MetaDAO (META)
Unlock Schedule
MetaDAO (META) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule
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
META’s role and supply
META is used in MetaDAO governance. Holders can help bring eligible proposals to market through staking, while traders use conditional markets to express their views on proposed actions. The token is also the reference asset whose expected value is compared across MetaDAO’s pass and fail markets. Its core purpose is tied to running and governing the protocol. (metadao.fi)
The active META token followed a migration from an older token now identified as METAC. MetaDAO’s token documentation lists the active Solana mint as METAwkXcqyXKy1AtsSgJ8JiUHwGCafnZL38n3vYmeta. It describes an initial distribution of 10 million active META tokens through a fair-launch mechanism. The earlier token had a separate supply history, including its 2023 airdrop and later treasury decisions. (metadao.fi)
The active token has no hard supply cap enforced by its token program. Instead, its mint authority sits with the governance program. New issuance requires a public proposal, enough stake to open a market, and a passing market result. The proposal states how many tokens would be created and where they would go. META has no automatic schedule of new tokens, so future supply changes depend on decisions made through this process. (metadao.fi)
Assumptions
META has no scheduled vesting or emissions: it launched in November 2023 with 1,000,000 old tokens (10,000 airdropped, the rest held by the DAO treasury), and 979,000 of the treasury tokens were later burned. In today's units, after the 1:1000 split at migration, about 21 million tokens remained at launch, and new tokens can only be minted if a market-based governance vote approves it. Supply has since grown to about 22.68 million through governance-approved mints, but the individual mint proposals and dates could not be retrieved, so that growth is shown only as an estimated line between a Sept 2024 supply figure and today's. A 600,000 META market-making allocation and a founder authorization to sell up to 2 million META are listed with no known release dates and are not added to the chart.
- META-036 Market-Making Allocation (600K META): The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Founder OTC/ATM Sale Authorization (up to 2M META): Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
- 1. https://docs.metadao.fi/token/details
- 2. https://docs.metadao.fi/token/mechanics
- 3. https://docs.metadao.fi/mica.md
- 4. https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/meta-dao/
- 5. https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/meta-dao-new/
- 6. https://greshamscode.substack.com/p/metadao-the-bear-case
- 7. https://alearesearch.io/reports/theses/metadao-meta
- 8. https://tokenomist.ai/meta-2-2
- 9. https://v1.metadao.fi/metadao/trade/4grb3pea8ZSqE3ghx76Fn43Q97mAh64XjgwL9AXaB3Pe
- 10. https://x.com/metaproph3t/status/1979243370452258837
- 11. https://www.bitget.com/news/detail/12560605017122
- 12. https://x.com/0xdaft/article/2097360695172243836
- 13. https://thedefiant.io/news/defi/metadao-votes-against-vc-discount-for-meta-sale
- 14. https://phantom.com/tokens/solana/METAwkXcqyXKy1AtsSgJ8JiUHwGCafnZL38n3vYmeta
Allocations
Estimated from the last observation onward: about 4,928 per day (149,994 per month), the rate between the observations of October 2025 and October 2026.
Description
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MetaDAO is a fundraising and governance platform on Solana. Decisions use futarchy: traders bet on each proposal in markets, and prices decide.
| Sector: | Launchpads |
| Blockchain: | Solana |