Curve DAO CRV
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CM Profile: Curve DAO
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about CRV, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 on 2 exchange order books lost between 0.23% and 0.26%, on 14 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 Ethereum. 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 CRV. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 14 October- Price down 14.5% since 7 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 CRV
Selling $100,000 of CRV into each exchange’s resting bids, measured against the mid price:
| Exchange | Lost | Got back | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kraken CRV/USD | 0.23% | $99,770 | 2026-10-14 |
| Coinbase CRV/USD | 0.26% | $99,738 | 2026-10-14 |
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 CRV 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 Curve DAO is
Curve DAO token (CRV) is associated with Curve Finance, an automated market maker (AMM) based decentralized exchange. Unlike general-purpose AMMs such as Uniswap, Curve's pools are built specifically for swapping between assets intended to hold the same value — stablecoins and wrapped or synthetic tokens that track an underlying asset's price.
Its pools work by concentrating liquidity around a peg rather than a wide price curve. In a pool like 3CRV, made up of DAI, USDT, and USDC, the ratio of each coin shifts with supply and demand; depositing whichever coin is underrepresented earns a larger share of the pool, and a heavily skewed ratio can present an arbitrage opportunity. Curve also supports yield-bearing tokens — its collaboration with Yearn Finance produced pools like yUSD, combining yDAI, yUSDT, yUSDC, and yTUSD. Liquidity providers in such pools can earn from the underlying yield-bearing assets, from swap fees, and from CRV emissions, giving three potential sources of return layered on top of each other.
CRV itself is a governance and incentive token tied to this system; the source describes its role in yield farming rewards, not in any fee-capture or buyback mechanism, so holding it is not equivalent to holding a claim on protocol revenue beyond what governance and emissions provide. It is classified across multiple categories — DEX, DeFi, AMM, yield farming — reflecting a multi-chain footprint, with deployments spanning Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Optimism, Polygon, Fantom, Energi, Etherlink, and Sora. That breadth means behavior, liquidity, and risk can differ meaningfully from one chain to another; a pool's depth or peg stability on one network says nothing about another. Three-token yield stacking also means three separate points of failure: the swap fees, the underlying yield source, and CRV's own emission schedule, none of which are guaranteed to move together.
What Curve DAO can do
Selling $100,000 on Kraken lost 0.23% against the mid price, before trading fees. Check your own amount →
Our own measurement · measured 14 October 2026
New CRV is still being issued: about 115.5 million in the year to August 2026. The schedule was fixed in the token's contract in 2020, cuts the rate by about 15.9% every August, and Curve says nobody can change it.
Source: Curve news: the emission rate cut · 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 CRV 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
Curve DAO data synced 11s 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 CRV.