Vaulta (A) is the May 2025 rebrand of EOS, the native token of the Vaulta mainnet (formerly the EOS mainnet).
This independent Layer-1 blockchain runs on Antelope/EOSIO software using the "Savanna" consensus algorithm. It is not an ERC-20 or SPL token — the original 2018 EOS ICO token was ERC-20 on Ethereum before migrating 1:1 to the native mainnet in June 2018; that native asset was renamed EOS to A in May 2025. Vaulta's stated focus is "Web3 banking" — payments, yield products, tokenized assets, and Bitcoin-native DeFi via exSat integration.
Vaulta's differentiation is institutional and political backing rather than new base-layer technology.
On July 23, 2025, World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a Trump-linked DeFi project, formalized a partnership after buying roughly $6 million of EOS/A tokens. WLFI committed to holding A in its "Macro Strategy" reserve and integrating its USD1 stablecoin into Vaulta's payment and yield infrastructure. This links A's use case to an external stablecoin's transaction flow rather than the chain's own DeFi activity, though it also concentrates reputational and regulatory risk tied to WLFI's political associations.
A is a utility token that serves as the native gas asset of the Vaulta mainnet, used to pay for network transaction resources.
Under the chain's Delegated Proof-of-Stake-style model, holders stake A to vote for the network's 21 elected Block Producers, giving the token a governance-participation role in addition to its function as the medium for on-chain fees.
A has a fixed maximum supply of 2.1 billion tokens, unchanged from legacy EOS.
The May 2025 EOS-to-A swap preserved the original total supply, allocation, and vesting schedules unchanged.
EOS, Vaulta's predecessor, launched via what was then the largest ICO in crypto history, with Block.one raising approximately $4 billion through a roughly year-long ERC-20 token sale ending June 2018. Those tokens were then swapped 1:1 onto the native EOS mainnet at its June 2018 launch.
The May 2025 Vaulta rebrand was not a new raise — it was a 1:1 EOS-to-A symbol swap with identical supply, allocation, and vesting, executed via block-producer multisig starting May 14, 2025 through a portal hosted by Unicove. The 2018 sale drew SEC scrutiny, resulting in a $24 million penalty against Block.one in 2019.
A runs natively on the Vaulta mainnet (formerly the EOS mainnet), its own independent Layer-1 blockchain built on Antelope/EOSIO software — not an ERC-20 or SPL token on another chain.
The network uses a Delegated Proof-of-Stake model in which 21 elected Block Producers validate transactions, combined with the "Savanna" consensus algorithm, which Vaulta describes as enabling one-second, deterministic finality.
EOS was co-founded by Dan Larimer (Chief Technology Officer of Block.one, previously known for Steem and BitShares) and Brendan Blumer (co-founder and CEO of Block.one). Larimer left Block.one/EOS in January 2021.
Yves La Rose served as CEO of the Vaulta Foundation and personally announced the Vaulta rebrand at Bitcoin 2025 in May 2025; he announced his resignation in November 2025.
Vaulta is maintained by the Vaulta Foundation, renamed from the EOS Network Foundation, which itself succeeded original issuer Block.one, the Cayman Islands company that conducted the 2018 EOS token sale.
Block.one settled with the U.S. SEC in 2019 for a $24 million penalty over that unregistered securities offering and separately faced a 2020 securities-fraud class action alleging it failed to properly decentralize EOS as promised. Ancillary ecosystem entities include Vaulta Labs, Vaulta Ventures, and Vaulta Middleware (operated by Greymass).
Vaulta Foundation governance is currently in a publicly documented crisis over an incomplete leadership handover.
CEO Yves La Rose announced his resignation in November 2025 and initiated an on-chain, Block-Producer-driven election to choose a successor. Roughly four weeks later, the community found he still controlled the Foundation's core multisig accounts, with no completed handover.
The community has publicly alleged financial mismanagement and noted that no financial reports, budget disclosures, project lists, or outstanding-grant accounting had been published since Q1 2024.
Vaulta's stated priorities center on "Web3 banking": Bitcoin-native DeFi via exSat integration and real-world payments through VirgoPay.
The smart contracts underlying the May 2025 EOS-to-A token swap were audited by CertiK and Sentnl ahead of the swap. These audits covered the token-migration mechanism specifically, rather than the broader Antelope/EOSIO protocol or other ecosystem components.
A separate custody concern emerged in late 2025, when the Vaulta Foundation's outgoing CEO was found to still control core multisig accounts roughly a month after announcing his resignation, with no completed handover.