Dash

Core development is done by Dash Core Group, paid as a contractor from the treasury budget that masternodes vote on each month. Releases are frequent: Dash Core 23.1.x in June–August 2026 fixed denial-of-service and crash vulnerabilities, and v24.0.0-rc.1 was published for testing on 26 September 2026. In August 2026 Dash said shielded transactions based on Zcash's Orchard technology were live on its Evolution mainnet, and Platform v4.2 betas continued that work in September 2026.

• Dash docs: Understanding governance
• dashpay/dash releases
• Shielded transactions are live on the Dash Evolution mainnet: Dash
• dashpay/platform releases

Dash had no ICO, token sale or premine, and no venture investor allocation was found; coins entered circulation through mining and later masternode and treasury rewards. Data is insufficient on institutional holders, funds or ETPs. In April 2023 the SEC's complaint against the Bittrex exchange alleged that DASH was a security; the case was against Bittrex, not Dash, and is an allegation, not a court finding.

• Dash docs: Features
• SEC v. Bittrex, Inc., et al.: Complaint (W.D. Wash., No. 2:23-cv-00580)
• CoinGecko API: Dash

Maximum supply is between about 17.74 million and 18.92 million DASH, depending on how much of the treasury allocation is spent. About 12.84 million DASH existed on 27 September 2026. The block subsidy falls by 7.14% roughly every 383 days, and each block reward is split 20% to miners, 60% to masternodes and 20% to the treasury. A weakness is the January 2014 'instamine': in the first roughly 34 hours a difficulty setting and a reward bug let about 1.99 million coins be mined, which the project puts at about 10.5% of total future supply.

• Dash docs: Features
• CoinGecko API: Dash
• CryptoID: Dash total coins API
• Dash docs: Understanding governance
• Dash Instamine Issue Clarification: Dash official communication (Confluence)
• Op Ed: A Closer Look At The Origins Of DASH (Part 2): Bitcoin Magazine

On 27 September 2026 Blockchair reported about 13,900 Dash Core transactions in 24 hours with an average fee of about $0.0024, and about 71.2 million transactions in total. InstantSend confirms in about two seconds, and ChainLocks signed by masternode quorums protect against 51% attacks. Running a masternode needs 1,000 DASH of collateral, or 4,000 DASH for an evonode. On Binance, futures made up about 81% of combined DASH volume on 27 September 2026, a single-day snapshot.

• Blockchair: Dash stats API
• Dash docs: Features
• Dash: Masternodes
• Binance Futures API: DASHUSDT 24h ticker
• Binance API: DASHUSDT spot 24h ticker