EOS is now Vaulta: the rebrand explained

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What happened to EOS coin, in short

EOS didn’t die and it didn’t fork. It changed its name. On 18 March 2025 the EOS Network announced that it would rebrand as Vaulta. (CoinDesk’s article is dated 17 March, likely a timezone or embargo difference.) Two months later, on 14 May 2025, block producers executed a scheduled multisig that switched on the token swap: every EOS could be exchanged for one A, with no fee and no slippage.

If you hold EOS on a big exchange, you probably already own A without having done anything. If you hold it in your own wallet, you can swap whenever you like — there is no deadline. Everything else about the chain, from your 12-character account name to your staked balance, carried straight over.

Why EOS rebranded to Vaulta

The official reason is strategic. Vaulta describes itself as an “operating system for Web3 banking and open finance” — a chain aimed at financial institutions and money-management tools rather than at games and generic dApps.

The unofficial reason is history. By early 2025 the EOS token was down about 97% from its 2018 high. The brand was tied to Block.one, the company that raised around $4.1 billion in its ICO and, in the community’s view, put little of it back into the network. Cointelegraph described the rebrand as a “course correction” after years of falling value and criticism of Block.one. A new name was a way to separate the network from that baggage.

The market liked the news at first: EOS rose roughly 30%, to about $0.65, after the announcement, according to Decrypt. The rally didn’t last. A reached its own all-time high of about $0.78 in late May 2025 and then slid, setting new all-time lows in June 2026. You can follow the price on our live EOS price page.

The four pillars of Vaulta’s Web3 banking plan

Vaulta’s website organises the strategy into four areas, each with a named partner:

The project also set up a Banking Advisory Council whose members include Systemic Trust, Tetra and ATB Financial. In July 2025, World Liberty Financial — the Trump-linked crypto venture — announced a partnership with Vaulta after buying about $6 million of the token in May 2025, and Vaulta said it would integrate WLFI’s USD1 stablecoin.

Later in 2025 the foundation also announced Omnitrove, an institutional treasury-management platform. We could not confirm how far it has progressed since, so treat it as a stated plan rather than a working product until you can check it yourself.

What changed and what stayed the same

This is the part people most often get wrong. The rebrand was cosmetic at the chain level and significant at the token level.

Under the hood, the new core.vaulta contract does three jobs at once: it is the A token contract, the EOS-to-A swap contract, and a wrapper around the old system contract so you can buy RAM, rent CPU, stake and vote using A. The underlying system still keeps its books in EOS, which is why some block explorers and APIs show both tickers side by side.

How the EOS → A swap works

The swap was designed to be dull, which is exactly what you want from a token migration:

• Ratio: fixed at 1:1, no fees, no slippage.
• Window: two-way for roughly the first four months, then one-way, EOS to A only.
• Deadline: none. Vaulta says swapping remains available.
• Where: the official portal at swap.vaulta.com, which forwards to Unicove. Advanced users can send EOS directly to core.vaulta.
• Security: the swap contracts were audited by CertiK and Sentnl.

By our latest on-chain check, the swap contract held about 940 million EOS, meaning roughly 45% of the total supply had been converted to A. That sounds low, but large balances sit in system accounts — around 422 million in eosio and about 407 million in the REX staking pool — which aren’t freely tradable anyway. Step-by-step instructions are in our swap EOS to A guide.

How exchanges and wallets handled the rebrand

Most large exchanges did the work for their users. Binance completed the swap and opened A trading in late May 2025. KuCoin took a snapshot on 22 May 2025. Kraken, MEXC, Bitvavo, BitMart and Binance.US also supported it. Kraken closed its EOS markets in July 2025 and credited A one-for-one.

Not everyone followed. Coinbase did not support the migration; on swap day it told users to swap through a self-custody wallet, and it later delisted EOS — its public API now shows the EOS-USD market as delisted. OANDA Crypto, CoinJar and Coinpass also dropped EOS without swapping. Among wallets, Exodus does not support A and planned to end EOS support in August 2026, pointing users to Anchor.

The practical upshot for US and UK readers: if you bought EOS on Coinbase years ago and never moved it, check your account history and the exchange’s notices. For where A trades now, see our EOS exchanges guide; to move tokens to a wallet that supports A, see the EOS wallet guide.

Leadership, the EVM shutdown and other changes since

The rebrand was only the start of a busy period:

1. Mar 2025Rebrand announced

   EOS Network unveils Vaulta and its Web3 banking focus.

2. May 2025A token goes live

   1:1 swap opens on 14 May; major exchanges migrate balances over the following weeks.

3. Jul 2025World Liberty partnership

   Announced after WLFI’s roughly $6 million token purchase.

4. Oct 2025EOS EVM switched off

   Support for the Ethereum-compatible layer ended; users were directed to exSat’s XSAT EVM.

5. Nov 2025CEO resignation

   Yves La Rose announced he was stepping down as Vaulta Foundation CEO, with a successor to be chosen via on-chain governance.

We could not confirm who succeeded La Rose. Community critics have also questioned the foundation’s financial reporting and spending — those are allegations from a community article, not established findings, and we cover them on the is EOS safe page. The longer arc is on our EOS history page.

Our take: does the rebrand matter for holders?

For the technology, the rebrand changed almost nothing; the improvements that matter — one-second finality, the 2.1 billion supply cap, REX 2.0 staking — all landed in 2024, before Vaulta existed. For the market, it changed a lot: a new ticker, a fresh round of exchange listings, some notable delistings, and confusion that still trips people up when they search for “EOS” on an exchange and find nothing.

Whether Vaulta succeeds as a Web3 banking platform will show up in data, not press releases. Watch TVL, active apps and real payment volumes. Meanwhile, the sensible moves are simple: make sure your tokens are A, keep them in a wallet or exchange that supports A, and ignore anyone promising that the rebrand guarantees a comeback. For scenario thinking without invented targets, read our EOS price prediction.

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