IOST price

IOST

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The project is led by a team from Princeton, Harvard, CMU, and MIT. Core members includes: Terry Wang, Arthur Tang, Blake Jeong, Yudi, and Mike Wu.

Wang’s previous experience includes serving as an Uber software engineer. He holds a degree in computer science from the University of Minnesota and a masters in computer science from Princeton University.

Tang co-founded 2 unicorn startups and worked as quantitative trader at Citadel. He holds a degree in computer science from UIUC and a master in computer science from Harvard University.

Blake serves as the CEO of IOST from 2019. His previous experiences includes GP in a VC and BCG.

Yudi serves as the CPO of IOST. She holds a degree in Computer Science from Harvard Univeristy and worked at Point72 as a quantitative asset manager.

Mike serves as the CTO of IOST. He was an IOI and ACM medalist and holds BS and MS in Computer science from CMU.

IOST initially launched in 2018 with 21B tokens with yearly inflation rate of ~3%, and a hard cap at 90B.

In Janurary 2025, IOST's community passed a proposal to launch BSC L2 with 21.32B new tokens in BEP-20 on BNBChain. Those tokens will be gradually unlocked till March 2030.

In March 2025, there are 44B IOST minted, and 22B in circulating.