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Bitcoin Cash Price

BCH · #26 by market cap

Live price · USD
$234.50
+2.40%

-0.52% 1h +15.39% 7d -23.61% 30d -56.79% 1y

Price data via CoinGecko API, refreshed every 60 seconds. Historical chart data daily-refreshed. See our methodology. Data & methodology reviewed by Maya Lin, Markets Editor · last editorial review Jul 2026.

Market cap
$4.70B
Rank #26
24h volume
$97.80M
Traded last 24h
Dominance
0.21%
of total market
Fully diluted val
$4.35B
FDV at max supply
Vol / mcap
2.1%
Liquidity ratio
Circulating
20.06M BCH
96% of max mined

Bitcoin Cash — key takeaways

At-a-glance summary generated from live market data. Figures update each refresh cycle; not investment advice.

What’s moving Bitcoin Cash

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is trading at $234.50, +15.39%% over the past week and -23.61%% over the month, as of Jul 4, 2026. Below is the latest reporting and analysis on Bitcoin Cash from the DMC News desk.

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Technical snapshot

Derived from 365-day price history
Bull-Bear Score
44/100
Neutral
RSI · 14-day
53.3
Neutral
03070100
Moving Avg Signal
Strong bear
vs 50d MA-14.3%
vs 200d MA-49.5%
Volatility · 30d
99%
High · annualised
50d MA: $265.20
200d MA: $450.43

Indicators are for informational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

BCH weekly price chart (1 year)

-55.1% 1Y
$151.68$288.49$425.30$562.11$698.92JunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunVolume
52-week high
$669.60
52-week low
$181.00
Candles
53 wk

Each candle is one week. The body spans the week's open and close (green when it closed higher, red when lower); the wick marks the weekly high and low. Data is real weekly OHLC from Binance (BCH/USDT), with weekly USD volume below.

Bitcoin Cash price prediction 2026–2035

Model-based

Our quantitative model projects Bitcoin Cash (BCH) price scenarios from its 69.4% annualised volatility and a downward -54% trailing 12-month trend, with expected returns decaying toward a long-run baseline as the asset matures. At today's price of $234.50, the base case points to roughly $228.38 by end of 2026 and $278.55 by 2035 (a bull case near $574.52, a bear case near $89.14).

202620272028202920302035
YearBearBase BullBase ROI
2026 $181.97 $228.38 $300.91 -3%
2027 $142.01 $219.49 $340.55 -6%
2028 $117.61 $216.17 $370.18 -8%
2029 $99.91 $217.02 $399.99 -7%
2030 $85.83 $221.17 $432.64 -6%
2035 $89.14 $278.55 $574.52 +19%
Bear case

A prolonged risk-off market, weaker liquidity or coin-specific setbacks could press BCH toward $89.14 by 2035. Drawdowns of 50–80% are historically normal for crypto assets.

Base case

Steady adoption in line with the broader market puts BCH near $278.55 by 2035 — about +19% versus today.

Bull case

A strong cycle, accelerating demand or a structural catalyst could lift BCH toward $574.52 by 2035, which would require reclaiming and exceeding its prior all-time high.

How this forecast is calculated

The projection is generated algorithmically from Bitcoin Cash's own price history — there is no human price target. We measure realised volatility from up to a year of the asset's own price history (daily where available, otherwise weekly) and anchor a base annual growth rate to recent momentum, then decay that rate toward a conservative long-run baseline (compounding compresses as an asset matures). Bear and bull bands widen with volatility scaled by the square root of the horizon, and the bear case is floored to remain realistic. Outputs are rounded scenario estimates, not guarantees.

Not financial advice. Cryptocurrency is highly volatile and these model-based scenarios can be wrong by a wide margin. Do your own research.

Bitcoin Cash price returns & market statistics

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) trades at $234.50, ranked #26 by market capitalisation. The tables below summarise its performance across timeframes and its core supply and valuation metrics.

