Decentralized Social (DESO)
Unlock Schedule
Decentralized Social (DESO) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule
The unlock chart above provides a clear visual overview of the Decentralized Social (DESO) 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 DESO 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 model and distribution
DESO launched with an initial supply of roughly 10.8 million coins before staking rewards. That amount was distributed in three ways:
- Around 77% via a public bonding‑curve sale priced in BTC
- Around 20% to the team that built the blockchain
- Around 3% to early proof‑of‑work miners
No portion of the initial allocation was time‑locked. Later, with the move to Revolution PoS, staking rewards were introduced to encourage validator participation. The effective supply today changes over time because staking rewards add coins while transaction fees are burned, and the net effect depends on usage and staking parameters. (docs.deso.org)
Core uses of DESO
- Network fees: Every transaction burns a small amount of DESO, which makes the currency scarcer as usage grows.
- Staking and security: Holders can stake to validators to help secure the network and earn rewards.
- Social features: DESO acts as the medium for tipping, social NFTs, creator coin mechanics, and on‑chain DEX activity across apps built on DeSo. (docs.deso.org)
Governance in practice
Protocol changes are shipped as software updates and activate only when at least two‑thirds of stake has moved to the new version. This is similar to many PoS networks and ensures broad economic agreement before changes go live. (docs.deso.org)
Assumptions
- Supply is uncapped; ongoing PoS emissions continue beyond the modeled window.
Official docs state DESO would be fixed-supply if not for staking APY; staking rewards and fee burns change supply over time.
- Bonding curve sales modeled as linear from 2020-10-23 to 2021-06-30.
Exact month-by-month sale amounts exist in the public sheet of BTC burns, but for charting we approximate a linear schedule ending Q2 2021, when docs note the bonding curve was disabled before first CEX listing.
- PoW rewards total set to 276,238.8 DESO over 2021-01-18 to 2024-07-09.
Value appears in DeSo’s official bonding-curve sheet as 'Total amount to be mined'; actual mined may vary slightly by final PoW blocks before the July 9, 2024 PoS cutover.
- PoS rewards from 2024-07-09 to 2026-02-05 estimated at 769,367 DESO.
Derived using initial ~20% APY and an inferred average stake of ~22.5% to match observed total supply readings during the period; exact emissions depend on dynamic stake and any parameter changes.
- Genesis date set to 2021-01-18.
Matches widely cited ledger start for BitClout/DeSo; official docs don’t state an explicit genesis date.
- 1. https://docs.deso.org/deso-tokenomics/initial-deso-distribution
- 2. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D-p6AuwWkQGywfnyXmqirPCfQGZNLn70WHARiZam9_s/edit?gid=0
- 3. https://docs.deso.org/deso-tokenomics
- 4. https://docs.deso.org/deso-blockchain/consensus-pow-and-pos
- 5. https://revolution.deso.com/
- 6. https://princeton.deso.com/
- 7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitClout
- 8. https://loyalty.claim-deso.com/
Allocations
Description
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Decentralized Social is a layer-1 blockchain designed to decentralize social media platforms, allowing users to own and control their content, identity, and social interactions. It provides tools such as social tokens, social DAOs, social NFTs, and tipping.
| Sector: | SocialFi |
| Blockchain: | Other L1 |