Every token project distributes its total supply among stakeholder groups, but the naming conventions vary wildly across projects — one protocol's "ecosystem fund" is another's "community incentives." Tokenomist solves this comparability problem by mapping every project's allocation into six standardized categories: 1. Founder/Team: Tokens allocated to the founding team, core contributors, employees, and advisors. These represent compensation and incentive alignment for the people building the protocol. Typical range: 10-25% of total supply. Vesting schedules for this category are usually the longest (3-4 years with a 1-year cliff) to signal long-term commitment. 2. Private Investors: Tokens allocated to venture capital firms, angel investors, and strategic partners who participated in private funding rounds (seed, Series A, Series B). These allocations fund protocol development in exchange for discounted tokens. Typical range: 5-20% of total supply, with 1-2 year cliffs followed by linear vesting. 3. Public Investors: Tokens sold to the general public through mechanisms like ICOs, IEOs, IDOs, or public token sales. These allocations are typically smaller in percentage but distributed across many holders, reducing concentration risk. Vesting is often shorter or immediate. 4. Reserved: Tokens held in protocol-controlled treasuries, foundations, or reserve funds for future strategic deployment. This category includes ecosystem development funds, grant programs, and governance-directed treasuries. Reserved allocations often have the most flexible release schedules and are governed by DAO votes or foundation decisions. 5. Community: Tokens distributed directly to users through airdrops, liquidity mining programs, staking rewards, or other community incentive mechanisms. These allocations bootstrap adoption and reward early participants. Release schedules vary widely — from fully unlocked at launch (airdrops) to multi-year emission programs. 6. Other: Tokens that do not fit neatly into the five primary categories — including allocations for bug bounties, marketing campaigns, bridge liquidity, or partner integrations. Tokenomist uses this catch-all category to ensure every token in the supply is accounted for without forcing ambiguous allocations into the wrong bucket. Standardization matters because it enables direct comparison. On Tokenomist's Allocation Screener, you can filter and rank hundreds of tokens by their allocation percentages within any of these six categories. The Allocation Comparison tool lets you overlay two or more tokens side by side to see how their stakeholder distributions differ. A protocol allocating 40% to Private Investors faces fundamentally different unlock dynamics than one allocating 40% to Community — even if both label those categories differently in their own documentation. Allocation decisions reveal protocol priorities and create the unlock calendar. High Founder/Team allocations signal long-term builder alignment but concentrate future supply in few hands. High Community allocations distribute tokens broadly but may front-load dilution. The interplay between allocation size, vesting schedule, and stakeholder behavior determines whether a token's supply growth creates orderly price discovery or destabilizing sell-side pressure.