Crypto token unlock schedule: 6 steps before a sales call

To check a crypto token unlock schedule before you book a call, open the project's page on NAUT, read whether the next release is a cliff or a daily drip, read the tranche label and the percent sitting next to the token count, convert the stored date into your own timezone, then set the call away from the release date. NAUT tracks 6,857 token unlock rows across 1,512 companies as of 5 November 2026, split into 5,540 cliff-style releases and 1,317 daily or linear drips, and 108 of those cliffs land in the 90 days after that date.

Data note. Every count here was read from NAUT's own database on 5 November 2026, read-only. An unlock row is 1 tranche of 1 company's token supply with a stored release schedule, and the counts cover all 6,857 live rows. The window counts (108 cliffs in 90 days, 73 in 30 days, 76 companies, 842 drips in progress) are measured from 5 November 2026. NAUT stores a percent on each unlock row, and rows reading 100 mean the whole of that tranche rather than the whole token supply, so read the percent next to the token count and never on its own. 6 schedule and funding claims went to an outside source check on 5 November 2026: 2 funding totals came back confirmed, and 3 of the 4 unlock dates came back with a calendar day 1 to 2 days later than the row's stored date, with the recorded quote not re-found on the page. This article therefore prints NAUT's stored dates and treats each one as a 48-hour window. NAUT Research wrote it.

How to check a crypto token unlock schedule, in 6 steps

NAUT's crypto tokenomics data is the token unlock calendar a deal maker works off, and the whole job runs off 1 question you can answer before opening anything: does the person you want to call have tokens arriving, and when.

• A cliff is a single date. A drip is a rate. The call you want to make is different in each case, and so is the week you want to make it in.
• 5,540 of the 6,857 rows are cliff-style and 1,317 are daily or linear, so most of what you will meet is a date rather than a rate.
• 842 rows were mid-drip on 5 November 2026, meaning the release had started and had not finished. Those teams have tokens arriving every day already.
• Only 1,414 of the 6,857 rows carry an end date, so a drip you cannot plan around is common.
• 207 of the 6,857 rows have a start date still ahead of 5 November 2026. Everything else has begun or carries no usable start.

Step 1: open the project on NAUT and find the unlock rows

Every tracked project page on NAUT carries its token unlock rows alongside its team, its funding and its sector tags, which is the point: the schedule and the person you would call sit on one page. The record covers 1,512 companies, and the stored dates run from 2017-04-06 at the earliest to 2029-07-31 at the latest.

Step 2: read whether the next release is a cliff or a drip

A token vesting cliff drops a whole tranche on one date and moves the price around it. A drip releases a fixed slice every day, so there is no single date to avoid. Jito shows what a drip looks like on NAUT's record: its Core Contributors tranche, 24.5 percent and 245M tokens, releases linearly from 2024-12-07 to 2026-12-07. A team on a 2-year drip has been selling into the market for months, and nothing about next Tuesday changes that.

Step 3: read the tranche label, because it says who gets paid

The label on the row tells you whose tokens these are, and that decides who you want on the call. A Team unlock pays the people you would pitch a partnership to. An Investors unlock pays their backers, who then have a reason to talk about the next round. Team is the largest label on NAUT's record with 1,017 rows, and Investors carries 210.

Step 4: read the percent next to the token count, never on its own

This is where the reading goes wrong most easily. Aztec Network's Incentives row reads 100 with 505M tokens and its Pre-Public Round row reads 100 with 200M tokens, which is the whole of each of those 2 tranches and nothing like the whole supply. Monad's Team row reads 41.15 with 11.1B tokens and a stored value of $334M, the largest single row in the next 90 days on NAUT's record. The pair of figures is the fact. Either one alone is a guess.

Step 5: convert the stored date into your own timezone

NAUT stores an unlock as a timestamp, and the calendar day you read off it depends on where you are. Of the 120 upcoming and in-progress rows read on 5 November 2026, 72 store the release at 16:00 UTC and 48 store it at 00:00 UTC. A 16:00 UTC release is already the next calendar day anywhere from UTC+8 onward, which is most of Asia. That is also part of why 3 of the 4 unlock dates put to an outside tracker came back a day or 2 later than the stored date. Treat the day as a 48-hour window and your call survives either reading.

