Illuvium ILV
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CM Profile: Illuvium
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about ILV, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 of ILV on Ethereum returned 8.7% less than the quoted price, on 21 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 1 October 2026.
- Written, with sources
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold ILV. How each part is worked out
What it actually costs to sell ILV
Selling $100,000 of ILV returned 8.7% less than the quoted price — Costly. Measured 2026-10-21 on Ethereum.
What Illuvium is
Illuvium is a decentralized franchise of interconnected games built on the Ethereum network, combining open-world role-playing gameplay with NFT-based digital asset ownership under a play-to-earn model. Players capture collectible creatures called Illuvials, represented as NFTs. The project was co-founded by brothers Kieran and Aaron Warwick, with early venture backing from Delphi Digital and IOSG Ventures.
The game processes most transactions — including NFT minting and trading — on Immutable X, a Layer 2 scaling solution using zk-Rollups that bundles transactions off-chain and submits a validity proof back to Ethereum. This removes gas fees for players while relying on Ethereum for security. Assets are designed to be interoperable across multiple titles in the franchise, and players can trade on the IlluviDex marketplace without transaction fees. The ILV token functions as both utility and governance token: holders vote in the project's DAO, can stake ILV to earn rewards funded by in-game revenue (the project states 100% of generated revenue goes to stakers), and a synthetic version of the token serves as in-game currency. Chainlink supplies the oracle used for randomization in gameplay.
Illuvium is a gaming and NFT platform, not a general-purpose blockchain or payments network — its token's value is tied to adoption and revenue of a specific game franchise rather than to broad transactional use. The claim that all revenue flows to stakers depends on the game generating and sustaining revenue in the first place, which is a product outcome, not a guaranteed yield. Governance rights via the DAO do not equate to control over development timelines or studio decisions in practice. It is deployed on Ethereum and Energi; it is not a multi-chain asset spread across a large number of networks. CoinGecko classifies it across gaming, NFT, metaverse and play-to-earn categories — descriptive tags, not indicators of performance or adoption.
Where ILV 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
Illuvium data synced 1s 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 ILV.