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WAX ticker WAXP

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  • 5 reviewed developments
  • 40 cited sources

Summary

WAX announced its mainnet release in July 2019. It runs WAX's build of the Antelope node software with delegated proof of stake. Holders stake WAX and vote for up to 30 guilds, WAX's name for block producers; the system contract is written to multiply each candidate's votes by a score from the Office of Inspector General's guilds contract when its weighting switch is on, puts the top-ranked guilds on the active schedule and pays a few more as standbys. Scheduled guilds take turns signing blocks every half second, and a block becomes irreversible after two rounds of confirmation by two-thirds of the scheduled guilds. A public API read on 2026-09-29 showed eight active guilds and the last irreversible block about 55 seconds behind the head; WAX announced in August 2026 a move from ten to seven active guilds. 1416171821222336

Design

System
Layer 1 blockchainWAX mainnet is an independent delegated proof-of-stake chain running WAX's own build of the Antelope node software (the line formerly called EOSIO); it does not post data to or settle on another chain. WAX's multichain bridge and Antelope IBC links are separate systems and are not described by these cells.
Settlement family
Its own design
Scarce resource
Stake (proof of stake)
State model
Accounts
Finality
Other
Who makes blocks
Guilds on the active schedule, sorted by location and then name, produce blocks in turn, and a missed slot is skipped. The eosio account sets the number of active guilds between 1 and 21, one step at a time with a cooldown that defaults to one day, and the schedule is re-elected about once a minute from stake-weighted votes (a stake's vote weight doubles every 13 weeks), multiplied by guild scores when weighting is on. In Antelope's design the active producers jointly hold the authority over privileged system accounts, so they approve system contract upgrades.
Fork choice
No open weight-based chain selection. Only the guild scheduled for a slot may sign its block. Nodes keep competing branches of reversible blocks and switch branch only when another becomes preferred; the protocol prefers the branch containing the most recent last irreversible block, even over a longer branch, and otherwise the longer branch. WAX's published Spring-based software supports Savanna, a vote-based finality protocol, but a 2026-09-29 API read reported pre-Savanna node software (v5.0.3wax01) and a finality lag that fits the older rule.

Qualifications

Tradeoffs

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Emphasizes
Scalability
Gives up
Decentralization of block production: eight guilds made up the active schedule on 2026-09-29, and WAX announced a move to seven active and three standby guilds from September 2026. Guilds are elected by stake-weighted votes, which the system contract can multiply by scores from the Office of Inspector General's guilds contract, the active guilds jointly approve system contract upgrades, and a full node needs server-class hardware.WAX's docs call its delegated proof of stake fast, secure and energy-efficient. Security is not listed as an emphasis here because irreversibility rests on two-thirds of the elected guild schedule, eight guilds at review, behaving honestly, and no stake slashing was found in the reviewed sources; readers who weigh fast deterministic irreversibility as a security property may disagree. Vote concentration and guild operators were not verified.
Full node at home
Demanding 1322WAX's mainnet node guide, an example from the EOSphere guild described as valid in March 2024, lists 128 GB or more of RAM, a high-endurance enterprise SSD or NVMe of at least 384 GB for chain state, a 6 TB or larger disk for the block log (then 2.1 TB and growing), a 4 GHz 4-core CPU for block producers, a 100 Mb/s synchronous connection and a static public IP, and calls WAX's infrastructure requirement very heavy. Producing blocks needs election into the active schedule, which listed eight guilds on 2026-09-29.
Throughput claims
  • Theoretical peak: 10,000 tx/s 2Theoretical peak; not comparable across chains or with observed load.Stated as 'up to 10,000 transactions per second' on WAX's 'Why WAX?' documentation page.No measurement window, date range or workload statedProject-stated capacity with no published method, transaction mix, hardware or window; not an observed network rate. Real capacity depends on the chain's per-block CPU and NET limits and on each transaction's CPU cost, which vary by contract; neither was measured here. The same page describes transactions as feeless, while PowerUp charges WAX for temporary CPU and NET, so the page is treated as promotional rather than technical. The figure ignores state growth, block propagation and spam or decoy load.
Headline figures are not comparable across chains. A theoretical peak is never a like-for-like number.

Scaling layers

No scaling layer recorded in this profile.

