500,000,000 CGW
Smaller denomination. Individual reward amounts become visually smaller, which can make micro-contributions feel insignificant.
Economics
Tokenomics
A fixed supply, six allocations, and a deliberately unflattering definition of circulating supply. These figures are approved for V1 implementation, not a draft under discussion.
Status: approved for V1 implementation. The supply, the six-way split and every allocation’s release schedule are decided, and this repository’s code is being built to match them exactly. What has not happened is deployment — nothing has been minted on any Solana cluster. See transparency for what actually exists today.
Supply
Why the supply number matters less than you would think
Choosing between 500 million and 10 billion feels like a consequential decision. It mostly is not. Holding the distribution constant and changing only the denomination produces an identical circulating-supply curve — the percentages below are the same in every column. Only the digits change.
| Scenario | Maximum supply | At TGE | Year 1 | Year 4 | Year 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 500,000,000 CGW | 500,000,000 | 15% | 24.47% | 51.09% | 75% |
| 1,000,000,000 CGW | 1,000,000,000 | 15% | 24.47% | 51.09% | 75% |
| 10,000,000,000 CGW | 10,000,000,000 | 15% | 24.47% | 51.09% | 75% |
1,000,000,000 CGW
The current modelling baseline. Common in the Solana ecosystem and large enough that per-contribution rewards remain legible whole numbers.
10,000,000,000 CGW
Larger denomination. Matches Pyth. Risks the cosmetic perception problems associated with very high supply counts without conferring any structural benefit.
What actually determines outcomes is distribution breadth, the share circulating at any moment, the emission schedule, the unlock cliffs, how much the treasury controls, and whether the token has a reason to exist at all. The approved V1 maximum is 1,000,000,000 CGW because it sits in the middle and keeps per-contribution rewards legible as whole numbers — not because the number itself confers anything.
Allocation
The six allocations
- Ecosystem & contributor rewards — 45% (450M)
- Ecosystem treasury, development & grants — 20% (200M)
- Core team — 15% (150M)
- Liquidity & ecosystem integrations — 10% (100M)
- Environmental impact initiatives — 5% (50M)
- Early community & launch distribution — 5% (50M)
Ecosystem & contributor rewards
APPROVED FOR IMPLEMENTATION45% · 450,000,000 CGW
Rewards for verified, accepted contributions to the plant and garden data commons, plus ecosystem growth incentives.
The largest allocation goes to the people who create the product's actual value — the verified plant observations, corrections and care data. Pyth reserves a comparable named allocation (22%) purely for data publishers; CGW's share is larger because it has no publisher-side commercial relationships to fall back on. The 0.945 annual decay is borrowed from Render's RNP-001 damping coefficient.
Ecosystem treasury, development & grants
APPROVED FOR IMPLEMENTATION20% · 200,000,000 CGW
Long-term development funding, ecosystem grants, integrations, audits and operational runway.
Released linearly rather than unlocked at genesis so the treasury cannot be spent down quickly, and so the published circulating-supply figure is not inflated by tokens that are merely sitting in a project wallet.
Core team
APPROVED FOR IMPLEMENTATION15% · 150,000,000 CGW
Long-term compensation and retention for the people building CoinGarden.World.
A 12-month cliff followed by 36 months of linear vesting (48 months total duration). This mirrors the schedule Jupiter enforces on-chain and Jito applies to core contributors. Enforcement must be on-chain and non-accelerable — a published schedule that an administrator can override is not a vesting schedule.
Liquidity & ecosystem integrations
APPROVED FOR IMPLEMENTATION10% · 100,000,000 CGW
Initial market liquidity and integration incentives, if and when a listing is ever an approved decision.
Liquidity must be unlocked to function at all. This allocation is deliberately modelled as fully released at genesis so the circulating-supply chart shows the honest worst case, not a flattering one. No listing is planned, approved or announced.
Environmental impact initiatives
APPROVED FOR IMPLEMENTATION5% · 50,000,000 CGW
Funding for verified environmental and biodiversity initiatives selected through the impact process.
Released over five years and held in a separate, separately-reported vault so environmental commitments can be independently audited rather than asserted. Tokens count as treasury-controlled until an actual grant is disbursed against verified evidence.
Early community & launch distribution
APPROVED FOR IMPLEMENTATION5% · 50,000,000 CGW
Recognition for early CoinGarden users and contributors who built the product's first data and community.
Deliberately small. The research on large retroactive airdrops shows they mostly attract mercenary participation; CGW's long-term distribution is meant to happen through the rewards allocation over years, based on verified contribution, not through one launch event.
Circulation
What counts as circulating
Locked
Not yet released by any schedule. Cannot move. Falls to zero at month 120 under the approved V1 schedule.
Treasury-controlled
Released by a schedule but still held in a project-controlled vault — treasury and environmental allocations. Deliberately excluded from circulating supply until actually disbursed.
Circulating
Released and in independent hands: contributors, team members after vesting, liquidity and the launch distribution. This is the only figure this site calls circulating supply.
- Circulating
- Treasury-controlled (released, not circulating)
- Locked
| Milestone | Circulating CGW | Circulating | Released | Treasury-controlled | Locked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TGE | 150,000,000 | 15% | 15% | 0% | 85% |
| Year 1 end | 244,786,418 | 24.47% | 30.47% | 6% | 69.52% |
| Year 2 end | 336,422,088 | 33.64% | 45.64% | 12% | 54.35% |
| Year 3 end | 425,080,295 | 42.5% | 60.5% | 18% | 39.49% |
| Year 4 end | 510,924,800 | 51.09% | 75.09% | 24% | 24.9% |
| Year 5 end | 556,610,355 | 55.66% | 80.66% | 25% | 19.33% |
| Year 10 end | 750,000,000 | 75% | 100% | 25% | 0% |
Emissions
Ecosystem emissions decay
The rewards allocation is emitted over ten years on a schedule that shrinks 5.5% each year. The reasoning is that the plant data commons is emptiest at the start, so that is when a contribution is worth the most and when the incentive should be strongest.
Annual figures are floor-rounded for display; the schedule releases exactly 450,000,000 CGW in total.
An honest note on the decay constant. The 0.945 factor is borrowed from Render’s RNP-001 damping coefficient. It has no first-principles derivation for CoinGarden, and Render itself re-votes its emission budget annually rather than trusting the formula. Treat it as a starting point.
Open
What is still undecided
Supply and split are decided for V1
APPROVED FOR IMPLEMENTATIONThe maximum supply and the six-way split are approved for V1 implementation — code is being built to match them exactly. They are not deployed on any Solana cluster yet, and remain open to a future formal review before genesis, but they are no longer an open design question.
Emission shape
RESEARCHWhether emissions should follow a fixed formula or a governance-set annual budget re-voted each year.
Whether rewards are claimable by non-crypto users
RESEARCHA contributor without a wallet must not be excluded from recognition. How that works without custodying tokens on their behalf is unresolved.
Whether a service-credit layer is needed
RESEARCHGarden Credits are researched but not adopted. The current recommendation is a non-transferable balance rather than a second token — and possibly nothing at all.