IOTA describes itself as a blockchain infrastructure for building and securing digital systems. Its pages make no dated promises we could check. It trades at $0.042, #174 of all coins by size, 99% below its highest ever price.
This week Nothing changed on its record.
A real job, real backing. No dated promises on its pages. Nothing dated ahead. #57 of 403 smart contract platforms. Nothing to be careful of on the record.
Is it real?
ExpandCollapse
3 of 4
- ✓A real-world jobReal-world purpose: a platform other apps build on
- ✓Real backingBacking: trades on Binance, Binance US, OKX
- –Something aheadA dated step, deliveries on record, or demand showing up in the news.
- ✓Room to growRoom: worth $194.75M, 99 times smaller than Zcash, the biggest coin within reach doing the same thing (Smart Contract Platform)
Listed on 5 big exchanges
- Origin18 December 2017about about 8 yearsiota.org, GitHub, Whitepaper, Wikipedia
- DevelopersNot namedNeither Wikidata nor its listing names the foundersCode activity not checked
- BackingNo named investorListed on Binance, Binance US, OKX, KuCoin
- Standing on the recordNo recordNo dated promise to judge yet4 headlines last month, 1 about government127,364 people keep it on a CoinGecko watchlistNo corrections needed so far
It is already worth more than the typical coin in Smart Contract Platform ($22.78M). To match the leader, Zcash ($19.3B), its price would need to rise 9808%, to about $4.16.
Still to check
- No dated promise on record yet, so delivery cannot be judged
- No named investor among its tags
- Only 4 headlines named it last month
What to do Nothing dated is ahead and nothing has been delivered on record. There is no event to wait for yet, which is itself the answer.
A gap is not a forecast. Most small coins never close it. The site never picks.
Four tests, printed. Passing all four means a real job, real backing, something ahead, and a price far below the leader of its group. A filter on facts, never a verdict.
Every line has a source: the coin's own listing, CoinGecko's tags, the record, or the news feed. Reputation here is a count, never an opinion.
Does it deliver?
No dated promise has been found on the pages this project publishes. Its pages are saved every night, so anything it commits to from now on appears here.
ExpandCollapse
Every line is quoted from the project's own pages, with the copy we stored and, where one exists, the article that reported it
What is next, and when?
ExpandCollapse
Nothing dated
The project has not put a date on anything still open. That is a fact worth knowing.
How big is it next to its rivals?
ExpandCollapse
Only coins within a hundred times its worth; a coin a thousand times bigger is another world
A platform other apps build on
35 coins we checked say they are for a platform other apps build on, worth $393.62B together. #22 of 35 by worth.
Smart Contract Platform: this coin against its direct competitors
- CoinWorth, as a barWorthAgainst this coinToday, and the gapSupplyPromises
IOTA$194.75Mthis coin+1.0%no maxnone dated
Zcash$19.3B99.1× bigger, +$19.1B−0.1%, gap −1.181% outnone dated
Hyperliquid$17.5B89.8× bigger, +$17.3B−1.5%, gap −2.522% outnone dated
Dogecoin$12.86B66.0× bigger, +$12.67B−2.2%, gap −3.2no maxno record
Monero$9.7B49.8× bigger, +$9.51B+0.5%, gap −0.5no max0 of 7 delivered
Cardano$7.66B39.3× bigger, +$7.46B−3.1%, gap −4.283% out0 of 4 delivered
Stellar$6.68B34.3× bigger, +$6.48B+3.8%, gap +2.8no max0 of 20 delivered
Bitcoin Cash$4.43B22.7× bigger, +$4.23B−0.8%, gap −1.996% outno record
Smart Contract Platform: this coin next to Zcash, the biggest rival within reach. People go to the bigger coin unless the smaller one does something it does not.
- IOTA says
- IOTA describes itself as a blockchain infrastructure for building and securing digital systems.
- Zcash says
- Zcash is a digital currency built to let people send private, encrypted payments to each other.
Two claims, side by side, in their own words. Whether the difference is real is for the record to show over time, and for you to judge.
IOTA describes itself as a blockchain infrastructure for building and securing digital systems.
Its listing puts it this way: IOTA is an open-source blockchain that serves as public digital infrastructure to connect global economies onchain.
