Flow (FLOW) Tokenomics, Unlock Schedule and Vesting Chart

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Flow (FLOW) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule

As of October 25, 2026, 1.47 billion FLOW have been released. The schedule is ongoing, with no final release date. Over the next 12 months it releases 74.8 million FLOW (all estimated) from PoS validator and delegator rewards — ongoing, uncapped issuance, worth about $2.04 million at today's price (4.41% of the market cap). Today's release is an estimated 219,366 FLOW from PoS validator and delegator rewards — ongoing, uncapped issuance.

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

FLOW has several jobs in the network’s economic model. It is used to stake or delegate to validators, pay for transactions, and maintain the balance required for on-chain storage. Applications may also use it for payments. Network transactions include actions such as moving tokens, creating accounts, and exchanging NFTs; an application can pay a fee on behalf of its user. (flow.com)

At genesis, 1.25 billion FLOW were allocated across four groups: 32% to an ecosystem fund, 30% to pre-launch backers and a community sale, 20% to Dapper Labs, and 18% to the development team. These figures describe the original allocation, rather than a fixed lifetime supply. Flow’s supply can change as staking rewards are issued. (flow.com)

Fees and staking rewards

The reward system connects FLOW to the work of operating the blockchain. Validators run nodes; delegators commit tokens to a validator without running one themselves. Flow uses transaction fees toward staking rewards, then issues new FLOW to cover any remaining amount. Greater fee collection can therefore reduce the amount of new currency needed for those rewards. Transaction fees are collected for this purpose rather than automatically destroyed. (flow.com)

Flow also has processes for discussing network upgrades and economic changes. Its materials describe FLOW as a currency used in network governance, including voting on upgrade proposals. The way a proposal moves forward depends on the network’s governance process, not simply on holding the token. (flow.com)

Upcoming FLOW Releases

Period	Allocation	Type	Amount	Value
Oct 25 – 31, 2026	PoS validator and delegator rewards — ongoing, uncapped issuance	Issuance, estimated	1.5M	$42K
Nov 2026	PoS validator and delegator rewards — ongoing, uncapped issuance	Issuance, estimated	6.6M	$179.9K
Dec 2026	PoS validator and delegator rewards — ongoing, uncapped issuance	Issuance, estimated	6.8M	$185.9K
Jan 2027	PoS validator and delegator rewards — ongoing, uncapped issuance	Issuance, estimated	6.8M	$185.9K
Feb 2027	PoS validator and delegator rewards — ongoing, uncapped issuance	Issuance, estimated	6.1M	$167.9K
Mar 2027	PoS validator and delegator rewards — ongoing, uncapped issuance	Issuance, estimated	6.8M	$185.9K
Total, next 12 months			74.8M	$2M

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Values at $0.027 per FLOW (October 25, 2026), today's price, not a forecast. Releases continue after September 2027. Estimated amounts are modeled from the schedule's rules rather than dated by a source; see the Assumptions below. Releases without dates are listed under Allocations.

Assumptions

Flow minted 1.25 billion FLOW at genesis and continues to create tokens as needed to fund validator and delegator rewards after transaction fees are applied. The CoinList sales have dated vesting terms, while the team pool has dated eligibility milestones; treasury, collateral and grant-payment dates are less certain, and named reserves are included within their parent budgets. The chart can show genesis, the modeled sale unlocks and estimated reward growth between published historical checkpoints, but it cannot reliably fill every later issuance month. The reported September 2026 total is net of a documented burn, so it is not the endpoint of an unadjusted gross-issuance curve.

Initial development-team awards — 7.6% of genesis; subset of team pool: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
Ongoing development grants — 10.4% of genesis; subset of team pool: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
Dapper Labs treasury — 20% of genesis: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
Ecosystem grant reserve — 9.2% of genesis; subset of ecosystem fund: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
Foundation reserve — approximately 12.82% of genesis; subset of ecosystem fund: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
Collateral reserve — 10% of genesis; subset of ecosystem fund: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
PoS validator and delegator rewards — ongoing, uncapped issuance: New issuance depends on network activity, such as staking, so it cannot be dated in advance.
PoS validator and delegator rewards — ongoing, uncapped issuance: Emission continues with no published future rate or end date.

Sources (12)

Total Supply N/A

Unlocked Supply 1.47B

Unlock Progress —

Genesis Date October 2020

Fully Unlocked Ongoing

Allocations 13

Marketcap Rank (#) 480

Price ($) 0.027 -12.04% (7d)

24h Volume ($) 569K +20.49% (7d)

Marketcap ($) 46M

Fully Diluted Value ($) N/A

Circulating Supply N/A

Perpetuals: 2 markets on Binance and OKX · $2.8M open interest

Spot

Perp


FLOW/USDT	537K	22K/15K
FLOW/USDT	60K	3.8K/3.5K
FLOW/USDT	58K	14K/10K
FLOW/USD	46K	7.5K/9K
FLOW/USD	24K	42K/81K
FLOW/USDT	23K	13K/16K
FLOW/USDT	12K	582/3.1K
FLOW/USDT	9K	323/327
FLOW/EUR	1K	34K/76K
FLOW/USDT	963	894/1.1K
FLOW/USDC	250	2.4K/3K

Allocations

Genesis mint — 100% of initial supply

1,250,000,000 tokens · 6 parts

Parts of this allocation with their own release dates are charted as their own allocations; the chart shows the rest here.

Cliff: October 2020 — 100.00% of allocation · 1,250,000,000 tokens

Sources: Technical Economics of FLOW CoinFLOW Token Distribution

PoS validator and delegator rewards — ongoing, uncapped issuance

Ongoing issuance

Observed release: 219,831,716 tokens

Timing not yet established (Nov 15, 2023 - Sep 28, 2026): amount unknown

Timing not yet established (Sep 29, 2026 - open): amount unknown

Estimated from the last observation onward: about 219,366 per day (6,676,941 per month), the rate between the observations of May 2022 and November 2023.

Sources: FLOW Token DistributionFLOW token circulating supply updatesEpoch and Reward ScheduleFLOW Token Distribution, 2020Technical Economics of FLOW CoinFlow Foundation: A Commitment to FLOWFlow: Token Burn SummaryFlow Security Incident 27th December: Technical Post-MortemFlow chain-state supply measurement, September 28, 2026

Last Updated: 2026-09-28 18:51:05 UTC

Description

#480

Flow is a blockchain platform that supports games, apps, and digital assets for mainstream users. It uses a multi-role node architecture and a resource-oriented programming language to achieve high performance, security, and usability.

Sector:	NFT
Blockchain:	Other L1

2021