📊 Price & Market Snapshot
Price: ~$0.118–0.120 USD, up ~10–12% in the last 24 h
24‑h volume: ~$40–58 M USD
Market cap: ~$700–730 M; ranks ~#89 among all cryptos and around top‑66 among Layer‑1s
Supply: ~5.86–6.04 B circulating, and max nearly equivalent.
🧠 What Is Kaia?
A hard fork of Klaytn, rebranded in 2024 to scale Web3 across Asia via messenger superapps like LINE .
Supports ~4,000 TPS, 1-second block times, and finality via pBFT consensus .
Governed by a council including Binance, Kakao, LINE NEXT, SoftBank, Animoca Brands, etc. .
🔧 Ecosystem & Use Cases
Spot trading: Listed on Binance, Gate, LBank, Bybit, KuCoin .
Stablecoin adoption: Tether’s USDT launched on Kaia and integrated into Japan’s LINE mini‑apps .
Developer tools: Supports mini‑dApps via NEXT Web SDK and Kaia Wave developer program .
🔍 Technicals & Forecast
24‑h range: roughly $0.106–0.123; 52‑week low/high: $0.0907–$0.4184 .
Recent performance: +10–12% in 24 hours, +11%–12% over 7 days, little change over 30 days .
Technical outlook (CoinCodex): predicts ~23% drop to $0.082 in 5 days, with neutral–greed sentiment (~62) and mixed indicator signals .
⚠️ Risks & Considerations
Volatility: Still down $0.42 in Dec 2024) .
Speculative: Price tied to adoption and growth; needs network usage and ecosystem traction to stabilize.
Competition: Faces rivalry from other Asian-focused blockchains and Web3 layers.