IOTA (MIOTA)
Unlock Schedule
IOTA (MIOTA) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule
The unlock chart above provides a clear visual overview of the IOTA (MIOTA) 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 MIOTA 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
IOTA tokenomics in two phases
- Stardust era (2023): IOTA introduced a tokenization framework and announced an Ecosystem Fund to accelerate growth. This included a temporary inflation mechanism intended to increase the total supply over four years, aligning incentives for builders and community programs. (blog.iota.org)
- Rebased era (2025 onward): the network adopted dPoS with staking rewards and an adaptive fee model. Newly minted tokens compensate validators and delegators each epoch, while a small portion of fees is burned, creating dynamic pressure on the supply. Sponsored transactions let apps cover fees for users, supporting feeless-like UX for onboarding. (blog.iota.org)
What the MIOTA token does
The MIOTA token powers the IOTA blockchain. Holders can:
- Pay minimal network fees on L1 and interact with L2 dApps.
- Stake or delegate to validators to help secure the network and earn rewards.
- Use MIOTA to mint native assets and NFTs under Stardust tokenization.
- Bridge into IOTA EVM for IOTA DeFi, NFTs, and gaming use cases.
The live MIOTA price and charts refresh automatically on this page, so you don’t need to look elsewhere. (wiki.iota.org)
Assumptions
- Model starts at the Stardust fork (2023-10-04) as the practical 'genesis' for current tokenomics.
Stardust redefined the supply to target 4.6B with new allocations and vesting; Rebased (2025-05-05) subsequently introduced ongoing PoS issuance.
- Ecosystem allocations with bi-weekly unlocks are modeled as monthly linear schedules.
Primary sources specify bi-weekly unlocks; monthly linear approximation preserves totals and simplifies charting.
- Unclaimed Legacy Tokens are modeled as linear over the two-year claim window.
Actual claiming is event-based; linearization provides an equivalent monthly schedule for visualization. Community may later decide burn/treasury for any remainder.
- PoS validator rewards are modeled for a 10-year horizon at 767,000 IOTA per day.
IOTA Rebased uses 24-hour epochs with a validator subsidy of 767,000 IOTA; supply is uncapped and rate could change via governance; fee burning not modeled.
- Holders allocation computed residually to sum to exactly 4.6B at Stardust.
Official GitHub snapshot provides exact amounts for all non-holder categories; residual ensures a partition of total without double counting.
- Units are IOTA (post-Stardust/Rebased denomination).
IOTA removed SI prefixes at Stardust and increased decimals at Rebased; some exchanges still display MIOTA but amounts here are in IOTA units.
- 1. https://blog.iota.org/stardust-upgrade-iota-tokenomics/
- 2. https://blog.iota.org/iota-stardust-upgrade/
- 3. https://github.com/iotaledger/new_supply
- 4. https://docs.iota.org/about-iota/tokenomics/iota-token
- 5. https://docs.iota.org/about-iota/tokenomics/proof-of-stake
- 6. https://docs.iota.org/about-iota/tokenomics/validators-staking
- 7. https://blog.iota.org/rebased-mainnet-upgrade/
Allocations
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 |