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October 3, 2026
Virtuals Protocol

Virtuals Protocol

VIRTUAL Rank #115

Live price · multi-source dashboard ·

$0.8009
▲ +2.71% (24h)

Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) is trading at $0.8009. 24-hour change +2.71%; market cap $525.07M; circulating supply 655,602,284 VIRTUAL. Data as of 2026-10-02 17:12 UTC.

Market cap
$525.07M
24h volume
$40.85M
Circ. supply
655.60M
VIRTUAL
Max supply
1.00B
VIRTUAL
All-time high
$5.10
Jan 2025
52-Week Low
$0.5185
01Snapshot

Virtuals Protocol — key facts

Price
$0.8009
24h change
+2.71%
Market cap
$525.07M
Market rank
#115
24h volume
$40.85M
Circ. supply
655,602,284 VIRTUAL
From all-time high
-84.3%
Last updated

How is the market moving today?

Live editorial snapshot — numbers update on every refresh

Today's state: Virtuals Protocol is trading at $0.800900 with a $0.5 billion market capitalization (rank #117). The price moved +2.71% over the past 24 hours and is -1.00% over 7 days; the 30-day move stands at +20.60% and the 90-day at +41.20%.

Position vs cycle: The asset trades deep in the post-peak drawdown regime, more than 70% below its prior cycle high — typical of late-stage bear conditions or assets that have permanently re-rated lower.

Volatility and structure: 30-day realized volatility of 86.6% annualized is high for an asset this size. Our composite multi-horizon Price Strength reads Neutral (50/100), with the timeframes pulling in different directions and no clean directional read.

How does it score on momentum, value and risk?

Derived metrics composed from multi-horizon data

Price strength
50/100
Neutral

Composite of 24h/7d/30d/90d/1y returns weighted toward longer horizons.

Liquidity
92/100
Deep

24h volume / market cap = 7.779%.

Volatility (30d)
87%
High

Annualized std-dev of daily log returns.

BTC correlation (90d)
+0.65
Linked
-10+1
From ATH
-84.3%
16%

% of all-time high currently held.

From ATL
1.5×
1.5x

Multiple over 52-week low. Log scale.

Over the last day Virtuals Protocol gained 2.71%, with its 7-day move 1.00% lower and its 30-day move 20.60% higher. Over the trailing 365 days, the asset has delivered gains of 0.00%, with a mixed multi-horizon profile and no clear directional bias.

The asset currently trades 84.3% below its all-time high, far enough below the peak that the path back has tended to hinge on renewed narrative demand rather than mechanical mean-reversion. 30-day realized volatility sits at 87% annualized — high territory for a crypto asset of this size.

Right now Virtuals Protocol is exhibiting deep order books and broad exchange coverage. 24-hour trading volume represents 7.779% of market capitalization — our liquidity-health composite scores this as Deep (92/100). Turnover at this level runs hot versus large-cap norms — usually a marker of intense trader attention.

The 90-day Pearson correlation of VIRTUAL's daily returns versus Bitcoin's is +0.65 — a strong positive relationship. Virtuals Protocol moves with Bitcoin a good deal of the time while keeping some independent behaviour, so it diversifies a BTC position only partially.

How has the price performed over time?

% return across 9 horizons — heatmap by magnitude

1H
+0.80%
24H
+2.71%
7D
-1.00%
30D
+20.60%
3M
+41.20%
6M
+25.18%
1Y
+0.00%
ATH
-84.28%
from ATH
ATL
1.5×
from ATL
02Price

