Blockchain is a wonderland for many believers. It could potentially open up a magical door to a new world, where everything is fair and transparent. In this world, everyone will believe in one another, as data are owned by every single participant and smart contracts execute everything in a fair and logical manner. However, this seemed-to-be beautiful place has its pits as reality kicks in – there are dead projects. For that reason, if anyone wants to start investing in new promising blockchain projects, it is extremely important to analyze the project with caution. What Is Vesting Schedule? is the process of locking/unlocking tokens for a specific amount of time. Vesting So far, there are two ways to vest tokens: and . For linear vesting, the tokens will be released as equal portions periodically (E.g: daily, weekly, monthly, yearly). For twisted vesting, the tokens will be released randomly (first 3 months 45%, next 1 month 10%, next 3 days 10%,…). Linear Vesting Twisted Vesting Why Vesting Is Critical To Any Blockchain Projects Vesting is critical to any blockchain project because this process often applies to the contributors that help build the project (founders, advisors, designers, stakeholders,…). A good vesting schedule shows that the team is committed to building the project. How Do I Analyze Vesting Schedule? In Vietnamese, there is a saying “Hoc di doi voi hanh”, which means learning comes with practice. In my opinion, to better understand any problems, it is important to show examples. Therefore, I will show you how to analyze a project’s vesting schedule using the example of Heroverse(HER), one of the iconic blockchain gaming projects. You will need to open an Excel Sheet to follow this exercise. Excel Sheet makes it easier to summarize the vesting schedule. HeroVerse(HER) Firstly, you can find all related images and content of Heroverse in my blog from http://heroverse.io Open your blank Excel Sheet, we will go through the analysis step by step. Fill in your Excel every step of the way for better understanding. 1) Project Introduction Please read the , at least you will need to know what the project is all about. Trust me, your acknowledgment of the project means the world to blockchain project creators like us. And if you think about the project, it means the decentralized world to all of us! project introduction 2) Tokenomics Here are the tokenomics announced by Heroverese From the image, we can see that the total supply of this project is 1,000,000,000 HER. Hardcap = all sales made by the team in an effort to raise funds for the project. 3) Token Allocation Based on the information retrieved from and , we now know precisely how the team allocates their total supply Tokenomics Token Allocation 4) Vesting Schedule Note that for some projects, they usually show information separately. If you cannot see the vesting schedule clearly and thoroughly, you will be missing out on some heavy inflation periods. You will see this better as we dig deeper, so sit tight! Let’s take the example of Heroverse declares a 6-month fully locked, this is called . After this , the tokens will either be , or . Here, after the 6 months cliff, Heroverse uses for the tokens throughout the . This means that these tokens will be divided to , and for the next 18 months, the tokens will be released . Team & Advisor. Cliff cliff period fully unlocked linear vesting twisted vesting Linear Vesting period of 18 months 18 equal parts equally monthly = Monthly unlocked amount total no. tokens / no. months Same analysis applied and now we have: – the event in which 2 purposes are served, when a token is: TGE = Token Generating Event Generated Launched As you can see, for this project, after there will be an added to the . With the Excel Sheet, now you can calculate the from the monthly added tokens every month unlocked amount of tokens circulating supply inflation rate Inflation rate = (circulating supply month x – circulating supply previous month ) / circulating supply previous month I hope you learned something today 🙂 See you in the next blog!
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