Solana (SOL)
Unlock Schedule
Solana (SOL) 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
What SOL does
SOL has two central jobs: paying network fees and supporting proof-of-stake validation. A person can hold SOL in a wallet, send it to another address, or place it in a stake account and delegate that account to a validator. Delegation and deactivation take effect around network periods called epochs, rather than immediately in every case. (solana.com)
Solana’s original inflation schedule started with an annual rate of 8%, designed to fall by 15% each year until reaching a long-term rate of 1.5%. Newly issued SOL helps fund staking rewards. Transaction fees also affect the token’s economics: half of each base fee is burned, or removed from supply, while the other half goes to the block-producing validator. Priority fees go to that validator. (solana.com)
Early SOL distribution included token sales and allocations to support the foundation and network development. The foundation has published information about transfers, grants, and distributions. That history matters because token ownership influences staking: the amount delegated to validators helps determine their weight in the network’s consensus process. (solana.com)
Assumptions
Solana minted 500 million SOL at genesis and continues to create SOL for staking rewards, so its supply is uncapped. Published records date several investor, founder, employee and FTX-related unlocks, as well as early Foundation distributions; substantial treasury and contract budgets still lack complete payment dates. The chart can show those dated events and clearly labeled estimates of monthly installments and historical net supply growth. It cannot exactly reconcile gross issuance with today's reported total because SOL has also been burned, and the available historical supply measurements do not isolate every staking reward.
- Investor allocation: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Solana Labs allocation: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Foundation operational allocation: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
- Community incentives and grants reserve: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
- Contracted employees and service providers: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Contracted validator incentives: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
- Foundation sales to FTX and Alameda: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Solana Labs sales to Alameda: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
- Foundation validator-delegation earmark: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
- PoS validator and delegator rewards: New issuance depends on network activity, such as staking, so it cannot be dated in advance.
- 1. https://github.com/solana-foundation/developer-content/blob/main/docs/economics/inflation/terminology.md
- 2. https://solana.com/nl/news/validator-feature-series
- 3. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1896677/000119312525236053/gsol_s-1_amendment_5.htm
- 4. https://solana.com/nl/news/solana-foundation-transparency-reports
- 5. https://solana.com/de/news/solana-facts-ftx-bankruptcy
- 6. https://solana.com/staking
- 7. https://forum.solana.com/t/proposal-for-introducing-a-programmatic-market-based-emission-mechanism-based-on-staking-participation-rate/3294
- 8. https://forum.solana.com/t/simd-0550-proposal-to-double-disinflation/4874
- 9. https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-governance-proposals/blob/main/proposals/sgp-0002-double-disinflation.md
- 10. https://solanacompass.com/tokenomics
- 11. https://solana.com/de/news/solana-will-reduce-its-token-supply-to-account-for-market-making-allocation
- 12. https://solana.com/uk/news/announcing-the-formation-of-the-solana-foundation
- 13. https://solana.com/nl/news/announcing-the-solana-foundation-delegation-strategy
- 14. https://www.helius.dev/blog/simd-550-solana-disinflation
- 15. https://mrnasdog.com/research/sol/inflation
- 16. https://stakin.com/blog/solana-faq-guide
- 17. https://research.nansen.ai/articles/solana-ecosystem-101
- 18. https://insidebitcoins.com/news/solana-price-prediction-today-december-5-2022-sol-usd-looks-too-tired
- 19. https://medium.com/coinmonks/is-solana-sol-worth-77-12-2615190f3667
- 20. https://finbold.com/these-are-solanas-top-holders-as-of-december-2024/
- 21. https://www.vaneck.com/us/en/investments/solana-etf-vsol/vsol-prospectus.pdf
Allocations
Parts of this allocation with their own release dates are charted as their own allocations; the chart shows the rest here.
Estimated from 26 September 2026 (where this stream's other dated rules end) onward: about 66,291 per day (2,017,727 per month), the rate between the observations of July 2025 and June 2026.
Description
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Solana is a decentralized computing platform that offers fast and low-cost transactions and smart contract execution. Solana uses a novel consensus mechanism that combines proof of stake and proof of history to achieve high throughput and security.
| Sector: | Layer 1 |
| Blockchain: | Solana |