IOTA (MIOTA) Tokenomics, Unlock Schedule and Vesting Chart

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IOTA (MIOTA) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule

As of October 17, 2026, 4.6 billion MIOTA have been released. The schedule is ongoing, with no final release date.

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

The IOTA token has three main jobs. It pays for network activity, serves as the asset delegated to validators, and can be held as a deposit when data takes up space on the ledger. Fees are based on the resources a transaction uses. An application can also pay a user’s fee through a sponsored transaction, making the fee less visible to the person using the app. (iota.org)

IOTA’s economic model changed with Rebased. The network can issue up to 767,000 new IOTA per roughly daily epoch for validator and delegator rewards. Transaction fees burn a small amount of tokens, meaning those tokens leave the supply. There is no fixed maximum supply; the stated issuance limit keeps possible growth linear rather than allowing the number of new tokens per day to rise without limit. Some tokens created under the earlier Stardust funding plan also follow a scheduled unlock. (iota.org)

Storage deposits serve a different purpose from transaction fees. They connect the cost of keeping data on the ledger to the space it uses; a storage rebate can be recovered when eligible data is removed. Together, fees, deposits, and staking rewards form the incentives behind the network’s operation. (iota.org)

Assumptions

IOTA’s original supply was issued at its first mainnet, and the Stardust fork added tokens assigned to ecosystem organizations, contributors and an Assembly-staker airdrop. Some Stardust tokens unlocked immediately; the chart estimates the early recipient-specific vesting and shows the later aggregate unlock amounts published for May 2025 through September 2027. Treasury grants, liquidity deployments, legacy claims and some anniversary rewards have budgets but no complete dated payment schedules. Since Rebased launched in May 2025, validator rewards can create new tokens indefinitely, but the published maximum subsidy does not establish actual monthly issuance.

Unmigrated legacy-token pool: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
Community Treasury DAO: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
IOTA Community Grant Program: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
IOTA EVM Growth liquidity program: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
Tenth-anniversary community rewards: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
PoS validator and delegator rewards: New issuance depends on network activity, such as staking, so it cannot be dated in advance.

Sources (8)

Total Supply N/A

Unlocked Supply 4.60B

Unlock Progress —

Genesis Date June 2016

Fully Unlocked Ongoing

Allocations 15

Marketcap Rank (#) 171

Price ($) 0.047 -7.39% (7d)

24h Volume ($) 1.1M +88.92% (7d)

Marketcap ($) 224M

Fully Diluted Value ($) N/A

Circulating Supply N/A

Perpetuals: 3 markets on Binance, OKX and Hyperliquid · $5.7M open interest

Spot

Perp


MIOTA/USDT	1M	107K/117K
MIOTA/USDT	879K	84K/94K
MIOTA/TRY	388K	8K/7.1K
MIOTA/USDT	216K	77K/75K
MIOTA/USDC	204K	60K/64K
MIOTA/USDT	139K	117K/119K
MIOTA/USDC	54K	104K/91K
MIOTA/USDT	38K	16K/15K
MIOTA/USDC	25K	8.7K/13K
MIOTA/USDT	22K	146/627
MIOTA/EUR	3.4K	10K/10K
MIOTA/BTC	240	1.8K/1.4K
MIOTA/BTC	153	1.7K/4.2K

Allocations

Original community-issued supply

2,779,530,283.278 tokens · 2 parts

Cliff: June 2016 — 100.00% of allocation · 2,779,530,283.278 tokens

Sources: IOTA x Shimmer x Assembly

New supply minted at the Stardust fork

1,820,469,716.722 tokens · 1 part

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

Cliff: Oct 4, 2023 — 100.00% of allocation · 1,820,469,716.722 tokens

Sources: IOTA x Shimmer x AssemblyStardust supply and vesting configurationIOTA’s Stardust Upgrade and the Evolution of $IOTA Tokenomics

Remaining locked supply at Rebased launch

853,776,280 tokens

Linear release: May 14, 2025 - Oct 2, 2025 · 210,514,906 tokens

Linear release: October 2025 - October 2027 · 643,261,373 tokens

Sources: IOTA Technical and Tokenomics Whitepaper, 30 May 2025

Tenth-anniversary community rewards

10,000,000 tokens

Cliff: Oct 2, 2025 — 2.50% of allocation · 250,000 tokens

Cliff: October 2025 — 47.50% of allocation · 4,750,000 tokens

Timing not yet established: 5,000,000 tokens

Sources: IOTA Turns 10

PoS validator and delegator rewards

N/A tokens

Timing not yet established (May 5, 2025 - open): amount unknown

Sources: IOTA Technical and Tokenomics Whitepaper, 30 May 2025

Last Updated: 2026-09-27 20:13:10 UTC

Description

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IOTA is a network and cryptocurrency that facilitates data and value transfer in the machine economy. IOTA uses a novel approach called the Tangle, which is a directed acyclic graph (DAG) that eliminates the need for blocks, miners, and fees.

Sector:	DePIN
Blockchain:	Other L1

2017

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