Problem it says it solves: a platform other apps build on. 52 coins we have checked say the same; together they are worth $408,727,547,844.
Where it trades: Binance, Binance US, OKX, KuCoin, Upbit
Each bar is a coin's worth today (price × coins out), longest first. The lit bar is this coin; grey bars are the others doing the same job.
Bars are market cap. Order is size, nothing else. Differences are measured from the coin you are looking at.
What should make me careful?
Nothing printed today
None of the six tests fails. A missed promise counts only on a record a person has checked.
ExpandCollapse
Smart Contract Platform: this coin next to the group's largest, Zcash.
| IOTA | Zcash | |
|---|---|---|
| Years trading | 9 years | 10 years |
| Major exchanges | 5 | 7 |
| Named backers | 0 | 1 |
| Headlines, last month | 4 | 245 |
| Promises delivered | no record | no record |
What it says is different: IOTA is an open-source blockchain that serves as public digital infrastructure to connect global economies onchain.
It is 1.0% the size of Zcash. On the facts above it is behind on years trading, major exchanges, named backers, headlines, last month. For that gap to close, the record would need deliveries showing up in its record, news that names it. Nothing here says it will; the site does not predict.
The tests: nothing to hold it for, more missed than delivered, priced ahead of its record, half the supply still to come, rivals ship while it does not, a big release of coins soon.
The homework: the coin itself, the news, the record
The coin itself
ExpandCollapse
The last 7 days
Where today sits against its highest ever price
Highest ever: $5.25 on 18 December 2017. Today is 1% of that.
93%
of all IOTA that will ever exist is already out in public hands: 4.64B coins.
7% (346.37M coins) is not yet created or held by the project. That is a small share. Those coins can be sold later, which can push the price down.
out held back. Each dot is 1%.
Pays for every use of its network
Every transaction on its network pays a fee in it. That is the built-in reason anyone needs it.
- Every transaction on its network pays a fee in it
- Can be staked to earn a share of network rewards
That is all a market cap is: today's price times the coins in public hands. It moves every time the price does. It says what buyers are paying, not what the coin is worth.
- 4.64Bin circulation of 4.98B total. No hard maximum is set, so more can be created.
- 1.1×fully diluted value versus today's market cap. The gap is coins not yet released.
- of its all-time high of $5.25 on 18 December 2017. That is −99.2% from the top.
- #174by market cap, $194,746,686.
- Not checkedwho holds the most coins, and how much has been burned. Those need on-chain data this site does not read yet.
Supply and value figures from CoinGecko, refreshed hourly. Not part of the record.
- $1.61M is locked in apps built on it right now
- Users paid $28 in fees to use it in the last 30 days
From DefiLlama, refreshed nightly. Fees are what people paid to use the thing; value locked is what they trust it to hold. Facts, not a score.
What the news says
ExpandCollapse
Headlines per day, last 30 days
4 headlines named this coin in the last month.
What they were about
- SEC1
- Regulation1
- Man Jailed After Stealing $2.5M of IOTA from Over 100 Investors
- Switchboard 暂停 Aptos、Sui、Iota 和 Movement 网络
- IOTA Holders And Distribution Chart
- SEC Revives Crucial U.S. Crypto Custody Regulation That Stumbled Under Previous LeadershipGovernment
Headlines are the publishers' own. News is never placed next to price.
The record itself
ExpandCollapse
Six facts, the project's own replies, its peers, contract facts, references and every stored copy
IOTA describes itself as a blockchain infrastructure for building and securing digital systems.
“IOTA is a decentralized blockchain infrastructure to build and secure our digital world”source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-10
Live. The record does not yet cite when this stage began.
No dated or committed promises have been recorded yet.
Others in smart-contract platforms: Internet Computer 20 of 23, Ethereum 15 of 20, Ozone Chain 13 of 30, Starknet 10 of 24, and 29 more.Others in asset tokenization: Zano 51 of 69, Chiliz 3 of 15, Algorand 2 of 7, XRP 2 of 3, and 15 more.
No public code repository is listed in this record.
The project's announcements page last changed on 14 September 2026.
Nothing further to flag from the record as it stands.
This record was drafted by a machine from captured pages and has not yet been checked by a person. Treat every line as unverified until that note changes.