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CM Profile: IOTA
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about IOTA, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold IOTA. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 20 OctoberNothing we measure moved much this week: trading volume, reported supply and price are all within their usual range.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What IOTA is
IOTA is an open-source blockchain designed to function as public digital infrastructure connecting global economies onchain. The project was founded in 2015, making it one of the longer-running efforts in the digital asset space, and is guided by the non-profit IOTA Foundation, headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
The network runs on a Directed Acyclic Graph architecture that incorporates the Move VM, allowing smart contracts, digital assets, and digital identity to operate on a permissionless Layer 1 with parallel transaction processing. Security comes from a delegated proof-of-stake model, with the $IOTA token used for staking, validator rewards, and network participation; onchain activity requires tokens to be paid and burned as fees. Refundable storage deposits and sponsored transactions let applications subsidize or abstract costs for end users. Outside pure token mechanics, IOTA is positioned around real-world deployments in trade and supply-chain infrastructure, including the Trade Worldwide Information Network, which embeds the protocol into national and cross-border trade systems for shared, verifiable data among public and private actors.
IOTA is a single-chain deployment: everything described — smart contracts, identity, trade documentation — runs on the one IOTA network rather than across multiple chains, so its reach depends on that network's own adoption rather than a spread of integrations elsewhere. CoinGecko's classification places it across several categories at once — infrastructure, smart contract platform, DeFi, Layer 1, DePIN — which reflects a broad, still-forming identity rather than a single proven use case. The trade and supply-chain partnerships described are real-world pilots and deployments, not a guarantee of transaction volume or revenue for token holders; the token's utility is fees, staking, and governance participation, not a claim on institutional trade flows themselves. Long project history is not the same as settled technical maturity — the DAG-plus-Move-VM architecture remains a distinguishing design choice, not an industry default.
What IOTA can do
IOTA can be staked with a validator, in a stake that stays in your own custody. Rewards accrue only for epochs in which the stake was active throughout, and unstaking returns the stake with its rewards.
Source: IOTA docs: staking and unstaking · checked 2 October 2026
IOTA pays the gas fees for running transactions and storing data on the IOTA network. Each app is its own code with its own flaws.
Source: IOTA docs: the IOTA token · checked 2 October 2026
IOTA has no fixed maximum. 767,000 new IOTA are created each epoch and fees are burned, so the total moves with the balance between the two.
Source: IOTA docs: the IOTA token · checked 2 October 2026
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Where IOTA lives
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Price change
IOTA data synced 0s ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell IOTA.