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UNUS SED LEO — how much LEO moves to market in the next 90 days?

Exchange revenue funds a structural buy-and-burn, against an empty sell ledger. The only coin in the lineup where the headline read is net buy pressure, by design.

Setup

LEO is a corporate-issued ERC-20 by iFinex (parent of Bitfinex), launched in May 2019 to recover ~$850M of customer funds lost in the Crypto Capital scandal. The token has no protocol mint function — total supply only goes down via the on-chain destroyTokens call. Read directly:

  • Total supply: ~985.24M LEO (was 1,000M at May 2019 issuance → ~14.76M burned to date)
  • Circulating: ~920.54M LEO (93.4% of total)
  • iFinex treasury: ~64.7M LEO (985.24 − 920.54), unmoved
  • Buyback programme: 27% of iFinex consolidated gross monthly revenue → market buy LEO → destroyTokens
  • Recovery burns: 95% of Crypto Capital litigation recoveries + 80% of 2016 Bitfinex hack recoveries → burn (sporadic)

The framework asks one structural question for any coin:

Net 90d % = (sell total − buy total) / circulating × 100

Part 1 · Sell pressureto market

Last 90 days · sell total
0 LEO
0.00% of circulating
Next 90 days · sell projected
0 LEO
0.00% of circulating
SOURCE #1Protocol inflation
Last 90 days
0
The LEO ERC-20 contract (0x2af5…2ca3) has no external mint function. Total supply can only decrease via destroyTokens. Source-verified on-chain, audited by Callisto Network in July 2019.
Next 90 days
0
Same — the contract is immutable.
SOURCE #2Vesting unlocks
Last 90 days
0
LEO was issued in a single tranche in May 2019 (1B tokens). No vesting cliff, no team unlock schedule, no investor lockup.
Next 90 days
0
Same — no schedule exists.
SOURCE #3iFinex treasury (discretionary)
Last 90 days
watching
iFinex holds the ~64.7M LEO between total supply (985.24M) and circulating (920.54M). This is the operating reserve — could be deployed to ecosystem, exchange listings, partner programmes at iFinex's discretion. Has not moved materially in recent windows.
Next 90 days
watching
Same expectation. A material move would be visible on-chain and surfaced on the next refresh.
Is this rule-based? No. iFinex deploys at corporate discretion; no published per-quarter schedule. Tag: watching. The reserve size is the size; the rate of deployment is the unknown.
SOURCE #4Long-term locked or bankruptcy
Last 90 days
0
No active bankruptcy claim on LEO holders. The 2016 Bitfinex hack recoveries (BFX/RRT history) and the Crypto Capital litigation recoveries flow TO LEO buybacks via the burn commitments, not the other way.
Next 90 days
0
Same expectation.

Part 2 · Buy pressureoff market

Last 90 days · buy total
~0.40M LEO
0.04% of circulating
Next 90 days · buy projected
~0.40M LEO
~0.04% of circulating
SOURCE #1Revenue-funded buy-and-burn (Tag A)
Last 90 days
~0.40M LEO
27% of iFinex consolidated gross monthly revenue is committed to buying LEO at market then burning. Programme is rule-based at the policy level; the dollar amount scales with iFinex's exchange revenue, which varies with crypto market activity. Observed on-chain supply delta over the window: ~−0.4M LEO (the "market-buy + destroyTokens" net effect). This is materially smaller than 2020–2021-era pace (~3M LEO/month) because exchange revenue has compressed.
Next 90 days
~0.40M LEO
Project at trailing-90d observed pace. Material upside if crypto volume returns; material downside if it compresses further.
Is this rule-based? Yes — the 27%-revenue commitment is policy. Tag: fixed. The MAGNITUDE varies with iFinex revenue (not published live), so the dollar pace is estimate while the policy is fixed.
SOURCE #2Burn mechanism (separate)
Last 90 days
0
Captured under #1 above. The on-chain destroyTokens call is the DISPOSITION of LEO that was already market-bought in row #1, not a separate market-impact event. Counted once to avoid double-counting.
Next 90 days
0
Same.
SOURCE #3Foundation / DAO buy (other than the 27% programme)
Last 90 days
0
No DAO. The 27% buyback IS the structural mechanism. Two adjunct commitments exist but are sporadic: 95% of Crypto Capital litigation recoveries and 80% of 2016 Bitfinex hack recoveries are pledged to burn. No recovery event landed in this window.
Next 90 days
0
Same — no recovery event expected in the window.
SOURCE #4New long-term lock
Last 90 days
0
No native staking. The fee-discount utility for holding LEO on Bitfinex is operational (instant withdraw/deposit), not a market lock.
Next 90 days
0
Same.

Net result

Plug the totals back into the formula:

Last 90 days = (0 − 0.40M) / 920.54M × 100 = -0.043% — supply taken off market
Next 90 days = (0 − 0.40M) / 920.54M × 100 = -0.043% — supply taken off market

The structural read for LEO is net buy pressure by design. The ~27%-revenue commitment is one of the most explicit revenue-funded buyback programmes in crypto. The CAVEAT right now is that iFinex revenue has compressed vs. 2020–2021, so the absolute size of the burn is smaller than the headline implies. Project the 27%-of-revenue formula forward and the magnitude reflects whatever exchange revenue does — not what the policy promises.

The single mechanism that would FLIP this read to net sell would be a material iFinex treasury deployment (Sell #3, currently watching). The treasury is ~64.7M LEO — non-trivial, but historically dormant. The framework keeps it on the watch list rather than projecting an estimate.

Data note. Total supply, circulating, contract immutability are origin-first from the LEO ERC-20 on Ethereum mainnet (on-chain source + 2019 Callisto audit). Buyback policy + recovery commitments from the LEO Transparency Dashboard at leo.bitfinex.com. Monitor used as the supply snapshot for the 90d delta, since the on-chain destroyTokens history shows the EXIT but not the BUY — both halves of the buy-and-burn programme.

MrNasdog Pressure Framework analysis of LEO, Metrics 1 & 2. Data + explanation only. Not financial advice. Updated May 26, 2026.