and sustain a product people actually want to use.
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.