IOST (IOST) Price

IOST is the token used by the IOST 3.0 ecosystem. IOST 3.0 was launched in 2025 and is positioned by the official sources as a Layer 2 for BNB Chain, with a focus on real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, related liquidity, and payment infrastructure. Layer 2 means that the network organizes applications and transaction activity on top of an underlying chain; it does not mean that IOST itself is equivalent to a particular real-world asset or payment balance. The specific ways the token is used across different networks or products are subject to the rules of the relevant network and product.

IOST 3.0 aims to provide infrastructure for on-chain tokenization of RWAs, liquidity activity, and payment use cases. The official offering also provides an EVM-compatible execution environment, allowing developers who use EVM tools and contracts to deploy or run applications in that environment. The relationship among these directions is as follows: asset tokenization requires on-chain representations and application logic; liquidity requires trading or capital-use scenarios; and payments require settlement processes for merchants and users. The network provides infrastructure that these scenarios can adopt; whether specific products, asset rights, or available services are formed still depends on the actual deployment and rules of each application.

The BNB Smart Chain version listed in the official documentation is IOSToken (IOST), which uses the BEP-20 standard and has the contract address 0xAf48B7e315a52518CfBF7d96C455D9dFAD94cB48. To identify this version, both conditions must be met: the BNB Smart Chain network and this contract address. Token tickers can be duplicated, and seeing “IOST” in a wallet does not by itself prove that it is the officially listed BEP-20 asset. Before transferring, adding a custom token, or calling a contract, verify the address character by character; assets with the same name on different networks must not be directly exchanged or conflated merely because their names are identical.

The IOST 3.0 economic model directs new issuance primarily toward community-related purposes, including staking rewards, ecosystem development, and merchant incentives. Staking rewards are intended to incentivize validators and node operators to participate in network maintenance; ecosystem funds target partnerships, development, and application promotion; merchant incentives correspond to payment-use-case integration. These are the designed uses of new issuance, rather than fixed returns automatically received by all holders. Actually receiving rewards or incentives requires meeting the relevant mechanisms, participation roles, and product conditions; where new issuance goes and how it is released should also be distinguished from immediately tradable circulating supply.

IOST supply should not be simply understood as permanently fixed. Official materials state that early IOST had an initial total supply of 21 billion tokens, while IOST 3.0 also proposes supply adjustments and new issuance arrangements for community purposes. Therefore, total supply, issued amount, and tradable circulating supply are concepts that need to be considered separately. The model also lists multiple sources of burns: transaction fees, node MEV, and burns initiated by the ecosystem and DAO. Transaction activity or node-related value flows can create sources available for disposition, while ecosystem or DAO burns depend on their initiation; these mechanisms reduce tokens that are actually burned, but cannot by themselves prove that supply will necessarily decline to a particular figure or guarantee a price change.