Bitcoin Cash (BCH) perpetual market

Bitcoin Cash is a cryptocurrency created in August 2017 through a contentious hard fork of Bitcoin, born from a long-running debate over how to scale the network. Supporters of larger blocks wanted cheaper, faster on-chain payments; when the Bitcoin community favored keeping small blocks and moving scaling to second layers, they split off to form Bitcoin Cash with an increased block size limit. It preserves Bitcoin's proof-of-work model and 21 million supply cap but aims to function as everyday electronic cash with low fees and higher on-chain throughput. Bitcoin Cash itself later fractured, spawning further forks such as Bitcoin SV in 2018. It retains an active merchant and developer community and remains one of the more recognizable Bitcoin descendants, though it trades at a fraction of Bitcoin's value and mindshare.