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$5.25
−99.34% from current
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US and EU users who prioritise a spotless security record — no major hack since 2011 — and want a serious pro-grade trading terminal.
Institutions and funds requiring an SEC-registered venue with segregated qualified custody and audited on-chain reserves.
Active spot traders chasing the deepest global liquidity and the widest listing catalogue outside the US perimeter.
Traders who mix spot and on-chain — the Web3 wallet, DEX aggregator and Ethereum L2 X Layer sit inside the same account as CEX pairs.
Long-horizon EU holders who want the oldest continuously-operating exchange (2011) with conservative listings and full MiCA licensing.
Derivatives-first traders who want tighter perp funding and a maker-friendly fee schedule; accept offshore regulatory footprint.
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IOTA is a public distributed ledger that stores transactions in a directed acyclic graph called the Tangle, not in a chain of blocks. The project launched in 2015. Co-founders include David Sonstebo, Sergey Ivancheglo, Dominik Schiener, and Serguei Popov, with Dr. Popov authoring the original Tangle whitepaper. Governance sits with the IOTA Foundation, a non-profit registered in Berlin. The native token is also called IOTA.
The pitch from day one was different from Bitcoin and Ethereum. No miners, no block reward, no gas auction at the base layer. Users who submit a transaction validate two earlier transactions as part of the same action, which is what gives the network its feeless reputation. IOTA has been built around enterprise use cases (digital identity, supply chain, IoT data feeds) more than DeFi or speculative trading, and that focus shapes a lot of the design choices that follow.
The IOTA price comes from supply and demand on spot exchanges. The most active pairs are IOTA/USDT, IOTA/USD, and IOTA/BTC. Live data on this page pulls from a multi-venue feed and refreshes every 60 seconds. The reference quote is volume-weighted across the venues with the deepest order books.
What tends to move IOTA on any given day:
The numbers in the price card above are live. The analysis below uses the levels at page load.
The Tangle is the data structure under IOTA. Each new transaction references and approves two earlier transactions. As more activity arrives, those approvals stack up, which is how the network confirms history without miners or validators packaging blocks. The structure is a directed acyclic graph (DAG), so confirmations propagate sideways instead of through a single linear chain.
What this changes in practice:
For most of its history, IOTA had a problem critics would not let go of. The original Tangle relied on a centralized Coordinator node, run by the IOTA Foundation, to finalize transaction order. Useful as training wheels, but plainly inconsistent with the decentralized framing. Coordicide was the multi-year project to remove it, and IOTA 2.0 is the result.
The pieces of IOTA 2.0 that matter:
Mainnet rollout of IOTA 2.0 has been staged across 2024 and 2025. The roadmap was originally announced in 2019, so the timeline tells you something about the difficulty of replacing a live consensus mechanism without breaking the network. Each milestone has shipped, but the gap between announcement and delivery is one of the things long-term holders weigh against the upside.
Stardust shipped in October 2023 and was the biggest protocol-level change since launch. Before Stardust, the Tangle handled IOTA value transfers and not much else. After Stardust, the base layer supports native tokens, NFTs, and the smart-contract framework that the EVM layer plugs into. Many of the design ideas were tested first on Shimmer (SMR), the staging network that went live in September 2022 specifically for that purpose.
The current shape of the platform:
The redenomination is worth flagging. The original ICO sold a 2.7 quadrillion total supply, which is why the old MIOTA ticker stood for one million IOTA. Stardust collapsed those units into a smaller base supply (around 4.6 billion IOTA), and exchanges quietly relisted the token under the IOTA ticker. Old MIOTA quotes do not translate one-to-one to current prices.
Enterprise integration is the part of the IOTA story that has been steadier than the price chart. The Foundation has put years of work into eIDAS-aligned digital identity (IOTA Identity), supply-chain tracking (the Trade and Logistics Information Pipeline, TLIP), digital twins, and machine-to-machine data feeds. None of these are speculative side projects. They are the reason most of the headline partners are involved.
A short look at the live work:
These deals do not always show up directly in the price. Enterprise pipelines move slowly, and most of the contracts do not require holders to buy IOTA on the open market. The argument for the token is that sustained usage eventually pulls real demand through the network, but the link is indirect compared to a DeFi-heavy chain.
IOTA trades on most major centralized exchanges. The path you choose depends on how much you want to hold and whether you plan to interact with the Tangle or just hold the asset.
For multi-year price scenarios and on-chain trends, see our IOTA price forecast.
IOTA carries a different risk profile from the average altcoin. The questions worth asking are mostly about delivery timelines, mindshare, and how much of the long-term thesis depends on enterprise pipelines that move on their own clock.
This page is information, not financial advice. Talk to someone licensed before allocating real capital.
Analysis last updated:
IOTA (IOTA) trades at $0.034874 with a 24-hour volume of $4.78M and a market capitalization of $158.94M. The asset is currently ranked #187 among all tracked cryptocurrencies.
In the last 24 hours, the IOTA price has fallen +2.99%. On a seven-day window, IOTA has retraced +0.94%, under sustained selling pressure on both windows. Short-term moves are often amplified by liquidity, news flow, and derivatives positioning, so confirm signals across multiple indicators before acting.
IOTA's all-time high of $5.25 was set on December 18, 2017. The current price sits +99.34% below that peak. Distance from the all-time high is a common reference point when evaluating long recoveries and macro support or resistance.
Buying IOTA (IOTA) is a five-step routine once you have picked the right venue and pair. The steps below mirror what most investors do today.
You can also use the IOTA converter above to estimate how much IOTA you would get for a given dollar amount before placing the order.
Whether IOTA is a good investment depends on your goals, time horizon, and tolerance for volatility. Like all cryptocurrencies, IOTA carries real market risk: prices can rise or fall sharply in a day, and past performance is not a reliable indicator of future returns.
This page provides data and analysis for educational purposes only. It is not financial advice. Always do your own research, diversify, and never invest more than you can afford to lose.