Price chart

USD · daily candles · CoinGecko + Binance

Data refreshed 12 hours ago · auto-updates daily

Price history table

Last 30 trading days · daily OHLC

Date Open High Low Close Change
2026-10-02 $0.7832 $0.8360 $0.7747 $0.8008 +2.25%
2026-10-01 $0.8053 $0.8324 $0.7722 $0.7833 -2.73%
2026-09-30 $0.7720 $0.8267 $0.7616 $0.8056 +4.35%
2026-09-29 $0.8274 $0.8334 $0.7639 $0.7721 -6.68%
2026-09-28 $0.8408 $0.8538 $0.7716 $0.8273 -1.61%
2026-09-27 $0.7908 $0.8504 $0.7765 $0.8410 +6.35%
2026-09-26 $0.7973 $0.8213 $0.7702 $0.7907 -0.83%
2026-09-25 $0.7455 $0.8000 $0.7256 $0.7974 +6.96%
2026-09-24 $0.6985 $0.7544 $0.6859 $0.7452 +6.69%
2026-09-23 $0.7518 $0.7760 $0.6833 $0.6986 -7.08%
2026-09-22 $0.7316 $0.7601 $0.7023 $0.7515 +2.72%
2026-09-21 $0.6751 $0.7336 $0.6680 $0.7315 +8.35%
2026-09-20 $0.6744 $0.6810 $0.6371 $0.6754 +0.15%
2026-09-19 $0.6613 $0.6853 $0.6586 $0.6744 +1.98%
2026-09-18 $0.6135 $0.6642 $0.6092 $0.6613 +7.79%
2026-09-17 $0.6019 $0.6184 $0.5974 $0.6133 +1.89%
2026-09-16 $0.5853 $0.6021 $0.5748 $0.6019 +2.84%
2026-09-15 $0.6158 $0.6174 $0.5760 $0.5853 -4.95%
2026-09-14 $0.6060 $0.6381 $0.6012 $0.6157 +1.60%
2026-09-13 $0.6206 $0.6228 $0.6037 $0.6057 -2.40%
2026-09-12 $0.6312 $0.6412 $0.6163 $0.6205 -1.70%
2026-09-11 $0.6270 $0.6726 $0.6203 $0.6313 +0.69%
2026-09-10 $0.6599 $0.6609 $0.6261 $0.6268 -5.02%
2026-09-09 $0.7141 $0.7301 $0.6432 $0.6599 -7.59%
2026-09-08 $0.7339 $0.7586 $0.7021 $0.7140 -2.71%
2026-09-07 $0.7290 $0.7413 $0.7085 $0.7339 +0.67%
2026-09-06 $0.6868 $0.7323 $0.6741 $0.7287 +6.10%
2026-09-05 $0.6611 $0.7001 $0.6593 $0.6870 +3.92%
2026-09-04 $0.6970 $0.7020 $0.6550 $0.6610 -5.16%
2026-09-03 $0.6746 $0.7189 $0.6705 $0.6972 +3.35%

Technical analysis

RSI · MACD · moving averages · Bollinger

RSI (14)
59.5
neutral
03070100
MACD signal
Bullish
Histogram: 0.01
Moving averages
MA 50
$0.6898
+16.09%
MA 100
$0.6312
+26.87%
MA 200
$0.6628
+20.82%
Resistance levels
  • R$0.8187
  • R$0.8270
  • R$0.8372
  • R$0.8538
Support levels
  • S$0.7081
  • S$0.7479
  • S$0.7755
  • S$0.7998

Derivatives & leverage

Perpetual-futures positioning from Hyperliquid · VIRTUAL-PERP

Hyperliquid
Open interest
$9.21M
24h perp volume
$4.69M
Funding (APR)
+11.0%
+0.0013%/hr
Mark vs spot
+0.04%
5× max lev
Shorts pay Funding bias Longs pay

Funding is positive at +11.0%/yr, so long positions are paying shorts — leverage on Hyperliquid is currently skewed bullish. Persistent positive funding can precede long-squeeze pullbacks.

Perpetual-futures data from Hyperliquid, the leading on-chain perp DEX. Funding is paid hourly; a positive rate means long holders pay shorts. Derivatives positioning is informational, not a trade signal.

Multi-model price forecast

3-model ensemble · TA + statistical + peer-relative

Short term · 24h–7d
Medium conf
24–48 hours
Low $0.6728 -16.0%
Mid $0.7637 -4.7%
High $0.8627 +7.7%
Models contributing
Technical · Statistical · Relative
Mid term · 7–30d
Low conf
7–30 days
Low $0.6903 -13.8%
Mid $0.8325 +3.9%
High $1.02 +27.5%
Models contributing
Technical · Statistical · Relative
Long term · 3–6mo
Medium conf
3–12 months
Low $0.5466 -31.8%
Mid $0.8346 +4.2%
High $1.34 +67.1%
Models contributing
Technical · Statistical · Relative
Per-model breakdown +
Model Horizon Low Mid High Method
Technical Short $0.5822 $0.6851 $0.7881 TA composite (ATR + Bollinger + slope)
Technical Mid $0.6271 $0.6823 $0.7900 TA composite (ATR + Bollinger + slope)
Technical Long $0.6248 $0.8926 $1.16 TA composite (ATR + Bollinger + slope)
Monte Carlo Short $0.6707 $0.7967 $0.9464 Monte Carlo on 90d log returns
Monte Carlo Mid $0.5482 $0.7829 $1.12 Monte Carlo on 90d log returns
Monte Carlo Long $0.2919 $0.6989 $1.66 Monte Carlo on 90d log returns
Peer comparison Short $0.7663 $0.7982 $0.8257 Peer comparison · 15 peers in same category
Peer comparison Mid $0.9429 $1.05 $1.12 Peer comparison · 15 peers in same category
Peer comparison Long $0.8080 $0.9575 $1.09 Peer comparison · 15 peers in same category

