Waves
Last modified on 11. October 2020
Quick Facts
Waves was introduced by the user sasha35625 at bitcointalk.org on 30 March 2018. The tracking of real-time trading data by coinmarketcap.com subsequently launched in July 2016.
Quarterly Averages
This section presents the quarterly averages (trimester) for trading volume, market capitalization and trading price for 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
Trading Volume & Market Capitalization
For example, Waves had an average trading volume of over US$ 15.9 m per day for the first trimester of 2019. This figure came to nearly US$ 32.8 m during the same time frame the year before. The corresponding drop down in trading volume equated to 51.4 percent.
For the first trimester of 2019, the average market capitalization equated to nearly US$ 276 m. This figure came to over US$ 739 m during the same period in the previous year. Market capitalization dropped down accordingly by 62.7 percent.
Trading Price
The average trading price in the first trimester of 2019 was just above US$ 2.83. This figure came to just under US$ 7.84 during the same time frame of 2018. The price dropped accordingly by 63.9 percent.
The all-time high of Waves in 2017
The Waves currency climbed to a high in December 2017 at nearly US$ 18.1. The equivalent market capitalization of the coin reached nearly US$ 1.6 billion. This put Waves in the ballpark of certain other digital currencies, such as Lisk, OMG Network, Populous, Zcash and HyperCash, among others.
Waves’ all-time high compared to Bitcoin and the most renowned companies worldwide
Bitcoin, by far the largest cryptocurrency at the time, had a market capitalization of US$ 298 billion on that day. Apple Inc., one of the most highly valued brands in the world, stood at US$ 902 billion. And Volkswagen AG, the world’s largest vehicle manufacturer as of 2018, at US$ 103 billion.
- Waves (WAVES): 1.6 bn US dollars
- Bitcoin (BTC): 298 bn US dollars
- Apple (AAPL): 902 bn US dollars
- VW (VWAGY): 103 bn US dollars
- Date: 19 December 2017
March 2019: an interesting date following the big cryptocurrency crash
On 1 March 2019, the price of Waves stood at US$ 2.76 with a market capitalization of nearly US$ 271 million. This is a retracement down to approximately 15.3 percent in comparison with the highest trading price described above.
Around that time, Ethereum dropped to about 9.7 and Bitcoin to approximately 19.5 percent of their all-time-high trading prices.
More Details
The Waves-Coin is not created via mining. It has no maximum number of coins, unlike Bitcoin, for example. If you are interested in the source code, be sure to also visit the GitHub page.
Current Waves transactions can be tracked using this block explorer, which also shows block height and other recent metrics.
To learn more about Waves, download the white paper or find more links to community forums, source code and social media accounts, visit medium.com/wavesprotocol.
Markets
EUR
A large market for buying or selling Waves in EUR is Kraken. Additional trading platforms for buying or selling Waves in EUR are Bitvavo and IndoEx.
USD
Two large markets for buying or selling Waves in USD are Kraken and Binance. Additional trading platforms for buying or selling Waves in USD are OKEx, BitMart and Coinsbit, among others.
BTC
A large market for buying or selling Waves in BTC is Binance. There are additional platforms where you can buy or sell Waves, including YoBit, BitMart and HitBTC, among others.
Social Links
Take a look at the following social media channel to speak directly to the Waves team:
1. This figure changes to 0.1831 percent when taking Bitcoin out of the equation.