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The current price of Shentu is $0.1167 with a 2.48% change in the last 24 hours.
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Shentu is a Cosmos SDK blockchain whose purpose is security infrastructure rather than general-purpose finance. CTK is its native coin, used for gas, staking, governance and as collateral posted by the operators who run its on-chain security services. The chain is EVM compatible through its own virtual machine and connects to other Cosmos chains over IBC. The idea is that security findings should not live only in a PDF audit report: Shentu decomposes security analysis into primitives a contract on another chain can query before interacting with an address, which is what its Security Oracle does.
A live check of the network on September 11, 2026 returned chain ID shentu-2.2 at block height 31,092,491, with the queried node reporting application version 2.18.0 running on Cosmos SDK v0.53.5. The chain is producing blocks and the codebase is on a current SDK line.
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A note on links: the homepage listed for this asset in several third-party catalogs, shentu.technology, no longer resolves. The working official site is shentu.org, and older guides pointing at the other domain are out of date.
Shentu began life as CertiK Chain, the blockchain arm of the CertiK security organization, and CTK was distributed through a Binance Launchpool program in 2020. The chain and the auditing business were later separated, the network was renamed Shentu, and the Shentu Foundation took over development. Much of the underlying research traces back to formal verification work associated with academics at Columbia and Yale, and the current whitepaper presents Shentu as an independent research-driven project without describing CertiK as its parent. That history explains a persistent identification problem: several catalogs still track this asset under the internal identifier "certik" while the coin, the chain and the foundation are all named Shentu.
Yes, and the evidence is checkable rather than promotional. The shentufoundation/shentu repository is not archived and received a release tagged v2.19.0 on August 31, 2026, following v2.18.0 in April and v2.17.0 in February. The most recent substantive commit was a fix to the shield and oracle modules, and a network upgrade was scheduled at block height 29,367,500, around May 19, 2026.
On chain, the oracle module returns registered operators, each with CTK collateral posted and accumulated rewards recorded, so the Security Oracle is live rather than documented-only. The certifier module likewise returns registered security certifiers, the governance role the whitepaper describes.
One item to verify separately: ShentuShield, the reimbursement pool described in the whitepaper, is not featured among the products on the current official site, and the public REST gateway queried for this page did not expose its query routes. The shield module is still in the codebase and was touched by an August 2026 commit, but its present availability to users is best confirmed through official channels.
Shentu uses Tendermint-style consensus with delegated proof of stake. Validators produce blocks, delegators bond CTK to validators, and both share rewards. The whitepaper documents a maximum of 100 bonded validators, a 5 percent reward share for the block proposer, and a 21 day unbonding period. Contract execution runs through the Shentu virtual machine, EVM compatible but extended to record security-relevant information as contracts run, so verification results and proof certificates can be stored on chain.
Governance reflects the chain's purpose. The whitepaper describes three participant classes: stake delegators, validator operators, and security certifiers. Voting is split so functional decisions are settled by token weight while security-sensitive decisions involve the certifier set, and software upgrades require a plain-text proposal to pass before the upgrade proposal itself.
CTK is used for:
CTK is inflationary and has no protocol cap. The chain's mint module parameters, read live, set a minimum annual inflation of 4 percent, a maximum of 10 percent, a bonded ratio target of 67 percent, and 6,307,200 blocks per year. Inflation floats within that band: when the share of staked CTK falls below target, issuance rises to attract more bonding, and when it is above, issuance falls. At the time of checking the rate sat at the 10 percent ceiling, implying the staked ratio was below target. The practical consequence is that holders who do not stake are diluted by those who do, and supply rises over time by design.
Most security work in crypto is off-chain and retrospective. Shentu puts the output of security analysis where a smart contract can read it at transaction time, backed by operators who have posted collateral and can lose it. Pairing that with a governance system where a defined certifier class has a formal role on security matters is uncommon, even among chains that call themselves security-focused. DeepSEA is the other unusual piece: formal verification through a proof assistant is a heavyweight approach most projects avoid, and Shentu's willingness to build tooling around it reflects its academic origins.
Compared with general Cosmos SDK chains such as Cosmos Hub or Osmosis, Shentu trades breadth for a single vertical. It is IBC-connected and shares the same consensus lineage, but its custom modules are about certification and security scoring rather than liquidity or interchain routing. Compared with verification tokens such as Civic or interoperability infrastructure such as Quant, Shentu owns the base chain, so it carries validator economics and upgrade responsibility rather than living as an application on someone else's network.
Consensus security is delegated proof of stake with a bonded validator set, a 21 day unbonding period, and slashing for misbehavior. The Security Oracle adds a second economic layer, since operators post CTK collateral against the scores they publish and can be penalized for bad reporting. Certifiers add a governance layer with a defined role in security decisions. The honest caveat is that a security oracle is only as good as its operator set: a small set, or one whose collateral is low relative to the value of the decisions its scores influence, is not a strong guarantee. Anyone building on those scores should check operator count and posted collateral rather than trusting the concept.
Shentu is one of the few long-running attempts to make security a queryable on-chain primitive instead of a document produced once and forgotten. Whether or not the Security Oracle becomes widely consumed, the chain has kept shipping across six years, stayed on a current Cosmos SDK line, and kept its oracle and certifier modules live. In a sector where many 2020-era chains went quiet, that record is itself informative.
CTK trades on several centralized exchanges, most prominently those that hosted the original Launchpool distribution, generally against major stablecoins. It also exists as an IBC-denominated asset on Cosmos decentralized exchanges such as Osmosis. Confirm whether a given listing is native CTK or an IBC representation, since withdrawal paths differ.
CTK is a Cosmos SDK native coin, so Cosmos-compatible wallets are the right tool. Keplr and Leap both support Shentu accounts, and a Ledger device can be used through them for key storage. Staking and governance work from those wallets or through explorers such as Mintscan. If you hold CTK as an IBC asset on another chain, it is a wrapped representation and must be transferred back to Shentu before it can be staked there.
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Read the complete paper trading guideThe current price of Shentu is $0.1167 with a 2.48% change in the last 24 hours.
The daily trading volume is $147,461 representing a 1.57% change in the past 24 hours.
The market capitalization of Shentu is $19,289,450, ranking #541 globally.
The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of Shentu is $19,289,989, calculated assuming the total supply of 165,294,041 CTK is in circulation.
Circulating: 165,289,424. Total: 165,294,041. Max: N/A.
In the last 24 hours, Shentu traded between a low of $0.1119 and a high of $0.1173.
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