Overview

The Compound Governance Token is a governance token on the Compound Finance lending protocol, COMP allows the owner to delegate voting rights to the address of their choice; the owner’s wallet, another user, an application, or a DeFi expert. Anybody can participate in Compound governance by receiving delegation, without needing to own COMP. Anybody with 1% of COMP delegated to their address can propose a governance action; these are simple or complex sets of actions, such as adding support for a new asset, changing an asset’s collateral factor, changing a market’s interest rate model, or changing any other parameter or variable of the protocol that the current administrator can modify.

This overview is imported from market-data provider metadata. Project claims should be checked against the linked documentation and on-chain evidence.

Identity

• Name: Compound
• Symbol: COMP
• Provider-listed chain: ethereum

Names and ticker symbols are not unique. Match the network and contract address against the project's documentation and a block explorer before identifying a token.

Sources and further reading

• Project website (provider-listed)
• White paper (provider-listed)
• Source code (provider-listed)
• Block explorer 1
• Block explorer 2
• Block explorer 3
• CoinGecko identity and metadata
• CoinMarketCap source record (JSON, asset ID 5692)

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