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KuCoin KCS

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Price History

$0.353$9.13$17.91$26.69
2017-11 · DCA start$0.455

Time underwater

How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.

-95.6%-63.7%-31.9%0.0%
2017-112026-08 · -75.4%

Worst drawdown: −96%, peaking Jan 2018 and bottoming Jan 2019 — 39 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$10,600
Value today
$29,338
Return
+176.8%
Months invested
106

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $12,432 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +136.0%.

Lump sum instead — $10,600 all at once in Nov 2017: $153,200 (+1345.3%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Nov 2021): $4,153 on $5,800 invested (-28.4%).

Backtests use monthly closing prices. Stock dividends aren’t reinvested, so long-run equity returns are understated.

If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.

Every start month at once

Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.

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Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 2017-11: +176.8%

About KuCoin

KuCoin is an international cryptocurrency exchange based out of Seychelle that currently supports the trading of 250 digital assets. What’s unique about KuCoin is that they share 50% of their overall trading fee revenue with users holding their exchange-based token. In a similar fashion to Binance, KuCoin offers relatively low tradings fees and incentives for holding (or trading) its native cryptocurrency. Back in 2011, the founders started researching blockchain tech and went further to build the technical architecture for KuCoin in 2013. (CoinGecko)

It's a cryptocurrency categorised under exchange tokens, with a market cap of about $971M.

There isn’t enough researched data to give it an overall rating yet — only 43% of the scoring weight is backed by facts, below the 60% needed. The score shown is partial and covers only what’s known.

What pushes the score up: liquidity (4.3/5) and market / volatility (3.3/5).

Not yet researched: supply & concentration, smart contract / technical, custody / bridge, governance / team, regulatory. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.

Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.

Risk Profile

Partial 3.5/5(43%)

Only 43% of the weighting is fact-backed so far — not enough for an overall rating. The partial score covers the rated categories below; the unrated ones may be where this asset’s real risk sits.

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility3.3/5 · weight 30%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)2/557.9
  • Max drawdown from ATH5/595.6
  • Beta vs BTC3/51.0
Liquidity4.3/5 · weight 10%
  • 24h volume / market cap5/50.31
  • Top exchange % of volume5/595.0
  • Significant listings3/54.0
Supply & Concentrationunrated · weight 15%
  • Top 10 wallets % of supplynot yet researched
  • Unlocks in next 6mo, % of supplynot yet researched
  • Annual supply growth %not yet researched
Smart Contract / Technicalunrated · weight 12%
  • Audit statusnot yet researched
  • Admin key / upgradeabilitynot yet researched
  • Share of its mining algorithm (PoW)not yet researched
Custody / Bridgeunrated · weight 10%
  • Bridge reliancenot yet researched
Governance / Teamunrated · weight 10%
  • Teamnot yet researched
  • Largest staking operator, % of stakenot yet researched
Regulatoryunrated · weight 10%
  • Regulatory profilenot yet researched
Systemic / Correlation2.0/5 · weight 3%
  • Correlation to BTC2/50.49

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