The EOS Community, a blockchain that launched in 2018 amid the preliminary coin providing growth, has rebranded to Vaulta and can pivot to specializing in Web3 banking. 

The swap to Vaulta is tentatively scheduled for the top of Could and can embody a brand new token and the institution of an advisory group referred to as the Vaulta Banking Advisory Council to assist with the agency’s new path, the corporate mentioned in a March 18 assertion.

In a separate assertion, the agency mentioned the community’s EOS (EOS) token will transition to the Vaulta Token, which might be obtainable on the almost 140 exchanges the place EOS trades and thru a swap portal obtainable in Could. It added that the token’s ticker and technical particulars might be revealed at a later date. 

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Vaulta may even inherit EOS Community’s underlying infrastructure, together with integration with the Bitcoin digital banking resolution, exSat, which enhances Vaulta’s BankingOS system, providing a set of monetary companies by way of partnerships with Ceffu, Spirit Blockchain and Blockchain Insurance coverage Inc. 

EOS Community’s rebranding to Vaulta marks a major course correction for the blockchain,  which launched to nice fanfare in June 2018 off the again of a year-long and largest-ever $4.1 billion ICO run by the corporate behind the community, Block.one.

Following its launch, EOS was a prime 10 challenge by market cap for a number of years. However its worth has been in regular decline and is now simply inside the highest 100, sitting at 95, in keeping with CoinGecko.

There’s a variety of opinions about the place EOS went improper. Some who volunteered to help in growing the community say there was an absence of help and path from Block.one. 

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Block.one made a $24 million settlement with the Securities and Trade Fee in September 2019, and a few commentators argued that the agency’s focus then shifted from EOS’ base tech to different initiatives — just like the social app-turned-NFT market Voice and the crypto trade Bullish.

Goodblock CEO Douglas Horn believes EOS traders have been misled from the beginning, telling Cointelegraph Journal in 2023 that “Block.one did a deceitful ICO, whether or not that was deliberate from the start or not.”

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