Reserve Rights (RSR)
Unlock Schedule
Reserve Rights (RSR) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule
The unlock chart above provides a clear visual overview of the Reserve Rights (RSR) 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 RSR 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
Fixed supply, slow‑release treasury, and value accrual
Reserve Rights tokenomics start with a fixed total supply of 100 billion RSR. A portion sits in time‑locked treasury wallets. The “Slow Wallet” has a four‑week withdrawal delay; the newer “Slower Wallet” adds a throttle so no more than 1% of total supply can be withdrawn within any four‑week period. These mechanisms fund ecosystem development while giving markets time to react to planned unlocks. In 2024, the team also hard‑coded an emissions curve that emulates Bitcoin, routing future emissions through a dedicated contract. (reserve.org)
RSR’s utility shows up in three ways:
- Governance and risk: Stakers help govern and provide first‑loss capital on Yield DTFs. Vote‑lockers steer Index DTF parameters. (reserve.org)
- Revenue sharing: Depending on the DTF’s configuration, part of basket yield or fees can flow to stakers or vote‑lockers, aligning incentives with adoption. (reserve.org)
- Fee burn from Index DTFs: Platform fees are used to buy and burn RSR, creating a deflationary sink that scales with the number and size of indexes. (reserve.org)
Because of these links, long‑run demand for governance, staking, and fee burns—not a peg—tends to be the main driver market participants discuss when analyzing RSR price behavior. (reserve.org)
Assumptions
- Genesis date set to 2019-05-22 (Huobi Prime IEO/TGE).
Primary contemporaneous listings and exchange materials indicate RSR launched via Huobi Prime in May 2019; exact hour varies by venue but May 22, 2019 is the sale date.
- Pre-2024 releases are aggregated as a single linear schedule.
Official sources state ~50% of supply was already distributed before the new deterministic schedule; detailed monthly vesting history for all early allocations is not published in one canonical schedule. We therefore aggregate 100B minus future deterministic emissions minus the IEO cliff.
- Deterministic emissions modeled from 2024-09-11 to 2140-01-01 with total tokens equal to the geometric series sum.
Official blog specifies initial weekly amount (0.19% of total) and weekly decay (0.996157). The infinite series sums to ~49.4405412438B RSR, matching the remaining supply earmarked for release. End date approximates Bitcoin’s long tail for visualization.
- No PoW/PoS issuance or protocol-level RSR inflation included.
RSR has a fixed 100B supply; staking rewards and index protocol fees buy RSR on the market and/or burn RSR rather than minting new tokens, so they do not increase supply.
- 1. https://reserve.org/protocol/reserve_rights_rsr/
- 2. https://reserve.org/blog/reducing-rsr-emissions-hardcoding-the-supply-curve/
- 3. https://reserve.org/rsr
- 4. https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/reserve-rights/
- 5. https://coincodex.com/ieo/reserve-rights/
- 6. https://global-aws.huobi.com/en-in/price/rsr
- 7. https://forum.reserve.org/t/discussion-rsr-emissions-approach-for-the-second-half-of-the-token-supply/756
Allocations
Description
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The Reserve Protocol itself aims to provide a scalable and decentralized platform for stablecoins backed by a diverse array of assets. RSR plays a dual role within the Reserve Protocol: it acts as a safety net for the protocol's stablecoins by allowing token holders to stake RSR for collateral security, and it empowers these holders with governance rights to vote on proposals.
| Sector: | Payments |
| Blockchain: | Other L1 |