Bifrost (BNC)
Unlock Schedule
Bifrost (BNC) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule
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.
Assumptions
Bifrost allocates a capped 80 million BNC among investors, the development team, ecosystem programs and a Foundation treasury. Investor and team vesting has published dates; crowdloan rewards, collator payments, campaigns and governance spending have documented budgets but incomplete payment histories. The chart can show the dated vesting and an explicitly estimated marker for the original token stock, while undated budgets remain off the dated release curve. Buyback distributions reuse existing BNC, and an October 2026 total-supply and burn reconciliation could not be verified.
- Kusama Crowdloan: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
- Polkadot Crowdloan and Renewals: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
- Polkadot Crowdloan Lease 1 recipient awards: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Polkadot Crowdloan Lease 2 recipient awards: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Polkadot Crowdloan Lease 2 compensation: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- vToken and Protocol Incentives: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
- Pre-allocated Collator and Delegator Rewards: The original schedule was changed and the new timing is not yet published.
- Slash Insurance Fund: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
- Marketing and Community Building: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Mint Drop: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
- Foundation and Governance Treasury: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
- First vETH Mint Drop announced funding: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
- Second vETH Mint Drop announced funding: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
- Polkadot Unlock Harvest incentive: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Liquid Wave: LST Campers BNC pool: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Liquid Wave: BNC Explorers BNC pool: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- vDOT Pi Day main reward pool: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
- vDOT Pi Day Discord draws: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
- Revenue-funded BNC Buyback Distribution: New issuance depends on network activity, such as staking, so it cannot be dated in advance.
- 1. https://docs.bifrost.io/tokenomics-2.0/bnc-bifrost-native-coin
- 2. https://blockworks.com/token-transparency/filing/bifrost--2
- 3. https://medium.com/bifrost-finance/bifrost-parachain-mainnet-is-live-collator-has-been-upgraded-to-version-0-9-8-weekly-report-62-e5bdd27f51f1
- 4. https://bifrost.io/blog/proposal-bifrost-kusama-to-transfer-bnc-across-chains-to-bifrost-polkadot-2
- 5. https://medium.com/bifrost-finance/ranked-fourth-bifrosts-parachain-auction-has-been-supported-by-13-265-ksm-weekly-report-57-9bfb59599f0c
- 6. https://bifrost.io/blog/bifrost-polkadot-parachain-goes-live-roadmap-cross-chain-integration-of-polkadot-and-kusama-ecosystems
- 7. https://bifrost.io/blog/polkadot-crowdloan-bifrost-parachain-s-slot-renewal
- 8. https://docs.bifrost.io/for-collators/requirement
- 9. https://bifrost.io/blog/bifrost-polkadot-collator-is-live-a-new-era-of-decentralization
- 10. https://bifrost.io/blog
- 11. https://bifrost.io/zh-CN/blog/article-65
- 12. https://bifrost-io.medium.com/bifrost-activates-mint-drop-program-today-mint-veth-for-bnc-airdrop-17e07583b4cc
- 13. https://medium.com/bifrost-finance/2nd-veth-mint-drop-is-about-to-begin-f650ba308a78
- 14. https://bifrost.io/blog/bifrost-liquid-wave-campaign-is-live-reserve-your-spot-now
- 15. https://bifrost.io/blog/bifrost-monthly-report-january-2026
- 16. https://bifrost.io/blog/dot-pi-day-campaign-is-live-more-yield-zero-fees
- 17. https://bifrost.io/blog/bifrost-2025-annual-report
- 18. https://docs.bifrost.io/tokenomics-2.0/treasury
Allocations
Parts of this allocation with their own release dates are charted as their own allocations; the chart shows the rest here.
Not yet scheduled: 42,515,624 tokens of its parts have no release date yet. The chart shows them as TBD from today, not as unlocked.
Description
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Bifrost is a DeFi protocol that enables liquidity for staked assets across chains. It allows users to stake their PoS tokens and get vTokens that represent their staking rights and rewards.
| Sector: | Liquid Staking |
| Blockchain: | Polkadot |