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Decred

Decred

DCR
#128
$14.82Up 2.33 percent($0.34)

Key Stats

Market Cap$261.60MUp 2.33 percent
Volume (24h)$563.67K
Fully Diluted Value$311.15M
Vol/Mkt Cap (24h)0.22%
Total Supply17.66M DCR
Max Supply21.00M DCR
Circulating Supply17.66M DCR
Launch Date2016-02-08
Block Number1,125,502
Block Reward5.05

Decred Information

Websites
decred.org
Block Explorers
dcrdata.decred.org
Hashing Algorithms
BLAKE3
Industries
Governance

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14.87USDT
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About Decred

Decred (DCR) is a hybrid PoW/PoS blockchain-based cryptocurrency, designed to ensure community involvement, open governance, and sustainable development funding. Stakeholders, or DCR holders, play a pivotal role in determining consensus rules, the blockchain's evolution, and treasury funds allocation. Block rewards in Decred are split between PoW miners (10%), stakeholders (80%), and the Decred Treasury (10%). Stakeholders can stake their DCR for voting tickets, which grants them the power to vote on rule change proposals and approve PoW miners' work. The Decred Treasury's usage is decided via Politeia proposals and voting by live ticket holders. Launched in 2016 by co-founders including Alex and Jake Yocom-Piatt, Decred aims to create a truly decentralized cryptocurrency governed actively by its community.

Frequently Asked Questions

Decred (DCR) is a blockchain-based cryptocurrency distinguished by its emphasis on community involvement, open governance, and sustainable funding for development. The Decred blockchain incorporates hybrid Proof-of-Work (PoW) and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) mining systems to prevent a small group from monopolizing transaction processes or amending Decred rules without community input. Similar to Bitcoin's, Decred's blockchain integrates significant elements of governance into its protocol.

In Decred, stakeholders, who are essentially the DCR holders, play an active role in shaping the consensus rules of the blockchain, directing its future development, and deciding how the project's treasury funds are utilized.

To align incentives, Decred splits the block rewards between PoW miners, stakeholders, and the Decred Treasury, which funds the project. PoW miners have a role comparable to that in Bitcoin, but in Decred, they receive only 10% of the block reward.

Stakeholders can time-lock or "stake" their DCR to acquire voting tickets, which are randomly selected to vote on-chain. This voting includes both approving the work of PoW miners and voting Yes/No on any pending rule change proposals. The stakeholders who hold the tickets that voted in a given block earn 80% of the block reward.

The remaining 10% of the block reward is allocated to the Decred Treasury. Through Politeia proposals and voting, holders of live tickets decide how this treasury is used. The Decred Constitution, which can be amended via Politeia proposals, lays out guiding principles for the project.

Decred was launched in February 2016 by a group of co-founders including brothers Alex and Jake Yocom-Piatt, along with Dave Collins, David Hill, John Vernaleo, and Josh Rickmar. The Yocom-Piatt brothers, along with their team, had previously contributed to the creation of btcsuite, an alternative full-node Bitcoin implementation written in Go (golang). Their aim was to create a truly decentralized cryptocurrency with an engaged community actively participating in its governance.