Telcoin (TEL)
Unlock Schedule
Telcoin (TEL) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule
The unlock chart above provides a clear visual overview of the Telcoin (TEL) 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 TEL 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 TEL token at a glance
TEL is an ERC‑20 token that powers every layer of the platform and serves as gas on the Telcoin Network. Miners on the platform—Stakers, Developers, Liquidity Miners, and Validators—stake TEL to produce services, earn TEL-denominated fees, and harvest issuance. Staked TEL also confers voting power in the respective Miner Group. (telcoin.org)
Public data sources record a fixed maximum supply of 100 billion TEL created at genesis. Over time, TEL issuance from treasury flows to different parts of the platform according to governance-approved schedules and rules, rather than open-ended minting. This design ties token distribution to productive usage, liquidity provision, and network security. (bibox.zendesk.com)
Issuance flows: TELx and TAN
- TELx (DeFi): In its first year of incentives under the Association framework, TELx distributed 200 million TEL from treasury to incentivize liquidity across approved markets, with monthly flows controlled by the TELx Council. Liquidity miners earn pool fees plus a pro‑rata share of TEL issuance. (telcoin.org)
- TAN (Applications): The Telcoin Application Network kicked off with a first‑year budget of 500 million TEL to reward Developers and Stakers based on app adoption and activity, governed by the TAN Council. Over time, governance has adjusted yearly allocations through formal proposals. (telcoin.org)
Utility across the stack
- Gas and staking on the Telcoin blockchain (validator staking and fees).
- Liquidity mining and exchange settlement on TELx.
- App‑level staking and referral programs on TAN.
- Governance voting power within Miner Groups, following the TGIP process. (telcoin.org)
About TEL price
Many users watch TEL price, but it’s shaped by fundamentals like app adoption, DeFi liquidity on TELx, validator staking on the Telcoin blockchain, and council decisions on issuance schedules. As the banking and stablecoin rails expand, utility demand may play a growing role in how markets value utility tokens like TEL over time. (forum.telcoin.org)
Assumptions
- ICO distributed 25% of total supply; used as the Public Token Sale allocation amount.
Contemporaneous press quoting Telcoin whitepaper; no contradictory official figures found in current docs.
- Team, Community/Foundation, and Liquidity Fund allocations and percentages reflect original whitepaper-era tokenomics.
Current official documentation focuses on governance-era emissions; original vesting details are not published; modeled as TGE unlocks for charting.
- Validator rewards in 2024 modeled at 100M TEL for the year.
August 2024 governance update adjusted Year 1 validator issuance from the earlier 200M TEL guidance to 100M TEL active and 100M preserved; used updated figure.
- TAN issuance in 2024 modeled only June–December and totals 194,444,444 TEL (Developers + Retail Stakers).
Budget update preserved part-year issuance for Dev and Retail stakers and deferred Merchants; used explicit June–Dec figures.
- TELx liquidity mining modeled as uniform monthly linear streams for 2024 and 2025.
Official TELx levels define monthly per-pool issuance summing to 200M TEL/year; aggregated for charting.
- 2025 TAO, Platform Council, and TELx Council provisioning modeled as cliffs on 2025-03-04.
TELIP Year 2 implementation confirmed on Mar 4, 2025; assumed tokens transferred to designated safes on that date.
- We do not model pre-2024 treasury distributions beyond the ICO/team/foundation/liquidity-era allocations due to lack of authoritative monthly schedules.
Governance documentation provides precise Year 1 (2024) and Year 2 (2025) issuance; earlier programmatic distributions lack reliable month-by-month data.
- 1. https://etherscan.io/address/0x467bccd9d29f223bce8043b84e8c8b282827790f
- 2. https://etherscan.io/token/0x467bccd9d29f223bce8043b84e8c8b282827790f
- 3. https://telcoin.medium.com/the-hard-cap-issue-a68f9e21f2c5
- 4. https://telcoin.medium.com/the-hard-cap-issue-technical-explanation-36917697f4ee
- 5. https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2017/12/125677-telcoin-mobile-cryptocurrency-solution-plans-ico-launch-december-11th/
- 6. https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2018/01/126734-telcoin-ico-hits-hard-cap-25-million-support-financial-inclusion-vision/
- 7. https://www.telcoin.org/documentation/association-governance/association-rules/operational-choice-rules/harvesting-rules
- 8. https://forum.telcoin.org/t/telcoin-association-release-august-2024/280
- 9. https://forum.telcoin.org/t/telip-year-2-tel-allocation-proposal/434
- 10. https://www.telcoin.org/documentation/telcoin-platform/telx-defi-exchange/telx-products/telx-tel-harvesting-levels
- 11. https://www.telcoin.org/documentation/telcoin-platform/telcoin-application-network/tan-products/tan-tel-issuance
- 12. https://www.telcoin.org/documentation/association/association-constitution
Allocations
Description
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Telcoin is an Ethereum-based token designed for mobile financial services, enabling low-cost, borderless transactions. It uses a decentralized platform to provide financial products to mobile phone users, leveraging telecom operators for distribution and KYC compliance.
| Sector: | Layer 1 |
| Blockchain: | Other L1 |