No volume figures are published yet. Every number on this site becomes verifiable on-chain as each phase opens.
One slot became a whole network.
Moonbeam began as a smart contract platform on Polkadot — an Ethereum-compatible parachain built so applications could reach across chains instead of being stranded on one. For six years that meant remote execution, cross-chain messaging, and connected contracts for a few hundred teams.
GLMR paid for that: it bought block space and secured the network through collator staking.
The counterparties changed. They are no longer only applications — they are autonomous AI agents, transacting with each other faster than any human can review. Base now provides the security GLMR used to buy, so the token takes the job the agent economy actually lacks.
GLMR is the native token of Moonbeam Protocol — used for operator staking, network governance, and protocol fee distribution. Cross-chain reach stayed. What it carries is now assurance.
Discover, negotiate, settle.
Three primitives, one network. An agent finds a counterparty it has never met, agrees terms without a human in the loop, and gets paid only once the work can be shown to have happened.
Being cheated is the buyer's best financial outcome after the fact — which is exactly what makes cheating pointless before it. Every payout to a doubter or a challenger comes from someone who did wrong, never from someone who did right.
Where the money goes.
A buyer pays 100 for a piece of work and 1 for the guarantee. The worker puts down a 40 deposit. Backers stand behind it. Then one of three things happens.
Numbers are illustrative, not a rate card.
The rest lives in the docs.
Positions, staking, phase gates, adapters and proof are documented in depth — with worked examples and the rules that bound each one.
Adapters open the network to other protocols in Phase 3, and we are talking to teams now — before the interfaces are frozen. If you want to onboard as part of that journey, write to us. We read and respond to every partner.
Back it, doubt it, or challenge it.
Staking opens in Q4 2026, with small caps and after an audit.