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Vested Unlock

A filter preset in Tokenomist's Unlock Events tab that shows standard scheduled unlocks while excluding mining and yield farming rewards — focusing on core team, investor, and ecosystem vesting events that are the primary driver of structured supply expansion.
TradFi parallel — Like filtering a corporate share issuance calendar to show only employee stock option exercises and investor lock-up expirations, while hiding the ongoing dividend reinvestment plan and ESPP purchase issuances.

Key Takeaways

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    Vested Unlock filters the Unlock Events table to show only structured vesting releases — cliff and linear — while excluding mining and yield farming emissions
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    Covers team, investor, advisor, foundation, treasury, and ecosystem vesting allocations
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    Focuses on events driven by predetermined schedules locked into smart contracts or legal agreements
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    Most relevant filter for analyzing concentrated sell-side pressure from stakeholders with known cost bases
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    Complements All Unlocks by removing programmatic reward noise and highlighting the events that institutional investors track most closely

How It Works

Vested Unlock is a filter preset in the Unlock Events tab on Tokenomist that narrows the view to structured vesting releases only. It includes cliff and linear vesting events for teams, investors, advisors, foundations, treasuries, and ecosystem allocations, but explicitly excludes mining rewards and yield farming emissions. This separation is meaningful because vesting events follow predetermined schedules locked into smart contracts or legal agreements, while mining and farming rewards are variable and usage-dependent. The Vested Unlock filter is the most commonly used preset for traders analyzing supply-side risk. The events it surfaces represent tokens allocated to specific stakeholders who received them as compensation, investment returns, or grant funding — groups that have known cost bases and economic incentives to sell. Team members who received tokens at effectively zero cost basis during a bear market have strong motivation to realize gains. Investors who participated in seed or private rounds at steep discounts may distribute tokens to LPs once lock-ups expire. By isolating vested unlocks from programmatic emissions, users can focus their analysis on the events most likely to produce concentrated sell-side pressure. Mining and farming rewards, while contributing to supply inflation, tend to be distributed across many small holders and often flow directly into liquidity pools rather than open-market selling. Vested unlocks, by contrast, typically release large blocks to a small number of recipients with clear financial incentives to monetize.

Real World Examples

Hyperliquid Core Team Vesting
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Using the Vested Unlock filter on Hyperliquid isolates the team and foundation vesting events from any ecosystem incentive distributions, showing exactly when core contributor HYPE tokens transition from locked to unlocked status.
Solana Foundation and Investor Vesting
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Solana's vesting schedule includes significant allocations to the Solana Foundation, Solana Labs, and early investors. The Vested Unlock filter shows these structured releases clearly, excluding SOL inflation from validator staking rewards that would appear under All Unlocks.
Jito Airdrop and Investor Vesting Separation
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Jito distributed JTO via an airdrop and has ongoing investor vesting. The Vested Unlock filter helps users distinguish between the investor and team vesting schedule — the predictable, calendar-driven supply expansion — and community reward distributions that may follow different patterns.
Starknet Early Contributor Vesting
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Starknet's STRK token has significant allocations to early contributors and investors with multi-year vesting. The Vested Unlock filter surfaces these events while excluding any ecosystem provisioning that does not follow a fixed vesting schedule, making risk assessment more focused.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between Vested Unlock and All Unlocks?
All Unlocks shows every token release event including mining rewards and yield farming emissions. Vested Unlock excludes these programmatic reward mechanisms and focuses exclusively on structured vesting releases — team, investor, advisor, foundation, and ecosystem allocations that follow predetermined cliff and linear schedules.
Why would I exclude mining and farming rewards from my unlock analysis?
Mining and farming rewards are distributed across many small participants and often recirculate into liquidity pools rather than creating concentrated sell-side pressure. Vested unlocks, by contrast, release large token blocks to specific stakeholders with clear economic incentives to sell. Filtering to Vested Unlock helps you focus on the events most likely to impact price.
Does Vested Unlock include both cliff and linear vesting events?
Yes. The Vested Unlock filter includes both cliff events (discrete releases at intervals exceeding one day) and linear vesting events (continuous daily releases) — as long as they are part of a structured vesting schedule rather than mining or yield farming distributions.
Which stakeholder categories appear under Vested Unlock?
Vested Unlock surfaces releases for teams, investors (seed, private, Series A/B), advisors, foundations, treasuries, and ecosystem allocations. Any beneficiary category with a predetermined vesting schedule — whether cliff-based or linear — will appear in this filtered view.

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