Price performance
PeriodChange
1 hour-0.5%
24 hours+2.4%
7 days+15.4%
30 days-23.6%
90 days-48.7%
1 year-56.8%
From all-time high-93.8%
From all-time low+204.8%
Market statistics
Market cap$4.70B #26
Fully diluted valuation$4.35B
24h trading volume$97.80M
Volume / market cap2.1%
Market dominance0.21%
Circulating supply20.06M BCH 96%
Total supply20.06M BCH
Max supply21.00M BCH
All-time high$3,786 Dec 20, 2017
All-time low$76.93 Dec 16, 2018

Understanding Bitcoin Cash

What is Bitcoin Cash (BCH)?

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a decentralised-finance protocol token, used for governance and to align incentives across a permissionless financial application such as lending, trading or yield. Its value tends to track the protocol's usage, total value locked and fee generation. As of July 2026, Bitcoin Cash is the #26 cryptocurrency by market capitalisation, trading near $234.50.

How does Bitcoin Cash work?

The protocol runs as a set of audited smart contracts that anyone can use without intermediaries. Token holders typically govern parameters — fees, supported assets, incentives — and in some designs receive a share of protocol revenue, aligning their interests with long-term usage.

What drives the Bitcoin Cash price?

Bitcoin Cash's price reflects the balance of supply and demand. With a capped maximum supply of 21.00M BCH (96% already circulating), scarcity is a structural part of the story — fresh demand has to compete for a limited float. On the demand side, the main forces are the broader crypto market cycle (assets tend to rise and fall together with Bitcoin and overall liquidity), real usage and adoption of the protocol, macro conditions such as interest rates and risk appetite, and project-specific catalysts like upgrades, listings, partnerships or regulation. At roughly 94% below its all-time high, a meaningful part of any bull case is simply recovering ground already proven possible.

Is Bitcoin Cash a good investment in 2026?

There is no one-size-fits-all answer. Bitcoin Cash offers exposure to a specific corner of the crypto market with its own adoption thesis, but every cryptocurrency carries real risk: prices are highly volatile, drawdowns of 50–80% are historically normal, and outcomes depend on execution, competition and an evolving regulatory landscape. A reasonable approach is to size any position to what you can afford to lose, treat the model-based scenarios above as illustrations rather than promises, and weigh Bitcoin Cash's fundamentals against alternatives. This is information, not financial advice.

Sentiment & community signals

Daily refresh · CoinGecko
🐂 Bullish votes
87.5%
🐂 88% 🐻 13%

Sentiment votes are crowd-sourced and may not reflect actual price movements. Community and dev metrics indicate ecosystem health, not investment quality.

ROI calculator

Hypothetical · educational only
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Calculations use historical end-of-day prices. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Cryptocurrency investments carry significant risk.

Where to trade Bitcoin Cash

10 exchanges · sorted by volume
# Exchange Pair Price
1 WhiteBIT BCH/USDT $235.86 Trade ↗
2 BitMart BCH/USDT $236.03 Trade ↗
3 Binance BCH/USDT $235.67 Trade ↗
4 Pionex BCH/USDT $236.39 Trade ↗
5 Phemex BCH/USDT $235.69 Trade ↗
6 Poloniex BCH/USDT $235.60 Trade ↗
7 Azbit BCH/USDT $236.29 Trade ↗
8 Hotcoin BCH/USDT $236.19 Trade ↗
9 XT.COM BCH/USDT $236.09 Trade ↗
10 BTCC BCH/USDT $236.29 Trade ↗

Trust score reflects exchange liquidity, age, and order book depth (CoinGecko methodology). External links are not endorsements — always verify the exchange in your jurisdiction.

Other smart contract platform coins

Top 9 by market cap
BTC Bitcoin #1
$62,445 +1.3%
$1.25T cap
ETH Ethereum #2
$1,753 +2.3%
$211.58B cap
BNB BNB #4
$569.52 +1.5%
$76.76B cap
XRP XRP #6
$1.14 +3.4%
$70.78B cap
SOL Solana #7
$82.48 +2.0%
$47.92B cap
TRX TRON #8
$0.3230 +1.4%
$30.64B cap
HYPE Hyperliquid #10
$71.26 +6.1%
$15.85B cap
DOGE Dogecoin #11
$0.0770 +2.5%
$11.93B cap
XLM Stellar #16
$0.2071 +4.2%
$7.04B cap

Live market data, refreshed continuously. Click any coin to view its full profile.