Three independent models feed the forecast above, following the STNews methodology:

  • Technical model reads moving-average, ATR, Bollinger-band and trend-slope signals to set its ranges — it carries most weight in an orderly trend or range.
  • Statistical (Monte Carlo) model samples the last 90 days of daily log returns to map the 5th, 50th and 95th percentile outcomes at each horizon, giving a trend-agnostic baseline.
  • Peer-relative model looks at same-category, similar-cap coins and projects the price implied by matching their median, lower-quartile and upper-quartile return profiles, anchoring the forecast to sector behaviour.

The ensemble forecast is a weighted blend — 40% statistical, 30% technical, 30% peer-relative. The confidence badge tracks model agreement: the tighter the three cluster, the higher the confidence; wide disagreement lowers it and flags a regime where statistics alone are unreliable.

Disclaimer: These forecasts are algorithmic estimates derived from public price data using moving averages, Bollinger bands, Monte Carlo simulation of historical log returns, and peer-group comparison. They are not investment advice and should not be used to make trading decisions. Cryptocurrency is highly volatile and can lose all value. Past performance does not guarantee future returns. See our forecast methodology for full details.
03On-chain

Cross-asset correlations (90d)

Pearson correlation of daily log returns vs top L1 references

Bitcoin
+0.65
Moderate
-10+1
Ethereum
+0.61
Moderate
-10+1
Solana
+0.60
Moderate
-10+1

To place VIRTUAL in the wider market, its 90-day return correlations against the two other largest layer-1s show whether it trades as crypto-market beta or on its own drivers. The Pearson figures across daily log returns:

  • Bitcoin reference: +0.65 — a strong positive relationship.
  • Ethereum reference: +0.61 — a strong positive relationship.
  • Solana reference: +0.60 — a strong positive relationship.

Strong correlation to multiple references typically indicates that the asset trades primarily as crypto-market beta — moves in BTC/ETH/SOL drive most of the price action, and stand-alone alpha is harder to capture. Weak or negative correlations indicate idiosyncratic drivers (project-specific news, sector rotation within crypto, or narrative shifts) that can produce returns uncorrelated with the broader market.

04Context

About Virtuals Protocol

Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) is a cryptocurrency, traded on global digital-asset markets. It trades at $0.8009 as of the latest update, with a 24-hour move up 2.71%, placing it at rank #115 by market capitalisation among all listed digital assets. Virtuals Protocol's current market cap stands at $525.07M, a figure used by traders, analysts and institutional desks to gauge relative liquidity and risk exposure across the crypto market.

On this page you'll find a live, daily-refreshed dashboard tracking Virtuals Protocol across multiple data sources — price history going back several years, on-chain activity where available, fundamentals like circulating supply and dilution, top exchanges by volume, technical analysis using moving averages and RSI, and an algorithmic short, mid and long-term forecast. All figures are pulled from public APIs and cached locally; nothing here is investment advice.

Virtuals Protocol belongs to the AI×crypto cohort: projects positioning the token as a claim on the infrastructure AI needs — compute, data or identity. It is a sentiment-driven sector, and the cohort has tended to move with the broader AI narrative more than with its own on-chain usage.

Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) is a mid-cap asset in the broad top 250, ranked #117 among all tracked tokens by capitalisation. About 66% of the maximum VIRTUAL supply is in circulation today (655.60M of 1.00B), leaving a moderate emission stream still to come. It currently trades about 84% below its all-time high of $5.10 set in January 2025.

STNews Analyst Note

By market value Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) ranks in the broad top 250, trading at $0.8009000 as of the latest snapshot. VIRTUAL is +2.71% over 24 hours, -1.00% over the past week, +20.60% over 30 days, putting it among the weekly underperformers across the top 250 by market capitalisation. Virtuals Protocol remains roughly 84% beneath its all-time high of $5.10, a level first printed in January 2025. Only 66% of VIRTUAL's eventual supply (655.60M of 1.00B) is currently in circulation — meaningful future dilution is built into the schedule and should be factored into long-term valuation.

