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Collector Crypt vests 44.6 million CARDS to insiders

Collector Crypt's vesting page schedules about 44.6 million CARDS for the team, Advisors and seed, while third-party calendars still print a larger release.

Collector Crypt vests 44.6 million CARDS to insiders

Collector Crypt's vesting page is the count that matters for the CARDS release dated October 29, 2026. The tokenomics page, still stamped October 1 when opened on October 29, puts tranche two at about 44.6 million CARDS a month, 2.2% of the 2 billion fixed supply, split as 32.87 million for the team, 6.79 million for Advisors and 4.93 million for seed holders. That contractual total is 44.59 million tokens. Tokenomist dates the next Collector Crypt unlock to the same day. Bitrue, citing Tokenomist-linked tracking and CoinGecko, still prints 59.26 million CARDS, about 9.6% of a 617.47 million released-supply figure, by adding 14.58 million labelled community to a rounded insider core of 32.50 million, 7.01 million and 5.16 million.

The issuer keeps that community bucket off the restricted schedule. Its October 1 table marks community tokens as already unlocked and distributed as rewards, at 290.00 million, and it puts still-locked supply at 445.82 million: team 328.67 million, Advisors 67.88 million and seed 49.27 million. A reader who treats 59.26 million as Collector Crypt's own vest is counting rewards the page has already moved out of vesting. At CoinGecko's $0.290548 print, timestamped 07:08 UTC on October 29, the contractual 44.59 million are worth about $13.0 million. Bitrue marked the wider calendar total at about $17.5 million using a $0.2956 price on October 27.

What the vesting page schedules

Tranche one, the pre-seed, finished on August 29, 2026 after token generation on August 29, 2025 and 12 monthly releases. Tranche two was locked for 12 months from generation, released a first slice on August 29, 2026, and still showed 10 monthly unlocks remaining on the October 1 snapshot, with the last dated July 29, 2027. The page tells holders the vest "unlocks when it unlocks, not before," and it names Streamflow as the Solana contract that enforces the schedule. October 29 is the date the page gives, and the hour sits inside that contract.

Calendars, books and the burn ledger

Tokenomist's overview, updated 07:09 UTC on October 29, listed CARDS at $0.291 and about 885,896,520 tokens unlocked, 44.29% of the cap. CoinGecko's feed at 07:08 UTC matched that scale, with circulating supply of 885.9 million, a $257.4 million market cap and $4.73 million of 24-hour volume. Collector Crypt's own circulating figure is 474.62 million, because company-held unlocked tokens are excluded. Against that narrower float the 44.59 million vest is about 9.4% of freely tradable supply. Against CoinGecko's 885.9 million it is about 5.0% of circulating supply, and about 2.7 times that day's volume.

CoinGecko's ticker list at that snapshot showed CARDS markets on Raydium, KuCoin, OKX, LBank, XT.COM, BloFin and Meteora. The October 1 Collector Crypt post said that "every burn is funded by real economic activity on Collector Crypt," and the tokenomics page reserved its next revision for after the unlock.

"Users in our discord figured it out (both the burn and the attribution) before we even posted the tweet," Tuomas Holmberg, co-founder and chief executive of Collector Crypt, wrote on October 2, 2026, about the 3,055,864 CARDS burned the day before.

The burn ledger records 22,485,689.90 CARDS on August 29, 2026 and 3,055,864.00 CARDS on October 1, 2026, for 25,541,553.90 removed. The October vest is about 19 million tokens larger than that whole record, so the buybacks posted to date offset less than one insider month. The foundation line is 752.05 million CARDS, 37.60% of supply, marked unlocked and company-held, and the page describes it as treasury reserved for future use. A transfer from that wallet would dwarf the monthly vest. BNB's latest quarterly burn is a programmed supply cut, a different mechanism from this recorded buyback.

What the next snapshot can settle

The promised tokenomics update should show whether October's release matched 32.87 million, 6.79 million and 4.93 million. Until that snapshot lands, the 10-unlock remainder through July 29, 2027 is the October 1 count, and that count includes the release dated today. Ritual's mainnet unlock posed a similar measurement problem, where a headline percentage described supply that insiders still could not freely sell. On Solana, the cliff also lands on a chain that already carried a record stock of tokenised assets. Recipients who sell meet about $4.73 million of daily volume on Raydium and the centralised books. Recipients who hold leave the chart alone while the cap table changes. The foundation balance would rewrite either path, and the page still classifies it as company-held.

This article is informational analysis only and is not financial, investment, or trading advice. Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and can lose substantial value rapidly. Past performance and historical patterns do not guarantee future results. Do your own research and consult a regulated financial adviser before making any investment decision.

Reporting by Karthik Subramanian. Filed 29 October 2026, 14:02 GMT.

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Karthik Subramanian is a founder, writer, and technology consultant with nine years in the crypto ecosystem.

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