IOTA · staking rewards now mint new supply, with nothing to take it back.
IOTA is the gas and staking token of its own delegated proof-of-stake layer-1 after the 2025 Rebased upgrade — ~4.49B circulating, now uncapped, growing by staking emission plus bi-weekly ecosystem unlocks.
Sell pressure. About 136M IOTA over the next 90 days — ~69M of staking emission plus seven bi-weekly vesting cliffs worth ~67M.
Buy pressure. None that matters — no buyback, and the fee burn is too small to offset new supply.
Net. About +3.0% to market over 90 days — supply heading up, with nothing structural pulling it back.
- Bi-weekly vesting unlock~9.55MJun 24 2026 · added to market
- Bi-weekly vesting unlock~9.55MJul 8 2026 · added to market
- Bi-weekly vesting unlock~9.55MJul 22 2026 · added to market
IOTA mints 767,000 new tokens every epoch — about a day — as staking rewards for validators and delegators. That is roughly 69M over the next 90 days, about 280M a year, an initial rate near 6%.
Two ecosystem buckets created at the Rebased upgrade — the Swiss ecosystem association and the Abu Dhabi entity, 552M each — release bi-weekly over four years, about 9.55M combined per release. Seven cliffs land in this window, the next on Jun 24 2026, releasing roughly 67M.
The treasury and original migrated allocation are already about 97.7% unlocked, and no discretionary release outside the bi-weekly schedule already counted above was observed in the window — monitored.
No bankruptcy estate or court-ordered distribution applies to IOTA.
IOTA runs no protocol buyback — there is no mechanism that spends revenue to buy IOTA back off the market.
Part of each transaction's computation fee is burned, but fees are tiny (about 0.005 IOTA each) and network volume is low, so the amount removed over 90 days is well under 1M — immaterial against ~136M of new supply.
No discretionary open-market buying by the foundation announced in the window — monitored.
No new multi-year lock or escrow announced in the window — monitored. Staking is liquid and re-stakeable, not a fresh lock-up.
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