Capabilities

Capabilities of WAX: how each one is provided, or its research status
CapabilityHow it is providedNotes and sources
Account abstractionStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Atomic swapsBuilt into the protocolLimited scopeLimited to exchanges on WAX itself. Antelope's transaction protocol lets one transaction carry actions authorized by several accounts, requires every listed authorization with its signatures, and applies all actions atomically, so two parties can both sign one transaction that moves both assets. This is an inference from the protocol documentation; no cross-chain hash- or time-locked swap was reviewed. The AtomicAssets contract separately offers two-sided NFT trade offers between named accounts. 61938
Authenticated data publicationUnknownNot yet assessed under this row's current definition.
Light clientsUnknownNo light client was found in the reviewed WAX or Antelope documentation. The node's light validation mode skips signature checks for blocks from producers the operator chooses to trust, which is a trust setting, not light verification. WAX's docs describe Antelope IBC for cross-chain transfers, but how it checks proofs was not reviewed. 318
Native staking or delegationStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
On-chain governanceStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Parallel executionStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Payment or state channelsUnknownNo payment or state channel network settling to WAX was found in the reviewed sources.
Programmable spendingNative (protocol or core-team software) Earlier definitionAccounts can host smart contracts, commonly written in C++ with WAX's contract toolkit, that define actions and tables. Every account's owner and active permissions can require a weighted threshold of keys and other accounts' permissions, and custom permissions can be linked to specific actions. 5720
Protocol-verified messagingStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Reversible transfers or recoveryUnknownNot yet assessed under this row's current definition. Antelope authorities can include other accounts and time waits, and the owner permission is meant for recovery when a lower permission is compromised; that is control by the account's own authority, which the pending programmable account control row covers. Whether delayed user transactions, which a sender could cancel before they run, remain usable on WAX mainnet was not verified. 1920
RollupsUnknownNo rollup anchored to WAX was found in the reviewed sources. WAX's 2025 roadmap mentioned side chains only as planned My Cloud Wallet support, not as a layer anchored to WAX; no such layer was verified. 24
Shielded transfersStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Signed partial offersUnknownNot yet assessed under this row's current definition. AtomicAssets trade offers are addressed to a named recipient account, and its documentation says marketplaces can build on them without taking ownership of listed assets; whether any WAX mechanism lets any taker complete a maker's offer in one transaction without escrow was not assessed. 3839
Reading these values
How this feature is provided
Built into the protocol, core-team software or independent software says where a feature lives and who can change it. These are implementation layers, not quality: core-team software is not closer to the protocol than independent software.
Structured assessment pending
The shared review has not assessed this feature for any chain yet (Account abstraction, Native staking or delegation, On-chain governance, Parallel execution, Protocol-verified messaging and Shielded transfers). That does not mean it is absent, and a chain’s profile may already describe it.
Unknown
The review has not established this for this chain under the current definition; the note beside it says why. Unknown is not absent and not a low score. A feature reads “Not present” only when a source shows it is absent.
Earlier definition
Payment or state channels, Programmable spending and Rollups keep the earlier definition until the next fact-check. There, “Native” does not separate the protocol from core-team software, “Ecosystem software” does not say who publishes it, and “Partial” does not say which layer.
Reading across rows
The list of capabilities is incomplete. Do not read these rows as a chain leading or lagging overall.

