Tokenomics Designer. Stress-test your vesting before TGE.
Model your token allocation, vesting cliffs and linear release across 60 months. See sell pressure on every unlock, allocation pie chart and a 12-point VC red-flag scorecard. Built around the patterns Crawlux observes across 200+ crypto launches audited since 2017.
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Set your allocation. See 60 months of sell pressure.
Edit any field. Allocation pie, vesting stacked area chart, monthly sell pressure bars and the 12-point red-flag scorecard all update live.
// Supply & pricing
// Allocations
| Bucket | % | Cliff (mo) | Linear (mo) | TGE % |
|---|
// Actions
Allocation
Share of total supplyVesting schedule (60 months)
Circulating supply by bucketMonthly sell pressure
Estimated unlocks vs daily volume reference// 12-point VC red-flag scorecard
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Enter supply, price and allocations
Total supply, listing price, average daily volume on listing exchanges. Then 8 allocation rows for team, advisors, investors, public sale, ecosystem, incentives, liquidity and treasury. Cliff in months. Linear vesting period in months. TGE unlock percentage.
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Allocation pie chart. Vesting stacked area chart across 60 months. Monthly sell pressure bars with daily-volume reference line. 12-point red-flag scorecard with verdict tier from Risky to Strong.
Fix the red flags and re-run
The scorecard surfaces the specific items hurting the score. Adjust allocations or vesting until it scores 10+ out of 12. Export the charts as PNG for your deck or investor memo.
12 red flags VCs and analysts look for in tokenomics
Each is mechanical. Each can be fixed before TGE. None require new product work.
Total supply hard-capped
The contract has no minting function, or any minting is capped and timelocked. Soft caps and unlimited mint authorities are immediate red flags. The Token Schema audit validates the marketing site reflects the hard-cap claim.
Insider allocation under 45 percent
Team plus advisors plus investors should sum below 45 percent. Above that, the project reads as VC-extraction first, community second. The Token Pre-Launch Checklist has more nuanced bands per category.
Team vesting cliff 12+ months
No team tokens unlock for at least 12 months post-TGE. Below 12 months is read as extraction intent. 18 to 24 month cliffs signal long-term alignment.
Linear vesting after cliff
After the cliff, tokens release linearly over 24 to 48 months. Cliff-and-dump schedules (everything unlocks at the cliff) destroy price discovery on unlock dates.
No single bucket over 25 percent
No individual allocation bucket (team, single investor, foundation) holds more than 25 percent of supply. Concentration risk gets called out publicly.
TGE unlock under 15 percent
Total tokens circulating at TGE should be under 15 percent of supply. Public sale, liquidity provision and some ecosystem allocation count. Over 15 percent creates immediate sell pressure during price discovery.
Year-1 sell pressure under 2x daily volume
Monthly unlocked supply (priced at listing price) should not exceed 2x daily trading volume in the first 12 months. Above this, organic demand cannot absorb unlock-driven selling.
Liquidity provision at least 5 percent
Allocation to DEX and CEX liquidity should be at least 5 percent of supply, deployed at TGE. Thin launch liquidity creates bot-sniping and instant price collapse.
Ecosystem and incentives over 20 percent
The combined allocation to ecosystem grants, incentives and treasury should exceed 20 percent. Below that signals undercapitalization for the 36-month execution window.
Public sale at least 5 percent
Public access to tokens at TGE (IDO, IDO-like, fair launch portion) at least 5 percent. Below that signals VC-only economics with retail as exit liquidity.
Advisor allocation under 5 percent
Advisors should not collectively hold more than 5 percent. Higher allocations to advisors versus team signal either extraction or low founder skin in the game.
Vesting schedule documented publicly
The full vesting schedule is published on the tokenomics page with a visual chart. Run the chart through the Whitepaper AEO Scorer if it lives inside your whitepaper, and check the Crypto Schema Generator for the structured data version.
Common questions about tokenomics design
Patterns that come up across founder DMs, investor memos and TG3 client onboarding calls.
What is a healthy team allocation for a 2026 launch?
15 to 22 percent is the median band across credible 2024 to 2026 launches. Above 25 percent needs strong narrative justification by funding stage or team size and tenure. VCs discount valuations on high team allocations. Below 10 percent can signal undercapitalization of operations. The Tokenomics Designer flags allocations over 22 percent as a red flag and over 25 percent as concentrated.
How long should the team vesting cliff be?
12 months is the minimum market expectation. 18 to 24 months signals long-term alignment. Below 12 months gets called out publicly on Crypto Twitter and read as extraction intent. The cliff is followed by linear vesting over 24 to 48 months. The full Token Pre-Launch Checklist covers this and 31 other launch-readiness criteria.
Should anything unlock at TGE for the team?
No. Zero team unlock at TGE is the expectation. Any team unlock at TGE signals immediate extraction. Public sale, liquidity allocation and some portion of ecosystem allocation can unlock at TGE, but team, advisor and investor portions should remain cliffed.
What is the right total supply for a token?
