Trading activity:
Reported 24-hour volume equals 2.86% of market capitalization. The local markets snapshot lists Gate and Uniswap V2 (Ethereum) among venues with observed trading activity.
YearBull indicators:
YearBull Rank #2,658. Bull Score 53/100.
YB Market Risk Low. This relative market-volatility label is not an investment-safety assessment.
Cycle Early. Observed price change: 24h 1.29% · 7d -0.45% · 30d -19.95%.
Values are descriptive and should be read together rather than as a price forecast.
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Snapshot date: 2026-10-27.Data history: 90 days available in the latest 90-day window.
Methodology responsibility:
YearBull’s analytical methodology and presentation rules are developed and maintained by
Alan Zelvin, Founder & Lead Crypto Researcher.
This note identifies responsibility for the methodology; it does not attribute authorship of this data snapshot.
What is Crust Network (CRU)?
Source description
“What is Crust Network? Crust Network provides a decentralized storage network and cloud solutions for both, the Web 3.0 as well as Web 2.0 ecosystem and is build on Polkadot’s Substrate framework. It provides an unique incentive layer for the IPFS protocol and utilizes blockchain technology to enhancesecurity, privacy, performance and ownership of data. How does the roadmap look like? The mainnet launched on the 1st of September 2021 and currently holds a storage capacity of around 2,300 PetaBytes provided by more than 7,000 individual nodes. Crust Network already integrated with many blockchains and provides a fully decentralized storage layer for Ethereum, BSC, Polygon, Solana, Near, Elrond, Heco and others. In the future Crust will implement its storage services for even more networks in order to provide its storage solutions for every ecosystem. Some of the biggest blockchain projects already use Crust Network to store their data or host their websites and dApps via Crust’s infrastructure. These for example are Uniswap, AAVE or Polkadot Apps. In future, Crust Network is thriving to provide even more services for the Web3 and Web2 landscape for projects and companies to utilize and to build on. Crust's architecture also has the capability of supporting a decentralized computing layer and building a decentralized cloud ecosystem. Crust Ecosystem and Use Cases: • Providing the technical infrastructure for the Metaverse • Mint, Store and exchange NFTs fully decentralized • Hosting of Websites, dApps, Video streaming and more • Web 3.0 Gaming and decentralized social media • Personal Cloud storage to access your data from anywhere • File sharing and streaming services What are the CRU token utilities?”
This source-supplied description may contain old, promotional, or unverified claims and is not YearBull editorial analysis.
Official links and contract records appear in Key Facts. Project details can change, so verify current information with the project.
Crust Network (CRU) FAQ
How does Crust Network describe its decentralized storage architecture?
Crust Network presents itself as a decentralized storage network and cloud-services layer for Web3 and Web2. It states that the network provides an incentive layer for IPFS and uses distributed infrastructure to support data storage, website hosting, dApps, video streaming, file sharing, and related services. The project also describes its architecture as capable of supporting decentralized computing and a broader decentralized cloud ecosystem.
How does Crust describe availability, security, and performance compared with centralized cloud storage?
The project states that stored data can be replicated across roughly 80 individual nodes on average, reducing reliance on a single server or facility. It also claims that IPFS encryption and its TEE mechanism help protect data from access or tampering by node operators. According to the project, multiple replicas may improve retrieval performance, while storage costs can be 25–50% lower than AWS S3 in the cited comparison.
What roles does the CRU token have within the Crust ecosystem?
Crust describes CRU as a utility token used across several network functions. The project states that CRU can be staked to support its GPoS consensus, posted as collateral by storage providers, and used to pay transaction fees. It also identifies CRU as a means of purchasing storage or other cloud services and as part of the network’s on-chain governance mechanism.
What does Crust require from people who want to operate a storage node?
Crust describes its network as public and permissionless, allowing participants to join without specialized mining hardware. Its MPoW, or Meaningful Proof of Work, mechanism is presented as avoiding the need for expensive GPUs or high-end CPUs. The project says prospective operators need a reliable internet connection, a CPU with TEE functionality, and available storage capacity to provide services.
Which applications and blockchain ecosystems does Crust say it supports?
The project states that its storage layer has been integrated with ecosystems including Ethereum, BSC, Polygon, Solana, Near, Elrond, and Heco, among others. It also names Uniswap, Aave, and Polkadot Apps as examples of projects that use or have used its infrastructure for data storage or hosting. For direct applications, Crust highlights crustfiles.io for file storage and switchswap.io for decentralized NFT activity.
Crust Network metric comparison
This comparison is a stored snapshot generated 2026-10-23 06:31 UTC from 292 daily observations available from 2025-12-30 through 2026-10-23. It is separate from the latest analytical cards above. Percentiles compare the snapshot value with that day's analytical universe; a higher percentile means a larger observed value, not necessarily a better investment characteristic.
Metric
Snapshot
30d before
90d before
Change vs 30d
Universe percentile
Price
$0.00813966
$0.0102
$0.0108
-19.8%
n/a
Market cap
$217.5K
$271.2K
$289.1K
-19.8%
P46.2
YearBull Rank
#2,513
#1,899
#601
Lower by 614
P70.6
Bull Score
52/100
57/100
82/100
-5.0 pts
P54.7
Turnover
2.99%
3.58%
4.01%
-0.6 pts
P69.9
YB Market Risk
Low
Low
Low
Unchanged
n/a
Cycle
Early
Early
Early
Unchanged
n/a
Median absolute daily movement 1.60%; distance from the highest local daily price -80.7%; circulating supply change 0.0%. These measurements are descriptive and do not predict future direction.
YearBull Rank overview
Current YearBull Rank for crust-network: #2658.
Rank timeline (last 365 days)
Rank change (nearest points).
Reading rule: a smaller rank number indicates stronger placement.
7d window (2026-10-20): #2468 → #2658 (down by 190).
30d window (2026-09-27): #1937 → #2658 (down by 721).
Regime context: If both windows align, the direction is clearer. a stable phase often tightens the rank range.
Listing context: If the line is step-like, watch for discrete market changes. changes can follow how the coin is routed across markets.
Liquidity angle: If the curve improves and holds, it is usually more structural. bursty volume can create temporary re-ordering.
Volatility posture: If it is flat for long, the coin may be tracking the cohort. range behavior tells more than a single point.
YearBull Rank is a comparative index on YearBull that helps contextualize a coin’s position versus others over time. Lower rank numbers indicate stronger placement in the current snapshot.
Editorial note:
This analysis was prepared by the YearBull research team under the direction of
Alan Zelvin,
Founder and Lead Crypto Researcher.
The assessment follows YearBull’s internal research methodology and editorial standards.
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