Zano (ZANO)
Unlock Schedule
Zano (ZANO) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule
The unlock chart above provides a clear visual overview of the Zano (ZANO) 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 ZANO 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
Zano tokenomics at a glance
- Consensus: Hybrid PoW + PoS
- Block time: ~1 minute
- Block reward: fixed at 1 ZANO
- Fees: flat network fee with 100% fee burn
- Supply: uncapped but with emission that trends toward ~0% long‑term inflation (asymptotic) (docs.zano.org)
Zano’s emission is split across miners (PoW) and stakers (PoS). Over time, the fixed block reward plus the fee‑burn mechanism leads to a predictable, steadily declining inflation rate. The project also discloses a premine used to fund early development, marketing, and ecosystem growth; the premine amount and foundation status are documented in the public tokenomics page. (docs.zano.org)
What ZANO is used for
- Network fees for private transfers and asset operations
- Staking to help secure the chain with anonymous PoS participation (no minimum, no lockups, no slashing, and no delegation model)
- Collateral and settlement inside escrow contracts and marketplace flows
- Base liquidity for swaps between ZANO and Confidential Assets
- Wrapping/bridging (e.g., wZANO) for integrations in wider crypto rails (docs.zano.org)
Taken together, these mechanics align Zano tokenomics with usage: as more assets, swaps, and payments occur, fee burn and ecosystem demand become natural parts of the ZANO economy. (docs.zano.org)
Assumptions
- Supply is uncapped; we model emissions through 2025-10-08 only.
Protocol specifies fixed 1 ZANO/block with 1‑minute blocks and no max cap; to keep totals finite in this dataset, we cut off at the report date.
- PoW/PoS split is modeled as 50/50 of total issuance.
Docs state an average 1 ZANO/minute with a 50–50 spread between PoW and PoS; minor real‑world variance is ignored for monthly modeling.
- Coinswap distribution is modeled as linear over the 30‑day window.
Official post provides total swapped amount and exact window but not a day‑by‑day series; linear monthly interpolation is used.
- Genesis date approximated as 2019-05-09.
Official posts indicate mainnet launched in mid‑May 2019; we infer ~May 9 based on the 'A week into mainnet' article dated 2019‑05‑16.
- Cumulative PoW+PoS issuance through 2025‑10‑08 equals current on‑chain supply minus premine and swapped coins.
Explorer shows current supply ('Coins Emitted'); subtracting 3,690,000 (premine) and 7,782,192.31 (swapped) yields 3,503,132.53 total issuance since genesis, split evenly between PoW and PoS.
- Fee burns are not modeled as a separate negative allocation.
Protocol burns 100% of transaction fees; these reduce net supply but are not a release mechanism. Burns are implicitly reflected in explorer supply figures over time.
- 1. https://docs.zano.org/docs/learn/specifications/
- 2. https://docs.zano.org/docs/learn/emission/
- 3. https://blog.zano.org/zano-mainnet-announcement/
- 4. https://blog.zano.org/coinswap-announcement/
- 5. https://blog.zano.org/coinswap-launch/
- 6. https://blog.zano.org/a-week-into-mainnet/
- 7. https://blog.zano.org/the-coinswap-has-concluded/
- 8. https://blog.zano.org/zano-development-fund-breakdown/
- 9. https://docs.zano.org/docs/stake/getting-started/estimating-pos-rewards
- 10. https://explorer.zano.org/
Allocations
Description
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Zano is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency using ring signatures for untraceable transactions. It combines Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake for security. Zano supports confidential assets and aims to provide a platform for private decentralized applications and transactions.
| Sector: | Layer 1 |
| Blockchain: | Other L1 |