Chainbase, a leading ecological data infrastructure ($C), has experienced a brutal downturn in the past month: from a high point near $0.45 at the end of July, it has dropped to the current $0.2049, with a decline of over 50%.

Even though the 24-hour trading volume still has support at $26.89M (+14.89%), the market seems no longer convinced.

🧨 Valuation pressure vs circulation reality

Current status of Chainbase:

Circulating market value is only $32.79M

FDV as high as $204.96M

The circulation rate is still 16%, meaning that 84% of the tokens have yet to be unlocked in the future

Even with a clear product logic and strong capital backgrounds like Tencent, the current data service narrative lacks appeal among retail investors. For institutions, Chainbase has yet to form a stable revenue model of 'data as an asset'.

🧠 Can Chainbase's narrative still support its valuation?

Chainbase's advantages include:

Provide efficient data indexing and APIs for L2 such as Base Chain

Strong potential when combined with AI models (feeding on-chain data to AI)

Ecological partners include LayerZero, Linea, Scroll, etc.

However, these advantages rely on 'long-term construction' and 'active ecology', which are not narratives that retail investors can quickly understand and support.

Pain points

Currently, $C does not have mandatory binding of data service usage

No actual destruction, staking lock-up, or consumption mechanisms

Price performance can only rely on secondary market speculation

This structure is fatal under high FDV — it will expose all bubbles during market cooldown periods.

🧭 Future direction: What does Chainbase need to do?

Accelerate the binding of data usage with $C, such as a fee model based on API Tokens;

Connect and tokenize more data from L2 and on-chain projects;

Create a bigger story through public chain tools (like Rollup-as-a-service) or LLM Agent interfaces;

Strengthen narrative construction to attract more AI and RWA projects to bind their data sources.

Follow the orange cat, accompany you to find the next hundredfold opportunity

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