Decred
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What is Decred?
Origins and monetary policy
Decred launched its mainnet on February 8, 2016. Company 0 funded the early development, with Jake Yocom-Piatt serving as a co-founder and project lead. The code originated from the Go-based btcsuite implementation. Maximum issuance is just under 21 million DCR. The block subsidy falls by a factor of 100/101 every 6,144 blocks. An initial eight-percent premine was split between developer compensation and an airdrop.
Hybrid block validation
Proof-of-work miners propose blocks using BLAKE3 hashing. Ticket holders participate in proof-of-stake voting to approve blocks. Stakeholders also vote on proposed consensus rule changes. The current subsidy split assigns one percent to miners and 89 percent to ticket voters. The remaining ten percent funds the Decred treasury.
Governance and applications
Politeia hosts public proposals and stakeholder votes on project spending. Treasury payments finance approved development and other work. DCR is used for transfers, transaction fees and purchasing voting tickets. Privacy tools provide optional transaction mixing. Bison Wallet supports atomic-swap trading without a conventional custodial exchange account.
Where to trade DCR
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DCR funding rates
Live perpetual funding on every connected exchange. Positive = longs pay shorts.
Contracts & chains
Exact contract or mint per network — the identity layer used for DEX routing.
On-chain routes
Networks with a connected DEX routing adapter.