Buy & Swap Vaulta (A)

From EOS to Vaulta

Vaulta's official site makes the transition simple to follow. Holders can use the official portal to swap their EOS tokens one-for-one for Vaulta's A token. Nothing about the size of a holding changes; the ticker and the brand do.

The rename comes with a sharper purpose. Instead of presenting itself as a general-purpose smart contract platform, Vaulta positions itself as the gateway to Web3 banking — a chain whose apps and partners focus on how people and organisations earn, spend, invest and manage money.

The site lists a long roster of wallets and apps that support it, including Anchor, Atomic Wallet, Bitget, Coinbase Wallet, Ledger, MetaMask, Rabby, TokenPocket and imToken, among others.^{[1], [2], [3]}

EOS heritage: Producers chosen by continuous stake-weighted vote

EOS uses delegated proof-of-stake: token holders vote for block producers by staking EOS, and their voting weight is proportional to the amount staked. A fixed number of top-voted producers rotate through block production in a scheduled round-robin, and the vote is continuous rather than a one-time election — producers can be voted out at any time if holders redirect their support.

This differs from proof-of-work, where block-creation rights follow computational effort, and from validator-staking systems where the validator set is typically bonded rather than directly elected each round. The EOS.IO technical white paper set out this producer-election design alongside the account, permission and smart-contract model that the rest of the network was built around.^{[11], [12]}

EOS heritage: Three resources instead of one fee

Rather than charging a transaction fee, EOS-based chains meter three separate resources: RAM, which accounts pay to acquire for their portion of on-chain state storage; and CPU and NET, which accounts obtain by staking tokens for a share of the network's processing time and bandwidth. Staking for CPU and NET does not spend the tokens — they remain the account's property and can be unstaked later, subject to an unstaking delay.

An account's available CPU and NET replenish over a rolling window, so a fixed stake supports a certain rate of ongoing activity rather than a one-time allowance. If an account exhausts its allocation, its options are to wait for replenishment or acquire more staked capacity, including through a market-based resource-rental mechanism introduced to give accounts a way to obtain temporary CPU and NET without permanently staking additional tokens.^{[13], [14]}

EOS heritage: Accounts, permissions, and contracts as an operating layer

EOS accounts are human-readable names rather than raw public keys, and each account can define multiple permission levels — for example, separating an owner key used for high-value actions from an active key used for daily activity. Permissions can be linked to specific contract actions, so an account can authorise a narrow key to interact only with a particular application while a stronger key remains reserved.

Smart contracts on EOS execute within this account and permission model, using the same staked-resource system as ordinary transfers. A deployed contract itself needs RAM for its code and data, and the accounts calling it consume CPU and NET for each action, which keeps contract execution accountable to the same resource system as any other transaction.^{[12], [11]}

EOS heritage: From EOSIO to Antelope and Spring

The original EOS.IO software was later reorganised under the Antelope framework, a name adopted as the codebase's stewardship moved to a broader multi-chain community rather than a single company. Antelope-based networks, including EOS, share reference smart contracts and client software maintained in public repositories, which several independent EOS-model chains build on.

Spring is the current core blockchain node software maintained for Antelope-based chains, continuing development of the block-production, chain-state and API components that earlier carried the EOSIO and Leap names. Because this software is open and shared across multiple chains, an improvement to block production or resource accounting made for one Antelope network can be adopted by others running the same stack, including EOS itself.^{[15], [16], [18]}

Four pillars of Web3 banking

Vaulta says it powers a full-stack Web3 banking experience through four foundational pillars. The first is wealth management: institutional-grade yield infrastructure so users can earn, diversify and protect assets. The site names Bitcoin yield strategies via exSat and custody solutions with Ceffu as examples, describing this as democratising tools once reserved for institutions.

The second is consumer payments: turning digital assets into everyday currency so users can spend without selling. Through partners such as VirgoPay, the site says, Vaulta delivers instant, low-fee payments, stablecoin settlement and Bitcoin-backed credit.

The third is portfolio investment. Vaulta says it is building a secure platform for tokenised investments that opens access to real-world assets; with partners like Spirit Blockchain, users can diversify into real estate, commodities and private equity.^{[4], [5], [6]}

Omnitrove: treasury for organisations

Vaulta's newest product is aimed at businesses rather than individuals. Omnitrove is described as a next-generation treasury management platform for organisations that operate across both traditional money and digital assets.

It connects banks, exchanges and onchain systems into one environment, the site says, giving finance teams real-time visibility, automated policy controls and intelligence-driven decision support. For a company holding some funds in a bank account and some in stablecoins, that means one dashboard and one set of rules instead of several disconnected systems.^{[7], [8]}

Where A fits

A is the network's token. Beyond the migration swap, the site highlights staking: holders can stake A with a 21-day lockup and earn network-backed rewards through the official staking portal.

A lockup means staked tokens cannot be withdrawn instantly; after unstaking, holders wait for the period to end. That design rewards longer-term participants and gives the network a more predictable base of committed stake.

The site also offers guides and documentation for both end users and developers, reflecting that the chain wants to attract builders of financial apps as well as holders.

Taken together, the pieces describe a chain trying to earn its place through use rather than branding: yield for savers, payments for spenders, tokenised assets for investors, treasury tools for companies, and a staking token that ties them to the network. The rename from EOS to Vaulta is, in that sense, a statement of which customers the network intends to serve first, and which financial products it expects them to reach for.^{[9], [10]}

Supply and governance detail

The homepage reviewed does not set out A's total supply, emission schedule or governance process. Those details are UNKNOWN from the sources used here and are not estimated.^[9]