Anvil ANVL
Rank #261 by market cap
Last 7 days
CM Profile: Anvil
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about ANVL, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 of ANVL on Ethereum returned 81.4% less than the quoted price, on 15 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
- Not established
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold ANVL. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 16 October- Price up 15.3% since 9 October.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What it actually costs to sell ANVL
Selling $100,000 of ANVL returned 81.4% less than the quoted price — Illiquid at this size. Measured 2026-10-15 on Ethereum.
What Anvil is
Anvil is a system of Ethereum-based smart contracts that manages collateral and issues fully secured credit. Its core instrument is a letter of credit (LOC), described as analogous to a paper bank cheque drawing on verified funds — an economic guarantee of payment backed by locked collateral rather than a counterparty's promise.
The protocol is built to make asset backing verifiable and trustless, reducing the counterparty risk that comes from taking someone's word for it. LOCs generated by Anvil are meant to function as a building block for other applications: securing online or in-store payments, backing instant deposits on centralized exchanges for trading or liquidity provision, and facilitating cross-platform or layer-2 asset transfers where a deposit or withdrawal needs to be backed by proof of collateral rather than trust in the platform moving it.
Anvil is a single-chain protocol, deployed on Ethereum, and is classified as a DeFi project within the Ethereum ecosystem. The source material describes what LOCs are designed to do — secure payments, exchange deposits, bridging — but does not establish how widely any of these use cases have actually been adopted, by which platforms, or at what scale. There is no information here on issuance volume, collateral currently locked, audit history, or which exchanges or L2s, if any, have integrated Anvil LOCs in practice. As with any collateral-based credit system, the guarantee an LOC provides is only as sound as the collateral behind it and the contract logic enforcing it; the source does not detail collateral types, liquidation mechanics, or failure modes.
Where ANVL lives
On Ethereum, Base and BNB Chain, GoPlus's analysis of each contract is read weekly: whether it has a function to block addresses or pause transfers, and whether an owner holds it. That is GoPlus's reading, not ours. Where a token exists on several chains, one copy's settings say nothing about the original coin.
Always verify a contract address against the project's own site before sending anything. Addresses are shown as published by CoinGecko, not as an endorsement — and identical-looking tokens on other chains are the most common way people lose money here.
Price change
Anvil data synced 14s ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell ANVL.