What is Verus (VRSC)?
Verus is a Privacy cryptocurrency tracked here by price, market capitalisation and strength against Bitcoin, with on-chain activity from chain TVL. It is one of 27 Privacy coins on this site. Readings are as of 2026-07-31.
Privacy · five-year weekly price · BTC-relative
Verus (VRSC) Crypto Price & Market Cap
Verus (VRSC) — price, market cap and strength versus Bitcoin
Bottom line
Verus trades at $0.3063 with a market capitalisation of $30.5M (rank 635). Over 90 days it is -41.9% against Bitcoin and sits below its 200-day average. Privacy as a theme is +15.3% against Bitcoin over 13 weeks. Price readings run through 2026-07-31.
Price
$0.3063
as of 2026-07-31
Market cap
$30.5M
snapshot 2026-07-04
RS vs Bitcoin · 90d
-42%
as of 2026-07-31
30-day median volume
$0
as of 2026-07-31
01 · the tape, against its benchmark
How has Verus moved against Bitcoin?
Verus is -86.2% over one year, -60.2% over 90 days and -18.4% over 30 days. Annualised 30-day volatility is 334%. Its deepest fall from a high inside the last 90 days is 65%. It trades below its 200-day average, which is falling.
VRSC · rebasedBitcoinPrivacy · equal weight
All three lines rebased to 100 at the first week each has data. Bitcoin is the opportunity-cost benchmark for crypto risk; the theme line is its equal-weight index of current rated members.
02 · returns, volatility and drawdown
What do Verus's returns and risk look like?
7 days-21%
30 days-18%
90 days-60%
180 days-65%
1 year-86%
30-day volatility334% annualised
Deepest 90-day fall65%
200-day average$0.6567 · below · falling
50-day average$0.4468
03 · what the protocol actually earns
Does Verus generate fees or revenue?
Verus publishes 1 of the six network-economics series this site tracks: total value locked. Total value locked at the latest complete quarter is $5.9M. Network activity is evidence about the protocol, not earnings owed to the token. Readings run to the Q2 2026 quarter.
Total value locked6/20 quarters
Latest$5.9M-88%
Total value locked
Complete calendar quarters only. A blank quarter is unavailable, not zero. Network activity is evidence about the protocol, not earnings owed to the token.
04 · exact additive research priority
What does the evidence say about Verus?
Verus is not rated this week, so it carries no score and no rank inside Privacy. The four displayed point contributions add exactly to the total; missing evidence pulls only the affected factor toward neutral and lowers its stated coverage. It ranks research attention within one theme, never portfolio action, and it is not comparable across themes.
Not rated this week — and why
No traded volume is reported on most of the last 30 days, so it has no liquidity reading.
Its price history is still shown above in full. A missing reading is not a middling reading, so no score is invented for it and it takes no rank inside Privacy.
No valuation section exists on this page, for any coin. There is no company-style P/E or PEG for a token, and historical market capitalisation is not held at all — only a dated current snapshot — so no ten-year valuation band can be built honestly. Where a protocol publishes fees or revenue, the yield against that dated snapshot is shown above instead.
05 · the theme it competes in
How does Verus compare with other Privacy coins?
Verus is one of 27 Privacy coins here, 24 of which carry enough evidence to be rated and ranked. Verus is not among them this week, for the reason stated above. The table below is the theme's own scorecard, in its own order, with this coin marked.
