Worldcoin (WLD) Tokenomics, Unlock Schedule and Vesting Chart

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Worldcoin (WLD) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule

As of October 17, 2026, 5.73 billion WLD have been released. The schedule is ongoing, with no final release date. Over the next 12 months it releases 1.03 billion WLD (472.02 million of them estimated) mostly from World Community and TFH investors, worth about $532.03 million at today's price (27.06% of the market cap). Today's release is 2.95 million WLD (1.35 million of them estimated) from TFH investors, TFH team and other development contributors and World Community, whose releases run until July 24, 2038.

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, allocation, and distribution

WLD launched with an initial supply of 10 billion tokens. The allocation assigns 75% to the World Community, 11.1% to the team and other service providers, 13.6% to Tools for Humanity investors, and 0.3% to a Tools for Humanity reserve. The community share is overseen by the World Foundation and covers user tokens as well as ecosystem and network needs. Team and investor tokens follow unlock schedules. (whitepaper.world.org)

The token contract allows new supply only after the first 15 years following launch. From July 24, 2038 onward, protocol governance could approve inflation of up to 1.5% a year; the default rate is zero. The Foundation’s long-term design also explores governance that combines token participation with World ID, opening the door to voting methods based on unique people as well as token holdings. (whitepaper.world.org)

Distribution programs have changed over time. World previously offered recurring WLD airdrops to eligible verified users. New airdrop cycles stopped on June 1, 2026; eligible people already in an active 12-month cycle can continue claiming its monthly portions until it ends. Separately, the Foundation has described a planned World ID fee system in which applications would pay in WLD for identity proofs, while use would remain free for the person presenting a proof. That fee model is a proposed source of token utility, rather than a feature to assume every app already uses. (support.world.org)

Upcoming WLD Releases

Period	Allocation	Type	Amount	Value
Oct 17 – 31, 2026	World Community	Vesting, researched	24M	$12.4M
	TFH investors	Vesting, estimated	11.2M	$5.8M
	TFH team and other development contributors	Vesting, estimated	9.1M	$4.7M
Nov 2026	World Community	Vesting, researched	47.9M	$24.8M
	TFH investors	Vesting, estimated	22.3M	$11.5M
	TFH team and other development contributors	Vesting, estimated	18.2M	$9.4M
Total, next 12 months			1B	$532M

1–6 of 36 releases

of 6 pages

Values at $0.517 per WLD (October 17, 2026), today's price, not a forecast. Releases continue after September 2027. Estimated amounts are modeled from the schedule's rules rather than dated by a source; see the Assumptions below. Releases without dates are listed under Allocations.

Assumptions

Worldcoin launched with 10 billion WLD, but its lifetime supply is not permanently capped because governance may authorize limited inflation starting in 2038. The chart can show the published 15-year World Community contract unlock and approximate team and investor unlocks; those unlocks do not by themselves show tokens entering circulation. User claims have only sparse dated cumulative observations, while most grants, operating payments and future distributions lack payment schedules. Grant budgets and other named programs are retained without treating awards, loan expiries or aspirational allocation targets as dated token releases.

TFH reserve: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
Verified-user tokens and claims: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
Network operations and Orb-operator rewards: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
Network operations and Orb-operator rewards: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
Ecosystem fund: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.
World Foundation Grants program: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
World Foundation Grants Wave 0 awards: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
World Foundation Grants Wave 1 awards: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
Retroactive Mini App Rewards: Releases depend on recipients claiming tokens or on grants being awarded.
Trading-firm liquidity loans: The sources give the amount but no release dates.
Governance-dependent WLD inflation: Releases depend on future governance or treasury decisions.

Sources (10)

Total Supply N/A

Unlocked Supply 5.73B

Unlock Progress —

Genesis Date Jul 24, 2023

Fully Unlocked Ongoing

Allocations 15

Marketcap Rank (#) 51

Price ($) 0.526 -5.07% (7d)

24h Volume ($) 54M +12.46% (7d)

Marketcap ($) 2B

Fully Diluted Value ($) 5.3B

Circulating Supply 38% MEDIUM

Perpetuals: 5 markets on Binance, OKX, Hyperliquid and Lighter · $229.8M open interest

Spot

Perp


WLD/USDT	49M	459K/562K
WLD/USDT	23M	974K/826K
WLD/USDT	20M	251K/346K
WLD/USDT	16M	110K/113K
WLD/USDT	15M	359K/464K
WLD/TRY	6.5M	192K/281K
WLD/USDC	4.8M	276K/258K
WLD/USDT	4.2M	159K/176K
WLD/USD	4.1M	276K/311K
WLD/USD	2.5M	174K/227K
WLD/USDT	1.6M	360K/441K
WLD/USDC	444K	65K/100K
WLD/USDC	437K	3.4K/3.3K
WLD/BTC	360K	37K/61K
WLD/EUR	350K	44K/53K
WLD/FDUSD	97K	20K/25K
WLD/	94K	6.8K/9.7K
WLD/USDC	91K	36K/69K
WLD/EUR	84K	46K/44K
WLD/USDC	61K	199K/223K
WLD/U	44K	54K/46K
WLD/USDT	39K	7.7K/18K
WLD/EUR	38K	15K/21K
WLD/WETH	34K	381/380

Allocations

Initial WLD issuance TBD

10,000,000,000 tokens · 4 parts

Parts of this allocation with their own release dates are charted as their own allocations; the chart shows the rest here.

Not yet scheduled: 30,000,000 tokens of its parts have no release date yet. The chart shows them as TBD from today, not as unlocked.

Cliff: Jul 24, 2023 — 100.00% of allocation · 10,000,000,000 tokens

Sources: The Circulating Supply of Worldcoin (WLD): An Explainer

Retroactive Mini App Rewards

1,000,000 tokens

Timing not yet established: 1,000,000 tokens

Sources: World Dev Summer: Build for World network, get rewarded

Governance-dependent WLD inflation

N/A tokens

Timing not yet established (Jul 24, 2038 - open): amount unknown

Sources: World Whitepaper — Tokenomics, August 4, 2025WLD.sol

Last Updated: 2026-09-27 06:11:46 UTC

Description

#51

The mission of the Worldcoin project is to build the world’s largest identity and financial network as a public utility, giving ownership to everyone.

Sector:	Identity
Blockchain:	Ethereum

2023