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    • Loopring (LRC)

    12/25/2025 08:00 UTC

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    Unlock Schedule

    Loopring (LRC) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule

    The unlock chart above provides a clear visual overview of the Loopring (LRC) 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 LRC 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

    Supply and standard

    LRC is an ERC‑20 token on Ethereum. The token’s max total supply is a fixed amount (about 1.374 billion LRC) defined by the deployed contract. There is no ongoing mining-based issuance. (etherscan.io)

    What LRC does in the protocol

    Loopring’s economic model is designed so activity on Layer 2 flows value back to LRC through protocol fees and governance.

    • Protocol fees: A share of network fees from swaps, trades, and certain transfers is set aside as “protocol fees.” Historically, fees were split among liquidity providers, an insurance fund, and the DAO. In 2023, after a community vote, Loopring enabled LRC staking on Layer 2 and shifted the distribution so that protocol fees are now paid primarily to AMM liquidity providers and to LRC stakers, with a portion to the Loopring DAO. (medium.com)
    • Current distribution (as introduced in 2023): 45% of protocol fees to LPs in qualifying AMM pools, 45% to LRC stakers, and 10% to the Loopring DAO. DAO governance can revisit these weights over time. (medium.com)
    • Fee mechanics: Fees collected in various assets are converted and disbursed on Loopring L2. Protocol-fee settings depend on transaction type (AMM swaps, order book trades, NFT activity) and are periodically reviewed via governance processes. (medium.com)

    In earlier versions of the protocol, exchange operators staked LRC for reputation and safety, and a fixed burn took a portion of fees. As the design evolved toward a broader Layer 2 platform, fee-sharing moved toward liquidity providers and stakers, with the DAO empowered to direct resources (including buybacks or burns) as it sees fit. (medium.com)

    Governance

    Loopring is moving toward wider community control through the Loopring DAO. Token holders can vote on which AMM pools receive incentives and on other parameters that affect how the network shares value and encourages desired behavior. Voting takes place on Loopring’s Layer 2, and distributions are made on a monthly cadence. (medium.com)

    Assumptions

    • Total supply set to the LRC v2 contract’s Max Total Supply.

      The token migrated on 2019-05-08; Etherscan shows current max supply on the v2 contract.

    • Public Sale (TGE Circulating) computed residually.

      Calculated as 2017-09-25 circulating supply minus known LEAF initial and mid-term balances from the official token tracker.

    • Foundation & Team vesting modeled as a single 24-month linear schedule starting 2019-09-25.

      Team vest details (20% vesting 1/24 monthly starting Sep 2019) are public; token tracker states all Foundation-directed tokens were locked since TGE. Without a more granular split for the remaining Foundation holdings, we conservatively align them to the same vesting window.

    • LEAF additional 3.2% modeled as linear monthly from 2017-09-25 to 2021-09-25.

      Token tracker states an extra 3.2% will be added to LEAF over the next four years from Sept 25, 2017; no monthly cadence provided, so we assume linear.

    • No ongoing issuance (no PoW/PoS/block rewards) included.

      LRC is an ERC-20 with fixed supply; staking rewards and fee distributions come from protocol fees, not new token minting.

    Allocations

    Public Sale (TGE Circulating Investors)
    33.57%
    Percentage of total token supply
    85%
    How certain we are about this information
    461,102,425 tokens
    Cliff: Sep 25, 2017 — NaN% of allocation
    Portion of supply already circulating at/just after TGE once excluding known locked groups (LEAF, LTIP, institutional investors). Derived as circulating supply reported on 2017-09-25 minus LEAF initial and Mid-term Incentive Plan balances.
    LEAF (Loopring Ecosystem Advancement Fund) - Initial
    17.01%
    Percentage of total token supply
    95%
    How certain we are about this information
    233,725,940 tokens
    Cliff: Sep 25, 2017 — NaN% of allocation
    Initial LEAF funding placed into designated addresses and counted as circulating per Loopring’s token tracker snapshot on 2017-09-25.
    Mid-term Incentive Plan (MIP)
    2.86%
    Percentage of total token supply
    90%
    How certain we are about this information
    39,261,025 tokens
    Cliff: Sep 25, 2017 — NaN% of allocation
    Mid-term incentive plan contract balance included in circulating supply at snapshot.
    Institutional Investors (Locked 12 months)
    7.28%
    Percentage of total token supply
    95%
    How certain we are about this information
    100,065,000 tokens
    Cliff: Sep 25, 2018 — NaN% of allocation
    Institutional investors’ LRC scheduled to circulate after Sep 2018 per official token tracker.
    Long-term Incentive Plan (LTIP) Unlock
    8.39%
    Percentage of total token supply
    95%
    How certain we are about this information
    115,322,523 tokens
    Cliff: Apr 1, 2019 — NaN% of allocation
    LTIP began unlocking in April 2019; balances mapped to the new LRC contract during May 8, 2019 migration.
    LEAF Additional Top-up (Planned 3.2% over 4 years)
    3.20%
    Percentage of total token supply
    90%
    How certain we are about this information
    43,963,948.718 tokens
    Linear vesting: Sep 25, 2017 - Sep 25, 2021 (monthly)
    Per token tracker: an additional 3.2% of total supply to be added to LEAF over four years from the 2017-09-25 snapshot; modeled as linear monthly transfers into LEAF.
    Foundation & Team (Foundation-directed holdings vesting)
    27.68%
    Percentage of total token supply
    80%
    How certain we are about this information
    380,432,535.724 tokens
    Linear vesting: Sep 25, 2019 - Sep 25, 2021 (monthly)
    All Foundation-directed tokens remained locked since TGE; vesting began around Sep 2019. Team portion (20% of supply) publicly stated to vest 1/24 per month for 24 months; remainder of Foundation-directed holdings are modeled on the same schedule due to lack of finer-grained disclosures.
    Last Updated: 12/14/2025 00:48 UTC

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    Loopring is a Decentralized Exchange (DEX) built on an Ethereum Layer-2 (L2) solution called zkRollup.

    Sector: Layer 2
    Blockchain: Ethereum
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