The ASE Token
Token Distribution
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Final percentages are not yet locked. The distribution principles below are committed; the exact allocation is being finalized as part of the pre-mainnet legal and tokenomics review. The latest published version lives on the token page.
Principles
The Asentum distribution is built around four principles. Each of these is locked even though the exact percentages aren't.
- A meaningful share goes to the people who validate the network. A reserved fraction of mainnet supply (placeholder: ~7.5%) is set aside for incentivized testnet participants and distributed proportionally to testnet credits earned. This is how the validator set bootstraps — the people who actually ran nodes during the incentivized testnet receive a real economic stake in mainnet.
- The ecosystem allocation is real and it's deployed. A portion of supply is reserved for ecosystem grants, audits, dApp development, and developer tooling. This is not a "treasury" the founders control as a slush fund — see Growth fund for the deployment rules.
- Team and contributor allocations are vested and visible. Any allocation to the team, contributors, advisors, or early supporters is subject to multi-year vesting with clear cliffs. Vesting schedules are published before TGE and visible on-chain.
- No surprise dilution. Inflation (block reward emission) is on a published curve with a hard cap. There are no off-curve mints. Any change to the emission curve is a hard fork and goes through governance.
What's locked, what's open
| Element | Status |
|---|---|
| Maximum supply (1B ASE) | Locked |
| Smallest unit (10⁻¹⁸) | Locked |
| EIP-1559 base-fee burn | Locked |
| Decaying inflation curve | Shape locked, parameters open |
| Incentivized testnet pool | Locked in principle (~7.5% placeholder) |
| Genesis distribution percentages | Not locked |
| Vesting schedules | Not locked |
See disclosures for legal status of any token-related events. Nothing on this page is an offer to sell securities.