Token Vesting Calculator

About this calculator

Token vesting is how startups, DAOs, and crypto projects gradually release equity or token allocations to team members, founders, and investors over time instead of handing everything over at once. The most common structure combines a cliff — a period (commonly 12 months) during which nothing vests at all — with linear vesting afterward, where the remaining tokens unlock in equal amounts month by month (or day by day) until the full schedule (commonly 36 or 48 months total) is complete.

If someone leaves before the cliff, they typically walk away with nothing from that grant; once past the cliff, they've already earned the cliff portion (often 25% for a 1-year cliff on a 4-year schedule) in one jump, after which the rest trickles in gradually.

This structure exists to align long-term incentives: it discourages team members from leaving (or investors from dumping tokens) right after launch, since walking away early forfeits a large share of unvested tokens, while projects and investors use vesting calculators like this one to track exactly how many tokens are unlocked and available at any point in time.