Chia (XCH)
Unlock Schedule
Chia (XCH) 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.
Tokenomics & Utility
XCH pays transaction fees and rewards farmers who help secure the network. Its smallest unit is a mojo; one XCH contains one trillion mojos. A reward is divided into two parts: one-eighth goes directly to the farmer who finds the block, while seven-eighths goes to that farmer or, for pooled plots, to the pool for distribution. Farmers also receive the fees attached to transactions in the blocks they produce. (docs.chia.net)
At launch, Chia Network created 21 million XCH as a company-controlled strategic reserve, often called the pre-farm. Coins earned through farming follow a separate issuance schedule. The block reward began at 2 XCH, fell to 1 XCH after the first halving, and is designed to halve every three years for four halvings in total. After that, the schedule continues at 0.125 XCH per block. These changes occur at specified block heights, so calendar dates are estimates. (docs.chia.net)
The reserve makes the company’s decisions about its use an important part of Chia’s economic model. Meanwhile, continuing farming rewards provide an incentive for people to maintain plots and participate in block production. XCH also serves as the native asset people can transfer or exchange for assets issued on Chia. (chia.net)
Assumptions
Chia created 21 million XCH for its Strategic Reserve at launch and continues creating XCH through farming rewards. The farming reward halves at four specified block heights, then continues at 0.125 XCH per block indefinitely; dates assigned to block rewards on a monthly chart are estimates. Reserve spending has no complete dated schedule, although Chia has disclosed market-maker transfers and a separate advisory-services transfer of existing XCH. The chart must not add those reserve transfers to newly issued supply, and its projected supply cannot be verified against an independently sourced September 30, 2026 total.
- Strategic Reserve discretionary distributions: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
- Strategic Reserve made available to ecosystem market maker: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Strategic Reserve advisory-services transfer: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- 1. https://docs.chia.net/chia-blockchain/consensus/block-validation/block-rewards/
- 2. https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain/blob/main/chia/consensus/block_rewards.py
- 3. https://docs.chia.net/chia-blockchain/coin-set-model/intro/
- 4. https://www.chia.net/2021/03/17/chia-1-0-mainnet/
- 5. https://chia.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Chia-Business-Whitepaper-2021-02-09-v1.0.pdf
- 6. https://www.chia.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Chia-Business-Whitepaper-2022-02-02-v2.0.pdf
- 7. https://docs.chia.net/chia-blockchain/green-paper/constants-variables-notation/
- 8. https://docs.chia.net/guides/cat2-intro/
- 9. https://xchplorer.com/
- 10. https://www.xchscan.com/rest-api
- 11. https://www.sec.gov/files/memo-chia-network-inc-022525.pdf
- 12. https://www.chia.net/2024/09/25/rebalancing-the-prefarm-wallets/
- 13. https://www.chia.net/2025/09/22/q4-operational-xch-transfers/
- 14. https://www.chia.net/2026/02/10/q1-operational-xch-transfers/
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: 16,375,222 tokens of its parts have no release date yet. The chart shows them as TBD from today, not as unlocked.
Dates past the last dated anchor are projected at 18.70 seconds per block, the observed mean between the last two dated anchors, instead of the 19-second target block interval
Dates past the last dated anchor are projected at the 19-second target block interval
Open-ended per-block emission without a sourced end; dates past the last dated anchor are projected, and there is no finite total
Description
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Founded by Bram Cohen, the inventor of the BitTorrent network, Chia Network is building a better blockchain and smart transaction platform which is more decentralized, more efficient, and more secure.
| Sector: | Layer 1 |
| Blockchain: | Other L1 |