Price change (24h):
0.23%
High (24h):
$15015.2
Low (24h):
$14872.83
Volume (24h):
$6.08
Market Cap:
$625.26K
All Time High:
98.14% $805023.00
Dec 24, 2020
All Time Low:
1294% $1071.62
Apr 27, 2021
82.48 %(1Y)
$14887.21
Price change (24h):
0.23%
High (24h):
$15015.2
Low (24h):
$14872.83
Volume (24h):
$6.08
Market Cap:
$625.26K
All Time High:
98.14% $805023.00
Dec 24, 2020
All Time Low:
1294% $1071.62
Apr 27, 2021
42-coin (42) is a cryptocurrency launched in 2016, engineered around an almost absurdly constrained supply cap of just forty-two units. The project wears its satirical inspiration directly—42, the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything"—but executes its monetary policy with deadpan technical rigor.
The protocol functions as a digital store of value. It stands deliberately antithetical to the inflationary glidepaths of fiat currencies and the endlessly dilutive emission schedules common to most crypto assets. Scarcity isn’t a byproduct. It’s the entire architecture. No new coins can ever breach the fixed ceiling, a rule enforced at the consensus layer, not through a social promise.
The network operates on its own blockchain using a hybrid proof-of-work and proof-of-stake consensus mechanism. Miners run dedicated Scrypt hardware to assemble blocks, while stakers bond their holdings to validate state transitions and finalize the chain. This dual-arm design splits security responsibilities across both sybil-resistant assets.
Scrypt hashing anchors the proof-of-work side, with a target block interval of exactly 42 seconds. The native coin has also been bridged outward via wrapped representations: an SPL token on Solana and a BEP-20 contract on the BNB Smart Chain. These derivative tokens allow the asset’s tightly guarded native supply to interact with external decentralized exchanges and liquidity pools without compromising the base layer’s emission integrity.
The project surfaced in late 2016 alongside a terse whitepaper and a community that latched onto the cultural weight of its numeric namesake. No named founders, no corporate entity, no pre-mine. It materialized as a purely voluntary experiment in radical digital scarcity, embraced by a small but doctrinaire user base that valued the meme as much as the monetary policy.
The enduring objective remains deceptively simple: function as an austere monetary object. By enforcing an existential limit of 42 tokens, the protocol imposes absolute scarcity not as a marketing narrative but as a structural certainty. That rejection of expansionist tokenomics positions it far outside the typical playbook of venture-funded chains and algorithmic stablecoin projects.
Within the hybrid consensus, 42 is the only vehicle for transaction fees, the block subsidy delivered to proof-of-work miners, and the bonding asset for proof-of-stake validators. There is no secondary governance token or utility abstraction. Every network action—sending value, finalizing a block, claiming a reward—settles exclusively in 42, making it a single-asset economic loop with minimal moving parts.
Proof-of-stake participants lock 42 to harden the network’s sybil resistance and capture a share of protocol emissions. Scrypt miners expend compute cycles to hash candidate blocks, compensated in newly issued 42. Non-validating holders can execute native peer-to-peer transfers, or they can deploy wrapped versions across Solana and BNB Chain liquidity venues to access DeFi primitives without abandoning the native coin’s scarcity thesis.
42-coin has a maximum supply of 42 tokens. Currently, 42.00 are in circulation. The last known trade price on active market pairs was $24,373.13. With a market capitalization of $1,127,054, 42-coin ranks #2,858 among all cryptocurrencies.
| Date | Open | Close | High | Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/06/2026 | $14,959.68 | $14,923.76 | $15,015.20 | $14,872.83 |
| 11/06/2026 | $14,737.44 | $14,966.73 | $14,989.42 | $14,737.44 |
| 10/06/2026 | $14,665.11 | $14,737.44 | $14,762.69 | $14,532.32 |
| 09/06/2026 | $14,976.35 | $14,639.44 | $15,394.76 | $14,556.28 |
| 08/06/2026 | $14,811.91 | $14,972.51 | $15,086.44 | $14,779.24 |
| 07/06/2026 | $14,779.22 | $14,812.07 | $15,003.47 | $14,737.51 |
| 06/06/2026 | $14,630.50 | $14,776.55 | $14,915.96 | $14,535.05 |
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