Compared to peers

Normalised · max = 100
Market Cap 24h Volume Stability Dev Activity Community Liquidity
Bitcoin Cash BCH
Bitcoin BTC
Ethereum ETH

Each axis is scaled to the largest value across the compared coins (= 100). Larger polygons indicate higher overall metrics. "Stability" is the inverse of 30-day volatility.

Tokenomics & supply

Max supply: 21,000,000 BCH
Circulating 95.5%
  • Circulating 20,055,866 BCH 95.5%
  • Issued but locked 9 BCH 0.0%
  • Yet to be issued 944,125 BCH 4.5%

Capped supply — no further issuance possible above 21,000,000 BCH.

Bitcoin Cash price analysis

At $234.50, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is currently deep in a drawdown from its all-time high. That is 93.8% below the record high of $3,786, and roughly 205% above the all-time low of $76.93.

Momentum-wise, BCH has fallen sharply over the past month (+15.39% (7d), -23.61% (30d), -56.79% (1y)). With 24-hour volume at 2.1% of market cap, turnover is relatively thin, so larger orders can move the price more easily. Crypto prices are highly volatile; these readings describe recent history, not a forecast.

What drives the price of Bitcoin Cash?

As a smart-contract platform, demand for BCH is tied to on-chain activity — transaction fees, the number and quality of applications, total value locked (TVL), and developer adoption. Network upgrades and competition from rival chains are key swing factors.

Because the supply of Bitcoin Cash is hard-capped at 21,000,000 BCH, the scarcity narrative — fewer new tokens entering circulation over time — is a core part of its investment thesis.

Like nearly all crypto assets, BCH also trades with a strong correlation to Bitcoin and to overall risk appetite. Macro liquidity, US-dollar strength, interest-rate expectations, regulatory headlines and new exchange listings can all move the price independently of project fundamentals.

Risks & considerations

  • High volatility. Bitcoin Cash can gain or lose a large share of its value in a short time. Over the past year alone BCH has moved about 57%.
  • Regulatory uncertainty. Crypto rules differ by jurisdiction and continue to evolve, which can affect availability, liquidity and price.
  • Competition & execution risk. The smart-contract sector is crowded; networks face security, scaling and competitive pressure that can erode market share.
  • Not advice. Only allocate capital you can afford to lose, and consider consulting a licensed financial adviser. Nothing on this page is personalised investment advice.

About Bitcoin Cash

Bitcoin Cash is a hard fork of Bitcoin with a protocol upgrade to fix on-chain capacity. Bitcoin Cash intends to be a Bitcoin without Segregated Witness (SegWit) as soft fork, where upgrades of the protocol are done mainly through hard forks and without changing the original economic rules of the Bitcoin.

Read full description ↓

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is released on 1st August 2017 as an upgraded version of the original Bitcoin Core software. The main upgrade is the increase in the block size limit from 1MB to 8MB. This effectively allows miners on the BCH chain to process up to 8 times more payments per second in comparison to Bitcoin. This makes for faster, cheaper transactions and a much smoother user experience.

Why was Bitcoin Cash Created?

The main objective of Bitcoin Cash is to to bring back the essential qualities of money inherent in the original Bitcoin software. Over the years, these qualities were filtered out of Bitcoin Core and progress was stifled by various people, organizations, and companies involved in Bitcoin protocol development. The result is that Bitcoin Core is currently unusable as money due to increasingly high fees per transactions and transfer times taking hours to complete. This is all because of the 1MB limitation of Bitcoin Core’s block size, causing it unable to accommodate to large number of transactions.

Essentially Bitcoin Cash is a community-activated upgrade (otherwise known as a hard fork) of Bitcoin that increased the block size to 8MB, solving the scaling issues that plague Bitcoin Core today.

Nov 16th 2018: A hashwar resulted in a split between Bitcoin SV and Bitcoin ABC

Frequently asked questions about Bitcoin Cash

What is Bitcoin Cash (BCH)?

