What is the current price of Holo?
The current price of Holo is $0.0004561 with a 1.36% change in the last 24 hours.
Holo is a hosting layer for applications built on Holochain, a peer to peer application framework that stores and validates data on participants' own devices instead of on a global blockchain ledger. Holo's role is to keep those applications reachable from an ordinary web browser by running always-on nodes and HTTP gateways operated by independent hosts. HOT, also called HoloToken, is an ERC-20 token issued on Ethereum in 2018 as a placeholder representing a future claim on HoloFuel, the mutual credit currency intended to settle hosting payments. HOT is not the currency the network runs on today, a point Holo states directly on its own site.
Official resources:
Holochain and Holo were founded by Arthur Brock and Eric Harris-Braun, both of whom had worked on alternative currency design long before the project existed. Development of the framework began publicly in 2017, and Holo raised funds through an initial community offering that ran from 29 March to 28 April 2018, minting HOT tokens as they were purchased rather than issuing a fixed pre-sale allocation. The project has been structured so that stewardship sits with a non-profit foundation rather than a single commercial owner. Holo and Holochain have been in development for a long period by crypto standards, and the roadmap has moved slowly, which is a fair part of the record to weigh.
Holochain is agent-centric rather than chain-centric. Each participant runs the application locally and writes to their own cryptographically signed source chain. Public entries are then published to a distributed hash table, where a randomly selected set of peers validates the data against the application's own rules and stores copies of it. Because every participant holds the rules, any peer can verify that another is playing by them, and invalid data triggers a network response rather than being accepted into a shared ledger. The framework's own shorthand for this design is BitTorrent plus Git plus cryptographic signatures. There is no global consensus round, no mining, and no transaction fee for the framework itself.
That design creates a practical problem: peer to peer applications need peers online, and a browser visitor is not a peer. Holo solves this with hosting. Independent operators run EdgeNodes, described as dedicated always-on nodes that hold an application's data and stay online when its users are not, plus a Web Bridge that exposes distributed hash table data over HTTP so ordinary browsers and devices can reach it. The Holo hosting code is published as open source under the CAL 1.0 license.
Holo's own currency page is unusually candid here and is worth reading before forming a view. HOT was issued in 2018 as a placeholder representing a future claim on HoloFuel credits, with an intended one to one conversion once HoloFuel became operational. Today, hosting on Holo is scoped and priced in national currencies such as US dollars and euros, hosts are compensated through manual arrangements, and the page states that micro-payments and direct peer payments between customers and hosts will not be supported until HoloFuel launches. Holo Limited also states that it does not itself provide redemption services, and that any redemption would be handled by appropriately licensed third parties subject to regulatory requirements. In short, HOT currently functions as a tradable claim rather than as an in-network payment token.
The agent-centric architecture is a genuine departure from how almost every other project in this category works. Instead of asking every node to agree on one shared history, Holochain asks each agent to keep its own history and asks the network to enforce validity locally through shared rules and random peer witnessing. That removes the global throughput ceiling that comes with universal replication, and it removes mining energy costs entirely. Holo layers a hosting market on top so that these applications remain reachable on the ordinary web, which is a different problem than most decentralized storage networks address.
Decentralized storage and compute networks generally sell capacity for files or containers and settle payment in a native token on their own chain. Holo is closer to distributed application hosting, and the thing being hosted is a peer to peer application rather than a static file or a virtual machine. The underlying framework is also not a blockchain at all, which means comparisons on metrics like block time or transactions per second do not map cleanly. The trade-off is that Holochain's guarantees are application-specific and probabilistic through peer witnessing rather than derived from one global consensus, so it suits collaborative and social applications better than it suits systems that need a single authoritative ordering, such as an exchange order book.
The framework is aimed at applications where users benefit from holding their own data: social and community platforms, collaboration and messaging tools, supply chain and coordination systems, and community currencies or mutual credit accounting, which is the founders' long-standing research area. Holo hosting itself targets developers who want their Holochain application usable by people who will never install a node, and it targets operators who have spare hardware and want to run infrastructure. The Holo site names partners including Visvere and HummHive as teams building on the platform.
