Sui (SUI)
Unlock Schedule
Sui (SUI) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule
The unlock chart above provides a clear visual overview of the Sui (SUI) 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 SUI 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
The SUI token has four core roles: paying gas, staking for proof‑of‑stake security, serving as a liquid medium of exchange across apps, and enabling on‑chain governance. The total supply is capped at 10,000,000,000 SUI, with allocations unlocking over multiple years to align long‑term incentives for users, contributors, investors, and validators. At mainnet launch, only a small share (about 5%) was liquid; the rest follows a release path managed by the Sui Foundation with regular transparency updates and an API for monthly circulating supply. These mechanics—and the network’s demand for blockspace—are among the factors that influence the SUI price over time. (blog.sui.io)
Sui’s tokenomics also introduce a storage fund and stake‑subsidy design. The storage fund smooths validator economics across time, while stake subsidies help bootstrap validator incentives and early network security. Gas pricing by epoch plus PTBs aim to keep costs predictable for users and builders, an important factor for sustainable app growth. (blog.sui.io)
For a high‑level view of Sui token supply and circulation—as well as the intent behind community reserves, contributor allocations, and investor vesting—Sui maintains official public pages that describe supply caps and the planned release cadence. (sui.io)
Assumptions
- Binance Launchpool’s 40M SUI rewards were split 50/50 between Community Reserve and Stake Subsidies.
Binance Research notes Launchpool drew from both buckets but does not specify the exact split; a 50/50 split is used to avoid double counting and to model an explicit cliff at TGE.
- Community Reserve releases are modeled as a 10-year linear schedule after TGE.
Foundation provides only aggregate monthly circulating supply guidance and notes that some vesting continues beyond May 2030; linear pacing to 2033 approximates long-run distribution for visualization.
- Early Contributors and Investors vesting details post-cliff follow widely cited schedules (Early Contributors: 17.8% at cliff then 6-year linear; Investors: Series A/B with different post-cliff unlocks).
Official docs confirm a 1-year cliff for initial investors but do not post exact tranche math; used Binance Research/Messari-aligned parameters and marked medium confidence.
- Stake Subsidies are modeled as linear to May 2030.
Sui documentation states stake subsidies exist in the early years and taper over time; Foundation blog and schedule chart indicate emissions through ~2030. Exact epoch amounts vary; linearization enables monthly charting.
- Gas fee redistributions are excluded as a supply release mechanism.
Per Sui Foundation, stake rewards from gas fees are already circulating at payment time and do not change circulating supply.