Rocket Pool RPL
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CM Profile: Rocket Pool
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about RPL, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 of RPL on Ethereum returned 46.3% less than the quoted price, on 20 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 RPL. How each part is worked out
What it actually costs to sell RPL
Selling $100,000 of RPL returned 46.3% less than the quoted price — Illiquid at this size. Measured 2026-10-20 on Ethereum.
What Rocket Pool is
Rocket Pool is a liquid staking protocol built on Ethereum. According to the project, its team has worked in the staking space since the industry's inception in 2016, though the source does not specify a separate founding date or company structure for the protocol itself.
The protocol lets users stake as little as 0.01 ETH and receive rETH, a liquid token representing the staked position, without handing custody of their funds to a third party. On the other side, node operators run the validators; anyone can join permissionlessly by posting 16 ETH rather than the standard 32. Operators are compensated through a commission on staking rewards plus additional rewards paid in RPL, the protocol's own token, which is meant to align their incentives with stakers' interests.
RPL itself is a governance and operator-incentive token, not the liquid staking receipt — that role belongs to rETH, a separate asset. Holding RPL does not by itself represent a staked ETH position or entitle the holder to staking yield; the rewards described in the source accrue to node operators, not to RPL holders generally. CoinGecko tags it under several categories — DeFi, smart contract platforms, liquid staking governance, and ecosystem tags for Ethereum, Arbitrum and Polygon — reflecting where the token is deployed and indexed rather than any guarantee of function or demand in those ecosystems. Being deployed on arbitrum-one, ethereum and polygon-pos means the token exists on multiple networks, which says nothing about liquidity, bridging risk, or which deployment is canonical. The source's claim of being the "most decentralised" liquid staking protocol and having "no peer" is a self-description, not a measured attribute.
Where RPL 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
Rocket Pool 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 RPL.