AIOZ Network (AIOZ) Price

AIOZ is the native token and native unit of account of AIOZ Network. AIOZ Network is a Cosmos-based, EVM-compatible blockchain that provides on-chain settlement and an application environment for decentralized infrastructure such as AI computing, storage, and media/video distribution. “EVM-compatible” means developers can interact with the chain and deploy or use EVM smart contracts with transaction formats and tools commonly used on Ethereum. In contract execution, staking, and governance, native on-chain AIOZ is the relevant unit of account and participation asset. It is not a claim on revenue from any particular AI, storage, or streaming service.

AIOZ’s direct on-chain uses are staking, governance, and paying the gas consumed by EVM smart-contract execution. Users pay fees when sending transfers or calling contracts; holders can delegate native AIOZ to validators to participate in proof of stake; and bonded AIOZ determines governance voting power. The tokenomics documentation also assigns AIOZ to incentivizing DePIN participants and payments within dApps. The relationship is that decentralized nodes provide resources such as computing, storage, or media delivery, and the network may incentivize relevant participants; whether using an application or executing a contract produces an AIOZ payment, and under what rules, depends on that application and transaction. These uses do not mean token holders necessarily receive application revenue or returns.

Staking AIOZ means bonding native AIOZ and delegating it to a validator, which participates in block production and transaction confirmation; delegators do not need to run a validator node themselves. AIOZ’s Tendermint dBFT proof-of-stake mechanism ranks validator candidates by total stake (their own bonded stake plus received delegations), and the top 50 become validators, so delegation affects whether a validator can remain in the validator set. Rewards consist of new issuance from blocks and transaction fees. They first enter the relevant validator’s staking pool and are then distributed by stake share in that pool; the validator first deducts its published commission rate from the income due to delegators. Delegation is not risk-free: validator misconduct such as double-signing, being offline, or repeatedly evading governance may trigger slashing, which can affect both that validator’s and its delegators’ staked AIOZ.

After undelegating, AIOZ does not immediately return to a freely transferable balance: the official staking documentation states that unbonding takes 28 days. During this unbonding period, the asset is in a different state from an actively delegated asset and can be retrieved only after unbonding is complete. If the goal is only to change validators, redelegation can move a delegation from one validator to another; the official delegator documentation says this operation does not require the four-week unbonding wait. The difference is that undelegation exits staking, while redelegation remains staked but changes the supported validator.

The AIOZ staking program currently accepts only native AIOZ on the AIOZ Network mainnet. Holding ERC-20 AIOZ on Ethereum or BEP-20 AIOZ on BNB Smart Chain does not mean that balance can enter the AIOZ mainnet staking module directly. The official cross-chain bridge supports two-way conversion between ERC-20 AIOZ and mainnet AIOZ, between BEP-20 AIOZ and mainnet AIOZ, and between ERC-20 and BEP-20. To stake on AIOZ Network, users must select the direction into mainnet, complete the bridge to obtain native AIOZ, and then delegate; bridging in the other direction converts the mainnet asset back into its representation on the relevant external network. Bridging and staking are consecutive but distinct on-chain processes.

On AIOZ mainnet, a transaction fee is calculated as `fees = ceil(gas × gasPrice)`. Gas is the amount of computational resources actually required by the transaction or contract call and varies by operation; gasPrice is the price offered per unit of gas; `ceil` means rounding the result upward to the smallest payable unit. Validators set their own minimum gasPrice and include only transactions priced above that threshold. Thus, raising gasPrice or the total fee generally increases the chance of inclusion, but does not change the amount of gas the transaction itself needs. The mainnet’s smallest denomination is attoaioz, and 1 AIOZ = 10^18 attoaioz; the documentation lists a recommended gasPrice of 1,000,000,000 attoaioz. That recommendation and validator thresholds are not a fixed AIOZ amount necessarily paid for every operation.

AIOZ’s V2 tokenomics is not a one-time fixed-supply adjustment, but an arrangement that reduces the annual new-issuance rate. AIOZ Network mainnet launched in December 2021, and the official documentation says 9% annual inflation began taking effect from block production in March 2023; it subsequently announced a four-year plan beginning December 25, 2023, to reduce the rate by 1 percentage point on the same date each year. The listed milestones are 8% on December 25, 2023, 7% on the same date in 2024, 6% on the same date in 2025, and a planned reduction to the long-term base target of 5% on December 25, 2026. As of the current date, the final 5% milestone has not yet arrived and must not be described as effective. Of the newly issued AIOZ in each inflation period, the official documentation states that 50% is allocated to validators and delegators and 50% to the treasury; thus, “inflation rate” is an annual new-issuance measure, not an individual staker’s yield rate.

AIOZ’s V2 tokenomics also lists programmatic burns connected to network usage and revenue: 50% for AIOZ Network blockchain transactions, 5% for DePIN rewards, 5% for infrastructure revenue, and 5% for native dApp revenue. Burning means handling the corresponding amount of AIOZ under these categories so it is no longer in that portion of available supply. New issuance and burns therefore need to be considered together: the former creates AIOZ under the established inflation rules and allocates it between validators/delegators and the treasury; whether the latter occurs and its amount depend on the scale and applicable definitions of the relevant transactions, rewards, or revenue. The existence of a burn mechanism alone does not establish that net supply will fall or price will rise in a given period.

AIOZ governance counts bonded AIOZ: 1 bonded AIOZ equals 1 unit of voting power. Validators and delegators may both vote during the voting period; a delegator who does not vote separately inherits its validator’s vote, while voting personally overrides that inherited choice for that delegated amount. A proposal first enters a deposit period and enters voting only after reaching the minimum deposit; if it does not reach that minimum within the maximum deposit period, deposited funds are burned. Mainnet passage conditions include a 33.4% quorum of bonded stake participating, more than 50% Yes among non-abstain votes, and less than 33.4% NoWithVeto. Once these conditions are met, parameter-change or community-treasury-spend proposals execute in the same block in which voting ends.