What Venus governs
Venus (XVS) is a DeFi protocol governance token, currently ranked 269th by market capitalization among the assets we track. Venus is the governance token of a DeFi protocol: holding it is less like owning a currency and more like owning a vote over how the protocol runs — and, in some designs, a share of the fees it collects.
Venus (XVS) is a decentralized money market protocol built on the Binance Smart Chain, enabling users to lend, borrow, and earn interest on cryptocurrencies. It aims to provide a seamless and efficient way for individuals to manage their digital assets.
How value is supposed to accrue
Usage drives everything here: more deposits and more volume mean more fees, and the token's value depends on whether those fees flow back to XVS rather than evaporating to liquidity providers alone.
Background & fundamentals
The project publishes a whitepaper documenting its original design, which is worth reading before sizing any position in XVS. In sector terms it is most often filed under DeFi, Binance Coin (BNB) Token (BEP-20), and Binance Launchpool.
Where Venus sits in the market
Trading around $2.68, Venus carries a market capitalization of $43.87M. Around $2.33M changes hands across exchanges in a typical 24-hour window. That is a turnover of about 5.30% of the float — a healthy level of activity for an asset this size.
Venus carries no fixed maximum supply; issuance follows a programmatic schedule rather than a hard cap. XVS remains -99% beneath its all-time high of $373.52, the kind of gap that historically takes a full cycle or a fresh catalyst to close.
What the price history shows
Across timeframes, XVS shows 24-hour -0.38%, 7-day +6.69%, 30-day +0.60%, 1-year -58.39%. XVS is currently trading near the bottom of its 365-day range (around the 1st percentile of recent closes).
Volatility profile
Recent action puts Venus 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 +0.60%, a useful input for stop placement and position sizing.
How to evaluate a DeFi token like Venus
For an asset of this type, three lenses matter most:
- Protocol revenue — fees the application actually earns, and whether any of it reaches XVS holders.
- Total value locked — how much capital trusts the protocol — and how sticky it is versus mercenary yield.
- Token utility — whether XVS 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.
