Pearl, PRL or PEARL? Which “Pearl” coin is which

Pearl’s own software and website use PRL. That ticker was already in use elsewhere, and market sites list the coin differently: CoinGecko (opens in a new tab) as “Pearl” with the symbol PEARL, and CoinMarketCap (opens in a new tab) as “Pearl (pearlresearch.ai)”. On October 19, 2026, Coinbase also used PEARL when it added Pearl to its listing roadmap.

Perle is a separate project with its own token on Solana, and its ticker is PRL. On Coinbase (opens in a new tab), Upbit, KuCoin, Gate and MEXC, the market called PRL is Perle. Someone who reads “Pearl (PRL)” and searches an exchange for PRL can end up holding the wrong coin.

The same goes for derivatives: on Aster, PEARLUSDT is a futures market on Pearl, while the older PRLUSDT is Perle. A futures market is a contract on the price either way, never a coin you can withdraw.

Oyster Pearl was an Ethereum token sold in 2017 by a project called Oyster Protocol, also under the ticker PRL. In 2020 the US Securities and Exchange Commission charged its founder (opens in a new tab) over the sale. It has nothing to do with Pearl, but old price and exchange pages for it still turn up in searches for “PRL”.

Pearl’s wallet daemon is also called Oyster. That’s a coincidence: it’s Pearl Research Labs’ own software, unrelated to the 2017 token.

Pearl from Olas (opens in a new tab) is a desktop app store for AI agents, launched in 2025. Because both projects mix AI and crypto, searches for “Pearl AI crypto” blur them together. Olas Pearl isn’t a blockchain and has no connection to Pearl Research Labs.

• The coin moves on the Pearl network, not on Ethereum, Solana, Tron or any other chain.
• Deposits and withdrawals use addresses starting with prl1.
• There is no contract address. If a “Pearl” or “PRL” has one, it isn’t native PRL.
• A small test withdrawal arrives in a Pearl wallet you control.

The full checklist, from choosing a venue to keeping records, is in how to buy Pearl safely.