Bubble
Dash DASH
Dash (DASH) was trading at $41.69, ranked #100 by market cap at $534.63M, with 24h volume of $91.17M.
Data snapshot: 2026-09-02 12:15 UTC.
Dash launched in 2014 as a Bitcoin fork focused on fast, cheap payments, adding a masternode layer that powers InstantSend for near-instant settlement and a treasury that funds development from block rewards. It was one of the first coins to make on-chain governance real: masternode operators vote monthly on which proposals get paid, so the network funds itself without a foundation. Dash is a Bitcoin derivative whose defining features are speed and self-funding rather than privacy, despite often being grouped with privacy coins: its optional coin-mixing is a fairly basic mechanism compared with Monero's or Zcash's cryptography. What distinguishes it structurally is that part of every block reward funds a treasury that masternode operators vote to spend on development and marketing — one of the earliest on-chain funding models. On this map it is a long-established asset that trades with general market sentiment.
Is Dash a privacy coin?
Only partially. Its optional coin-mixing is much simpler than the cryptography used by Monero or Zcash, and it is often grouped with privacy coins more by history than by capability.
What is a masternode?
A node that collateralises a substantial amount of DASH to provide additional services and to vote on treasury spending, earning a share of block rewards.
What is the treasury?
A portion of every block reward is allocated to a fund that masternode operators vote to spend on development and promotion — one of the earliest on-chain funding mechanisms.
What is InstantSend?
A feature that locks transaction inputs through the masternode network so a payment can be treated as settled quickly rather than waiting for confirmations.
Market cap decides how big a bubble is drawn, so rank is what places DASH on the map relative to the rest of its sector.
| Rank | Coin | Market cap |
|---|---|---|
| #17 | Monero (XMR) | $6.59B |
| #92 | Beldex (BDX) | $619.71M |
| #100 | Dash (DASH) | $534.63M |
| #242 | Zama (ZAMA) | $109.77M |
| #270 | Horizen (ZEN) | $99.27M |