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a cryptocurrency listed on global exchanges and tracked across major data providers. It currently ranks #26 among all cryptocurrencies by total market value. It belongs to the Smart Contract Platform and Layer 1 (L1) category. Live price, market cap, trading volume, and historical performance are displayed on this page and refreshed continuously.

How does Bitcoin Cash work?

Bitcoin Cash secures its blockchain through SHA-256-based consensus. Network participants validate transactions and produce new blocks according to protocol rules. Block production, transaction fees, and token issuance follow a deterministic schedule defined in the underlying codebase.

How much Bitcoin Cash is in circulation?

There are currently 20,055,866 BCH in circulation out of a maximum supply of 21,000,000, meaning approximately 95.5% of the total BCH that will ever exist has been issued. New tokens enter circulation through the protocol's pre-defined emission schedule.

What is the all-time high price of Bitcoin Cash?

Bitcoin Cash reached an all-time high of $3,786 on December 20, 2017. Currently the price sits 93.8% below this peak. All-time highs are useful benchmarks for assessing the asset's historical price range, but past performance does not predict future results.

How can I buy Bitcoin Cash?

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is traded on most major cryptocurrency exchanges, including Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, OKX, Bybit, and Bitstamp. Availability depends on your jurisdiction and the exchange's listings. After purchase, many users transfer their BCH to a self-custody wallet for long-term storage. This information is educational and does not constitute investment advice.

Is Bitcoin Cash a good investment?

Cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin Cash, are highly volatile and carry significant risk of loss. Over the past year, BCH has lost approximately 56.8% of its value. Whether Bitcoin Cash is appropriate for a given portfolio depends on the investor's individual risk tolerance, time horizon, and financial situation. Always research the project's fundamentals, understand the risks, and only allocate capital you can afford to lose. This page provides market data only, not personalised investment advice. Consider consulting a licensed financial advisor before making investment decisions.

How is Bitcoin Cash different from Bitcoin?

Bitcoin (BTC) was the first cryptocurrency, designed primarily as a digital store of value and peer-to-peer payment network with a fixed supply of 21 million coins. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) focuses on smart contract platform use cases, with a different technical design, supply schedule, and ecosystem. Bitcoin derives its value primarily from scarcity, security, and brand recognition, while Bitcoin Cash's value is tied to adoption within its specific use case and underlying network effects.

What is the market cap of Bitcoin Cash?

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has a market capitalisation of approximately $4.70B, which ranks it #26 among all cryptocurrencies. Market cap is calculated as the circulating supply multiplied by the current price and is the most common way to compare the relative size of cryptocurrencies. It updates continuously as the price moves.

What determines the price of Bitcoin Cash?

The price of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is set continuously by supply and demand across global exchanges. The main factors are its circulating and maximum supply, trading volume and liquidity, overall crypto-market sentiment, its correlation with Bitcoin, regulatory developments, and real adoption of the underlying network. Because the market trades 24 hours a day, the price can change at any moment.

What is the Bitcoin Cash price prediction?

No one can reliably predict the future price of Bitcoin Cash or any cryptocurrency. Where sufficient history is available, this page shows a model-based forecast range derived from historical volatility and trend — it should be read as a scenario illustration, not a target or a promise. Crypto prices are highly volatile and shaped by events no model can foresee, so always do your own research and never invest more than you can afford to lose.

Is Bitcoin Cash safe?

"Safe" depends on two separate things: how you hold Bitcoin Cash (BCH), and price risk. For custody, use reputable exchanges and consider a self-custody hardware wallet for larger amounts, and never share your private keys or seed phrase. For price, every cryptocurrency is volatile and can lose value quickly, so only commit capital you can afford to lose. Being listed on major exchanges is not an endorsement or a guarantee against loss.

Can I stake Bitcoin Cash?

Bitcoin Cash uses a Proof-of-Work design, so it cannot be "staked" natively the way Proof-of-Stake coins can. Some exchanges offer lending or "earn" products on BCH, but those carry counterparty risk and are different from protocol-level staking.

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