What Dash protects
Dash is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency, currently ranked 81st by market capitalization among the assets we track. Where most blockchains publish every transaction, Dash uses cryptography to keep financial activity confidential. That fungibility is its core feature — and the reason it draws particular regulatory attention.
Dash (DASH) is a digital currency that enables fast, low-cost transactions and enhanced privacy features through its unique two-tier network. It aims to provide a user-friendly experience for everyday transactions.
How the privacy is achieved
Privacy coins rely on cryptographic techniques — ring signatures, zero-knowledge proofs, stealth addresses — to break the link between sender, receiver, and amount. The strength of the scheme is what makes DASH genuinely fungible.
Under the hood, DASH secures its ledger with Proof of Work, built on the X11 algorithm.
Background & fundamentals
Dash first went live in 2014, giving it roughly 12 years of on-chain price history to draw on. A documented core team of 50 contributors is listed publicly, a depth of disclosed staffing many long-tail tokens lack. Its codebase is open-source, meaning the implementation can be audited rather than taken on trust.
CoinPaprika classifies the project's development status as "Working product". In sector terms it is most often filed under Cryptocurrency, Payments, and Masternode.
Where Dash sits in the market
At $32.56, Dash carries a market capitalization of $412.85M. Around $48.63M changes hands across exchanges in a typical 24-hour window. That is a turnover of about 11.78% of the float — elevated, often a sign of narrative-driven trading.
Only ~67% of the 18.9M-DASH maximum supply is circulating today, so emissions remain a live factor in price discovery. DASH remains -98% beneath its all-time high of $1,642, the kind of gap that historically takes a full cycle or a fresh catalyst to close. Measured from its all-time low of $17.45, DASH is up +87%.
What the price history shows
Recent moves read 24-hour -2.40%, 7-day -4.79%, 30-day +1.10%, 1-year +77.40%. Within its stored 365-day daily history, DASH mounted a low-to-high run of roughly 562% at its strongest stretch.
Volatility profile
Recent action puts Dash 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 +1.10%, a useful input for stop placement and position sizing.
How to evaluate a privacy coin like Dash
A grounded read on DASH comes down to three questions:
- Privacy guarantees — how strong and default-on the cryptographic privacy actually is.
- Listing risk — exchange availability, since privacy assets face delisting pressure in some regions.
- Network security — the consensus and developer activity keeping DASH resilient over time.
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.
