Tensor (TNSR)
Unlock Schedule
Tensor (TNSR) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule
The unlock chart above provides a clear visual overview of the Tensor (TNSR) 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 TNSR 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
Supply and distribution
TNSR has a fixed supply of 1 billion tokens. The initial distribution emphasized the community:
- 55% to the community (including a 12.5% initial airdrop and a 2.3% power‑user airdrop on a vesting schedule),
- 27% to core contributors,
- 9% to investors and advisors, and
- 9% reserved for future fundraising and development.
Vesting is structured to align long‑term incentives: contributors/investors/advisors vest linearly over three years with a one‑year cliff, part of the community treasury vests linearly with no cliff, and another portion plus the reserve were unlocked to support ecosystem growth from launch. Vesting began when the SPL token was deployed in March 2024.
The community’s portion has been used for seasonal rewards. Early seasons distributed “Treasure Boxes” to active users and Tensorians NFT holders; Season 4 reserved an additional allocation for users who continued to trade and provide liquidity across Tensor protocols.
Utility inside the protocols
- Governance: TNSR governs parameters across Tensor and Vector protocols via Realms voting and security council execution.
- Fee reductions: listings denominated in TNSR receive a 25% protocol‑fee discount on Tensor, encouraging in‑protocol use of the token.
- Treasury accrual: 50% of all fees collected by both protocols are directed to a treasury controlled by the Tensor Protocol Foundation and, in turn, by tokenholder governance. This creates a single, community‑managed pool that can fund grants, incentives, integrations, and other growth efforts.
Assumptions
- Initial airdrop (12.5%) modeled as linear from 2024-04-08 to 2024-10-05.
Official docs confirm the 12.5% airdrop; multiple reputable sources report a 180‑day Jupiter claim window ending Oct 5, 2024. Using monthly granularity, we represent claims as linear over that window.
- Season 4 (4%) airdrop modeled as linear from 2025-01-31 to 2025-07-31.
Foundation communications and reputable trackers indicate claims opened end‑Jan 2025 with deadline end‑Jul 2025; we spread circulation entry evenly across the official claim window.
- Cliff ‘catch‑up’ for cliffed linear schedules.
For schedules described as X‑year linear with a Y‑month cliff, we assume tokens that would have vested during the cliff accrue and unlock at cliff, then continue linear vest thereafter (industry‑standard interpretation).
- Power user airdrop 2‑year vest with 6‑month cliff modeled as 25% cliff catch‑up then 18‑month linear.
Docs specify 24‑month vest with 6‑month cliff. To maintain total duration of 24 months from vest start (March 2024), we model 25% at cliff and remaining 75% over the next 18 months.
- Vesting start anchored to March 2024; specific day normalized to first of month for modeling.
Docs state vesting starts in March 2024 when the SPL token was deployed but do not specify the exact day; monthly granularity requires a concrete date.
- Reserve (9%) and half of Community Treasury (18.1%) are modeled as unlocked at TGE.
Docs state ‘Half of community treasury and reserve: no vest’. We treat these as entering circulation at launch/claim go‑live on April 8, 2024.
- No ongoing PoW/PoS issuance or protocol inflation modeled.
TNSR is an SPL token with fixed 1B supply per docs. While governance could vote future inflation after treasury depletion, no such issuance exists at present.
- 1. https://docs.tensor.foundation/tokenomics
- 2. https://docs.tensor.foundation/governance
- 3. https://docs.tensor.foundation/value-accrual
- 4. https://tensor.foundation/
- 5. https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/article/what-is-tensor-leading-solanas-nft-resurgence
- 6. https://www.phantom.com/learn/crypto-101/tensor-tnsr-airdrop
- 7. https://www.chaincatcher.com/en/article/2165364
- 8. https://www.rootdata.com/news/265598
- 9. https://www.drops.bot/airdrop/tensor-season-4
- 10. https://www.coinglass.com/news/129832
- 11. https://solanafloor.com/en/news/solanas-top-nft-marketplace-tensor-launches-airdrop-claim-and-tnsr-token-trading
- 12. https://www.coindesk.com/price/tnsr
Allocations
Description
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Tensor is a leading NFT marketplace on the Solana blockchain, designed to offer fast transactions and deep liquidity for NFT trading. It supports a wide range of collections and features tools like price locks and rewards to enhance user engagement and market dynamics.
| Sector: | NFT |
| Blockchain: | Solana |