| Rank | Coin | Score | Evidence | Read | Market cap | RS vs BTC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zcash ZEC | 68.7 | 50% | Tape-led · on-chain proof incomplete | $7.8B | +38% |
| 2 | Zama ZAMA | 67.8 | 43% | Tape-led · on-chain proof incomplete | $71.1M | +113% |
| 3 | Anoma XAN | 62.6 | 50% | Illiquid · research only | $28.8M | +49% |
| 4 | Monero XMR | 62.1 | 50% | Tape-led · on-chain proof incomplete | $6.2B | +14% |
| 5 | MimbleWimbleCoin MWC | 58.6 | 50% | Illiquid · research only | $76.0M | +83% |
| 6 | Litecoin LTC | 53.5 | 55% | Tape-led · on-chain proof incomplete | $3.4B | +0.1% |
| 7 | ZEROBASE ZBT | 52.7 | 17% | Illiquid · research only | $33.7M | — |
| 8 | Dash DASH | 52.0 | 55% | Tape-led · on-chain proof incomplete | $452.2M | +3.0% |
| 9 | Zano ZANO | 51.6 | 50% | Illiquid · research only | $141.1M | +19% |
| 10 | Tornado Cash TORN | 49.8 | 65% | Illiquid · research only | $21.0M | -8.7% |
| 11 | Pirate Chain ARRR | 47.2 | 50% | Illiquid · research only | $46.9M | +22% |
| 12 | Decred DCR | 46.6 | 50% | Illiquid · research only | $198.9M | -10% |
| 13 | Mina Protocol MINA | 44.6 | 50% | Illiquid · research only | $60.0M | -12% |
| 14 | Railgun RAIL | 43.5 | 91% | Illiquid · research only | $117.8M | +31% |
| 15 | Horizen ZEN | 40.9 | 55% | Tape-led · on-chain proof incomplete | $77.7M | -17% |
| 16 | Arcium ARX | 40.2 | 50% | Illiquid · research only | $44.9M | -8.9% |
| 17 | Ergo ERG | 38.0 | 55% | Illiquid · research only | $17.5M | -14% |
| 18 | Verge XVG | 36.6 | 50% | Illiquid · research only | $37.6M | -23% |
| 19 | Nockchain NOCK | 36.1 | 50% | Illiquid · research only | $55.9M | -9.1% |
| 20 | Tezos XTZ | 35.9 | 91% | Lagging · market gate closed | $267.3M | -25% |
| 21 | Humanity H | 35.1 | 50% | Tape-led · on-chain proof incomplete | $138.0M | -47% |
| 22 | Oasis ROSE | 33.2 | 55% | Illiquid · research only | $47.8M | -29% |
| 23 | ALEO ALEO | 33.0 | 50% | Illiquid · research only | $24.9M | -44% |
| 24 | Midnight NIGHT | 32.1 | 50% | Illiquid · research only | $542.1M | -23% |
| — | Verus VRSC this coin | — | 0% | Not rated | $30.5M | -42% |
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The Privacy scorecard in its own order, with this coin marked. Scores are within-theme and are not comparable with coins in another theme. See the full Privacy page.
Methodology · boundaries make the answer useful
What can make this page misleading?
This page names 5 ways its own evidence about Verus can mislead, all listed below. The largest is that crypto network activity is not company earnings: protocol revenue does not automatically accrue to token holders. Price runs through 2026-07-31; market capitalisation is a separate snapshot dated 2026-07-04.
- Crypto network activity is not company earnings. Protocol revenue does not automatically accrue to token holders.
- Market capitalisation is a dated snapshot, not a point-in-time historical supply series, so yields computed against it inherit that lag.
- No valuation band exists for any coin: historical market capitalisation is not held at all.
- Funding rates, open interest, liquidations, exchange flows, unlock schedules and developer activity are not held and are not inferred.
- The research score is relative to this coin's own theme only. It is not comparable across themes and is not an entry signal.
Price and technicalsThrough 2026-07-31, from exchange closes; moving averages are computed, never scraped.
Protocol activityThrough 2026-07-31, for the series this token publishes.
Market capSnapshot dated 2026-07-04; no historical supply series is implied.
Decision useResearch priority within one theme. Not entry, exit, sizing or leverage instructions.
Questions the page should answer directly
Crypto analysis FAQs
These 7 answers cover the questions this page can settle from data it holds — what the category is, how the score is built, what the coverage gaps are, and what would change the read. Every answer below is also present in the page’s FAQ schema and in its plain-text rendition. None of them is a recommendation.
What is the market cap of Verus?
Verus's market capitalisation is $30.5M, ranking it 635 in the top-1,000 crypto universe. That figure is a dated snapshot from 2026-07-04, refreshed separately from the daily price series, so it can lag the price shown above.
Is Verus beating Bitcoin?
Verus is -41.9% against Bitcoin over 90 days, and its own theme, Privacy, is +15.3% over 13 weeks. It trades below its 200-day average as of 2026-07-31.
Does Verus have a P/E ratio?
No. There is no company-style P/E or PEG for a crypto token, and no valuation band is shown on this page because the data to build one honestly does not exist: historical market capitalisation is not held, only a current snapshot. Where a protocol publishes fees or revenue, this page shows the yield against that dated snapshot instead.
Why is Verus not rated?
No traded volume is reported on most of the last 30 days, so it has no liquidity reading. It stays on the site with its price history visible, because a missing reading is not a middling reading and a made-up score would be worse than none.
How much Verus history does this page show?
Five years of weekly closes where they exist, plus 20 complete calendar quarters of on-chain activity for the metrics Verus actually publishes. Here that is total value locked.
Does Verus generate total value locked?
Verus's latest quarter total value locked is $5.9M, down 88% on the year-earlier period. Network activity is not token-holder earnings: whether it accrues to the token depends on the protocol's own burn, buyback and distribution rules.