Heurist (HEU) Tokenomics, Unlock Schedule and Vesting Chart

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Heurist (HEU) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule

The unlock chart above provides a clear visual overview of the Heurist (HEU) 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 HEU 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 roles

HEU has a fixed maximum supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens. It is the medium of exchange across the ecosystem, with four core roles:

Payment for AI services and API credits.
Staking to help secure the protocol and share in network revenue.
Governance participation over protocol changes and upgrades.
Gas for transactions on the Heurist Chain. (docs.heurist.ai)

Distribution

The project’s public tokenomics outline a broad distribution across community, contributors, emissions, and treasury. Major line items include allocations to testnet miners (5%), liquidity (2.8%), marketing (1.85%), an early NFT airdrop (1.28%), key opinion leaders (0.65%), private angels/VC (6%), team and advisors (15%), mining and staking emissions excluding Season 1 (50%), and the protocol treasury (16.7%). Vesting schedules and cliffs vary by category. (docs.heurist.ai)

Emissions and staking

Heurist rolled out emissions in phases. In pre‑mainnet, Season 1 airdropped 50M HEU to miners based on a July 19, 2024 snapshot. Season 2 delivered an additional 10M HEU to miners active from July 19, 2024 to January 18, 2025. The network’s mainnet model then shifts to a continuous “streaming” emission: a baseline of roughly 1.25% per year that can scale up to 5% during high demand to attract more compute and scale back when activity cools. This elasticity ties rewards to real usage. (heurist.ai)

Staking converts HEU into stHEU, an auto‑compounding position that accrues two sources of yield: a base reward (from emissions) targeted at 50% APR, and a dynamic reward funded by protocol revenue from API credit purchases. Unstaking includes a 30‑day lock period. The structure is meant to align long‑term token holders with network growth. (docs.heurist.ai)

Assumptions

Season 2 miner rewards (10,000,000 HEU) are modeled as a single cliff unlock on 2025-03-10 within the 500,000,000 HEU Mining & Staking allocation.
Docs specify a total of 10M HEU airdropped for Season 2 and blog specifies claims open 2025-03-10; distribution table aggregates Mining & Staking (excluding Season 1) as one 500M pool.
Linear vesting is modeled as continuous monthly release between the stated start and end dates.
Primary docs provide cliff durations and total vesting months but not per-month breakdown; monthly linear interpolation is standard for charting.
Staking rewards and future mining emissions after the 3-month cliff are funded from the 500M Mining & Staking allocation rather than additional inflation outside the capped 1B supply.
Tokenomics cap max supply at 1B and describe Mining & Staking allocation (50%) with vesting; staking page notes base rewards from protocol emissions.
Unallocated Grants unlock 100% at the 3-month cliff.
Distribution table shows 0% TGE, 3-month cliff, 0 months total vesting, implying full release at cliff.

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