IQ

IQ is a cryptocurrency launched in 2018. It operates as an ERC-20 token on the Ethereum network and has extended its footprint across Polygon and the BNB Smart Chain, slotting into a complex intersection of decentralized finance, autonomous organizational tooling, and AI agent infrastructure.

The asset functions natively inside the Agent Tokenization Platform (ATP), an environment engineered for deploying verifiably autonomous and sovereign digital agents. These programmatic constructs can own and manage both digital and physical property, from executing multi-step DeFi yield strategies to interfacing with robotic hardware. The platform effectively addresses the market friction of agentic accountability, binding cryptographic verifiability to automated decision-making pipelines where trustless operation is non-negotiable.

The token operates on the Ethereum network. Mutations in state and settlement finality are bound by the security guarantees of that underlying chain, with no secondary consensus mechanism specified outside the standard Ethereum transaction validation framework.

Multi-chain contract instances tether the asset across heterogeneous execution environments. Primary settlements route through the Ethereum mainnet contract, while parallel integrations exist on Polygon’s proof-of-stake sidechain and the BNB Smart Chain, each conforming to their native token standards. The associated repository reflects a modest software maintenance footprint, accumulating 150 GitHub stars, which speaks to a focused developer surface rather than a sprawling open-source mobilization.

The project took its earliest documented form in July 2018, emerging without a named founder in its primary records. It coalesced around the stewardship of BrainDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization that manages the token’s treasury of digital assets and governs its integration with a sprawling knowledge ecosystem. That ecosystem notably includes IQ.wiki, the self-styled largest blockchain and cryptocurrency encyclopedia, which ties the token’s genesis to an incentivized model of verifiable information production and collective intellectual labor.

The long-term design objective converges on constructing a permanently incentivized, censorship-resistant knowledge architecture. Rather than merely indexing information, the protocol pushes for a self-sustaining loop where machine-verifiable fact creation becomes an on-chain primitive, rewarded natively and shielded from centralized editorial capture.

Mechanically, the token enables staking through a derivative mechanism called HiIQ, which allocates governance voting weight and protocol-level influence. It serves as the settlement gas for contributions to the knowledge ecosystem and functions as the primary DeFi governance asset, where holders vote on treasury allocations through BrainDAO to direct the evolution of integrated applications and data repositories.

Validators and content contributors stake the asset to secure privileged governance access and earn proportional protocol emissions from ecosystem fees. Technically, locking the base token through the HiIQ contract converts liquid capital into a weighted voting score, allowing systematic curation of encyclopedic entries and directing grant distributions from the treasury. This staking lock-up creates an opportunity cost that theoretically aligns long-term decision quality with financial exposure.

IQ has a maximum supply of 60,000,000,000 tokens. Currently, 25,604,026,163.93 tokens constitute the circulating supply. With a market capitalization of $27,956,579, IQ ranks #710 among all cryptocurrencies.