# Price Methodology

## Overview

Price measures the current USD value of a project's governance or native token. It is sourced from CoinGecko and reflects the latest available market price across centralized and decentralized exchanges.

Current USD value of a project's governance or native token.

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Compound

Lenders deposit funds into Compound and receive interest payments from borrowers (supply-side fees).

Compound is a non-custodial lending protocol built on Ethereum. Compound was founded by Robert Leshner & Geoffrey Hayes and launched in 2017.

 COMP tokenholders own and govern the protocol. They currently take a cut of the total interest paid by borrowers (revenue). Compound’s investors include a16z, Paradigm, Polychain, etc.

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