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    • Babylon (BABY)

    12/17/2025 00:00 UTC

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    Unlock Schedule

    Babylon (BABY) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule

    The unlock chart above provides a clear visual overview of the Babylon (BABY) 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 BABY 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

    Core properties

    • Token name: BABY
    • Total initial supply: 10,000,000,000 BABY
    • Decimals: 6 (1 BABY = 1,000,000 “ubbn” units)
    • Inflation: 8% annually in Year 1, split 4% to BTC stakers and 4% to BABY stakers; future changes via governance. (docs.babylonlabs.io)

    BABY is the network gas token and enables on‑chain governance. BABY holders can delegate to validators to help secure the chain and earn a share of the inflation set aside for BABY staking. Governance is on‑chain; BTC stakers receive BABY rewards but do not vote. (docs.babylonlabs.io)

    Distribution

    According to the Babylon Genesis tokenomics guide, the planned allocation of the initial 10 billion BABY is:

    • Community Incentives: 15%
    • Ecosystem Building: 18%
    • R&D + Operations: 18%
    • Early Private Investors: 30.5%
    • Team: 15% (4‑year vesting)
    • Advisors: 3.5%

    The foundation notes these categories may be adjusted in name or schedule, but not increased for early insiders beyond the stated totals. (docs.babylonlabs.io)

    At network launch (Phase‑2), the chain started with an estimated total supply of about 10.016 billion due to setup‑period inflation. Team/investor/advisor locked BABY could not be staked during the first year. Unbonding is quick for BABY (about two days), much faster than the ~21 days common on other PoS chains. (babylon.foundation)

    Potential governance updates

    In late September 2025, a community proposal discussed reducing Year‑1‑style inflation from 8% to 5.5% annually and introducing BTC‑BABY co‑staking (allocating part of inflation to users who stake both assets). This was a proposal, not a final change, but it shows active governance around Babylon tokenomics. (kucoin.com)

    How BABY is used

    • Gas for transactions and smart contracts on the Babylon blockchain
    • Staking to secure CometBFT consensus with fast unbonding
    • Governance voting (via validators)
    • Incentives for Bitcoin stakers and network participants

    These utilities, combined with the growing set of BSNs, form the basis for long‑run demand and are among the main drivers that may impact BABY price over time. (docs.babylonlabs.io)

    Assumptions

    • BABY supply is inflationary and uncapped; we modeled PoS issuance for 10 years at a constant 8% annual inflation rate.

      Official docs specify 8% per annum inflation with rewards split between BTC and BABY stakers; governance may change parameters in the future.

    • Unlock reference dates use the chain’s documented mainnet genesis (2025-03-15) as the network launch date for vesting schedules.

      Docs list a Genesis Date of 2025-03-15; public exchange listings and airdrop distribution occurred around 2025-04-10, but vesting language keys to 'network launch'.

    • Community airdrops and exchange airdrop programs are sourced from the Community Incentives bucket.

      Tokenomics categorize these under Community Incentives (fully unlocked). Exact sub-allocations per program are not separately itemized in the primary tokenomics document.

    • We do not net out future burns from BSN auction mechanisms.

      Burns reduce supply rather than release tokens; no deterministic burn schedule is available in primary sources.

    • Linear unlocks are modeled at monthly granularity between stated dates.

      Primary docs specify high-level cliffs and linear periods but not per-month amounts; monthly linear interpolation is standard for visualization.