Definitions, schema version and review history

Ecosystem & custody

Ecosystem products for WAX
Product typeStatusNotes and sources
Automated market makersThinAlcor Exchange, Taco Swap, DefiboxAlcor's docs describe a concentrated-liquidity AMM alongside self-listed order books on WAX, and WAX's ecosystem page also lists Taco Swap and Defibox. DeFiLlama lists Alcor Exchange, Taco Studios, DefiBox and A-DEX on WAX, with little value locked by DeFiLlama's count at review. Operators, audits and liquidity depth were not reviewed. Alcor's own block producer file names bp.alcor as its guild account, and that account was on the active schedule on 2026-09-29. 1222252837 As of Sep 29, 2026.
Issuer-native stablecoinsNone foundNeither Circle's USDC address list nor Tether's supported-protocol list includes WAX. USDT on WAX is a wrapped token that Alcor bridges from the EOS network through IBC contracts. Tether says it no longer issues or is obliged to redeem USDT on EOS and lists that token, now under the network's current name Vaulta, among deprecated protocols. 26272930 As of Sep 29, 2026.
Algorithmic stablecoinsUnknownNo algorithmic stablecoin on WAX was reviewed. As of Sep 29, 2026.
BridgesFirst-partyWAX NFT & Token Bridge (My Cloud Wallet), Alcor IBC bridge (third party)WAX's own bridge, reached through My Cloud Wallet, moves NFTs and tokens between WAX and other chains; WAX's posts name Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Polygon, Solana, Base and TON among them, and collection owners must enable NFT bridging. Alcor, a third party, bridges USDT from the EOS network to WAX with IBC contracts. Risk: WAX's bridge is run by WAX's team, and the reviewed pages publish no signer set, trust model or audit; the 2025 roadmap's plan to hand bridge operations to block producers and open-source its code was not verified as done. Alcor's USDT depends on its IBC contracts and on USDT held on EOS, which Tether no longer redeems. A wrapped asset is only as sound as the bridge that minted it. 324262730 As of Sep 29, 2026.
Block explorersEstablished in the ecosystemWAXBlock, EOS Authority, WAX Items, EoseyesWAX's docs call WAXBlock the official WAX explorer, though its operator was not identified in the reviewed sources; WAX's ecosystem page also lists EOS Authority, WAX Items and Eoseyes. Listing is not a quality or completeness check, and explorer data is provider-indexed. 912 As of Sep 29, 2026.
Hardware walletsThinLedger (through Anchor desktop)See custody rows: WAX's docs and Anchor's site route Ledger use through Greymass's Anchor desktop wallet with the Ledger EOS app, Ledger's published currency list has no WAX entry, and Trezor says Trezor Suite does not natively support WAX. 11313235 As of Sep 29, 2026.

Hardware-wallet custody

Hardware-wallet custody for WAX
Device makerStatusWhat users can and cannot do
LedgerThrough an intermediaryAnchor desktop wallet (Greymass), signing with the Ledger EOS device appSame as native: UnknownCan: Connect a Ledger running the EOS device app to the Anchor desktop wallet, which WAX's docs and Anchor's own WAX page describe as the Ledger route for WAX accounts
Cannot: Find WAX in Ledger's published Ledger Wallet currency list (@ledgerhq/cryptoassets 13.56.0)
Cannot: Use a Ledger on WAX through Anchor's browser version: Anchor's WAX page says the browser version does not serve WAX and names Anchor for desktop as the Ledger routeAnchor's site says the Ledger EOS app is the one Anchor uses on every network it supports, WAX included; Greymass's support guide is written for Antelope networks in general. Ledger's own pages were not checked for how the EOS app handles WAX. 101132333435 As of Sep 29, 2026.
TrezorNone foundSame as native: NoCan: Hold WAXP as a token on Ethereum: Trezor's WAX page lists Ethereum as the supported network
Cannot: Manage WAX-chain accounts in Trezor Suite, which Trezor says does not natively support WAX
Cannot: Sign WAX-chain transactions on the Safe 3, Safe 5 or Safe 7 that Trezor's WAX page names: Trezor's firmware support data lists signing for EOS-format transactions on the Model T onlyTrezor's page says a Trezor can be used with third-party wallets that support WAX and names MetaMask and Rabby, which handle the token on Ethereum; it names no wallet for the WAX chain itself, and WAX's wallet docs name no Trezor path. No wallet documenting a Model T path for WAX was found. 131 As of Sep 29, 2026.

Public data

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Public-data lookups for WAX
LookupStatusWhat it covers and its limits
Address or accountNot available yetPublic-data lookups for this chain are not built yet.
Tokens and assetsNot available yetPublic-data lookups for this chain are not built yet.
NFTsNot available yetPublic-data lookups for this chain are not built yet.
TransactionsNot available yetPublic-data lookups for this chain are not built yet.

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Sourced developments

Developments: Reviewed Sep 29, 2026 Next review due Oct 9, 2026, 12:00 UTC.

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Sources

Oldest dated source check: Source checked Sep 29, 2026 Next check due Oct 29, 2026.

All 40 sources were checked in the last 30 days.

