Avalanche (AVAX) Tokenomics, Unlock Schedule and Vesting Chart

Feedback

Professional AI Headshots from Your Selfie Studio-quality headshots for your CV, LinkedIn & company profile — ready in 15 minutes.

Create Your Headshots

Avalanche (AVAX) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule

As of October 17, 2026, 443.3 million of the 720 million AVAX (61.57%) have been released. The schedule is ongoing, with no final release date. Over the next 12 months it releases 16.32 million AVAX (all estimated) from PoS validator and delegator rewards and Avalanche Foundation, worth about $162.48 million at today's price (3.69% of the market cap). Today's release is an estimated 27,647 AVAX from PoS validator and delegator rewards. The next installment is in December 2026: an estimated 1.67 million AVAX from Avalanche Foundation.

The chart shows gross modeled releases of every allocation: vesting unlocks, new issuance and reserve distributions, each allocation counted once. These have different meanings; a scheduled release is not evidence that tokens entered circulation or were sold. Review the coverage, sources and assumptions below.

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

What AVAX does

AVAX has a supply cap of 720 million tokens. Of these, 360 million were created at the network’s start. New tokens are issued as staking rewards, while transaction fees paid in AVAX on the Primary Network are burned, meaning they are permanently removed from circulation. Rewards and fee burns are separate parts of the token’s economic model. (support.avax.network)

AVAX pays for transfers and smart-contract actions on the C-Chain. It is also staked on the P-Chain to support Primary Network validation. Running a Primary Network validator requires at least 2,000 AVAX; a holder can instead delegate at least 25 AVAX to an existing validator. Validators and eligible delegators can receive rewards for taking part in this process. (docs.avax.network)

Custom L1s use AVAX differently. Their validators pay an AVAX-denominated fee for their place in Avalanche’s validator registry, but an L1 can set its own staking rules and use another token for transactions on its chain. As a result, activity across the broader ecosystem does not always create the same direct use for AVAX as activity on the C-Chain. (docs.avax.network)

Upcoming AVAX Releases

Period	Allocation	Type	Amount	Value	% of supply
Oct 17 – 31, 2026	PoS validator and delegator rewards	Issuance, estimated	414.7K	$4.1M	0.06%
Nov 2026	PoS validator and delegator rewards	Issuance, estimated	829.4K	$8.3M	0.12%
Dec 2026	Avalanche Foundation	Vesting, estimated	1.7M	$16.6M	0.23%
Dec 2026	PoS validator and delegator rewards	Issuance, estimated	857K	$8.5M	0.12%
Jan 2027	PoS validator and delegator rewards	Issuance, estimated	857K	$8.5M	0.12%
Feb 2027	PoS validator and delegator rewards	Issuance, estimated	774.1K	$7.7M	0.11%
Total, next 12 months			16.3M	$162.5M	2.27%

1–6 of 16 releases

of 3 pages

Values at $9.96 per AVAX (October 17, 2026), today's price, not a forecast. Releases continue after September 2027. Estimated amounts are modeled from the schedule's rules rather than dated by a source; see the Assumptions below. Releases without dates are listed under Allocations.

Assumptions

Avalanche created 360 million AVAX at launch and issues further tokens as staking rewards, subject to a 720-million cap. The chart includes dated sale and team unlocks, an estimated long-term Foundation schedule, and separate restrictions on Foundation tokens sold to a treasury company; several grant and incentive budgets have no established payment dates. Dated total-supply snapshots now trace estimated net growth from launch through October 8, 2026, but that growth is not a measurement of gross monthly staking rewards. The documented burn figure is only a November 2025 lower bound, so the chart cannot fully reconcile gross issuance to October 2026 supply.

Community and developer endowment: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
Strategic partners: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
Airdrop allocation: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
Avalanche Multiverse incentive program: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
PoS validator and delegator rewards: New issuance depends on network activity, such as staking, so it cannot be dated in advance.

Sources (16)

Max Supply 720.00M

Unlocked Supply 443.30M

Unlock Progress 61.57%

Genesis Date September 2020

Fully Unlocked Ongoing

Allocations 15

Marketcap Rank (#) 27

Price ($) 10.01 -5.38% (7d)

24h Volume ($) 27M +26.86% (7d)

Marketcap ($) 4.4B

Fully Diluted Value ($) 7.2B

Circulating Supply 62% MEDIUM

Perpetuals: 6 markets on Binance, OKX, Hyperliquid and Lighter · $150.1M open interest

Spot

Perp


AVAX/USDT	30M	158K/129K
AVAX/USDT	29M	476K/407K
AVAX/USD	7.4M	409K/853K
AVAX/USDT	7M	488K/388K
AVAX/USDT	6.2M	148K/138K
AVAX/USDT	5.9M	907K/486K
AVAX/USD	3.2M	1.1M/1.1M
AVAX/TRY	2.5M	41K/84K
AVAX/USDC	2.1M	205K/255K
AVAX/USDT	1.7M	15K/57K
AVAX/EUR	1.1M	700K/811K
AVAX/USDT	1.1M	471K/375K
AVAX/BTC	688K	42K/83K
AVAX/USDT	621K	207K/184K
AVAX/USDC	620K	54K/12K
AVAX/USDC	418K	65K/53K
AVAX/USDC	339K	1.3M/1.3M
AVAX/USDT	286K	100K/147K
AVAX/EUR	204K	28K/159K
AVAX/USDC	184K	94K/199K
AVAX/FDUSD	134K	2.4K/34K
AVAX/EUR	108K	4.1K/5.3K
AVAX/USDC	43K	257K/190K
AVAX/BRL	38K	3.1K/2.7K

Allocations

Genesis mint

360,000,000 tokens · 11 parts

Parts of this allocation with their own release dates are charted as their own allocations; the chart shows the rest here.

Cliff: Sep 21, 2020 — 100.00% of allocation · 360,000,000 tokens

Sources: AVAX TokenAvalancheGo mainnet genesis configuration

Avalanche Multiverse incentive program

4,000,000 tokens

Timing not yet established (March 2022 - open): 4,000,000 tokens

Sources: Avalanche Foundation Launches Multiverse

PoS validator and delegator rewards

360,000,000 tokens

Observed release: 73,476,664 tokens

Observed release: 36,489,013 tokens

Timing not yet established (Oct 9, 2026 - open): amount unknown

Estimated from the last observation onward: about 27,647 per day (841,496 per month), the rate between the observations of 14 February 2026 and 8 October 2026.

Sources: AVAX TokenHow to StakeThe Rise of Avalanche: AVAX snapshot, December 22, 2021AVAX Technical Analysis: August 9, 2022 market snapshotAvalanche ETN: March 2023 supply and staking snapshot

Last Updated: 2026-10-08 21:21:38 UTC

Description

#27

Avalanche blockchain is an open-source platform that supports decentralized applications and smart contracts in a scalable and interoperable ecosystem. It uses a novel consensus engine called Avalanche that can achieve near-instant transaction finality.

Sector:	Layer 1
Blockchain:	Avalanche

2020

POS