Radicle-prisRAD $1.81

Radicle was developed by Monadic, a Berlin-based software company working on open-source software collaboration. Monadic stresses that the company doesn’t own Radicle and that Radicle is an open-source project anyone can use, modify, and contribute to. While Monadic was founded in 2017, development on Radicle began in 2018. Monadic is headed by Alexis Sellier and Eleftherios Diakomichalis.

In 2021, the project raised $12 million in a seed funding round led by NFX and Galaxy, with funds like Placeholder, Electric Capital, ParaFi Capital, and others participating.

Radicle stands out from its centralized counterparts by offering a global and permissionless network that does not rely on third parties and has no centralized point of failure. This promotes further integration of blockchain technology and enables developers to collaborate on projects built on the Ethereum blockchain. Thanks to Radicle’s peer-to-peer nature and public-key cryptography, it is trustless by design - unlike centralized platforms relying on UI components and oracles.

Radicle exists on top of Ethereum and boasts several features that further its goal of decentralized software collaboration.

RAD is the governance token of Radicle that serves governance and communal ownership purposes. Since Radicle is owned by a DAO, you can influence the project’s future and vote on it by holding RAD tokens. Radicle’s Ethereum integration is opt-in, meaning users can choose if they want to pay fees, which then accrue in the project’s treasury. Token holders are eligible for discounts or waived fees and can pay for services and fund development teams in the native token.

The total supply of RAD is 100 million, and the circulating supply is 25.9 million at the time of writing. RAD is distributed as follows:

• 50% Radicle Treasury (4 years vesting)
• 20% Early Supports (1-year lock-up)
• 19% Team (1-year lock-up, 4 years vesting from join date)
• 5% Radicle Foundation (1-year lock-up)
• 3.75% Balancer Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool
• 2% Seeders Program (Partners) (1-year lock-up)
• 0.25% Reserves

The private sale concluded for $1.50, and Radicle’s liquidity bootstrapping pool offered RAD at an average sale price of $15.40. Only 50% of available tokens in the pool were sold, and the rest of the liquidity served as liquidity for the RAD/USDC pair.

RAD is available on Binance, Mandala Exchange, Huobi Global, Crypto.com Exchange, and Gate.io.

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Radicle also offers NFT support, and users can create, issue, trade, and manage NFTs on the network.

Radicle’s community-led governance allows token holders to forward proposals and directly influence the project’s future. This is a testament to the open-source nature of Radicle, which is diametrically opposed to its corporate counterparts like GitHub and GitLab. Unlike with those platforms, Radicle users cannot be banned or censored, be it for corporate or public reasons. In this way, Radicle seeks to present a new model of an open-source code repository, which does not depend on a centralized service approving its content and guaranteeing its functionality.

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