What iost.asia is
iost.asia is an independent information site about IOST, the blockchain that launched its mainnet in February 2019, and about the IOST token that trades on exchanges across Asia. We are not the official IOST website, and we do not speak for the IOS Foundation. Our job is to explain how IOST works, where people in each country can buy it, what the risks are and what changed with IOST 3.0, in plain language and with sources.
The site has an Asian focus because that is where IOST has its largest communities. Japanese is our primary language, and English, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Korean and Traditional Chinese versions follow. Each country page, such as IOST in Japan or IOST in Thailand, is written for that market rather than translated word for word.
How we research
We start from primary sources wherever they exist. For the network itself that means the IOST developer documentation, the official GitHub repositories and the public node API. For exchanges it means their own fee pages, help centers and public market APIs. For regulation it means the registers and notices published by regulators such as Japan’s FSA, Thailand’s SEC, Indonesia’s OJK and Korea’s FSC.
When we rely on press coverage, we say so, and when a fact cannot be confirmed we write that plainly instead of guessing. You will see sentences like “we could not verify the withdrawal fee” in our exchange reviews, for example in the Bitkub review. We would rather leave a gap than fill it with a number that might be wrong. Rumors get the same treatment: our page on IOST NFTs, games and rumors separates what is documented from what is simply repeated online.
Exchange scores reflect our own judgment of liquidity, fees, funding options, transparency and safety record for IOST buyers specifically. Each review breaks the score into parts, so you can see exactly where an exchange gained or lost points and disagree with us if you weigh things differently.
Live data rules
Prices, market cap and volume change every minute, so we never type them into articles. Instead, live widgets in your browser fetch them from public sources such as CoinGecko and the Binance market data API, and they hide themselves if the data is older than 30 minutes or unavailable. That is why our IOST price page and converter may show nothing rather than a stale figure.
Historical facts, such as the all-time high of January 2018 or the IOST 3.0 snapshot of 15 March 2025, are written into the text because they do not change. Explorer lookups on our IOST explorer page go straight from your browser to public blockchain endpoints. The privacy policy lists every one of them.
Corrections policy
Exchanges change fees, networks pause during upgrades and regulators publish new rules. When we learn that something on the site is wrong or out of date, we fix it and update the page. Material errors, such as a wrong fee, a wrong date or a mistaken license status, are corrected as a priority. If you spot one, tell us which page and, ideally, link the source that shows the correct information.
Nothing on this site is financial, tax or legal advice. Our disclaimer explains the limits of what we publish, and our IOST risk guide explains why the token is a high-risk asset.
Contact
You can reach the editorial team at support@iost.asia. We welcome corrections, data problems and suggestions for topics we have not covered. We cannot help with exchange accounts or tell you what to buy. See the contact page for details on what we can and cannot answer.
