ORDI (ORDI) Token marked for de-listing
Unlock Schedule
ORDI (ORDI) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule
The unlock chart above provides a clear visual overview of the ORDI (ORDI) 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 ORDI 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 distribution
- Max supply: 21,000,000 ORDI
- Mint limit per inscription: 1,000 ORDI
- Decimals: commonly treated as 18 by indexers unless otherwise specified
ORDI’s entire supply was minted by the community following its open deploy. There was no premine baked into the BRC-20 rules; the creator did not receive a special allocation through the deploy itself. Early users inscribed “mint” operations (often paying only Bitcoin transaction fees) until the total supply reached the cap. Indexers show ORDI at 100% minted with the 21 million cap set in the original deploy JSON. (seb.stanfordblockchain.xyz)
What ORDI is—and isn’t—used for
ORDI does not control the Ordinals protocol and is not a governance token for it. Rather, it is a flagship BRC-20 asset that became a community reference point and a trading benchmark on Bitcoin’s inscription markets. In practice, ORDI is used for:
- trading on centralized exchanges that support BRC-20 deposits and withdrawals
- peer-to-peer transfers between Bitcoin addresses using Ordinals-aware wallets
- listing and settlement on BRC-20 marketplaces within Ordinals ecosystems
Because BRC-20 lacks native smart contracts, deeper functionality such as lending or complex staking must be built around indexers, L2s, or wrappers on other chains. The token’s “utility” is therefore tied to its role as a leading example of Bitcoin-native fungible tokens and a base trading asset on BRC-20 platforms, rather than protocol governance. (about.alexlab.co)
Assumptions
- No premine, team, investor, treasury, PoW/PoS, or ongoing inflation for ORDI.
The deploy inscription for ORDI specifies only max and lim; there is no self-mint/premine field and BRC-20 supply cannot exceed max. No official documentation indicates any reserved allocations.
- Mint completion modeled as a single cliff on 2023-03-09.
Explorers show max supply fully minted; multiple references indicate ORDI minted out the morning after deploy (within ~18 hours). Monthly granularity aggregates this to March 2023.
- Total supply is fixed at 21,000,000 tokens.
BRC-20 deploy JSON for ORDI sets max=21000000 and indexer rules enforce that further mints beyond max are invalid.