Moonbeam (GLMR)
Unlock Schedule
Moonbeam (GLMR) 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
How GLMR’s role changed
Moonbeam’s Polkadot network began with one billion GLMR at genesis. Its allocations covered areas such as early funding, community distribution, crowdloan rewards, and network development. The parachain’s economic model later issued tokens for collator and delegator rewards and directed part of its transaction fees to burning. Those rules explain GLMR’s original supply design, but they do not describe the planned reward system on Base. (moonbeam.network)
The 2026 migration exchanged GLMR held on the parachain for Base ERC-20 GLMR at a one-to-one ratio. According to the project’s migration explanation, tokens moved through the bridge were locked on Moonbeam while an equal amount became available on Base. Moonbeam Protocol’s whitepaper states that its design does not mint new GLMR to pay participants. (moonbeam.network)
GLMR’s proposed new utility is assurance capital. A holder would be able to place tokens in a pool backing a particular seller’s guaranteed jobs. When covered work is completed successfully, the buyer’s guarantee fee would go to that pool and be shared among its depositors. An adjudicated finding of dishonest work could draw on the seller’s deposit and, where the design calls for it, the pool backing that seller. The whitepaper also describes a future governance role, with its details to be developed with the community. The pools have not opened. (moonbeam.network)
Assumptions
Moonbeam created one billion GLMR at genesis and published vesting terms for investors, the crowdloan and several team allocations. Network rewards subsequently increased supply, but the monthly history shown between reported supply checkpoints is an estimate of net growth, not a record of gross rewards or burns. The migration to Base left a fixed token supply and no continuing inflation path. Foundation budgets, some grant payments and individual claims still lack verified release dates, so those amounts are listed but not placed on a dated chart.
- 2021 Moonbeam Crowdloan Rewards: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
- Parachain Bond Funding: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
- Parachain Bond Reserve: Genesis Allocation: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
- On-Chain Treasury: Genesis Allocation: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
- Long-Term Protocol & Ecosystem Development: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
- Liquidity Programs: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
- Harvest Moon Planned Liquidity Incentives: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Season 3 Ecosystem Grants: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Developer Adoption Program: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
- Developer Adoption Program: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Key Partners & Advisors: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Future Employee Incentives: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
- 1. https://moonbeam.foundation/glimmer-token-tokenomics/
- 2. https://moonbeam.network/news/what-is-maintenance-mode/
- 3. https://moonbeam.network/news/allocation-and-rewards-details-announced-for-the-moonbeam-crowdloan/
- 4. https://moonbeam.network/take-flight-moonbeam-community-event/
- 5. https://forum.moonbeam.network/t/season-3-ecosystem-grants/1726
- 6. https://forum.moonbeam.network/t/treasury-transparency-report-2025-h2/2395
- 7. https://moonbeam.subscan.io/referenda_v2_list
- 8. https://forum.moonbeam.network/t/moonbeam-relaunches-on-base/2501
- 9. https://moonbeam.network/news/moonbeam-strategic-update-moonbeam-network-relaunches-on-base
- 10. https://basescan.org/token/0xb3846fd356c2149ee8d30b0449088dc74e265459
- 11. https://www.coingecko.com/
Allocations
Parts of this allocation with their own release dates are charted as their own allocations; the chart shows the rest here.
Not yet scheduled: 134,843,793.561 tokens of its parts have no release date yet. The chart shows them as TBD from today, not as unlocked.