Security in Holochain comes from three layers rather than from hashpower or staked capital. Every entry is signed by its author and appended to that author's tamper-evident source chain. Every public entry is validated against the application's deterministic rules by a random selection of peers before being stored. And invalid data does not simply fail, it produces evidence that the network can act on to isolate the offending agent. The HOT token sits outside all of this, on Ethereum, where it inherits Ethereum's security as an ordinary ERC-20 contract. Bridged representations of HOT exist on several other networks, and those carry the additional trust assumptions of whichever bridge produced them.
The central risk is the gap between the token and the network. HOT does not pay for hosting today, no public date has been committed for HoloFuel redemption, and Holo has stated that it will not perform redemption itself. That makes the value of HOT dependent on a future event with no guaranteed timeline. The project has also been in development for many years, and long timelines carry both execution and funding risk. Adoption is a further question: agent-centric applications require developers to think differently, which slows ecosystem growth. Bridged versions of HOT on other chains add bridge risk. Finally, a token with no current protocol function is unusually exposed to sentiment.
The design argument behind Holochain has aged well even where the project's delivery has been slow. Replicating every transaction to every node is expensive and does not scale, and a growing part of the industry has spent years working around that constraint. Holochain's answer, that most applications do not need global consensus and can rely on local rules plus random peer validation, remains one of the more coherent alternatives on offer. Holo's hosting layer addresses the unglamorous but decisive question of how ordinary users reach such an application at all.
HOT is a long-listed Ethereum token and trades on a wide range of centralized exchanges as well as on Ethereum decentralized exchanges against ETH and stablecoins. Wrapped or bridged versions circulate on Base, Arbitrum, Harmony, Energi and Sora, so confirm which representation a venue is quoting before trading. When using a decentralized exchange, check the contract address against the Etherscan link above. Exchange listings and country availability change over time, so verify current options directly with the venue.
HOT is a standard ERC-20 token on Ethereum, so it is compatible with essentially every Ethereum wallet. Software wallets such as MetaMask or mobile equivalents are suitable for smaller amounts and for interacting with decentralized exchanges. For larger balances, a hardware wallet keeps signing keys offline while still allowing use through a connected interface. Custody on an exchange is convenient but means the exchange holds the keys. If you hold a bridged version on another network, remember that its redeemability depends on the bridge and store it accordingly.
Track Holo live price, chart, market cap, and volume in real time. Practice mock trading and demo trading for Holo on CoinRithm before using real money.
Use a crypto paper trading account to demo trade Holo with real-time prices, AI trade feedback, and trading leagues. Test strategies, learn risk management, and build confidence before trading Holo with real money.
Read the complete paper trading guideThe current price of Holo is $0.0004561 with a 1.36% change in the last 24 hours.
The daily trading volume is $81,783.84 representing a 0.16% change in the past 24 hours.
The market capitalization of Holo is $81,014,911, ranking #249 globally.
The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of Holo is $81,014,911, calculated assuming the total supply of 177,619,433,541 HOT is in circulation.
Circulating: 177,619,433,541. Total: 177,619,433,541. Max: N/A.
In the last 24 hours, Holo traded between a low of $0.000446 and a high of $0.0004590.
HOT/USDTTether USDT0.0004561 USDT
LINK is pinned at $14.03 — dead on its daily pivot — with MACD momentum flatlined and OI quietly bleeding off. Smart money is leaning 68.4% long and taker buy flow is running hot, but the $14.25–$1... (Read More)
Polkadot cratered 5.6% to $1.15 in the last 24 hours, landing precisely on its 20-day moving average — but with whales sitting 69% net long and taker buy pressure running hot, this looks less like ... (Read More)
PEPE is running hot with a confirmed +5.54% surge on $41.7M in Binance spot volume this session, but with the MACD histogram flashing bearish divergence and RSI approaching the upper neutral range ... (Read More)
ARB is defending $0.20 support with top traders 57.7% long and taker buy flow running 1.42x hot — but a flatlined MACD histogram and contracting open interest are flashing yellow. A daily close abo... (Read More)
Aptos is sitting on a 30%-plus recovery from its recent range lows with smart money positioned heavily long, but a dead-flat MACD histogram and a hot stochastic are flashing a short-term pause warn... (Read More)
An attacker faked internal transfer requests to drain $387.5 million from Bitget's hot and warm wallets, and the exchange's CEO says the fingerprints look like Pyongyang's.
