Union (U)
Unlock Schedule
Union (U) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule
The unlock chart above provides a clear visual overview of the Union (U) 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 U 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 U token powers the Union blockchain at multiple layers.
- Gas in a Dynamic Fee Market: U pays for aggregating and verifying ZK proofs, maintaining light clients, opening/freezing connections, and configuring routes. Demand for U ties directly to proof‑of‑compute and message verification, aligning token utility with real network usage. (docs.union.build)
- Network Security: Union is a delegated proof‑of‑stake L1. Validators stake U to produce blocks and order cross‑chain transfers; delegators can stake to validators and share in emissions. (docs.union.build)
- Cross‑chain Governance: U holders can stake and delegate to Union validators from connected chains—starting with Ethereum—without bridging, enabling governance that spans ecosystems. (docs.union.build)
Union tokenomics at genesis:
- Genesis supply: 10,000,000,000 U; initial circulating supply: 1,919,050,000 U.
- Distribution: 21.4% Strategic Investors, 20% Core Contributors, 20% Foundation, 12.5% DAO Treasury, 14.1% Ecosystem, 12% Community Incentives.
- Inflation: starts at 6% per year and decreases 10% annually until it reaches 2% long‑term.
- Staking rewards for Core Contributors and Strategic Investors are locked for 12 months and vest with their underlying tokens; together these groups (41.4% of supply) agreed to lend their staking rewards to the Union Foundation for ecosystem incentives and delta‑neutral DeFi activities. (docs.union.build)
Denominations exist both on Ethereum as an ERC‑20 (contract: 0xba5eD44733953d79717F6269357C77718C8Ba5ed) and as the native denom on the Union L1. (docs.union.build)
Assumptions
- Supply is uncapped; ongoing PoS issuance continues indefinitely.
Docs specify annual inflation starting at 6% and decaying 10% per year until a 2% long-term issuance rate; no max cap stated.
- Modeled PoS rewards as linear within each annual period and applied the rate to the start-of-year total supply (compounding annually). Year 12 and beyond are clamped at 2%.
Docs describe flat annual emissions rate with a decay to 2% but do not define compounding mechanics; start-of-year base and monthly linear interpolation are standard modeling choices.
- Community Incentives future 8% distributed linearly over 36 months from TGE.
Docs confirm the 8% exists for future programs but give no schedule; linear over 3 years chosen to avoid assuming front- or back-loading.
- Investor and Core Contributor 60-day cliff smoothing at 12 months not modeled explicitly.
Docs mention a 60-day smoothing around the 12-month mark but provide no exact tranche sizes; treating as standard linear vesting for monthly granularity has negligible effect.
- Initial circulating supply discrepancy vs. pure percentage math is acknowledged.
Docs list initial circulating supply as 1,919,050,000 U; strict TGE unlock math from category rules sums to ~1,920,250,000 U. We retain category rules from docs for allocation modeling and attribute the difference to rounding and program timing.
- Portion of PoS rewards attributable to locked Strategic/Core holdings may be re-locked until those allocations vest.
Docs state staking rewards of Core Contributors and Strategic Investors are locked for 12 months and vest on the same schedule; exact stake shares over time are unknown, so we do not split PoS emissions by holder type.
Allocations
Description
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Union is a modular interoperability protocol built with zero-knowledge proofs, enabling secure, fast, and permissionless transfer of assets, messages, and data across different blockchains and decentralized applications without relying on third-party intermediaries.
| Sector: | Modular |
| Blockchain: | Other L1 |