ResearchCoin (RSC-USD) Digital Asset Overview — as of 2026-09-17

What RSC Is

ResearchCoin (RSC) is the community governance and rewards token of the ResearchHub platform, a project aimed at accelerating scientific research by rewarding users for sharing, curating, peer-reviewing and discussing academic science [1][3]. The project was co-founded by Brian Armstrong (CEO of Coinbase) and Patrick Joyce [1], which gives RSC an unusually prominent founder association within crypto.

Technically, RSC is a standard ERC-20 token with a max supply of 1,000,000,000, and it has also been deployed on Base (Coinbase's Ethereum L2) to enable cheaper and faster transactions [5]. Its tokenomics are designed around a "Web3 Sustainability Loop," with emphasis on ecosystem growth and long-term sustainability rather than short-term speculation [4][8].