Open Campus (EDU) is a cryptocurrency that plays a key role in a decentralized education protocol aimed at changing the way educational content is produced and distributed. This protocol enables teachers, creators, publishers, and students to interact without centralized intermediaries through the use of blockchain technology.
🔸️Goals and uses
Support for decentralized education: The platform aims to give teachers and students more control over content, without intermediaries like governments or large institutions.
Payment and incentivizing content: EDU can be used to pay for content or incentivize users to transition from Web2 to Web3, as well as to participate in governance through a DAO.
Publisher NFTs: Teachers can upload and authenticate their content in the form of NFTs, and then sell it to participating distributors, with profit sharing based on contribution.
Governance and rewards: Token holders are granted voting rights in platform decisions, and participants in content creation are rewarded.
⬅️The issuance and distribution process
Launch via Binance Launchpad (2023): A limited public offering during which 5% of the total supply (50 million EDU) was sold at a price of $0.05 per token.
Distribution details (Tokenomics): Out of one million EDU tokens, distributed as follows:
25%: Ecosystem fund
15.5%: Advisors
13%: Strategic sale
10%: Treasury
10%: Liquidity
10%: Team
7.5%: Early contributors
5%: Binance Launchpad
4%: Operating expenses
🔔Current price and market indicators
Approximate price:
According to CoinMarketCap: ~$0.1481 (up ~6.35% in 24 hours), market capitalization ~60.8 million dollars, circulating supply ~410.7 million EDU.
According to CoinGecko: ~$0.1524 (up ~4.4%), market capitalization ~39.7 million dollars, circulating supply ~260 million EDU.
According to CoinDesk: ~$0.1543, market capitalization ~117.9 million dollars, circulating supply ~764 million EDU, and the latest issuance on BNB, ERC-20, and Polygon.
Lowest and highest prices throughout history:
Highest price: ~$1.67 in April 2023 (~91% lower than the current peak).
Lowest price: ~$0.094 in April 2025 (+61% from the low).
🌟Recent developments and community
Arbitrum support: The project received funding from the Arbitrum Foundation to develop "EDU Chain", the first Layer 3 network specialized in education.
Last token unlocking ban: The project stopped the unlocking of nearly 22 million EDU for a period (including operating expenses, early contributors, ecosystem fund, and liquidity) until October 2023, which was considered a positive signal for some market participants.
Marking questions that define the role of EDU: such as:
The governance role for users
Publisher NFTs function
The concept of "co-publisher" (content marketer)
These questions were raised by users on the Reddit platform in the context of their own learning competition.
🍀Summary
Goal: To transform education into a decentralized platform that allows teachers full control over content and marketing.
Main currency: EDU, used for payments, rewards, governance, and trading.
Distribution: One million units, with clear allocation for investors, team, development, and others.
Current price: approximately between $0.15 – $0.16, a significant decline from its peak, with mixed market activity indicators depending on the source.
Potential future: Developing the infrastructure through the EDU Chain supported by Arbitrum increases the platform's growth and expansion opportunities.
