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The current price of Cartesi is $0.03182 with a 3.51% change in the last 24 hours.
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Cartesi is a framework for building application-specific rollups that run a full Linux operating system inside a deterministic RISC-V virtual machine. That single choice separates it from almost every other scaling project: rather than writing contracts in a blockchain-specific language for a constrained virtual machine, developers write ordinary programs in Python, Rust, C++, Go, or JavaScript, using ordinary libraries, and the result still settles verifiably against Ethereum.
CTSI is the network's ERC-20 token, with a fixed total supply of 1,000,000,000. It is used for staking and delegation, for governance participation, and is intended to underpin a validator marketplace as the network matures.
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Cartesi was founded in 2018 by Erick de Moura, Augusto Teixeira, Diego Nehab, and Colin Steil. Teixeira and Nehab came from IMPA, Brazil's institute for pure and applied mathematics, and the project retains strong academic ties, including university courses taught on Cartesi Rollups in Brazil.
The original pitch was a decentralized marketplace for training machine learning models, with a verifiable off-chain computation layer beneath it. The marketplace did not survive contact with the market. The computation layer did, and became the whole product. CTSI was distributed through a Binance Launchpad sale in April 2020. A separate coprocessor initiative, which let existing smart contracts offload heavy computation to Cartesi Machines, was formally wound down in 2025 as part of a deliberate concentration on the core rollup and fraud-proof stack. Older summaries still describe the coprocessor and the earlier Noether work, so treat current documentation as authoritative.
The Cartesi Machine Applications run inside a deterministic RISC-V emulator that boots a Linux kernel and root filesystem. Because execution is reproducible, any two honest parties running the same inputs reach the same state, and that state can be hashed and committed on chain.
On-chain settlement and dispute resolution Ethereum contracts hold inputs, outputs, and state claims. Cartesi also maintains an on-chain implementation of a single RISC-V instruction step, which is what makes disputes resolvable: a disagreement is narrowed by bisection until it lands on one instruction the chain can execute and judge itself.
Permissionless fraud proofs Disputes are settled by PRT, short for Permissionless Refereed Tournaments, live on Ethereum mainnet. Claimants compete in a bracket-style tournament where honest validators effectively team up and eliminate half the false claims each round, so a single honest party can enforce the correct result against a well-funded adversary. A bond mechanism discourages frivolous disputes and substantially reduced the worst-case delay an attacker can impose.
App-specific deployment Each application gets its own rollup and dedicated compute, deployable as an Ethereum layer 2, a layer 3 on another rollup, or a sovereign rollup.
Worth stating plainly: staking rewards are funded from a token reserve rather than application fee revenue, so the link between rollup usage and token demand remains largely prospective.
Running real Linux is the architecture, not a marketing line. A developer can use an existing cryptography library, a scientific computing package, or an entire language runtime inside a verifiable application without reimplementing anything for a blockchain virtual machine, which Cartesi has demonstrated with trust-minimized machine learning inference and full game console emulation.
The second point is verification maturity. Cartesi reached Stage 2 on L2BEAT's rollup classification in 2025, at the time one of only three projects to do so. Stage 2 is the strictest tier, requiring a permissionless proof system and tightly constrained upgrade powers.
Compared with general-purpose EVM rollups, Cartesi is not a shared execution environment. Each application gets its own rollup with dedicated compute, so applications never compete for the same block space, but there is also no shared global state to compose against. Compared with zero-knowledge rollups, the live system is optimistic and interactive: proving is cheap, but withdrawals carry a challenge period. The technical evolution plan lists a zero-knowledge verification path as an exploration item intended to remove delay-attack exposure.
Security rests on Ethereum settlement plus the fraud-proof system. Validators submit state claims, anyone can dispute them, and disputes resolve through the tournament structure down to a single verifiable RISC-V instruction. Because participation is permissionless and one honest actor suffices, security does not depend on a trusted validator set.
Cartesi tests this in public. The Honeypot application holds a live CTSI prize on Ethereum mainnet for anyone able to defeat the system, and that has already paid off: in October 2025 a liveness bug in the dispute game contracts temporarily froze a small amount of CTSI. It was diagnosed as an implementation flaw rather than a fault in the algorithm, patched, and relaunched.
Cartesi attacks the developer experience problem at its root. If verifiable computation is going to be used by people who are not blockchain specialists, something has to let them bring their existing tools, and running Linux inside a provable machine is a credible answer. Reaching Stage 2 with a permissionless proof system also places Cartesi among the very few projects that have met the strictest published bar for rollup security rather than promising to. Whether the token captures that engineering value is a separate and unresolved question.
CTSI is listed on major centralized exchanges and trades on Ethereum decentralized exchanges. Availability and pairs vary by venue and jurisdiction. Ethereum is the canonical deployment, with additional deployments on Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, BNB Chain, and Avalanche, so confirm the network before transferring.
CTSI is often available on:
Common pairs include CTSI/USDT and CTSI/USD where supported.
After purchase, CTSI can be stored on an exchange, which is custodial, in any Ethereum wallet that supports ERC-20 tokens, or in a hardware wallet paired with compatible wallet software. Staking requires connecting a wallet to the official portal, granting a contract allowance, and interacting with pool contracts, so verify the portal and read current documentation before committing funds.
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Read the complete paper trading guideThe current price of Cartesi is $0.03182 with a 3.51% change in the last 24 hours.
The daily trading volume is $264,632 representing a 37.64% change in the past 24 hours.
The market capitalization of Cartesi is $30,355,677, ranking #430 globally.
The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of Cartesi is $31,815,048, calculated assuming the maximum supply of 1,000,000,000 CTSI is in circulation.
Circulating: 954,129,555. Total: 1,000,000,000. Max: 1,000,000,000.
In the last 24 hours, Cartesi traded between a low of $0.03020 and a high of $0.03187.
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