Ankr Network (ANKR)
Unlock Schedule
Ankr Network (ANKR) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule
The unlock chart above provides a clear visual overview of the Ankr Network (ANKR) token release schedule, showing when and how tokens enter circulation across investor, team, treasury, and community allocations. Understanding these tokenomics dynamics is critical for evaluating potential supply pressure, inflation impact, and market liquidity over time — key factors that can influence ANKR price performance.
Each color segment in the chart corresponds to a specific allocation group described in the Allocations section below. Underlying assumptions and data models used to reconstruct this schedule are explained in detail under Assumptions, while broader utility insights and token use cases are covered in Tokenomics & Utility.
Tokenomics & Utility
Ankr’s token design is simple and fixed:
- Fixed supply: 10,000,000,000 ANKR. There is no built‑in inflation. A small portion (about 2%) has been burned historically, and the team has stated it does not plan ongoing burns as a core strategy.
- Unlocks: The original release schedule completed in August 2022, with tokens used for distribution programs, grants, and liquidity support for listings.
Utility spans several areas:
- Payments: Developers can pay for RPC and Advanced API usage with ANKR or USD. When using ANKR, the platform converts the token to API Credits using the current exchange rate, linking real service demand to token consumption.
- Staking: ANKR can be staked to back infrastructure node providers and to earn a share of provider rewards. For ANKR delegated staking on Ethereum, deposits have a locking period (expressed as epochs, around 84–91 days) before unstaking.
- Governance: ANKR holders can propose and vote on changes for staking systems. Creating a proposal requires locking a defined amount of tokens (5,000,000 ANKR), and voting follows a one‑token‑one‑vote model with temporary token locks during the vote.
Together, this economic model is aimed at tying token demand to real usage—API calls, staking, and governance—rather than emissions. Ankr has also emphasized that payments and staking features “lock up” more tokens within the network as service usage grows.
Assumptions
- No ongoing PoW/PoS issuance; ANKR total supply is fixed at 10B.
Ankr’s official tokenomics explicitly state there is no inflation; emissions are solely via the initial distribution and vesting schedules.
- Team/Community vesting modeled Aug 2019–Aug 2022 (36 months, monthly).
Ankr docs specify 60% unlock over 36 months between August 2019 and August 2022. Contract enforces a 6‑month offset and 36 monthly stages; we align start to August 2019 per the docs.
- Private Sale 2 unlock represented as a single cliff at ~6 months after TGE.
Official materials say PS2 was locked for 6 months and then distributed in batches; exact batch timing not specified on-chain/publicly. For a monthly chart we model an equivalent cliff event at 2019-09-05.
- Immediate unlock date for TGE allocations set to 2019-03-06.
Ankr’s Q1 2019 update cites TGE on March 5, 2019; contemporaneous articles indicate tokens unlocked within ~24h for first listings. We use March 6, 2019 for the cliff date of immediate unlocks.
- Approximately 2% of tokens have been burned historically; not modeled as an unlock mechanism.
Burns reduce supply rather than release tokens to circulation. We note them for completeness but exclude from release schedule.
- 1. https://www.ankr.com/docs/staking-extra/ankr-tokenomics/
- 2. https://etherscan.io/address/0x9c2578bf9e37eb1d0ddf45a410723d95e554cbdd
- 3. https://research.binance.com/en/projects/ankr-network
- 4. https://medium.com/%40ankr.network/ankr-quarterly-update-2019-q1-22c56e782257
- 5. https://medium.com/%40blockgemlabs/ankr-everything-you-need-to-know-about-token-metrics-and-upcoming-tge-916ac6427b0
Allocations
Description
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Ankr is a decentralized Web3 infrastructure and cross-chain staking DeFi platform designed to simplify and democratize the participation in blockchain ecosystems. It provides a variety of services including dApp building, node hosting, and staking.
| Sector: | DePIN |
| Blockchain: | Other L1 |