    Allocations

    Community Incentives
    15.00%
    Percentage of total token supply
    95%
    How certain we are about this information
    1,500,000,000 tokens
    Cliff: Mar 15, 2025 — NaN% of allocation
    Fully unlocked at network launch; managed by the Babylon Foundation for airdrops/incentives.
    Ecosystem Building
    18.00%
    Percentage of total token supply
    95%
    How certain we are about this information
    1,800,000,000 tokens
    Cliff: Mar 15, 2025 — NaN% of allocation
    25% unlocked at Babylon Genesis network launch.
    Linear vesting: Mar 15, 2026 - Mar 15, 2028 (monthly)
    Remaining 75% unlocks linearly over years 2–3 starting on the first anniversary of network launch.
    R&D + Operations
    18.00%
    Percentage of total token supply
    95%
    How certain we are about this information
    1,800,000,000 tokens
    Cliff: Mar 15, 2025 — NaN% of allocation
    25% unlocked at Babylon Genesis network launch.
    Linear vesting: Mar 15, 2026 - Mar 15, 2028 (monthly)
    Remaining 75% unlocks linearly over years 2–3 starting on the first anniversary of network launch.
    Early Private-Round Investors
    30.50%
    Percentage of total token supply
    95%
    How certain we are about this information
    3,050,000,000 tokens
    Cliff: Mar 15, 2026 — NaN% of allocation
    12.5% unlock at first anniversary of network launch (1-year cliff).
    Linear vesting: Mar 15, 2026 - Mar 15, 2029 (monthly)
    Remaining 87.5% unlocks linearly over the following 3 years. Locked tokens cannot be staked in year 1; may be staked thereafter.
    Team
    15.00%
    Percentage of total token supply
    95%
    How certain we are about this information
    1,500,000,000 tokens
    Cliff: Mar 15, 2026 — NaN% of allocation
    1-year cliff; 12.5% unlock at first anniversary of network launch or 1-year service anniversary, whichever is later.
    Linear vesting: Mar 15, 2026 - Mar 15, 2029 (monthly)
    Remaining 87.5% unlocks linearly over the following 3 years. Unvested tokens cannot be staked; after first year, locked tokens may be staked.
    Advisors
    3.50%
    Percentage of total token supply
    90%
    How certain we are about this information
    350,000,000 tokens
    Cliff: Mar 15, 2026 — NaN% of allocation
    Follows the same 4-year unlocking schedule as Team with a 1-year cliff.
    Linear vesting: Mar 15, 2026 - Mar 15, 2029 (monthly)
    Remaining 87.5% unlocks linearly over the following 3 years; individual vesting agreements may apply.
    PoS Staking Rewards (BABY issuance to BTC stakers and BABY stakers)
    0.00%
    Percentage of total token supply
    70%
    How certain we are about this information
    11,589,249,972.728 tokens
    Linear vesting: Mar 15, 2025 - Mar 15, 2026 (monthly)
    Year 1 issuance at 8% annual inflation of initial 10B supply; rewards split 4% to BTC stakers, 4% to BABY stakers.
    Linear vesting: Mar 15, 2026 - Mar 15, 2027 (monthly)
    Year 2 issuance at 8% of start-of-year supply (compounding).
    Linear vesting: Mar 15, 2027 - Mar 15, 2028 (monthly)
    Year 3 issuance at 8% of start-of-year supply (compounding).
    Linear vesting: Mar 15, 2028 - Mar 15, 2029 (monthly)
    Year 4 issuance at 8% of start-of-year supply (compounding).
    Linear vesting: Mar 15, 2029 - Mar 15, 2030 (monthly)
    Year 5 issuance at 8% of start-of-year supply (compounding).
    Linear vesting: Mar 15, 2030 - Mar 15, 2031 (monthly)
    Year 6 issuance at 8% of start-of-year supply (compounding).
    Linear vesting: Mar 15, 2031 - Mar 15, 2032 (monthly)
    Year 7 issuance at 8% of start-of-year supply (compounding).
    Linear vesting: Mar 15, 2032 - Mar 15, 2033 (monthly)
    Year 8 issuance at 8% of start-of-year supply (compounding).
    Linear vesting: Mar 15, 2033 - Mar 15, 2034 (monthly)
    Year 9 issuance at 8% of start-of-year supply (compounding).
    Linear vesting: Mar 15, 2034 - Mar 15, 2035 (monthly)
    Year 10 issuance at 8% of start-of-year supply (compounding).
    Last Updated: 11/13/2025 00:50 UTC

    Description

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    Babylon is a standalone layer-1 blockchain designed to use Bitcoin for securing decentralized networks. It enables Bitcoin holders to stake their coins directly, maintaining self-custody, and provides fast, secure staking and checkpointing for other blockchains.

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