Taiko (TAIKO)
Unlock Schedule
Taiko (TAIKO) 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
Supply and distribution approach
TAIKO has a fixed total supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens. The project’s initial distribution included a “Genesis Airdrop” of up to 5% of supply to early supporters around mainnet launch, followed by a larger, ongoing “Trailblazers” program allocating 10% of supply to community participation over time. Allocations also set aside portions for the DAO treasury, grants and retroactive public goods funding, Taiko Foundation reserves, investors, liquidity/market‑making, and specialized “prover bond” pools used by the protocol. Public summaries list categories such as: DAO Treasury, Grants & RetroPGF, Genesis and Trailblazers airdrops, Investors, Foundation Reserve, Liquidity/Market Making, Taiko Labs/Core Team, Protocol Guild Airdrop, and Guardian/Official Prover Bonds. Exact percentages vary by source, but these buckets capture the project’s long‑term incentive design. (theblock.co)
Core utilities of TAIKO
- Proving bonds and protocol operations: Provers post bonds in TAIKO as part of the block proving process. This creates skin‑in‑the‑game and helps align incentives for correct proofs. (prnewswire.com)
- Governance and DAO participation: TAIKO is used in protocol governance, with the project building out a DAO on Aragon‑based contracts and a dedicated governance portal. Over time, ownership and control are designed to migrate fully to the DAO. (github.com)
- Ecosystem growth: Distribution to grants, retroactive public goods, and community campaigns encourages builders and users to expand real usage on Alethia. (theblock.co)
Overall, the token’s economic model tries to balance long‑term funding (treasury and foundation), community growth (airdrop programs and grants), and the needs of the proving market (bond allocations), while preparing for a progressively decentralized governance structure. (tokenomist.ai)
Assumptions
Taiko reports a one-billion-token supply allocated among investors, the team, community rewards, liquidity, grants and several long-term reserves. The published investor schedule and the first quantified team exercise have a June 2025 cliff followed by three years of linear unlocking; initial liquidity is marked liquid at launch. Trailblazers has named seasonal reward pools, but claim dates and many treasury, grant and reserve payments remain unresolved. The chart can show the documented cliffs and linear vesting, while its launch-mint month and revised Genesis Airdrop opening amount are explicitly marked as estimates.
- DAO Treasury: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
- Taiko Labs and Core Team: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Taiko Foundation Reserve: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Trailblazers Airdrop and Incentives: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
- Trailblazers Season 1: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Trailblazers Season 2: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
- Trailblazers Season 3: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
- Trailblazers Season 4: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
- Trailblazers Season 5: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
- Trailblazers Season 1 dApp Rewards: Timing not yet established.
- Grants and RetroPGF: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
- Inaugural Community Grants Program: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
- Guardian Prover Bonds: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Taiko Masters Prover Bonds: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- Protocol Guild Airdrop: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
- 1. https://paragraph.com/@taiko-labs/taiko-protocol-token-allocation-vesting-unlock-schedule
- 2. https://pitchlily.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/pitch/0xe7a748c8a4815e468a8f61b065828f06bf79eeb61d5617388ec2785d6f2ac0de__tokenomics-whitepaper.pdf
- 3. https://etherscan.io/token/0x10dea67478c5f8c5e2d90e5e9b26dbe60c54d800
- 4. https://paragraph.com/@taiko-labs/taiko-in-2024-a-year-of-growth-and-innovation
- 5. https://paragraph.com/@taiko-labs/trailblazers-season-3-announcement
- 6. https://paragraph.com/@taiko-labs/trailblazers-season-4-is-here
- 7. https://paragraph.com/@taiko-labs/taikolights-q3-2025-community-update
- 8. https://paragraph.com/@taiko-labs/trailblazers-season-6-rewards-are-here
- 9. https://github.com/taikoxyz/grants
- 10. https://paragraph.com/@taiko-labs/announcing-taiko-grants-cycle-2-a-30m-program-to-support-community-builders-and-partners
- 11. https://paragraph.com/@taiko-labs/taiko-grant-cycle-3-25m-to-support-community-builders-and-partners
- 12. https://paragraph.com/@taiko-labs/taiko-security-incident-a-postmortem-and-next-steps
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: 692,430,500 tokens of its parts have no release date yet. The chart shows them as TBD from today, not as unlocked.
Description
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Taiko is a decentralized Layer 2 blockchain protocol utilizing a Zero Knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (ZK-EVM) to offer a scalable and efficient platform for dApps. It aims to be fully Ethereum-equivalent, enhancing compatibility and allowing developers to use existing dApps without modification.
| Sector: | Layer 2 |
| Blockchain: | Ethereum |