What Enjin Coin powers
Enjin Coin (ENJ) is a gaming / NFT-ecosystem token, currently ranked 247th by market capitalization among the assets we track. Rather than a financial primitive, Enjin Coin is the economic layer of a game or metaverse project. Player demand and trading activity inside that world are the fundamentals that matter.
Enjin Coin (ENJ) is a cryptocurrency designed for the gaming industry, enabling developers to create and manage virtual goods on the blockchain. It allows for the backing of digital assets with real value while enhancing gaming experiences through asset ownership and interoperability.
How game-economy tokens hold value
Value depends on real engagement, not just token incentives. A thriving player base creates organic demand for Enjin Coin; an incentive-only economy unwinds the moment rewards slow.
ENJ is not mined; it is issued as a token rather than secured by its own mining or staking layer.
Background & fundamentals
Enjin Coin first went live in 2017, giving it roughly 9 years of on-chain price history to draw on. Enjin Coin operates under a centralized structure, which concentrates protocol decisions in an identifiable issuer or foundation. A documented core team of 18 contributors is listed publicly, a depth of disclosed staffing many long-tail tokens lack.
The project publishes a whitepaper documenting its original design, which is worth reading before sizing any position in ENJ. CoinPaprika classifies the project's development status as "On-going development". In sector terms it is most often filed under Ethereum (ETH) Token (ERC-20), Events & Entertainment, and Gaming.
Where Enjin Coin sits in the market
At $0.0279, Enjin Coin carries a market capitalization of $52.56M. Around $3.65M changes hands across exchanges in a typical 24-hour window. That is a turnover of about 6.94% of the float — a healthy level of activity for an asset this size.
Enjin Coin carries no fixed maximum supply; issuance follows a programmatic schedule rather than a hard cap. ENJ remains -99% beneath its all-time high of $4.84, the kind of gap that historically takes a full cycle or a fresh catalyst to close. Measured from its all-time low of $0.0174, ENJ is up +61%.
What the price history shows
Across timeframes, ENJ shows 24-hour -3.57%, 7-day -10.56%, 30-day -29.50%, 1-year -50.65%. Across roughly the last 365 days of daily candles, ENJ endured a peak-to-trough drawdown of about 81% before stabilizing.
Volatility profile
Recent action puts Enjin Coin 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 -29.50%, a useful input for stop placement and position sizing.
How to evaluate a gaming token like Enjin Coin
For an asset of this type, three lenses matter most:
- Player activity — real, retained users inside the game or platform behind ENJ.
- Token sinks — whether the economy has durable demand for ENJ 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.