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Tokenomics, Distribution, and Transparency

MIKO Protocol’s tokenomics are designed with fairness, long-term sustainability, and community trust as the highest priorities. The model is straightforward, transparent, and built to mitigate risks associated with team token holdings.

1. MIKO Token Specifications​

  • Token Name: MIKO Protocol
  • Ticker: MIKO
  • Blockchain: Solana (SPL Token-2022 Standard)
  • Total Supply: 1,000,000,000 MIKO
  • Contract Address: TBD at deployment

2. Initial Distribution​

MIKO is committed to a 100% fair launch, ensuring equal opportunity for all participants. There will be no presales, private sales, or bundled launches. No one, including the team, acquires tokens below the market price, and every allocation outside the liquidity pool starts inside an on-chain vesting escrow.

  • Liquidity Pool: 55%
    • Deposited into the liquidity pool at the moment of launch to anchor the market. The LP position is locked for 12 months.
  • Community: 13%
    • Airdrop seasons, events, and quests. Season 1, the Miko's Circle leaderboard airdrop, is distributed at launch from this allocation. The remainder is held in an on-chain vesting escrow that releases 0.3% of the total supply every Tuesday at 00:00 UTC for community programs. Any weekly tranche left unused at the end of its week is burned or added to protocol liquidity.
  • Growth & Partnerships: 10%
    • Marketing campaigns, KOL collaborations, and ecosystem integrations. Vests 1% of the total supply every 30 days across ten tranches. Unused tranches are burned or added to protocol liquidity at each cycle.
  • Ecosystem Reserve: 10%
    • The protocol's operational reserve: day-to-day operations, marketing support, liquidity injections, and topping up the other allocations when they run short. Vests 2% of the total supply every 30 days across five tranches, under the same discipline: whatever goes unused is burned or added to protocol liquidity.
  • CEX Listings: 7%
    • Inventory reserved for centralized exchange listings and the market operations they require. Locked for 3 months as a growth milestone. If no listing is in motion when the escrow matures, the allocation is locked again for another 3 months.
  • On-Chain Migration Reserve: 5%
    • Reserved to subsidize the 6% transfer fee for users moving MIKO from exchanges into self-custody, so exchange buyers can join on-chain allocations without penalty. Locked for 3 months alongside the listings inventory; program terms are published when a listing goes live.

3. Locked Allocations and Team Exposure​

Every allocation outside the liquidity pool is held in its own vesting escrow on Jupiter Lock, an audited open-source locker. Cancellation and recipient changes are permanently disabled at escrow creation, so not even the team can accelerate, redirect, or cancel a schedule. Each escrow address is published, and the entire release plan can be verified on-chain at any time.

  • Team liquid holdings are capped by the schedule itself. At any given time, the team holds at most about 3.3% of the total supply in liquid form: the current Ecosystem Reserve tranche (2%), the current Growth tranche (1%), and the current weekly Community tranche (0.3%). The CEX Listings and On-Chain Migration Reserve allocations unlock only at their 3-month milestone and are locked again if unused, so they never add to day-to-day float. The escrow schedule itself removes the inventory that large-scale selling would require.

  • Unused tokens return to the ecosystem. At the end of each vesting cycle, whatever remains unspent in the team wallet is burned or added to protocol liquidity, and both actions are visible on-chain. Nothing accumulates quietly in a team wallet between cycles.

  • Growth first, then consolidation. These allocations exist to fuel the project's early growth: community programs, partnerships, and market expansion. As the protocol matures, the same discipline converts any surplus into ecosystem health, through a permanently smaller supply or deeper liquidity.

This structure keeps the team consistently incentivized to grow the protocol while giving the community a verifiable, on-chain guarantee of how every non-liquidity token is handled.