  1. Trezor firmware support data (common/defs/support.json, main branch): misc:EOS supported on the Model T only (external site)Trezor (trezor GitHub organisation) · retrieved
  2. Why WAX? (external site)WAX Blockchain Documentation · retrieved
  3. WAX: Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers (WAX Interoperability) (external site)WAX Blockchain Documentation · retrieved
  4. PowerUp and Resources (external site)WAX Blockchain Documentation · retrieved
  5. Permissions (external site)WAX Blockchain Documentation · retrieved
  6. Transactions (external site)WAX Blockchain Documentation · retrieved
  7. Smart Contracts (external site)WAX Blockchain Documentation · retrieved
  8. libraries/chain/fork_database.cpp (wax-blockchain tag v5.0.3wax01): branches ordered by last irreversible block, then block number (external site)WAX (wax-blockchain GitHub) · retrieved
  9. Claim My Cloud Wallet Account (external site)WAX Blockchain Documentation · retrieved
  10. WAX Wallets (external site)WAX Blockchain Documentation · retrieved
  11. Anchor (external site)WAX Blockchain Documentation · retrieved
  12. WAX Ecosystem (external site)WAX Blockchain Documentation · retrieved
  13. How to Set Up a Solid WAX Mainnet Node (external site)WAX Blockchain Documentation · retrieved
  14. WAX Launches Blockchain Mainnet Purpose-Built for E-Commerce (17 July 2019) (external site)WAX via PR Newswire · retrieved
  15. WAX Protocol White Paper (external site)WAX (worldwide-asset-exchange GitHub) · retrieved
  16. WAX extensions to eosio.system: architecture overview (develop branch, describes tag wax-3.3.2) (external site)WAX (wax-system-contracts GitHub) · retrieved
  17. System contracts, system accounts, privileged accounts (external site)WAX (wax-system-contracts GitHub) · retrieved
  18. Antelope Consensus Protocol (external site)AntelopeIO (docs GitHub repository) · retrieved
  19. Antelope Transactions Protocol (external site)AntelopeIO (docs GitHub repository) · retrieved
  20. Antelope Accounts and Permissions (external site)AntelopeIO (docs GitHub repository) · retrieved
  21. WAX Chain API get_info via wax.greymass.com (read 2026-09-29 17:18 UTC) (external site)Greymass (public WAX API node) · retrieved
  22. WAX Chain API get_producer_schedule via wax.greymass.com (read 2026-09-29) (external site)Greymass (public WAX API node) · retrieved
  23. WAX.io blog feed (includes 'Streamlining WAX: Infrastructure for a Resilient Future', 17 Aug 2026) (external site)WAX (wax-io.medium.com) · retrieved
  24. WAX.io publication feed (includes 'WAX Blockchain 2025 Roadmap: What's Next?', 16 Jan 2025, and the WAX NFT & Token Bridge post, which the feed dates 23 May 2024 alongside several older posts) (external site)WAX (medium.com/wax-io) · retrieved
  25. What is Alcor Exchange? (external site)Alcor Exchange documentation · retrieved
  26. Alcor USDT: USDT on WAX provided by Alcor (external site)Alcor Exchange documentation · retrieved
  27. Alcor USDT Proxy: USDT transactions on WAX (external site)Alcor Exchange documentation · retrieved
  28. DeFiLlama protocols API (WAX entries: Alcor Exchange, Taco Studios, DefiBox, A-DEX, AtomicHub and others) (external site)DeFiLlama · retrieved
  29. USDC contract addresses (external site)Circle · retrieved
  30. Supported protocols (external site)Tether · retrieved
  31. Keep Your WAX (WAXP) Safe with Trezor Wallet (external site)Trezor · retrieved
  32. @ledgerhq/cryptoassets 13.56.0 currency list (external site)Ledger (npm package via jsDelivr) · retrieved
  33. Connecting Ledger to Anchor (external site)Greymass Support Portal · retrieved
  34. Anchor with a Ledger (external site)Greymass (anchorwallet.io) · retrieved
  35. Create a WAX account with Anchor (external site)Greymass (anchorwallet.io) · retrieved
  36. WAX Guild Reports (waxguilds repository README) (external site)WAX Office of Inspector General (GitHub) · retrieved
  37. Alcor Block Producer bp.json (producer account bp.alcor) (external site)Alcor Exchange · retrieved
  38. AtomicAssets contract README (external site)AtomicAssets (GitHub) · retrieved
  39. AtomicAssets wiki: Offers (external site)pink.network (archived pinknetworkx GitHub wiki) · retrieved
  40. guilds.oig provenance row: final contract deployed 2026-09-29 (pull request 150) (external site)WAX (wax-system-contracts GitHub) · retrieved

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