STRK · a monthly unlock that just keeps coming.

New STRK is minted only to pay staking rewards, on a curve capped at 1.6% a year and running near 0.3% today — about 5M STRK over the last 90 days. There is no block reward while a single operator runs the sequencer, so issuance is tiny next to the vesting unlocks.

The published schedule releases 127M STRK every month on the 15th to early contributors and investors, and runs until Mar 15 2027. Three of those cliffs land in each 90-day window, so about 381M STRK unlocks to those holders over the period — the largest single source of new supply.

The Foundation reserves and treasury, grants, community pools and the StarkWare allocation also vest on the tokenomics calendar, and were seen reaching circulating on-chain alongside the insider cliffs every month — about 530M STRK over the last 90 days. Roughly 3.19B STRK is still non-circulating and keeps releasing on schedule into 2031, a large standing overhang we track.

No bankruptcy estate, trustee distribution or court-ordered release touches STRK. Nothing in this row exists for this asset.

There is no open-market STRK buyback — the protocol does not repurchase its own token, so nothing bids against the monthly unlocks on exchanges.

Starknet does not burn STRK. Network fees pay the sequencer and settle in ETH, so there is no per-block STRK burn removing supply the way an EIP-1559 chain would.

No open-market purchase of STRK by the Foundation was disclosed in the window, and no wallet shows a position being built up from exchanges. Monitored.

Staking holds over 1B STRK, which takes some float off the market, but staked STRK is still counted as circulating and can be unstaked, so it is not booked as supply removed. No new multi-year lock or escrow was announced in the window.