Total supply is a marketing decision, not a fundamental one. 1 billion is the most common across the last three cycles, because the visual psychology of holding "1000 tokens at $0.05" is more attractive than "0.01 tokens at $5000". The fundamentals are dilution rate (vesting), float at TGE, and demand drivers. Total supply on its own means nothing.
How does sell pressure get calculated?
The tool estimates monthly unlocked supply per bucket, multiplies by the listing price to get USD value of new supply entering circulation, and compares against the daily trading volume reference. If monthly unlocks exceed 2x daily volume, organic demand typically cannot absorb the new supply and price discovers a new lower equilibrium. This is the math behind the "unlock dump" pattern.
Should I include a burn mechanism?
Only if the smart contract or treasury policy actually implements it. Burn claims in tokenomics docs that are not on-chain get called out as marketing fluff. Real burn or buyback-and-burn mechanisms (Binance Coin, MakerDAO MKR pre-Endgame) need fee capture mechanisms upstream. Without a fee generator, burn is just a label.
What is the right TGE float percentage?
Under 15 percent of total supply circulating at TGE is the healthy band. 8 to 12 percent is common. Below 5 percent creates artificial scarcity and unsustainable initial valuations. Above 20 percent creates immediate sell pressure during the volatile first weeks of price discovery. The Tokenomics Designer flags TGE float over 15 percent in the scorecard.
Does this tool know about my specific token, or is it generic modeling?
It is generic modeling driven entirely by the values you enter. No external data lookups. The 12-point scorecard applies the same heuristic rules across any token. For project-specific schema validation and audit, run the Token Schema audit module on your live domain — that examines your actual marketing site and on-chain references against the same checks.
Tokenomics is read in 60 seconds and decides the next 60 months
The first thing any serious researcher does is open your tokenomics page and count: team percentage, investor percentage, cliff length, vesting schedule, TGE unlock. If team plus investors plus advisors exceeds 45 percent, with cliffs under 12 months, the project is read as extraction-oriented regardless of what the whitepaper says. The math is mechanical. The reading is automatic.
Sell pressure from insider unlocks must be matched by organic demand
This is the equation that decides whether the chart compounds or bleeds. Every month, some allocation unlocks. Each unlocked token can be sold. The sum of monthly unlocked supply, priced at current market, is the sell pressure. The sum of organic buy demand is the offset. When sell pressure consistently exceeds organic demand, price discovers a new floor. Repeat for 24 to 48 months as vesting completes.
This is why the 60-month projection matters. Tokenomics that look reasonable at TGE can crater at month 13 (the first team cliff unlock) or month 19 (investor unlock acceleration). The visual stacked area chart in the Tokenomics Designer makes this immediately visible. Stair-step unlock spikes warn you exactly when the supply shock arrives.
The TGE float decides the first six weeks
Tokens circulating at TGE determine initial price discovery. Tight float creates artificial scarcity and inflated initial valuations that cannot be sustained as vesting continues. Loose float creates instant supply overhang. The healthy band is 8 to 15 percent of total supply circulating at TGE, with most of that being public sale, liquidity provision and a portion of ecosystem allocation. Team and investor float at TGE should be zero.
Vesting design is a coordination problem, not a number-picking problem
The reason 12-month cliffs and 36-month linear vesting became standard is not arbitrary. It signals to the market that insiders cannot exit in the first year, gives the project 36 months to build product-market fit before insiders can fully exit, and aligns insider economics with the 3-year build cycle most crypto projects need. Shorter cliffs read as extraction. Longer cliffs (48 months) can read as locked-up dead capital, which depresses staking and governance participation.
What VCs and analysts actually count
Beyond the headline percentages, the scrutiny goes to: do allocations to founders match the cap table from funding rounds (any "advisor allocation" suspiciously matching a co-founder's holdings gets flagged), does liquidity allocation get burnt or locked to community after deployment, are vesting contracts actually deployed and visible on-chain at TGE, and does the tokenomics page show a vesting chart or only narrative. Schema-marked structured data on the tokenomics page lets AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity cite your numbers accurately. Generate the structured data with the Crypto Schema Generator.
What gets fixed before TGE
The Tokenomics Designer outputs are designed to find the issues that can still be fixed: rebalance allocations, extend cliffs, slow linear vesting, add or remove TGE unlocks, adjust ecosystem versus incentives split. Once contracts are deployed and tokens are minted, most of this becomes irreversible. The tool exists for the design window, not for retrofitting a launched project.
The downstream connection to SEO and AEO
The tokenomics page is the most-visited URL on a crypto project site after the homepage. It is the page that AI engines cite when users ask "what is the tokenomics of X" — which is one of the most common AI prompts in crypto research. If your tokenomics page is a static image, AI engines cannot read it. If it lacks schema markup, AI engines have nothing structured to cite. If it lacks an FAQ section explaining unusual allocations, AI engines summarize generically. Run the Whitepaper AEO Scorer on your tokenomics page (or whitepaper section covering tokenomics) to score AI readability. Run the AI Visibility audit on the live domain to see actual citation frequency.
Good tokenomics, badly published, gets cited as bad tokenomics. The math matters. The framing matters too.
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