Price change (24h):
0.00%
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Volume (24h):
$7.76
Market Cap:
$357.27K
All Time High:
99.97% $49.23
Dec 29, 2017
All Time Low:
2255% $0.00
Aug 28, 2022
Skycoin
SKY60.15 %(1Y)
$0.01486565
About Skycoin
Skycoin (SKY) is a cryptocurrency launched in 2015. It operates as an infrastructure-centric digital asset situated squarely inside the decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) category.
The protocol constructs a hardware-anchored alternative to conventional internet architecture. Rather than simply moving ledger entries, Skycoin fields a parallel backbone for bandwidth, storage, and general-purpose computation, directly confronting the concentration risk embedded in cloud oligopolies and carrier-grade transit monopolies. A zero-fee payment rail runs natively across that same substrate, collapsing the split between a settlement layer and the physical mesh it rides on.
The network operates on its own blockchain using obelisk. This consensus mechanism abandons both proof-of-work’s energy burn and proof-of-stake’s plutocratic drift, substituting a web-of-trust graph where each node subscribes to a small set of peers and a node’s influence scales with the density of its subscriber mesh.
Transaction finality lands in roughly two seconds. Because the system eschews direct fee extraction, it leans on a secondary accounting unit called Coin Hours, which decays and regenerates as a function of holding time, effectively substituting temporal commitment for pecuniary cost. The entire stack traces back to a deterministic language, CX, derived from Golang, while the execution environment can run on a 30-watt mobile processor, dissolving the typical hardware barrier to consensus participation.
The project’s core contributors previously shaped early Bitcoin and Ethereum client implementations. A genesis block minted on April 2, 2015, crystallized the network, and the years that followed accreted a broad ecosystem: the Fiber token issuance factory, the Sky-Messenger encrypted relay, and a decentralized bulletin-board social layer called BBS.
The long horizon objective is to re-wire the internet’s physical underlay as a community-owned commodity. Skywire, the network’s flagship overlay, aims to route packets across a mesh of citizen-operated nodes, making last-mile connectivity a locally provisioned good instead of a tolled service.
Purely on mechanics, the SKY token serves as a vault that continuously issues Coin Hours. Each unspent transaction output drips a tiny time-based credit, and those hourly credits are what actually extinguish the computational cost of broadcasting state transitions, keeping the base token’s on-chain velocity deliberately low while removing gatekeepers from the fee layer.
Validators do not earn block subsidies denominated in SKY directly; they accrue trust-weighted topology influence. Any participant, however, can hold SKY to steadily generate Coin Hours and later burn those hours to execute contract calls, push settlement transactions, or reserve encrypted tunnel capacity inside Skywire, converting passive holding time into active network utility.
Skycoin has a maximum supply of 100,000,000 tokens. Currently, 23,827,698 SKY are in circulation. With a market capitalization of $1,993,623, Skycoin ranks #2,327 among all cryptocurrencies.
Skycoin Historical Price Data
| Date | Open | Close | High | Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07/06/2026 | $0.01 | $0.01 | $0.01 | $0.01 |
Why is manual trading Skycoin a bad idea?
Manual sky trading
- Miss perfect entry/exit
- Emotional decisions
- Huge time to monitor
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FAQ
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Skycoin (SKY) is a cryptocurrency that can be bought, sold, and traded on major exchanges. Its price changes in real time based on supply, demand, and broader market conditions. You can track the live SKY price, market cap, and 24-hour trading volume at the top of this page.
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The current price of Skycoin (SKY) is $0.01486565. Over the last 24 hours, it has moved 0.00%. Crypto prices update continuously, so short-term changes can happen quickly.
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You can buy Skycoin on major exchanges like Binance, Coinbase, or KuCoin. However, simply buying and holding can be risky due to market volatility.
The smartest way to manage your SKY investment is to connect your exchange account to Stoic AI. This allows you to keep funds on your preferred exchange while our institutional-grade algorithm automates the trading strategy for you, aiming to outperform manual trading. -
Skycoin's price is influenced by overall crypto market trends, trading volume, investor sentiment, regulatory news, and macroeconomic events. High volatility is common - SKY can move 5-15% in a single day. This makes timing the market extremely difficult for manual traders but creates opportunities for systematic, data-driven strategies.
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We can’t provide investment advice. Whether Skycoin is a good investment depends on your risk tolerance, time horizon, and strategy. Crypto markets are highly volatile and past performance doesn't guarantee future results. Many investors reduce risk by diversifying across multiple assets and using automated strategies that remove emotional decision-making. Always do your own research before investing.
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Common approaches include buy & hold, discretionary trading based on technical analysis, or automated strategies. Manual trading can be difficult due to fees, timing, and emotional decisions. Stoic AI offers an out-of-the-box automated approach: connect your exchange via trade-only API permissions, choose a strategy, and the system manages portfolio rebalancing 24/7.
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Stoic AI uses hedge fund-grade quantitative strategies developed by Cindicator, a fintech company with 9+ years of experience and $230M+ in assets under management. The algorithm analyzes price data, volatility, and correlations to build and rebalance a diversified portfolio. SKY can be included based on real-time market conditions. Over 18,000 customers already use Stoic AI to automate their crypto portfolios.
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With Stoic AI, your funds stay on your exchange (Binance, Coinbase, KuCoin, etc.) at all times. Stoic connects via read-and-trade-only API keys - it cannot withdraw your funds. The platform uses institutional-grade risk management and has been live-tested through multiple market cycles since 2020, including the 2022 crypto winter. You maintain full control and can disconnect at any time.
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You can start with as little as $500. There are no lock-ups and no hidden fees. You can try it now and withdraw your funds at any time. Create a Stoic account, connect your exchange using an API key with trading‑only permissions, choose a strategy, and start automated trading. You can stop anytime by revoking the API key on your exchange. Since the funds stay in your exchange wallet, you remain in control of deposits and withdrawals.
