Compound COMP
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CM Profile: Compound
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about COMP, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 of COMP on Ethereum returned 2.3% less than the quoted price, on 8 October 2026.
- Selling $100,000 on 2 exchange order books lost between 1.78% and 3.45%, on 8 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
- Not established
- What an on-chain sale would return on Base and BNB Chain. It trades mostly off-chain there, so we do not measure it on-chain.
- 7 of its chains are not among the 3 we read.
- Whether it can be held without a company. We have no sourced answer yet.
- 6 other questions about what it can do have no written answer. Some may not apply to it.
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold COMP. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 8 OctoberNothing we measure moved much this week: trading volume, reported supply and price are all within their usual range.
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 COMP
Selling $100,000 of COMP returned 2.3% less than the quoted price — Workable. Measured 2026-10-08 on Ethereum.
Selling COMP on exchanges
Selling $100,000 of COMP into each exchange’s resting bids, measured against the mid price:
| Exchange | Lost | Got back | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kraken COMP/USD | 1.78% | $98,216 | 2026-10-08 |
| Coinbase COMP/USD | 3.45% | $96,550 | 2026-10-08 |
Exchange figures need an account there (and KYC, a permitted country, the tokens already deposited), are before trading fees, and are never averaged with the on-chain figure. Binance is not included: it refuses requests from the region our servers are in. How this is measured →
Watch this number instead of remembering it. A free account keeps COMP on a list, records where it stood the day you added it, and emails you if selling it on these exchanges gets materially harder — one message, not a series. The measurement itself stays public; the account is for being told when it moves without you looking.
What Compound is
Compound (COMP) is the governance token of the Compound Finance lending protocol. Holding COMP confers voting rights, which an owner can use directly or delegate to another address — their own wallet, another user, an application, or a third party they trust to vote on their behalf. Delegation means a person can participate in governance by receiving delegated votes even without holding COMP themselves.
Governance works through proposals: any address with 1% of COMP delegated to it can submit a governance action. These range from simple parameter changes to complex multi-step actions — adding support for a new asset, adjusting an asset's collateral factor, changing a market's interest rate model, or modifying any other variable that the protocol's administrator can currently control. In effect, COMP delegation is the mechanism by which changes to the lending protocol get decided and executed.
COMP is a governance instrument, not a claim on protocol revenue or a yield-bearing asset — the source describes voting and proposal rights, nothing about fee distribution or dividends. Influence is proportional to delegated supply, so the 1% proposal threshold means practical governance power concentrates among larger holders or whoever accumulates delegation, not one-token-one-voice. The token is deployed across multiple chains — including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, Polygon, BNB Chain, Near, Harmony and others — which multiplies bridging and smart-contract surface area rather than simplifying it. Nothing in the source specifies who built Compound or when COMP launched, and none of that is supplied here.
What Compound can do
Selling $100,000 on Kraken lost 1.78% against the mid price, before trading fees. Check your own amount →
Our own measurement · measured 8 October 2026
COMP does not run applications. It is the token that governs the Compound protocol: holders, and the delegates they choose, propose and vote on changes to it.
Source: Compound docs: governance · checked 2 October 2026
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it. Each answer names its source and the day we read it; where we could not source one, the row is left out. How these are written · Every coin we have written up
Where COMP 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
Compound data synced 4m 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 COMP.