ResearchCoin RSC
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CM Profile: ResearchCoin
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about RSC, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 of RSC on Base returned 49.1% less than the quoted price, on 15 October 2026.
- Selling $100,000 of RSC on Ethereum returned 95.8% less than the quoted price, on 15 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 12 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 RSC. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 16 October- Price up 0.4% since 9 October.
- Circulating supply down 75.6% in 30 days, as CoinGecko reports it.
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 RSC
Selling $100,000 of RSC returned 49.1% less than the quoted price — Illiquid at this size. Measured 2026-10-15 on Base.
What ResearchCoin is
ResearchCoin (RSC) is the governance and rewards token of ResearchHub, a platform built around the goal of accelerating scientific research by letting people collaborate on it the way developers collaborate on GitHub.
RSC is distributed to contributors for specific platform actions — uploading scientific literature, or having content upvoted by other users. Beyond rewards, RSC has secondary uses within the platform: users can tip content they find valuable, and can open bounties to pay for tasks such as peer review, meta-analyses, or graphical abstracts for papers. The token is deployed on both Ethereum and Base.
RSC is not a claim on any organization's revenue or equity — it is a utility and governance token tied to activity on one platform. Its value depends on continued use of ResearchHub itself; a token designed to reward uploads and upvotes does not, by that design, carry any dividend, buyback, or profit-sharing mechanism. It falls under CoinGecko's Decentralized Science category, a niche still small and largely unproven relative to established crypto sectors, meaning the underlying use case — paying for scientific tasks like peer review with a token — has not been tested at scale. Multi-chain deployment (Base and Ethereum) means liquidity and activity may be split across networks rather than concentrated in one. No information here indicates a founding date, founding team, or funding history, and none should be assumed.
Where RSC 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
ResearchCoin data synced 3m 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 RSC.