Toncoin (TON)
Unlock Schedule
Toncoin (TON) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule
The unlock chart above provides a clear visual overview of the Toncoin (TON) 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 TON 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, issuance, and staking
Toncoin has a targeted long‑term supply framework centered on proof‑of‑stake (PoS) security and low inflation:
- Initial supply: 5 billion TON. (docs.ton.org)
- Annual issuance: roughly 0.3%–0.6% to pay validators, varying with network conditions. (docs.ton.org)
Validators secure the network by staking TON. The effective stake to win elections typically ranges from the low‑hundreds of thousands of TON per validator, with an upper cap to keep sets balanced. Community “nominator pools” let holders stake from around 10,000 TON to share rewards without running a node. (docs.ton.org)
A notable chapter in Toncoin tokenomics was its distribution. After Telegram exited in 2020, most of the supply was placed into “PoW Giver” contracts that anyone could mine. This initial proof‑of‑work (IPoW) phase ended on June 28, 2022, and TON now operates purely on PoS with low ongoing inflation. (ton.org)
What TON is used for
- Fees and gas for transactions and smart contracts.
- Staking by validators and nominators to secure the network and earn rewards.
- Network services like TON DNS, Storage, and Proxy.
- Governance features and ecosystem programs run by community initiatives.
- Payments and payouts across Telegram mini‑apps, including ad‑revenue sharing for channels. (docs.ton.org)
Because utility is expanding, many watchers track “TON price” movements against real usage—on‑chain activity, stablecoin flows, and mini‑app adoption—rather than only macro market cycles.
Assumptions
- Supply is uncapped due to ongoing PoS issuance.
Official docs describe annual inflation (~0.3–0.6%) via validator rewards; no hard cap specified.
- Genesis date set to 2019-11-01 for monthly modeling.
Official page states 5B coins were minted in November 2019 (testnet2); exact day not provided; first-of-month used for monthly granularity.
- PoW mining modeled linearly from 2020-06-01 to 2022-06-28.
Official site states mining started June 2020 and ended on 2022-06-28 with ~200k TON/day; exact June start day not specified, so month start used.
- PoS issuance modeled at 0.5% per year through 2030-12-31.
Docs indicate ~0.3–0.6% annual inflation and ~40k TON per round as of Apr 2023; used 0.5% midpoint and a finite horizon for charting future unlocks.
- Excluded community/treasury programs and voluntary locks (e.g., TON Believers Fund) from allocations.
These redistribute already-issued tokens rather than constituting new issuance or predefined genesis allocations; amounts and schedules are variable and not protocol-mandated.
- Real-time burn of 50% of fees not modeled as negative unlocks.
Burn reduces circulating supply but is not a release mechanism; documented separately in notes.
- 1. https://translate.ton.org/en/toncoin
- 2. https://ton.org/en/mining
- 3. https://docs.ton.org/v3/documentation/smart-contracts/contracts-specs/nominator-pool
- 4. https://docs.ton.org/mandarin/v3/documentation/nodes/validation/staking-incentives
- 5. https://translate.ton.org/validators
- 6. https://blog.ton.org/ton-holders-and-validators-vote-in-favor-of-implementing-the-toncoin-real-time-burn-mechanism
- 7. https://docs.ton.org/develop/archive/pow-givers
- 8. https://ton.org/roadmap
Allocations
Description
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Toncoin is a cryptocurrency that powers the TON network, a decentralized layer-1 blockchain that was originally developed by Telegram. It allows users to buy, send and store funds using a user-friendly application and pay fees or validate transactions with TON.
| Sector: | Payments |
| Blockchain: | Other L1 |