Jito (JTO) Tokenomics, Unlock Schedule and Vesting Chart

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Jito (JTO) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule

As of October 16, 2026, 689.47 million JTO have been released. The remaining 19.33 million JTO, all estimated, come from Core Contributors and Investors and are worth about $9.17 million at today's price (3.64% of the market cap). Today's release is an estimated 371,820 JTO from Core Contributors and Investors. JTO is fully unlocked on December 7, 2026; after that date the schedule has no further dated releases.

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

JTO supply and distribution

JTO’s stated total supply is one billion tokens. Its original allocation divided that supply into four groups: (jito.network)

34.3% for community growth, including an allocation of 10% of total supply for a retrospective airdrop.
25% for ecosystem development, such as work that supports Jito’s products and wider network.
16.2% for investors.
24.5% for core contributors. (jito.network)

The investor and core-contributor allocations were set to unlock over three years, with a one-year cliff. The use and pace of distribution for the community tokens controlled by the DAO depend on governance decisions. This makes treasury management an important part of JTO’s economic model, alongside the original allocation percentages. (jito.network)

What holding JTO enables

JTO holders can participate in votes on protocol changes, fees, treasury spending and other network matters. The DAO discusses proposals in its forum and uses a Realms-based portal for voting. Holders can deposit JTO to gain voting power or delegate that power to another participant. This governance role is different from receiving JitoSOL for staking SOL. (jito.network)

JTO also has a role in Jito’s restaking system. JTO can be deposited into supported vaults that help provide economic backing for TipRouter’s operators. A vault issues a receipt token representing the deposit, and its participants can receive rewards under that vault’s rules. This is an optional use of JTO beyond voting; rewards depend on participation in the relevant vault. (jito.network)

Upcoming JTO Releases

Period	Allocation	Type	Amount	Value
Oct 16 – 31, 2026	Core Contributors	Vesting, estimated	3.6M	$1.7M
Oct 16 – 31, 2026	Investors	Vesting, estimated	2.4M	$1.1M
Nov 2026	Core Contributors	Vesting, estimated	6.7M	$3.2M
Nov 2026	Investors	Vesting, estimated	4.4M	$2.1M
Dec 2026	Core Contributors	Vesting, estimated	1.3M	$636.9K
Dec 2026	Investors	Vesting, estimated	888.5K	$421.5K
Total			19.3M	$9.2M

Values at $0.474 per JTO (October 16, 2026), today's price, not a forecast. Estimated amounts are modeled from the schedule's rules rather than dated by a source; see the Assumptions below. Releases without dates are listed under Allocations.

Assumptions

Jito's documented initial mint created one billion JTO; the airdrop, investor and contributor schedules describe when some of those existing tokens became available. The chart can show the dated airdrop, documented early incentive transfers and estimated investor and contributor vesting, while an interpolation shows only the change between two reported JIP-2 spending totals. Many Foundation and DAO incentive, grant and subDAO budgets have no complete recipient-payment dates, and their overlapping authorizations must not be counted as new supply. The explorer supply and inferred burns reconcile with the original mint, but the explorer reading is not a verified September 30 closing balance.

DAO-controlled Community Growth remainder: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
Ecosystem Development / Jito Foundation: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
JIP-2 liquidity-mining budget: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
JIP-13 2025 incentive budget: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
JIP-34 standing liquidity and incentive cap: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
JIP-7 NCN Grants Program: The original schedule was changed and the new timing is not yet published.
JIP-5 bug-bounty program: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
JIP-17 Cryptoeconomics subDAO JTO budget: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
JIP-21 Community subDAO Season One JTO funding: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
JIP-32 Community subDAO Season Two JTO incentives: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.

Sources (18)

Initial Supply 1.00B

Unlocked Supply 689.47M

Unlock Progress — No maximum supply

Genesis Date Nov 27, 2023

Fully Unlocked Dec 7, 2026

Allocations 16

Marketcap Rank (#) 161

Price ($) 0.469 -8.06% (7d)

24h Volume ($) 2.9M +1.70% (7d)

Marketcap ($) 252M

Fully Diluted Value ($) N/A

Circulating Supply N/A

Perpetuals: 4 markets on Binance, OKX, Hyperliquid and Lighter · $18.4M open interest

Spot

Perp


JTO/USDT	6.3M	39K/112K
JTO/USDT	2.7M	151K/159K
JTO/USDT	2.3M	98K/101K
JTO/USD	1.4M	122K/205K
JTO/USDT	757K	154K/159K
JTO/USDC	732K	31K/49K
JTO/TRY	678K	6.5K/7K
JTO/USDT	553K	94K/158K
JTO/USD	398K	28K/89K
JTO/USDT	273K	20K/22K
JTO/USDC	109K	7.6K/12K
JTO/USDT	103K	16K/16K
JTO/USDC	58K	15K/14K
JTO/USDC	48K	1.2K/1.2K
JTO/EUR	47K	13K/15K
JTO/USDC	26K	29K/31K
JTO/USDC	5.3K	409/742
JTO/USDT	4.1K	0/0
JTO/EUR	3.6K	15K/17K
JTO/	3.5K	2K/2K
JTO/PYTH	2.2K	89/89
JTO/USDC	1.7K	471/470
JTO/USDC	997	21/21
JTO/WSOL	672	225/225

Allocations

Initial JTO mint TBD

1,000,000,000 tokens · 4 parts

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

Not yet scheduled: 291,195,000 tokens of its parts have no release date yet. The chart shows them as TBD from today, not as unlocked.

Cliff: Nov 27, 2023 — 100.00% of allocation · 1,000,000,000 tokens

Sources: JTO MiCA White PaperThe Jito Governance Token (JTO)

Last Updated: 2026-09-30 10:28:20 UTC

Description

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The Jito Network is the decentralized Solana-based protocol that enables users to stake SOL to validators participating in efficient block organization and receive a liquid staking token (JitoSOL) representing accumulated validator rewards and tips.

Sector:	Liquid Staking
Blockchain:	Solana

2023

Multicoin