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The current price of MEZO is $0.003186 with a 15.60% change in the last 24 hours.
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MEZO is the native token of Mezo, an EVM-compatible blockchain built around Bitcoin: BTC is the gas token and the main collateral, and users can borrow a Bitcoin-backed stablecoin (MUSD) against it at a fixed rate. The MEZO token does not replace Bitcoin in that system. Instead, it is locked as veMEZO to boost voting power and to direct and share in the chain's weekly emissions. It matters because it is one of the more fully specified attempts to build a lending and fee economy on top of Bitcoin holdings.
The official site describes Mezo as "Bitcoin's economic layer": an app and chain where people can borrow, save and spend using Bitcoin without selling it. The core product is a line of credit in MUSD, a dollar-pegged stablecoin that Mezo describes as 100 percent backed by Bitcoin reserves.
Mezo is a separate chain rather than a smart-contract layer on Bitcoin itself. The developer documentation calls it "a Bitcoin-first blockchain designed for user ownership, reliable bridging with tBTC, BTC for gas, dual staking model, and EVM compatibility."
Mezo is built by Thesis, which the site describes as a team with more than ten years of work on Bitcoin products and the creator of tBTC, Fold and Taho. The chain's reference client, mezod, was forked from the LGPL version of Evmos and heavily modified.
The documentation publishes a token emission schedule starting on April 2, 2026, with weekly distributions every Thursday at 00:00 UTC. The pages we reviewed do not list the full investor roster.
MUSD The Bitcoin-backed stablecoin at the center of the borrowing product.
Mezo Earn The vote-escrow system (veBTC, veMEZO, gauges) that routes fees and emissions.
Mezo Pools and Vaults Swap pools and savings vaults, including an MUSD savings vault. The homepage mentions yield vaults powered by Upshift Finance.
Mezo Passport Account and wallet-connection tooling for users and dapps.
Validators Operators who run Mezo chain nodes and receive a fixed share of emissions.
According to the MEZO token docs, MEZO "influences the direction of incentives and captures value generated by the chain":
veMEZO carries no governance weight of its own and cannot vote on staking gauges without veBTC.
Supply and distribution (token distribution): a genesis supply of 1,000,000,000 MEZO, split 40 percent community, 30 percent investors and partners, 20 percent team and 10 percent foundation. Community and foundation allocations unlock at the token generation event. Team and investor allocations have a one-year cliff followed by linear monthly unlocks, with all vesting complete within 36 months.
Emissions (emissions docs): inflation starts at 25 percent and halves roughly every two years, reaching a 2 percent terminal rate from year 8. Emissions are split 20 percent to validators and 80 percent to the ecosystem, with veBTC voters directing most of the ecosystem share.
Compared with Stacks, which settles to Bitcoin and uses its own STX token for fees, Mezo uses BTC for gas and focuses on lending and stablecoins. Compared with Core and BounceBit, which center on BTC staking to secure a chain, Mezo centers on MUSD borrowing and a fee-sharing vote-escrow system. Compared with Liquity on Ethereum, MUSD uses a similar mechanism but with BTC as collateral and fixed rather than one-time-fee borrowing.
The chain runs CometBFT proof-of-stake consensus with a validator set that is paid 20 percent of emissions. Bridged BTC depends on the security of tBTC and the Mezo bridge. Mezo's audits page lists reviews by Quantstamp, Thesis Defense, Halborn, Cantina and OtterSec covering mezod, MUSD, Mezo Earn, the bridge and the app contracts. Note that Thesis Defense is part of the same organization that builds Mezo.
Most Bitcoin holders cannot use their BTC for anything but holding or selling. Mezo is a serious, well-documented attempt to offer fixed-rate credit and a fee economy built around BTC, and the MEZO token is the coordination layer that decides where that system's incentives flow.
MEZO exists on the Mezo chain and as an ERC-20 on Ethereum and Base. It can be traded on decentralized venues on those networks (including Mezo Pools) and on centralized exchanges that list it. Confirm the contract address from the official contracts reference before trading.
Explorer: explorer.mezo.org.
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Read the complete paper trading guideThe current price of MEZO is $0.003186 with a 15.60% change in the last 24 hours.
The daily trading volume is $241,887 representing a 969.16% change in the past 24 hours.
The market capitalization of MEZO is $1,592,871, ranking #861 globally.
The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of MEZO is $3,185,742, calculated assuming the maximum supply of 1,000,000,000 MEZO is in circulation.
Circulating: 500,000,000. Total: 1,000,000,000. Max: 1,000,000,000.
In the last 24 hours, MEZO traded between a low of $0.002657 and a high of $0.004624.
MEZO/USDTTether USDT0.003186 USDT
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Mezo will stream 2.25% of MEZO supply to Aerodrome’s veAERO voters over 30 days, betting Base’s vote-escrow whales can bootstrap deep MEZO and MUSD liquidity for Bitcoin DeFi. Mezo, a Bitcoin (BTC)-native lending layer, has struck a strategic deal with…
