Alephium
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The price of Alephium has fallen 0 in the past 7 days.The price declined 0 in the last 24 hours.The current price is €0.0447 per ALPH. Alephium is 98.58% below the all time high of €3.15.
The current circulating supply is 122,324,536.73 ALPH .
Alephium is a sharded Layer 1 blockchain designed to address the "blockchain trilemma" by balancing security, scalability, and decentralization. It employs the BlockFlow sharding algorithm and a Stateful UTXO (sUTXO) accounting model. This combination allows the network to process transactions in parallel across multiple shards while offering the programmable flexibility typically associated with account-based models like Ethereum. The protocol executes smart contracts via its custom Alphred Virtual Machine.
The network has recently executed significant upgrades to improve performance and user experience:
Danube Upgrade (July 2025): The network successfully activated the Danube hard fork. Key features included:
8-Second Block Times: Reducing latency by 50% (down from 16 seconds in the previous Rhone era) to improve dApp responsiveness.
Groupless Addresses: A feature that abstracts sharding complexity, allowing users to interact with the network using a unified address format regardless of which shard they are utilizing.
Native Passkeys: Integration of cryptographic passkeys directly at the protocol level, simplifying wallet security and onboarding.
Phase 2: Aligned Economics (Late 2025): Alephium initiated "Phase 2" of its roadmap, focusing on economic alignment. This includes the introduction of Protocol-Owned Liquidity and mechanisms for xALPH (staked ALPH), designed to allow long-term holders to participate in ecosystem governance and receive yield generated from protocol-owned dApps.
Institutional Integration: In mid-2025, the ecosystem integrated PrimeVault, an MPC (Multi-Party Computation) custody solution, to support institutional access to Alephium’s DeFi ecosystem.
The ALPH token serves specific functions within the network's verified economic model:
Transaction Fees (100% Burn): Uniquely, all transaction fees paid in ALPH are permanently burned. This mechanism links network usage directly to supply reduction.
Storage Rent: Users must lock a small amount of ALPH to pay for on-chain data storage; these tokens are released when the storage is freed.
Mining Rewards: Miners secure the network via Proof-of-Less-Work and earn newly minted ALPH.
Consensus: Proof-of-Less-Work (PoLW)
Architecture: Sharded (BlockFlow)
Smart Contract Language: Ralph (Rust-inspired)
Total Supply: Fixed cap of 1 Billion ALPH
Block Time: ~8 Seconds (Post-Danube)