What Taiko scales
Taiko is an Ethereum Layer-2 / scaling network token, currently ranked 533rd by market capitalization among the assets we track. Taiko exists to make Ethereum usable at scale. It processes transactions in bulk and anchors them to L1, so TAIKO lives or dies on how much activity the rollup can attract away from mainnet.
Taiko (TAIKO) is a decentralized layer-2 scaling solution built on top of Ethereum, designed to enhance transaction speed and reduce costs for users. It leverages the technology of ZK-rollups to ensure secure and efficient processing of transactions.
How rollup settlement works
Transactions are cheap on Taiko because thousands of them share one L1 settlement. The economics hinge on data-availability costs and how much the rollup can charge above them.
Background & fundamentals
In sector terms it is most often filed under Ethereum (ETH) Token (ERC-20).
Where Taiko sits in the market
Trading around $0.0729, Taiko carries a market capitalization of $13.39M. Around $23.50M changes hands across exchanges in a typical 24-hour window. That is a turnover of about 175.43% of the float — unusually high, the kind of churn that accompanies major news or speculative spikes.
Almost the entire TAIKO supply is already in circulation (~100.0% of the 1B cap), so future dilution is effectively off the table. TAIKO remains -98% beneath its all-time high of $3.06, the kind of gap that historically takes a full cycle or a fresh catalyst to close.
What the price history shows
The tape currently reads 24-hour -13.57%, 7-day -17.26%. Across roughly the last 366 days of daily candles, TAIKO endured a peak-to-trough drawdown of about 86% before stabilizing.
Volatility profile
Recent action puts Taiko in the Extreme-volatility band — it is in a high-volatility regime — these are the conditions where outsized gains and losses both become more likely.
How to evaluate an L2 like Taiko
For an asset of this type, three lenses matter most:
- Activity captured — transactions, fees, and TVL that Taiko has pulled from Ethereum mainnet and rival L2s.
- Decentralization roadmap — sequencer decentralization and whether the proof system is live and trust-minimized.
- Token accrual — how — or whether — TAIKO actually captures the value the rollup generates.
This page pulls live market data, on-chain stats where available, exchange-by-exchange volume, and our forecast model into one view so you can work through those questions in a single place. None of it is investment advice — it is a structured starting point for your own research.
