Kamino (KMNO)
Unlock Schedule
Kamino (KMNO) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule
The unlock chart above provides a clear visual overview of the Kamino (KMNO) 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 KMNO 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
Kamino tokenomics at a glance
Kamino tokenomics (“Kamino tokenomics”) center on a fixed 10,000,000,000 total KMNO supply with an initial Genesis distribution and a clear split across community programs, stakeholders, contributors, and treasury. The Token Generation Event (TGE) occurred on April 30, 2024. The documentation outlines the following high‑level allocation buckets:
- Community & Grants: 35%
- Key Stakeholders & Advisors: 35%
- Core Contributors: 20% (with 12‑month lock, then 24‑month linear vest)
- Liquidity & Treasury: 10% A 7.5% Genesis allocation was set aside for early users (excluding “Restricted Persons,” per the docs). (docs.kamino.finance)
Utility inside the app
- Governance: KMNO is intended to be the governance token when formal protocol governance is enabled, covering things like incentive programs, treasury use, and some risk parameters. (docs.kamino.finance)
- Staking and points boosts: Stake KMNO to boost point accrual in the Kamino Points program, which powers ongoing user rewards seasons. Points are tied to productive on‑chain actions across lending, liquidity, and strategy products. (docs.kamino.finance)
KMNO price drivers (evergreen view)
Even without quoting live numbers, it’s fair to say the KMNO price tends to reflect a mix of:
- Protocol usage (demand for staking boosts and product incentives)
- Emission and unlock schedules from the Kamino tokenomics plan
- Growth of Solana DeFi activity and integrations that deepen KMNO’s governance role
- New features (e.g., Creator Vaults) that keep liquidity and user attention inside Kamino’s product suite These are typical, long‑run drivers for most governance and utility tokens tied to active DeFi platforms. (docs.kamino.finance)
Assumptions
- Community & Grants percentage treated as 35% inclusive of Genesis; modeled as 27.5% ex-Genesis plus a separate 7.5% Genesis allocation to ensure totals sum to 100%.
Official docs list 35% Community & Grants and a separate 7.5% Genesis, which external summaries clarify as included within the 35%.
- Season 2 claim date modeled as 2024-08-15.
Governance states 'mid-August 2024' for S2 distribution; exact day not specified.
- Liquidity & Treasury TGE unlock of 250M KMNO.
Docs estimate 1.0B initial circulating supply; with 750M Genesis distributed at TGE, remaining ~250M inferred as liquidity provisioning.
- Liquidity & Treasury remaining 750M modeled as linear 2024-04-30 to 2028-04-30.
No formal vesting schedule published; treasury states usage 'throughout the lifecycle', so a neutral multi-year linear is used for charting.
- Season 4 allocation modeled at the announced cap of 100M and vests linearly over 6 months after 2025-11-06.
Governance specifies 'up to 100,000,000' and 6-month vest; final distributed amount may be less depending on program usage and forfeits.
- No PoW/PoS/network issuance modeled.
KMNO is an application token on Solana; supply is capped at 10B and emissions come from allocations/airdrops/vesting, not protocol-level mining/staking.
- 1. https://docs.kamino.finance/kmno/token-info
- 2. https://docs.kamino.finance/kmno/points
- 3. https://gov.kamino.finance/t/kamino-season-2-distribution/23
- 4. https://gov.kamino.finance/t/kamino-season-3-distribution/557
- 5. https://gov.kamino.finance/t/introducing-kamino-season-4/823
- 6. https://www.chaincatcher.com/en/article/2122088
- 7. https://www.theblockbeats.info/en/flash/248410
- 8. https://gov.kamino.finance/t/kamino-season-4-introduction-season-3-claim/726
Allocations
Description
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Kamino is a decentralized finance platform focused on automated liquidity provision and yield farming strategies on the Solana blockchain. It aims to optimize returns for users through efficient liquidity management and innovative financial products.
| Sector: | Lending |
| Blockchain: | Solana |