Trading volume is light versus market value — only about 7.8% of capitalisation changes hands daily — so larger orders can move price more than they would for higher-liquidity peers.

How it works — Virtuals Protocol

The mechanism behind Virtuals Protocol applies token incentives to some part of the AI stack — provisioning GPU compute, running an open inference or model marketplace, curating training data, or attesting identity. What ties the category together is coordinating those resources through crypto rather than through one centralized AI provider.

Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) is a mid-cap asset in the broad top 250, ranked #117 among all tracked tokens by capitalisation. About 66% of the maximum VIRTUAL supply is in circulation today (655.60M of 1.00B), leaving a moderate emission stream still to come. It currently trades about 84% below its all-time high of $5.10 set in January 2025. Its fully-diluted valuation of $800.90M is about 1.5× the circulating market cap of $525.07M, a gap that signals issuance overhang to factor into any longer-term thesis.

Use cases — Virtuals Protocol

In practice the token is used to buy compute, reward hardware providers, settle inference, stake on data quality, or attest identity. For most projects in the category, measurable on-chain usage is still small next to market cap, so the assets trade largely on narrative for now.

Daily volume runs at about 7.8% of market capitalisation ($40.85M in the last 24 hours), in the normal band for a coin of this size and supportive of orderly entries and exits.

Tokenomics

Supply schedule & distribution

Circulating vs locked vs unminted
  • Circulating supply: 655.60M VIRTUAL — tokens actively trading and held by the public
  • Total supply: 1.00B VIRTUAL — all tokens minted to date (including those locked or held by the issuer)
  • Max supply: 1.00B VIRTUAL — the protocol-defined upper limit (if any) on lifetime issuance
  • Issued to date: 65.6% of max supply
  • Locked / treasury: 34.4% of total supply

Virtuals Protocol's supply schedule directly affects its long-term inflation rate and, by extension, how dilutive future issuance will be to existing holders. A coin near full dilution behaves very differently from one that still has 60% of its supply waiting to be unlocked.

Supply economics

Issuance pressure, dilution, and structural value accrual

Virtuals Protocol's tokenomics combine its supply schedule, current circulating supply, and the relationship between circulating market cap and fully-diluted valuation. Approximately 65.6% of maximum supply is currently circulating, meaning roughly 34.4% of total potential supply remains to be issued. This implies a structural emission stream against current demand for the asset. The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of $0.8 billion stands at 1.5× the current circulating market cap of $0.5 billion. The wider this ratio, the more issuance overhang the asset faces — a structural headwind on valuation that mature assets like Bitcoin do not face but that early-cycle assets typically do.

For thesis-building, the relevant question is whether the structural value-accrual mechanism (fee burns, staking-yield reinvestment, deflationary supply mechanics, ecosystem TVL growth) outpaces the structural emission pressure. When it does, the price tends to grind higher over multi-quarter windows even without speculative momentum; when it does not, the asset typically requires consistent narrative-driven demand to absorb the issuance.

Trader's note

Coin-type-aware tactical interpretation

For Virtuals Protocol in the AI×crypto sector, the tactical reality is that price action over the past two years has tracked AI-sector sentiment more closely than any underlying network metric. When the broader AI narrative is positive (model releases, capex announcements, public-market AI flows), the entire AI×crypto cohort rallies regardless of which specific network is delivering more on-chain activity.

The Price Strength composite at 50/100 reads neutral. The disciplined approach with this cohort is to size positions assuming that the AI-narrative beta dominates, and to monitor both crypto-sector flows and AI-sector indicators (Nvidia trajectory, capex announcements from hyperscalers) to anticipate regime changes.

05Action

Markets & exchanges

Top trading pairs by 24h volume

# Exchange Pair Last price 24h volume Trust
1 Binance VIRTUAL/USDT $0.800900 $40.85M A+

Initial rows server-rendered from our verified pipeline (binance-v2). Data-only. STNews does not place affiliate links here. See our affiliate disclosure.

If you'd bought Virtuals Protocol...