Step 6: book the call away from the date, not on it

A founder in the week of a Team cliff is managing a market, a community and a legal calendar at once, and a cold note lands badly. The week after is the opposite: the tokens are out, the price has found its level, and a treasury has new room in it. 108 cliffs land in the 90 days after 5 November 2026 and 73 of them in the first 30, across 76 companies in the 90-day window, so there is a steady supply of teams coming out the other side of one.

Which crypto token unlock schedule rows land next?

These are 6 of the 76 companies with a cliff in the 90 days after 5 November 2026, plus 1 drip, taken from NAUT's record read on 5 November 2026. The date is the row's stored date, every row is a cliff except Jito's linear one, and each percent is the share of that tranche rather than of the supply.

Company	Stored date	Largest row	Value
Monad	2026-11-23	Team, 11.1B at 41.15%	$334M
Aztec Network	2026-11-11	Foundation, 861M at 71.11%	$20M
humidifi	2026-12-08	Foundation, 80M at 20%	$7.12M
The Graph	2026-12-16	Foundation, 100M at 5%	$2.81M
Bedrock	2026-12-19	Team, 16.7M at 8.3334%	$2.21M
1inch	2026-12-24	Incentives, 30M at 6.6663%	$3.01M
Jito	Linear to 2026-12-07	Core Contributors, 245M at 24.5%	None stored

5 of the 6 cliff companies here release more than 1 tranche on a single stored date, which is the pattern worth watching: Monad has Team, Treasury and Investors all on 2026-11-23, Aztec Network has Foundation, Incentives and Pre-Public Round all on 2026-11-11, and humidifi, Bedrock and 1inch each release 2. Only The Graph releases a single tranche on its date. Jito's drip started on 2024-12-07 and its row carries no value figure on NAUT's record, so the table says so rather than estimating one.

Which tranche labels unlock most often?

Ranked by the number of unlock rows NAUT holds under each label, these are the 11 largest of the 6,857 rows read on 5 November 2026. Rows is every unlock row carrying that label, split into cliffs and daily or linear drips.

Team and Investors are the 2 labels that matter to a deal maker, because they name the people who answer a note. Together they hold 1,227 rows, and 1,086 of those are cliffs with a single date to plan around.

How big is the next unlock at each company?

Each bar is the stored value on that company's largest row at its next cliff date. Monad is 16 times the next largest, which is why its 2026-11-23 date is the one to plan a quarter around. Jito stays out of the chart because its row carries no value figure on NAUT's record.

Where does NAUT's crypto token unlock schedule data come from?

Every one of the 6,857 rows carries the source it was ingested from. 5,739 came from Chainbroker and 1,118 from CryptoRank, which is the whole set. That matters for a deal maker in one specific way: the row is a record of a published schedule rather than an on-chain reading, so a project that changes its vesting plan can leave a stale row behind. The 2-figure habit from step 4 and the 48-hour window from step 5 are what cover that gap.

What a crypto token unlock schedule tells a BD team

• Build the pipeline off the cliff dates, not off the funding announcements. 76 companies have a cliff in the 90 days after 5 November 2026, and each one has a team with a visible, dated event to open a note on.
• Sort by tranche label before you sort by size. A $2.81M Foundation unlock at The Graph reaches a foundation budget holder, and that is a different buyer from the Team tranche at Monad.
• Multi-tranche dates are the hardest weeks to reach anyone. Monad and Aztec Network each release 3 tranches on 1 stored date.
• Drips are a standing opportunity rather than a date. 842 rows were mid-drip on 5 November 2026, so those teams have been receiving tokens daily for a while and have no single bad week.
• Take the person off the same page. Each project page on NAUT lists the people it holds for that company and the channels on file for each of them.

