What Fantom is
Fantom (FTM) is a Layer-1 smart-contract platform, currently ranked 47th by market capitalization among the assets we track. Fantom is a Layer-1 smart-contract platform secured by proof-of-stake: validators lock FTM as collateral, and the protocol slashes anyone who misbehaves. The token is simultaneously gas, collateral, and a claim on staking yield.
Fantom (FTM) is a high-performance, scalable blockchain platform for DeFi, crypto dApps, and enterprise applications, designed to provide instant transaction finality. It utilizes a unique consensus mechanism known as Lachesis to ensure security and speed.
How consensus and the token economy connect
Validators propose and attest to blocks; honest behavior earns rewards, dishonest behavior burns the stake. That feedback loop is what lets Fantom finalize transactions without miners.
Under the hood, FTM secures its ledger with Proof of Importance, built on the PoI algorithm.
Background & fundamentals
Fantom operates under a semi-centralized structure, which concentrates protocol decisions in an identifiable issuer or foundation. Its codebase is open-source, meaning the implementation can be audited rather than taken on trust. The project publishes a whitepaper documenting its original design, which is worth reading before sizing any position in FTM.
CoinPaprika classifies the project's development status as "On-going development". In sector terms it is most often filed under Blockchain Service, Direct Acyclic Graph, and Cryptocurrency.
Where Fantom sits in the market
Trading around $0.4402, Fantom carries a market capitalization of $1.23B. Around $1.11M changes hands across exchanges in a typical 24-hour window. That is a turnover of about 0.09% of the float — on the quieter side, which can mean thinner liquidity for large orders.
Almost the entire FTM supply is already in circulation (~100.0% of the 3.2B cap), so future dilution is effectively off the table. FTM remains -88% beneath its all-time high of $3.53, the kind of gap that historically takes a full cycle or a fresh catalyst to close. Measured from its all-time low of $0.0155, FTM is up +2,735%.
What the price history shows
Across timeframes, FTM shows 24-hour -5.09%, 7-day -9.97%, 30-day -1.70%, 1-year -89.37%. Within its stored 365-day daily history, FTM mounted a low-to-high run of roughly 391% at its strongest stretch.
Volatility profile
Recent action puts Fantom in the High-volatility band — it has been actively trading, with daily moves that would be unusual in traditional equities. Over the last 30 days the move totals -1.70%, a useful input for stop placement and position sizing.
How to evaluate Fantom
The honest checklist for FTM is short:
- Real usage — active addresses, fees paid, and total value locked — does on-chain demand justify the valuation?
- Staking economics — the share of FTM staked, the yield, and unlock/queue dynamics that govern liquid supply.
- Ecosystem depth — how many applications and how much liquidity have chosen Fantom over competing Layer-1s.
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.
