Holo (HOT)
Unlock Schedule
Holo (HOT) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule
The unlock chart above provides a clear visual overview of the Holo (HOT) 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 HOT 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
What HOT is today
HOT is an ERC‑20 token that operates on Ethereum and, via LayerZero, is bridged to Layer‑2 networks including Arbitrum and Base. The project maintains a canonical contract address on Ethereum and publishes official L2 addresses and bridging routes so users can move HOT with lower fees and interact with DeFi tools. (holo.host)
The economic model
The project’s economic design centers on HoloFuel, a mutual‑credit currency native to Holochain. In a mutual‑credit system, balances expand and contract as participants extend credit to one another, and net supply across the system remains balanced. In Holo’s case, app providers pay hosts in HoloFuel for the actual compute and bandwidth they consume. That ties value directly to a measurable service: hosting. (medium.com)
HOT’s role has been twofold:
- Fund the build‑out of the hosting network (via the 2018 ICO).
- Serve as a bridge to HoloFuel when the hosting economy runs at scale. Historical communications from the team described a guaranteed 1:1 swap window at the start of HoloFuel’s rollout, followed by market‑driven redemption afterward. While implementation timelines have evolved, the core intent remains that HoloFuel is the long‑term unit for paying hosts, and HOT provides liquidity and access on today’s EVM rails. (medium.com)
Key points about supply and distribution from the project’s materials:
- HOT is a fixed‑supply ERC‑20 token created at the ICO; it is not mined.
- Historical distribution guidance indicated roughly 75% to public participants and 25% reserved for team and ecosystem development. (forum.holochain.org)
Why mutual credit?
Mutual‑credit fits a hosting marketplace because it naturally matches earned credits (hosts) with spend (app providers), and it doesn’t rely on artificial scarcity or energy‑intensive mining. When HoloFuel is fully in use, invoices and payments can be anchored directly to hosting telemetry, creating “pay for what you used” micro‑transactions. (holo.host)
Assumptions
- HOT has a fixed supply ERC-20 with no ongoing PoW/PoS issuance, inflation, or protocol-level emissions.
Official resources position HOT as a fixed-supply ERC-20 placeholder for HoloFuel; the token contract shows a fixed max total supply and standard ERC-20 without block/validator rewards.
- Modeled the ICO distribution as a single cliff on 2018-04-28 for both public and team/org allocations.
The ICO page states tokens were not transferable until the sale ended, so circulation effectively begins at sale end; earlier daily mints during the ICO were non-transferable.
- Allocation percentages use the project’s stated 75% community / 25% team+organization split; token amounts are computed from the on-chain total supply.
Official communications describe the 75/25 split. Using Etherscan’s total supply ensures exact totals; the result differs by less than one token from widely cited rounded figures.
- Cross-chain deployments via LayerZero do not change net supply.
HOT’s omnichain/OFT bridging mints/burns across chains for portability; it does not introduce new issuance beyond the fixed supply.
- 1. https://etherscan.io/token/0x6c6ee5e31d828de241282b9606c8e98ea48526e2
- 2. https://medium.com/h-o-l-o/why-theres-no-vesting-in-the-holo-ico-feb4f180e8b2
- 3. https://medium.com/h-o-l-o/holos-value-91888d24121
- 4. https://medium.com/h-o-l-o/holo-ico-supply-organic-mechanics-7dcdf655ab5e
- 5. https://staging.ico.holo.host/
- 6. https://holo.host/resources/hot-resources/
Allocations
Description
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Holochain is an open-source framework for building peer-to-peer distributed applications. It offers a secure, lightweight platform that connects user devices directly, avoiding centralized servers, for efficient and reliable app development.
| Sector: | AI & Compute |
| Blockchain: | Ethereum |