Flow price and where to buy FLOW

What is Flow?

Flow is a proof-of-stake blockchain built by Dapper Labs, the company behind NBA Top Shot and CryptoKitties, designed for consumer apps and digital collectibles. FLOW pays fees and is staked by validators.

How to buy Flow, step by step

1. Pick an exchange. FLOW is listed on four of the five exchanges 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 FLOW. Use the FLOW/USDT or FLOW/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. FLOW runs on its own network; withdraw only to a Flow address.

Where to buy Flow at the best price

The cheapest venue right now is marked in the table above. Add its trading fee before comparing: on FLOW the venues disagree by about 0.28 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 Flow price differs between exchanges

In our minute-by-minute measurement the gap between the highest and lowest venue averaged about 0.28 percent, against about 0.025 percent for Bitcoin. It went above half a percent in about 72 minutes out of every thousand, and reached about 1.5 percent at its widest.

About seven tenths of the FLOW 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 Flow price

The wider crypto market, and in FLOW’s case its own news too. In our hourly composite, FLOW moved with Bitcoin at a correlation of about 0.37, where 1 would mean identical moves, and its moves were about two and a half times the size of Bitcoin’s.

FLOW-specific drivers come on top: consumer app activity on the network 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 Flow

Pros

• Built for consumer apps and collectibles.
• Staking with validators.

Cons

• One of the widest price gaps between exchanges we track, above half a percent in about 72 minutes per thousand.
• About seven tenths of the FLOW spot volume we track trades on a single exchange.
• It trades far below its all-time high of about $42.4.

Flow’s highest price

Flow’s all-time high is about $42.4 on volume-weighted data. The chart above shows the last 30 days of our composite, and the FLOW to USD converter applies the live price to any amount.