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What is IMX?

IMX is the utility token of Immutable, a company and platform focused on making Ethereum usable for games. Immutable X, launched in 2021, is a validium built with StarkWare technology that lets games mint and trade NFTs without per-transaction gas. Immutable zkEVM, built with Polygon Labs and live since early 2024, is a full smart contract chain for games where IMX is the native gas token.

The token ties platform usage to holders through fees and staking. It launched in November 2021 as an ERC-20 on Ethereum, and the same asset moves to the gaming chain through a canonical bridge, where it pays for gas and can be staked.

How IMX works

Immutable collects 20% of its protocol fees in IMX. Users do not need to hold the token: when a fee is paid in another currency, the protocol swaps it for IMX on the open market. Collected IMX flows to a staking rewards pool distributed to active stakers, so fee volume, not token ownership alone, is what drives rewards.

On the Immutable zkEVM network, documented today as Immutable Chain, IMX is the native currency used for gas, with a wrapped ERC-20 form called wIMX for DeFi use. The canonical bridge converts Ethereum ERC-20 IMX into native IMX on the chain, and staking there is operated by the IMX Ecosystem Foundation.

IMX supply and tokenomics

The supply is fixed at 2 billion IMX. The published allocation gave 51.72% to ecosystem development, 25% to project development behind a one-year cliff and four years of unlocks, 13.86% to the public sale, 5.42% to private sale tranches, and 4% to the foundation, unlocked at the token generation event on 5 November 2021.

The vesting schedules have run their course: the final tranches unlocked at the end of October 2025, ending the supply overhang from scheduled unlocks. What continues is the flow of ecosystem tokens into grants and rewards, which the company directs.

Who builds IMX

Immutable was founded in Sydney in 2018 by James Ferguson, Robbie Ferguson and Alex Connolly, and began as a game studio: it built Gods Unchained, one of the earliest large Ethereum trading card games, before turning its scaling stack into a platform for other studios. The company has raised several venture rounds, including a 200 million dollar Series C in 2022.

IMX itself is issued by the IMX Ecosystem Foundation, per Immutable's documentation, a structure that separates the token from the operating company. The whitepaper lists governance among the token's uses, but in practice the platform's direction is set by the company rather than by token votes.

What people use IMX for

IMX's designed uses are operational: it is the asset the platform runs on rather than a claim on the company.

• Pay gas on the Immutable zkEVM gaming chain, where IMX is the native currency.
• Stake to receive distributions from the rewards pool fed by the 20% protocol fee.
• Move between Ethereum and the gaming chain through the canonical bridge.
• Act as the fee asset that protocol usage converts into, even for users who never hold it.

IMX risks and considerations

IMX is a bet on web3 gaming producing hits, which remains unproven at scale: staking rewards come from fee volume, and fee volume needs successful games. Most of the supply was allocated to ecosystem and project development, so the company's spending decisions shape the market even now that scheduled unlocks have finished.

The regulatory history is worth knowing. The US SEC issued Immutable a Wells notice in late October 2024 over the 2021 listing and private sales of IMX, and closed the investigation in March 2025 with no findings of wrongdoing and no action taken. The episode ended cleanly, but it illustrates the classification questions that can follow platform tokens.