Heurist (HEU)
Unlock Schedule
Heurist (HEU) 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
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
Heurist documents a one-billion-HEU allocation across launch unlocks, team and investor vesting, treasury vesting, and a combined mining-and-staking budget. The chart can show launch availability, calculated vesting periods and the announced Season 2 miner claim opening, but its uniform vesting display is an estimate rather than a record of monthly payments. Most of the mining-and-staking budget, a named game grant and revenue-linked staking distributions lack reliable payment dates. The amount and timing of the initial canonical token mint and cumulative burns were not established, so the unlock chart cannot also serve as a reconciled token-creation chart.
- Canonical HEU token creation: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Mining and Staking, excluding Season 1 (50% of maximum supply): The original schedule was changed and the new timing is not yet published.
- Mining and Staking, excluding Season 1 (50% of maximum supply): New issuance depends on network activity, such as staking, so it cannot be dated in advance.
- Heurist Heroes Game approved grant (0.005% of maximum supply): The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Variable staking rewards from protocol revenue: New issuance depends on network activity, such as staking, so it cannot be dated in advance.
- 1. https://docs.heurist.ai/protocol-overview/tokenomics
- 2. https://www.heurist.ai/blog/announcement-heu-token-is-live
- 3. https://www.heurist.ai/blog/heurist-mining-season-2
- 4. https://www.heurist.ai/blog/heurist-ecosystem-update-august-2024
- 5. https://etherscan.io/token/0xec463D00aa4dA76fb112cD2e4AC1C6BeF02da6ea
- 6. https://eth.blockscout.com/address/0xec463D00aa4dA76fb112cD2e4AC1C6BeF02da6ea
- 7. https://www.ownyourmind.ai/projects/heurist/
Allocations
Description
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Heurist is a decentralized platform for hosting and running AI models, built as a Layer 2 blockchain using zero-knowledge technology. It enables serverless access to open-source AI models and composable, autonomous agent systems.
| Sector: | AI & Compute |
| Blockchain: | Other L2 |