ZetaChain vest leaves trackers split on the ZETA release

ZetaChain's monthly ZETA release is a test of which reading of one document a desk uses. The ZETA distribution page prints allocation fractions and a monthly cadence measured from launch. On November 1, 2026, DefiLlama's unlock page listed a cliff of 44.26 million ZETA, about $1.65 million at the $0.037 mark on that page, described as 2.6% of float. Blockworks Intel, linking the same project document, listed 19.18 million ZETA, about $714,410, and marked core contributors, purchasers and the user-growth pool as fully released.

Treat the mainnet launch post dated February 2, 2024 as month zero, and November 2026 is month 33. Six of the seven buckets are still inside a monthly window on that count, and the six slices sum to 44.26 million ZETA, which is DefiLlama's token count. An issuer table beside an outside calendar also drove the reading when Falcon Finance calendars disagreed on an FF unlock and when Kamino's KMNO vest stayed fixed while calendars split the day.

What the distribution page fixes

Initial supply is 2,100,000,000 ZETA. Schedule percents are shares of the 2.1 billion, and the ecosystem slice is 5.25 million a month. User growth, 210 million, puts 4.5% out at launch and 0.2% in each of the next five months, then one thirty-sixth of the 94.5 million left, 2.625 million a month, the line DefiLlama rounds to 2.63 million. Treasury, 504 million, releases one thirty-sixth of the 462 million left after a 2% start, 12.83 million a month after month 12. Liquidity incentives, 115.5 million, release about 1.09 million a month after a 3% start.

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Core contributors, 472.5 million, take 1/18 a month for six months from the six-month mark, then 1/36 of that allocation each month for 24 months, which is 13.125 million and the 13.13 million on DefiLlama. Purchasers and advisors, 336 million, follow the same shape at 9.33 million a month. Those six slices add to 44.26 million ZETA. Validator incentives, 210 million, are four-year block emissions. Both calendars leave that pool off the November 1 cliff.

Where the two calendars split

DefiLlama assigns the 44.26 million across user growth, ecosystem, liquidity, treasury, core contributors and purchasers and advisors. About $1.65 million is 2.6% of the 1.704 billion circulating supply on that page, and the 2.11% printed beside it is 44.26 million divided by the 2.1 billion maximum. DefiLlama's row carries a 09:58 UTC stamp beside $3.37 million of 24-hour volume. The distribution page publishes the fractions, and it warns that third parties differ on whether staked ZETA counts inside circulating supply, which makes the 2.6% of float DefiLlama's choice.

Blockworks' 19.18 million is treasury 12.83 million, ecosystem 5.25 million and liquidity 1.09 million, with the other three lines at 100% unlocked and zero remaining. Those three, 2.63 million, 13.13 million and 9.33 million, are the gap of about 25.09 million ZETA. EigenCloud's foundation rule and DefiLlama landed on one count, while this pair agrees on treasury, ecosystem and liquidity and splits on insiders and user growth. Celestia's supply page names the day its contributor vest ends. ZetaChain's page names fractions and months counted from launch.

What the September vote leaves standing

On September 17, 2026 the ZetaChain blog proposed a native SPL token on Solana, one for one, same ticker, total supply left at 2.1 billion, with vesting schedules kept on their original dates. The post says ZETA locked for Anuma credits comes out of circulating supply. Holders approved that direction on September 20, 2026, with 99.4% in favour. The September 21 thread says a second vote sets the snapshot, the mechanism and the dates before balances move.

"Today is an important milestone in our mission to connect all of crypto conveniently and safely," Ankur Nandwani, core contributor at ZetaChain, said in the mainnet announcement.

That sentence marks the launch the fractions are counted from, and the dollar cliff remains a tracker figure.

What the next slice depends on

On the February 2024 reading, core contributors and purchasers keep releasing for 24 months after month 12, so November 2026 still sits inside that phase. If that phase began in February 2025, December 2026 and January 2027 are its last two slices, and February 2027 drops the 13.125 million and 9.33 million insider lines. The page calls the table "the current thinking and models," "subject to variations for the ZetaChain mainnet and further developments thereafter." Until a dated issuer calendar appears, 44.26 million and 19.18 million ZETA are two readings of one undated table.

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