Decentralize
Humankind.
The cryptocurrency conceived for the first permanent settlement on Mars. Twelve years of unbroken development. Building the financial and governance infrastructure for an interplanetary civilization.
Why Mars Needs
Its Own Currency
When humans settle Mars, they will face a communication delay of 4 to 24 minutes with Earth. No banking system, no payment processor, no central authority can operate across that gap. Marscoin was built for this reality.
Autonomous Finance
Self-sovereign by necessity
A 4–24 minute communication delay makes Earth-dependent banking impossible. Marscoin operates independently — no central authority, no single point of failure, no dependency on terrestrial infrastructure.
Democratic Governance
Code as constitution
The Martian Republic enables direct democracy through blockchain-verified voting, cryptographic citizen registration, and transparent proposal systems. One person, one vote — enforced by mathematics.
Planetary Infrastructure
Building anew, building better
Not bridging the gap to Earth — building from scratch on Mars. Purpose-engineered for a new world: low-energy consensus, resilient decentralized architecture, and merged mining that maximizes security without wasting precious power.
Why Mars Needs
Its Own Money
A deep dive into the founding thesis of Marscoin — the communication delay, the sovereignty problem, and why cryptocurrency is the only financial technology that works across a 225-million-kilometer gap.
Twelve Years
of Building
From genesis block to interplanetary infrastructure — a record of persistent, purposeful development.
Marscoin launches. 500,000 MARS donated to The Mars Society — the first act of interplanetary philanthropy.
Mars One transfers its 500K MARS holdings to The Mars Society. One million MARS now committed to the mission.
Martian Republic whitepaper published. The first Marscoin Expo convenes researchers, engineers, and dreamers.
The USPTO grants Marscoin™ registration — the first space-related cryptocurrency trademark in history.
ASERT difficulty algorithm adopted. Electrum wallet v1.6.5. Martian Republic app launches on iOS.
v28 protocol upgrade at block 3,145,555. Merged mining activated. Network reaches 2 TH capacity with Longpool.
Infrastructure for humanity's interplanetary future, under continuous development.
The Ecosystem
A complete cryptocurrency infrastructure — wallets, governance, mining, exploration — built and maintained since 2014.
How to Buy
Step-by-step guide to acquiring MARS on LBank and through community OTC trading.
Wallets
Desktop, mobile, Electrum, and web wallets for every platform and security tier.
Martian Republic
Decentralized governance — citizen registration, congressional voting, resource tracking.
Block Explorer
Full chain transparency. Every transaction, every block, searchable and verifiable.
Market & Price
Live charts, key metrics, and market data from CoinGecko, CoinMarketCap, and TradingView.
Whitepaper
The foundational document: trustless-ledger implications for a Martian society.
Mining & Pools
Scrypt PoW with merged mining support. Join the network that secures Mars.
Academy
19 deep-dive articles covering technology, governance, history, and getting started.
The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.
The Promise of Mars
Robert Zubrin — aerospace engineer, author of The Case for Mars, and President of The Mars Society — makes the case for why humanity must become a multi-planetary species.
Not a question of if, but when. And when it happens, the settlers will need their own financial system. That's what Marscoin is building.
Join the Mission
Whether you're a developer, researcher, Mars enthusiast, or someone who believes in humanity's multi-planetary future — there's a place for you here.