ROI calculator · historical close prices

VIRTUAL Bought
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at —
Value today
—
at $0.80
Total return
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Calculated on daily close prices. Does not include trading fees, taxes, or staking yields. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

Converter

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Rate: 1 VIRTUAL = $0.8009

Compared to peers

Price, market cap, volume, supply

Coin7d trendPriceMarket Cap24h Vol24h %7d %
Virtuals Protocol Virtuals Protocol VIRTUAL $0.8009 $525.07M $40.85M +2.71% -1.00%
Bitcoin Bitcoin BTC $84,550.00 $1.69T $33.93B -2.28% -4.60%
Ethereum Ethereum ETH $2,674.51 $327.29B $14.98B -2.41% -5.79%
Solana Solana SOL $119.10 $64.69B $3.34B -2.78% -13.42%
XRP XRP XRP $1.50 $89.70B $4.32B +0.73% +2.56%
BNB BNB BNB $578.65 $80.54B $771.84M -0.05% -3.52%
Dogecoin Dogecoin DOGE $0.0930 $15.63B $926.53M -3.58% -6.29%
Cardano Cardano ADA $0.2455 $8.79B $534.42M -3.50% -11.45%
TRON TRON TRX $0.3343 $28.87B $342.59M -0.30% +1.23%
06Outlook

Market sentiment

Crypto Fear & Greed Index · alternative.me

72
Greed
2026-10-02

The Crypto Fear & Greed Index aggregates volatility, market momentum, social media activity, dominance and Google Trends data into a single 0–100 score updated daily. Today's reading is 72 — Greed.

Extreme fear (below 25) historically signals buying opportunities for contrarians, while extreme greed (above 75) often precedes corrections. The index works best as one input among many, not as a standalone trading signal.

Past 30 days

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Macro & cross-asset context

How macro liquidity and cross-asset moves frame the trade

The macro picture for digital assets turns on three levers — Federal Reserve policy, the path of dollar liquidity, and broad risk sentiment. Historically the whole asset class has tracked the global liquidity cycle closely, expanding in easing regimes and contracting when financial conditions tighten.

A handful of traditional gauges tend to lead or confirm crypto moves: the dollar index (strength is a headwind), the 10-year yield (the price of risk capital), gold (an occasional fellow-traveller in debasement trades), and the S&P 500 (which often moves with crypto when liquidity, not fundamentals, is in the driver's seat).

Narrowing to Virtuals Protocol, the cleanest leading signal has usually been crypto-native liquidity — the combined trend in stablecoin supply, futures open interest and exchange turnover. When that pool of on-chain capital grows, VIRTUAL has tended to advance with it; when it drains, the move has typically gone into reverse. Given the 90-day BTC correlation of +0.65, VIRTUAL's near-term macro sensitivity will be similar to Bitcoin's — driven primarily by the same liquidity conditions and risk-asset flows.

Risks

The hazards are distinctive: prices lean on AI-sector sentiment more than on actual usage, identity-focused projects carry extra regulatory exposure, centralized AI providers compete with far better unit economics, and it remains unproven how much AI compute genuinely needs to be decentralized. Expect volatility above the broad alt-coin average.

07More

Frequently asked questions

What is Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL)? ▾

Virtuals Protocol is a cryptocurrency, traded on global digital-asset markets. It trades under the ticker VIRTUAL and currently has a market capitalisation of $525.07M.

What is the price of VIRTUAL today? ▾

The price of Virtuals Protocol today is $0.8009, refreshed daily from public market data. Live price changes are visible at the top of this page.

What is the maximum supply of Virtuals Protocol? ▾

The protocol caps lifetime issuance of Virtuals Protocol at 1.00B VIRTUAL. This limit is enforced by the network's code and cannot be raised without coordinated upgrades.

What was Virtuals Protocol's all-time high? ▾

Virtuals Protocol's all-time high in USD terms is $5.10. Past performance does not guarantee future returns.

How can I buy Virtuals Protocol? ▾

Virtuals Protocol is available on the major centralized exchanges; the Markets table on this page ranks them by VIRTUAL/USD volume. As always, verify the venue's withdrawal fees, funding options, and licensing for your jurisdiction first.

Is Virtuals Protocol a good investment? ▾

Nothing on this page is a recommendation to buy or sell. Digital-asset prices swing sharply in both directions; treat the figures above as inputs to your own research and your own risk assessment, not as a signal.

Where does the data on this page come from? ▾

Our price, supply and volume data come from public cryptocurrency APIs (Binance, CoinGecko, CoinPaprika and similar), and the sentiment gauge is from alternative.me. Everything is stored locally and refreshed on a recurring cycle.

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