What a founder raising should read off it

• Your own Team and Investors rows are what a counterparty reads before a call. 1,017 Team rows and 210 Investor rows sit on NAUT's record, and yours is one of them if your token is tracked.
• Check your own row for the stale-schedule problem above, because a wrong date on a public record is read as your schedule.
• Use a backer's unlock date as the reason to reopen a conversation. An Investors cliff is a liquidity event for the fund, and 176 of the 210 Investor rows are cliffs.
• Look at who else unlocks in your week. A date shared with a larger project is a date with less attention in it.

Related reading on NAUT: Crypto token unlocks: Monad's 6.84B cliff after 12 months at 0 and Crypto watchlist: 6,921 projects, 2,601 catalyst moves a week.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

Partly, and the rest is read on the page. An unlock window is not a documented query parameter on the NAUT API, so the schedule rows above are read on each project's NAUT page, while the company and its team come back from 1 call such as GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/monad, and the wider set of tracked projects with a live token comes back from GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects?token=launched&limit=100. Each is a GET with an Authorization: Bearer $NAUT_KEY header at 5 credits a data call, so the 7 companies in the table cost 35 credits of the 3,000 that the $49 Essential plan carries each month, with the documented parameters at naut.so/docs/api and the plans at naut.so/pricing. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn for the people on those project pages unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial if you want the channels as well as the dates.

Crypto token unlock schedule FAQ

How to check when a crypto token unlocks?

Open the project's page on NAUT and read its unlock rows, which give the tranche label, the token count, the percent of that tranche and the stored release date or date range. NAUT holds 6,857 such rows across 1,512 companies as of 5 November 2026, so most tracked projects with a token have one.

What is the difference between a cliff and a linear unlock?

A cliff releases a whole tranche on 1 date, and a linear or daily unlock releases a fixed slice each day across a range. NAUT's record held 5,540 cliff-style rows and 1,317 daily or linear rows on 5 November 2026, and 842 of the drips were already in progress on that date.

How many crypto token unlocks are coming in the next 90 days?

108 cliff unlocks land in the 90 days after 5 November 2026 on NAUT's record, 73 of them within the first 30 days, spread across 76 companies. The largest single row in that window is Monad's Team tranche on 2026-11-23, 11.1B tokens at a stored value of $334M.

Why does the unlock date on NAUT differ by a day from a tracker?

Because the stored release is a timestamp rather than a calendar day. Of the 120 upcoming and in-progress rows read on 5 November 2026, 72 store the release at 16:00 UTC and 48 at 00:00 UTC, so a reader in Asia sees the next day. 3 of the 4 unlock dates this article put to an outside tracker came back 1 to 2 days later than the stored date, which is why a 48-hour window is the safe way to plan a call.

Where can I find the teams behind these unlocks and their contact channels?

On NAUT. Each of the 7 companies in this article has a page under /projects/ carrying its unlock rows, its sector tags and the people NAUT holds for it, and the same company records come back from the API with GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/<slug> at 5 credits a call. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial to open the channels.

Sources

• NAUT's own database, read read-only on 5 November 2026: all 6,857 token unlock rows, their tranche labels, cliff and daily split, stored timestamps, percent and token figures, stored values, ingest source, and the 120 upcoming and in-progress rows behind the tables.
• CoinDesk, with Tokenomist as a second page, for the $225M Series A behind Monad. NAUT's record puts the company's total at $244M across a seed round and that Series A.
• The Block, with Multiples as a second page, for Aztec Network raising over $119M across a seed round, a Series A and a Series B.
• The 4 unlock dates put to an outside check on 5 November 2026 read Tokenomist for Aztec Network, a TradingView listing for Monad, Jito's governance docs for Jito, and Tokenomist for DoubleZero. 3 of the 4 gave a calendar day 1 to 2 days later than the stored row and the recorded quote could not be re-found on the page, so this article prints NAUT's stored dates and flags each as a 48-hour window. DoubleZero's own unlock rows are left out of the tables above for the same reason.
• NAUT API facts: naut.so/docs/api and naut.so/pricing.