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EOS Became Vaulta and A Without Starting a New Chain

Vaulta did not replace EOS with a new ledger. It changed the network’s name and exchanged EOS for A through core.vaulta, while accounts, contracts, history and block-producer authority crossed the rebrand intact.

The ledger survived its second name

Vaulta did not erase EOS or start a replacement chain. The ledger that began under the EOS name received a new identity in 2025.

Accounts, contracts and history stayed in place, so A inherits the network’s technical and governance history rather than starting from zero.

Banking is a strategy, not a licence

Vaulta markets the chain for payments and tokenized finance. That business direction does not make A a bank deposit or turn partner products into claims owned by token holders.

Savanna consensus, 0.5-second blocks and roughly one-second finality are network specifications; they do not establish the credit quality or legal rights of a financial product built above them.

Producers still govern the machine

EOS block producers coordinated the 2022-09-21 upgrade to Antelope Leap 3.1, separating code operation from the former maintainer.

Producers still execute consensus upgrades and multisignature actions. Token voting selects representatives but does not let one A holder execute a network change.

EOS becomes A through a contract swap

The 2025-05-07 producer proposal specified core.vaulta and the A ticker; the swap opened on 2025-05-14.

The exchange was one EOS for one A without fee or slippage. It was bidirectional for four months, while utility and liquidity progressively moved to A.

RAM, staking and the supply cap

A pays fees, enters staking and buys or sells RAM. Documentation states a 2,100,000,000 A cap and a 21-day wait to unstake.

The rights that did not change at the swap

A does not provide Vaulta Foundation equity, bank-deposit insurance, par redemption or direct ownership of assets offered by ecosystem partners.

How the project changed

  1. 2022-09-21
    Block producers adopt Antelope Leap 3.1

    A coordinated consensus upgrade moved EOS onto the community-run Antelope codebase and required every syncing node to upgrade.

  2. 2025-03-18
    EOS Network Foundation announces Vaulta

    The foundation presented Vaulta as a Web3 banking identity and said the existing EOS network would change name and mission.

  3. 2025-05-07
    Producers receive the A-token proposal

    A block-producer multisignature proposal specified the core.vaulta contract and A ticker for execution one week later.

  4. 2025-05-14
    The 1:1 swap opens

    The core.vaulta swap went live: EOS holders could receive A without fee or slippage, while accounts, contracts and chain history remained on the same network.

Evidence and primary sources

Last evidence review: 2026-09-05

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What is Vaulta?

Vaulta is the continuing EOS/Antelope Layer-1 network, renamed in 2025 with A as its native token. Accounts, contracts and chain history continued through the transition. A serves network fees, staking, governance participation and RAM resources.

The project presents payments, wealth management, tokenized investments and insurance as its Web3 banking strategy. Those product and partner plans should be assessed separately from the network and the rights attached to A. The official site also describes exSat indexing Bitcoin’s UTXO data into Vaulta RAM. Reading indexed Bitcoin data does not itself transfer BTC, establish custody or give an A holder a claim on Bitcoin.

What problem does Vaulta solve?

The project aims to connect payment, investment and asset-management workflows that currently span banks, exchanges, custodians and on-chain protocols. Its programmable network is a proposed way to reduce that fragmentation; the banking brand alone does not establish adoption, solvency or a banking licence.

Vaulta also aims to make blockchain easier to use through readable account names, fast confirmation and resource costs that applications can cover for users. These are design choices and performance claims whose results depend on applications, network resources and operators. Tokenization and indexed Bitcoin data can support additional applications, but do not by themselves remove settlement, custody or counterparty risk.

How does Vaulta work?

Elected block producers create blocks, approve consensus upgrades and execute multisignature actions. Project documentation describes a C++ implementation with Savanna consensus, 0.5-second blocks, roughly one-second finality and throughput above 17,000 transactions per second. These are attributed network specifications, not independently measured capacity for every workload. Spring 1.0’s deterministic-finality design is intended to improve settlement certainty; that does not guarantee that every application or financial product is free of operational risk.

The core.vaulta contract opened the one-for-one EOS-to-A swap on 14 May 2025 without a fee or slippage and without resetting the ledger. A is used for fees, staking and RAM trading; one KB represents rights to 1,000 bytes of storage. The documented supply cap is 2,100,000,000 A, and unstaking takes 21 days. Staking rewards vary and should be checked against the current distribution rules, rather than treated as a fixed daily entitlement.

The official site describes exSat as making indexed Bitcoin UTXO information available to applications through Vaulta RAM. An application’s ability to read balances is separate from authority to spend Bitcoin, its custody arrangements and any yield product offered on top. The site’s payment, custody, tokenization and insurance partnerships likewise do not automatically confer those partners’ product rights on A holders.

Key facts

  • A is the native token of the continuing EOS/Vaulta ledger; the 2025 transition did not create a new chain.
  • The core.vaulta contract opened a 1:1 EOS-to-A swap on 2025-05-14 without fees or slippage.
  • A is used for fees, staking and RAM; one KB represents rights to 1,000 bytes of network storage.
  • The documented supply is capped at 2,100,000,000 A and unstaking takes 21 days.
  • Block producers approve consensus upgrades and multisignature actions; A gives no bank deposit, insurance or foundation equity claim.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Vaulta a new blockchain separate from EOS?

No. It is the continuing EOS ledger with a new name and native ticker; accounts, contracts and history remained.

How did EOS become A?

core.vaulta opened a one-for-one swap on 2025-05-14 with no fee or slippage. The initial reverse-conversion window lasted four months.

What does staking A promise?

A participates in network resources and rewards, with a 21-day unstaking wait. It does not promise principal, bank insurance, par redemption or foundation equity.

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