Curve DAO price and where to buy CRV

What is Curve DAO?

Curve is a decentralised exchange specialised in swapping similar assets, such as stablecoins, with very low slippage. CRV is its token: holders lock it for up to four years to get voting power over where rewards go and a share of trading fees.

How to buy Curve DAO, step by step

1. Pick an exchange. CRV is listed on every exchange we track. Compare fees, funding options and whether it serves your country in our exchange reviews.
2. Create and verify your account. Regulated exchanges ask for identity documents before you can deposit fiat.
3. Fund the account. A bank transfer or a stablecoin deposit usually costs far less than a card payment.
4. Buy CRV. Use the CRV/USDT or CRV/USD market, and check the cheapest venue in the table above first.
5. Decide where to keep it. On the exchange is simplest, but the exchange then holds your coins. CRV is a token on Ethereum and other networks; choose the network your wallet expects.

Where to buy Curve DAO at the best price

The cheapest venue right now is marked in the table above. Add its trading fee before comparing: on CRV the venues disagree by about 0.15 percent on average, so on a small purchase the fee and the funding method usually matter more.

• The price on that venue. Each row shows the gap to our composite.
• The trading fee. Our fee comparison lists spot fees side by side.
• How you fund the account. A bank transfer or stablecoin deposit is usually far cheaper than a card payment, which often costs several percent.

Why the Curve DAO price differs between exchanges

In our minute-by-minute measurement the gap between the highest and lowest venue averaged about 0.15 percent, against about 0.025 percent for Bitcoin. It went above half a percent in about 15 minutes out of every thousand, and reached about 1.3 percent at its widest.

About two fifths of the CRV spot volume we track trades on a single venue. The spread figure at the top of this page is the live measurement; our guide on why crypto prices differ between exchanges explains the mechanism.

What moves the Curve DAO price

The wider crypto market, and in CRV’s case its own news too. In our hourly composite, CRV moved with Bitcoin at a correlation of about 0.46, where 1 would mean identical moves, and its moves were about three times the size of Bitcoin’s.

CRV-specific drivers come on top: stablecoin trading on Curve, emissions of new CRV and leverage. The funding rates on this page show whether leveraged traders are paying to be long or short right now.

Pros and cons of Curve DAO

Pros

• Locked CRV earns a share of fees and votes on rewards.
• Its volume is spread across venues rather than concentrated on one.

Cons

• New CRV is emitted continuously as rewards.
• One of the wider price gaps between exchanges we track, about six times Bitcoin’s.
• It trades far below the all-time high set at launch.

Curve DAO’s highest price

Curve’s all-time high is about $15.4 on volume-weighted data, set in its first days of trading. The chart above shows the last 30 days of our composite, and the CRV to USD converter applies the live price to any amount.