Crypto token unlocks: Monad's 6.84B cliff after 12 months at 0

Crypto token unlocks are the dates a project's locked tokens become transferable, and NAUT tracks them per project as a monthly release schedule. On Monad, read on 2 November 2026, NAUT's schedule shows the Investors, Team and Category Labs Treasury lines sitting at 0 tokens every month through 1 October 2026, then jumping to 6,837,000,000 $MON on 1 November 2026, with 1,411,150,000 more arriving on the 1st of each month after that until 2029.

How this was read: on 2 November 2026 NAUT's release schedule for Monad was read straight from its own database. The schedule holds 302 monthly points, from 1 November 2025 to 1 December 2050, against a total supply figure of 100,682,925,000 $MON, and NAUT generated this snapshot on 17 June 2026. Every token figure below is a cohort amount from those points. 2 things to hold in mind. First, the curve is a cumulative release curve measured against that supply snapshot, so it is not a market circulating-supply reading: by 1 October 2029 it reads 106.54% of the snapshot, because the Validator Rewards line keeps emitting past it. Check an exchange or explorer page for live circulating supply before you price anything off a date here. Second, NAUT's cohort-percent table for Monad carries a duplicate row, so this article uses the schedule's own token amounts and the per-cohort vesting terms, and quotes no percentage-of-supply breakdown.

How do I track crypto token unlocks on NAUT?

Open the project's NAUT page, read the release schedule, and find the first month a cohort leaves 0. That single row is the thing that moves a price, a treasury and a negotiation, and on Monad it is 1 November 2026.

What did Monad's token unlock schedule show on 1 November 2026?

It showed a 12-month cliff ending. 3 cohorts moved from 0 tokens to a balance in a single month, and the cumulative release curve stepped from 50.79% of the supply snapshot to 57.59%. Released is the curve's percentage of the supply snapshot; the Investors and Team columns are cumulative $MON rounded to billions, and the Category Labs Treasury and Validator Rewards lines sit in the next table.

The Investors line is the big one, at 4,925,000,000 $MON in its first month. NAUT's price series for $MON carries 0.0190279 USD for 1 November 2026, so multiplying that day's new tokens by that price puts the whole tranche near $130.1M and the Investors share of it near $93.7M. Treat both as arithmetic on 2 numbers from this page, never as a traded figure.

Which cohorts unlock, and how much arrives each month?

4 cohorts carry a schedule worth diarising, ranked here by the tokens each one added on 1 November 2026, largest first. Figures are $MON, rounded to millions or billions, with the exact monthly steps in the prose and the FAQ below. The Nov 2026 column is what each line added that month, Monthly is every month after it, Final is where the line ends, and Treasury is the Category Labs Treasury line.

Read the Investors and Team rows side by side, because they behave differently. Investors took about a quarter of their 19,700,000,000 allocation in the cliff month and then draw 410,416,667 a month for 3 years. The Team line took 1 month's worth, 750,000,000, and repeats that same amount every month to 1 October 2029, which makes the Team the heavier monthly seller of the 2 from December 2026 onwards. Validator Rewards is the only line that was already releasing before the cliff, from 1 November 2025, and it never stops inside this schedule.

Monad's own tokenomics post supports the shape of both lines. It says "All team tokens are locked for the first year, released at 1-year anniversary", and it puts the investor allocation under a lock-up that runs for 4 years from launch, which is the 12-month cliff plus 36 monthly tranches that NAUT's points draw.

What this tells a BD lead, a founder or an investor

• A cliff month is a calendar event you can prepare for. The 1 November 2026 date was visible on NAUT's schedule months ahead of it, and so is 1 November 2029.
• The monthly step matters more than the cliff for anything past the first month. 1,411,150,000 $MON a month is the number to model, not the 6,837,000,000 headline.
• A treasury line is a BD signal. The Category Labs Treasury went from 0 to 1,000,000,000 tokens and adds 83,333,333 a month, which is when ecosystem, grants and partnership budgets usually start moving.
• The backers behind an Investors line are reachable. NAUT's record puts Monad's total raised at $244M across its 2023 seed round and its 2024 round, and lists Dragonfly Capital among the backers of both, with its own NAUT page and people.

How to track crypto token unlocks for any project

1. Search the project on NAUT and open its project page.
2. Read the release schedule and note the first month each cohort leaves 0 tokens.
3. Subtract 2 neighbouring months to get the monthly step, the way 1,411,150,000 falls out of the Monad points.
4. Note the snapshot date on the schedule. Monad's was generated on 17 June 2026, so a tokenomics change made after that date would not be in it.
5. Cross-check the live circulating supply on an exchange or explorer, because a release curve and a circulating-supply reading answer different questions.
6. Open the project's backers on NAUT and pick the person you need, then send the note before the tranche lands rather than after.

A token vesting schedule is only half the job. The other half is knowing who to call about it, which is what each project's and each fund's NAUT page carries next to the data.

Related reading on NAUT: Crypto watchlist: 6,921 projects, 2,601 catalyst moves a week and Crypto data API: 3 calls, 5 credits a pull, 14,350 people.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

Monad's own record comes back from 1 call, GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/monad with an Authorization: Bearer $NAUT_KEY header, which returns the company and its team for 5 credits. The release schedule in this article was read from NAUT's database rather than from a documented API field, so pair that call with the project page for the unlock dates, and mint a key on NAUT's developer page on any plan from $49 a month, with the reference at the API docs. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn for the people on those records unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial if you need to reach them.

Crypto token unlocks FAQ

How do I know when a crypto team's tokens unlock?

Read the project's release schedule on NAUT and find the first month its Team and Investors lines leave 0 tokens. On Monad that month is 1 November 2026, and NAUT holds 302 monthly points for $MON, from 1 November 2025 to 1 December 2050.

What is the Monad token unlock schedule?

The Monad token unlock schedule on NAUT starts at 1 November 2025, keeps Investors, Team and the Category Labs Treasury at 0 tokens for 12 months, then releases 6,837,000,000 $MON on 1 November 2026, of which 4,925,000,000 went to Investors and 750,000,000 to the Team, read on 2 November 2026.

How much $MON unlocks each month after the cliff?

NAUT's schedule adds 1,411,150,000 $MON a month from 1 December 2026: 410,416,667 to Investors, 750,000,000 to the Team, 83,333,333 to the Category Labs Treasury and 167,400,000 to Validator Rewards. The Investors line finishes at 19,700,000,000 tokens on 1 November 2029 and the Team line at 27,000,000,000 on 1 October 2029.

Does a release schedule show circulating supply?

No. NAUT's curve for Monad is cumulative release against a total supply snapshot of 100,682,925,000 $MON taken on 17 June 2026, and it reads 106.54% of that snapshot by 1 October 2029 because Validator Rewards keep emitting. Use an exchange or explorer page for a live circulating-supply number.

Where can I track a project's token unlocks and reach the backers behind them?

On NAUT. The project page carries the release schedule, 302 monthly points in Monad's case, and each backer on the round, Dragonfly Capital among them, has its own page with its people; GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/monad returns the same record for 5 credits. 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: the Monad release schedule (302 monthly points, total supply 100,682,925,000 $MON, snapshot generated 17 June 2026), its $MON price series, and Monad's company record, all read on 2 November 2026.
• Monad's tokenomics overview on its own site, for the investor and team lock-up terms: mon tokenomics overview.
• The $MON vesting terms as 12-month cliff plus 36-month linear monthly vesting: tokenomics.com.