Blur (BLUR)
Unlock Schedule
Blur (BLUR) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule
The unlock chart above provides a clear visual overview of the Blur (BLUR) 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 BLUR 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
Supply and allocation
Blur minted 3 billion BLUR at genesis, with access scheduled over roughly four to five years. The initial allocation was designed to place the majority in community hands while vesting the rest to contributors, investors, and advisors:
- 51% to community members (including airdrops and a community treasury)
- 29% to past and future core contributors with multi‑year vesting
- 19% to investors with multi‑year vesting
- 1% to advisors with longer‑dated cliffs and vesting
A portion of the community allocation was immediately claimable by eligible traders and creators during the early seasons, while a larger community treasury vests linearly to fund grants and incentive programs over time. (docs.blur.foundation)
What BLUR is for
- Governance: Holders and their delegates can propose and vote on Blur Improvement Proposals that set or adjust marketplace and Blend parameters, and they can approve treasury grants.
- Incentives: Past programs have rewarded bidding, listing, and liquidity‑provision behavior with BLUR distributions, using point systems to target desired activity.
- Ecosystem growth: The community treasury funds contributor grants, integrations, and other initiatives approved through governance. (docs.blur.foundation)
Importantly, BLUR’s primary role is control and coordination. It is not required to buy or sell NFTs on the marketplace, which uses ETH for trading and gas. The token’s value in the ecosystem comes from governance power and the project’s incentive design, rather than being a transactional currency.
Assumptions
- Modeled vesting on a monthly basis with linear unlocks within each period, and cliffs releasing the accrued portion at the cliff date.
Docs state continuous/daily vesting; monthly is an acceptable approximation for charting while preserving totals exactly.
- Core contributors use the same 40%/30%/20%/10% yearly schedule as the community treasury with a 4-month transfer cliff.
Explicitly stated in Blur Foundation tokenomics that contributors/launch partners follow an identical schedule plus 4-month cliff.
- Investors are modeled with a 4-month cliff and the same 40%/30%/20%/10% yearly schedule over 4 years.
Blur docs specify 4-year vesting for investors but are silent on cliff; multiple reputable analyses (Nansen, Token Terminal) indicate a 4-month cliff aligned with contributors.
- Advisors are modeled with a 4-month cliff and 48-month vest using the 40%/30%/20%/10% yearly split.
Docs provide a range of 4–16 month cliff and 48–60 month vest; industry trackers commonly assume 4-month/48-month for modeling. We chose the conservative lower bound for determinism.
- Community incentives (e.g., Season 2 airdrop) come from the Community Treasury allocation, not additional issuance.
Blur governance docs designate a 300M BLUR incentive budget within the genesis supply and treasury vesting; no ongoing inflation or mining/staking emissions exist.