In the cryptocurrency market, the circulation and supply of IO tokens are the focus of investors. This article will analyze the circulation, supply and related unlocking mechanisms of IO tokens in detail.
Circulation calculation: In the first year after TGE (Token Generation Event), the new circulation of IO tokens mainly comes from three sources:
Community rewards: a total of 13.28 million, an average of 1.1 million IO tokens per month.
Operation and ecology: a total of 14.24 million, an average of 1.18 million IO tokens per month.
Node incentives: Although its annual inflation rate is 8%, the actual inflation rate is higher due to the small number of circulating tokens in the first year. In the first year, the node incentive added 37.84 million new circulation, an average of 3.15 million new IO tokens per month.
In summary, the monthly new circulation of IO tokens in the first year of TGE is 5.43 million.
Team and investor unlocking: Starting from June 2025, the tokens of the team and investors will begin to be unlocked. The monthly unlocking amount is 10.16 million. According to the financing data, the investment cost of seed round investors is 0.1 US dollars per coin, and the cost of A round investors is 0.36 US dollars per coin.
Supply analysis: The supply of IO tokens is divided into initial supply and maximum supply:
Initial supply: 500 million
Maximum supply: 800 million
The initial supply is 500 million, and then it will be issued every year. The increase rate in the first year is 8%, and it will decrease by 1.02% every month. After a maximum of 20 years, the supply will be increased to 800 million. In fact, many projects will increase the supply every year for node rewards, such as ETH and DOT, but IO specifically mentioned the upper limit of the increase.
Supply details
Since IO tokens have two supplies, it is easy to confuse under different data ratios, and some details may be misled by the official. The following is a detailed supply distribution:
Binance Launchpool: 20 million, accounting for 2.5% of the total supply
Seed round investors: 100 million, accounting for 12.5% of the total supply
Round A investors: 8,120, accounting for 10.15% of the total supply
Core contributors: 9,072, accounting for 11.34% of the total supply
Operation and ecology: 128 million, accounting for 16.01% of the total supply
Community: 80 million, accounting for 10% of the total supply
Initial circulation
The initial circulation is 95 million, including the following parts:
Binance Launchpool: 20 million
Community: 37.5 million (mainly used for airdrops)
Operation and ecology: 37.5 million (part of it is used for liquidity provision, and the rest may be reserved or sold by the project party, which requires on-chain tracking confirmation)
Through the above analysis, we can have a clearer understanding of the circulation and supply of IO tokens. This is very important reference information for investors and market participants.