Manta Network (MANTA)
Unlock Schedule
Manta Network (MANTA) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule
The unlock chart above provides a clear visual overview of the Manta Network (MANTA) 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 MANTA 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
Roles of MANTA in the network
- Network utility on Atlantic: MANTA is used to pay fees, bond collators, and stake for network security. Holders can participate in parachain‑level governance. (dwellir.com)
- Governance and incentives: MANTA governs protocol changes and funds ecosystem growth across the dual‑chain stack. Builder programs and grants are often paired with the token to drive adoption of ZK features. (mantanetwork.medium.com)
- Staking options: Users can delegate MANTA to Atlantic collators directly or through liquid‑staking partners in the Polkadot ecosystem. Staking is native to Atlantic; Pacific relies on Ethereum’s consensus and does not require its own validator set. (p2p.org)
Gas on Pacific vs. Atlantic
On Manta Pacific, gas is paid in ETH (standard for many OP‑Stack chains), which simplifies wallet setup for EVM users. On Atlantic, gas and fees are paid in MANTA. This separation reflects Pacific’s role as an EVM execution layer and Atlantic’s role as a sovereign identity and credential chain. (thirdweb.com)
Assumptions
- TGE/genesis date set to 2024-01-18.
Official airdrop claim window and multiple official communications start on January 18, 2024; exchanges listed the same day.
- Advisor vesting monthly at month-end for 30 months after TGE.
Docs specify 'monthly (at the end of each month) over 30 months' after a 25M TGE release; modeled linearly from 2024-01-31 to 2026-07-31.
- Ecosystem/Community remainder vests linearly over 48 months starting at TGE.
Docs specify 50M at TGE and remainder linear over 48 months; start date assumed as TGE for linear vest.
- PoS rewards modeled as fixed 2% of genesis supply per year (20,000,000 MANTA/year), not compounding, over a 10-year horizon.
Official docs state '2% yearly minting rate starting from Token Genesis' and '2% per year to stakers'; no explicit compounding or end date provided. For charting, a 10-year linear schedule is assumed.
- Unclaimed airdrop tokens (Into the Blue, New Paradigm) after claim windows are redirected to ecosystem funds by governance.
Explicitly stated in tokenomics and airdrop posts; exact timing of redistribution is governance-dependent and not modeled as separate unlocks.
- Percentages for fixed allocations are relative to the 1,000,000,000 genesis supply; total_supply is set to null due to ongoing inflation.
MANTA is inflationary at 2% per year; thus overall supply is uncapped post-genesis.