Upbit opened Defi App's HOME for trading against the Korean won and USDT at 17:00 KST on August 4, 2026, with deposits and withdrawals only through Base. HOME gained about 32 percent in the 24 hours before the open. It trades near $0.0057 on October 7, below the $0.00872 print around the debut.

Where it stands

Upbit posted its notice at 13:30 KST on August 4. It set reference prices from the prior close of 10.1 won and 0.007069 USDT, which anchor its opening range limits and promise nothing about where the market prints. Buy orders were blocked for about five minutes and sell orders more than 10 percent below the close were restricted. Only limit orders were allowed for about two hours.

The operational detail to read twice is the deposit rail. Upbit supports HOME only through Base and pinned the contract at 0x4bfaa776991e85e5f8b1255461cbbd216cfc714f. HOME held anywhere else needs a bridge hop first.

Figure 01The August 4, 2026 Upbit debut at a glance, from Upbit's notice and crypto.news.

The price has faded since. CoinMarketCap showed HOME at $0.005707 on October 7, down 2.54 percent in 24 hours, with a market cap of $24.77 million on 4.34 billion circulating tokens and daily volume of $9.46 million. On September 2 The Cerbat Gem had it near $0.0060 and a $25.79 million market cap, so the market cap has barely moved in five weeks.

CoinMarketCap lists an all-time high of $0.07094 on June 7, 2026 and an all-time low of $0.004937 on July 30, 2026. That low came five days before the Upbit debut, so the listing pop started from the bottom. Upbit's notice list shows no caution or delisting notice for HOME through October 6.

Reported HOME prices, in US cents
0¢ 2¢ 4¢ 6¢ 8¢ Jun 7 high: $0.07094 $0.07094Jun 7 high Jul 30 low: $0.004937 $0.004937Jul 30 low Aug 4: $0.00872 $0.00872Aug 4 Sep 2: $0.0060 $0.0060Sep 2 Oct 7: $0.0057 $0.0057Oct 7
Figure 02CoinMarketCap's all-time high (June 7) and low (July 30), crypto.news at the Upbit debut (August 4), The Cerbat Gem (September 2) and CoinMarketCap (October 7). Bars are in cents; labels give dollars.

What Defi App is

Defi App describes itself as a self-custody platform for swaps, perpetual contracts and yield products across EVM networks and Solana. It does not run its own exchange. It connects to outside liquidity sources and protocols and presents them through one interface. The pitch is that users do not want to manage six venues, four bridges and a perps account.

HOME carries governance and staking, with a maximum supply of 10 billion. The Cerbat Gem says Defi App launched in June 2025 on BNB Smart Chain, and CoinMarketCap lists the token there, while Upbit's listing uses the Base contract. Our reading is that the Base-only rail concentrates the arbitrage path: price gaps between the won pair and other venues can close only as fast as tokens move through Base.

Upbit has run this sequence often this summer, including Derive's DRV on July 14. The announcement tends to be the tradeable event, and the first weeks decide whether any demand remains underneath.

Risks and open questions

Correction An earlier version of this page, dated September 5, reported that the next unlock would release 194.83 million HOME on September 10. The Binance Square post it cited describes a June 10 unlock of 750 million tokens. We found no source for a September date, so the claim is removed.

HOME's unlock schedule is therefore unconfirmed on this page. For a token with 4.34 billion of 10 billion tokens circulating, the schedule is the main thing to find before reading any chart.

An aggregator token is a bet on routed volume, and routed volume is checkable. We found no usage numbers published by Defi App. Until they exist, the exchange listings guide applies: a listing widens the door, and the first honest measurement is what walks through it.

Bithumb is the other Korean venue to watch. On the same day it opened won markets for MetaDAO's META2 and the USDG stablecoin, but we found no HOME pair there. MetaDAO's META2 reached Bithumb about a week after Upbit, as its page shows.

What to watch:

  • A Bithumb pair for HOME.

  • A sourced unlock schedule from Defi App or a token-unlock tracker.

  • Published usage figures for routed volume.

Nothing here is trading advice.

Not financial advice Listings often spike and then fade once the first wave of buyers is done. Nothing here is a suggestion to buy this token. Check dates on the exchange's own announcement page before trading: schedules slip. Our listing reaction data shows how new listings have typically traded.