Manta Network is one token attached to two very different chains, and one of them shuts down at the start of August 2026. If you are looking up manta-network, the migration calendar matters more than the price chart does: the deadline is not reversible, and holders who left the wrong assets on the wrong network could lose them outright.
Everything below was checked on July 30, 2026. Market data is from CoinGecko; the migration dates are from Manta’s own migration FAQ. Where a figure is the project’s claim rather than something we verified independently, it is labelled as such.
Two networks, one ticker
Manta Atlantic was the original network: a Polkadot parachain, a layer 1 in its own right, using Substrate SS58 addresses. Manta Pacific is an Ethereum layer 2 with ordinary 0x addresses, built with the Polygon CDK and using Celestia for data availability instead of posting every byte to Ethereum. That architectural choice is the reason Pacific’s fees are low, and it is also the reason its security assumptions differ from a rollup that posts data to Ethereum directly — worth understanding before you treat the two as interchangeable.
The project’s stated purpose across both networks is zero-knowledge applications. Pacific is where that continues. Atlantic is being wound down.
What happens when Atlantic’s slot expires
Manta’s FAQ says the parachain slot expires “around late July to early August 2026,” at which point the chain stops producing blocks automatically. The team decided not to renew the slot and to consolidate on Pacific. Third-party event calendars list August 1, 2026 as the date.
| Date | What changed on Atlantic |
|---|---|
| Mar 17, 2026 | New staking halted |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Cross-chain bridge closed to inbound transfers — outbound only |
| Mar 25, 2026 | Migration dApp goes live |
| May 1, 2026 | Staking rewards end; all positions force-unstaked |
| Jun 2026 | Chain enters read-only mode — final migration window |
| Late Jul – early Aug 2026 | Parachain slot expires; block production stops |
Two details in that FAQ decide whether a holder loses money:
- MANTA itself is protected. Unmigrated MANTA is to be airdropped 1:1 to Pacific addresses after shutdown. Holding the token through the deadline is not, by the project’s account, fatal.
- Everything else is not. Non-MANTA assets sitting on Atlantic — DOT, GLMR, USDt — must be migrated by the holder before the window closes. There is no automatic rescue for those.
Manta also advises anyone holding Atlantic-network MANTA on an exchange to withdraw it to a self-custodied wallet before venues issue their own deprecation notices. That instruction cuts both ways: self-custody removes the exchange’s discretion from the outcome, and it also removes the exchange’s support desk. If you have never moved a token across a network boundary, read our guide on sending crypto without losing it first, and note the address-format change — SS58 on Atlantic, 0x on Pacific. Sending to the wrong format is the classic way this goes wrong.
What the token has actually done
CoinGecko, checked July 30, 2026:
- Price: $0.0587
- Market cap: $28.0M — ranked around #654
- Fully diluted valuation: $58.7M
- Circulating supply: 477.6M of a 1,000M maximum
- All-time high: $4.05 on March 12, 2024 — currently about 98.6% below it
- Twelve-month change: roughly −74%
Two numbers there are doing most of the work. The first is the gap between market cap and FDV: about 52% of the maximum supply is not yet circulating, which means the current price is being set by less than half the eventual float. The second is the date of the high — March 2024, weeks after the token launched. A peak set immediately after listing and never revisited is a distribution pattern, not a market cycle. Our guide to reading a coin page covers why the circulating supply share is the number promotional material tends to leave out.
The 2026 pivot
Manta’s 2026 positioning has shifted from selling infrastructure to shipping consumer applications through Manta Labs, with SUPERFORTUNE the app most often cited and a figure of 30,000+ daily active users attached to it. That figure is the project’s. We did not audit it, and on-chain DAU counts in general are inflated by reward-seeking wallets — the same dynamic covered in our piece on airdrop farming. Treat it as a claim, not a measurement.
The strategic logic is defensible on its own terms. There are far more layer 2s than there is demand for layer 2 block space, and a chain with its own hit application is worth more than a chain waiting for someone else to build one. Whether Manta gets there is a different question from whether the reasoning is sound.
What we could not verify
We did not independently confirm Pacific’s transaction-cost claims, the SUPERFORTUNE usage figure, the current state of native staking via Symbiotic, or the exact hour the parachain slot lapses. The migration mechanics above are Manta’s published instructions; if you are moving material value, read the FAQ yourself rather than trusting our summary of it.
If you are reading this after the shutdown
The dates above are fixed points, so this section stays useful either way. Once Atlantic stopped producing blocks, the migration dApp is no longer a route — what remains is the 1:1 airdrop of unmigrated MANTA to Pacific, which by Manta’s account is automatic. Two things to check rather than assume: that a Pacific address you actually control received the balance, and what the project has said about non-MANTA assets left behind, because those were never covered by the airdrop. If your MANTA sat on an exchange through the transition, the venue’s own notices decide what happened to it, not Manta’s FAQ.
If you hold MANTA
- Establish which network your tokens are on. SS58 address means Atlantic;
0xmeans Pacific. - If anything other than MANTA was on Atlantic, that is the part with no safety net. Move it if the window is still open; if it has closed, check the project’s own statements before assuming anything is recoverable.
- If your MANTA is on an exchange, check that venue’s notices for which network it credits and whether it supports the migration.
- Use only the migration dApp linked from Manta’s own domain. A network wind-down is a period of elevated phishing; see how to spot a crypto scam and how to revoke token approvals.
- Separate the two decisions. Migrating is operational housekeeping. Whether to hold a token 98% below its high is an investment question, and completing step one does not answer it.
Nothing here is financial advice. We hold no position in any token named on this page. See our risk disclaimer.