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Where IOTA sits in the market

#166 places IOTA in the upper mid-cap band. Liquidity is already fragmented at this depth: a large share of real IOTA volume can sit on two or three venues, so a quote on a secondary exchange may lag the primary market by seconds and by more than a basis point. Position size matters more than entry timing here.

CryptoPingAi is currently streaming 6 live IOTA order books (Binance, OKX, Gate.io, HTX, Upbit, Bithumb). That is wider coverage than most assets ranked near #166 carry, so a divergence on any one of them is far more likely to be a local liquidity event than a genuine repricing. One of them is a Korean won market, so the Kimchi-premium spread between the KRW and USDT quote is visible on this page.

IOTA against its all-time high

More than 95% separates IOTA from its all-time high of $5.25 (on 2017-12-19) — a 137x recovery. At that distance the high stops working as a reference at all; it belongs to a different supply structure, a different holder base and typically a different cycle. What carries information for IOTA now is the downside, so read the range section below before this one. It was set 9 years ago. A reference that old says more about the cycle it belongs to than about the asset as it trades now.

IOTA across its historical range

IOTA has traded across a 101x range, between $0.0522 and $5.25. Any volatility figure quoted for this asset depends heavily on which part of that range it is measured over.

At -26.5% above its record low of $0.0522 (on 2026-03-29), IOTA sits near the edge of its own price history. Nothing has traded beneath that level, so there is no support to reference, no volume shelf and no cost-basis cluster underneath. Because that low is itself recent, the asset is in an active downtrend rather than sitting at an old floor — each new low invalidates the previous one as a reference.

IOTA supply structure

IOTA has no hard cap. 4.43 billion IOTA of a 4.88 billion total is in circulation (90.6%), leaving 457.7 million held back. That overhang is modest but real — worth checking the unlock calendar before treating float as fixed.

What kind of asset IOTA is

IOTA is a DeFi protocol token, which ties it to total value locked and to the interest-rate environment on-chain. These assets carry a beta to the market plus a second exposure that is easy to miss: protocol risk. A contract exploit or an oracle failure repriced instantly and independently of any market move, and that tail is a real component of holding the token.

CoinGecko files IOTA under 10 categories, including Infrastructure, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Layer 1 (L1), DePIN, DWF Labs Portfolio. Worth flagging from the metadata: IOTA is listed in the DWF Labs portfolio.

How to set a IOTA alert that is worth receiving

IOTA (IOTA) — quoted on 6 venues we stream — high dated 2017-12-19 — rank #166. On this profile the condition that carries signal is thresholds anchored to the recent range rather than to the all-time high.

Full alert-design method: thresholds, RSI/MACD and volume conditions →