I kept staring at TermMax’s allocation table again this morning. 28% for investors, 15% for the team, and 3% for advisors, all with a 12-month cliff.
That looked clean until I did the monthly math.
On a 1B TMX supply, that’s 280M investor tokens + 150M team + 30M advisors = 460M TMX sitting behind the cliff. Once vesting starts, the pressure becomes much more interesting: investors are roughly 11.7M TMX/month, team around 5M/month, and advisors about 1M/month based on their published vesting periods.
So you’re looking at roughly 17.7M TMX/month entering the market from those three groups.
And this is why I think month 13 matters more than TGE.
TermMax is launching with a 1B fixed supply and ~20% circulating at TGE, meaning roughly 200M TMX can be in the market initially.
The protocol itself has some real numbers to grow into: $90M+ TVL, 1.5M+ registered wallets, 90K+ daily active users and deployment across 10 EVM chains.
But here’s what I’ll actually be watching.
If the protocol can grow fees, staking demand and liquidity faster than those ~17.7M monthly tokens arrive, the unlocks may become manageable.
If not, the clean tokenomics table suddenly looks very different.
TGE tells us how TMX launches.
Month 13 tells us whether the design actually works.
I was loking into Dusk’s older history today and one thing caught my attention: COSIMO X backed Dusk way back in May 2021, when the network was still in testnet. That’s kinda interesting because the thesis wasn’t about hype. it was about privacy for financial markets.
At that tme, Dusk was building a Proof-of-Stake blockchain focused on regulated finance, confidential smart contracts, security tokens and a bridge between TradFi and DeFi. It had also created a $5M grant pool for community testing before mainnet.
I like looking at investments like this because it shows what people were betting on before the story became obvious.
Fast forward to today, Dusk is positioning itself as infrastructure for regulated assets, with €300M+ in confirmed issuance, 210M+ DUSK staked and ~10-second deterministic finality according to its current metrics.
So when I see that 2021 COSIMO X investment, I dn’t just see an old funding event.
I see an early bet on the idea that privacy + compliance + on-chain finance could eventualy become a real market.
was COSIMO X early to the Dusk thesis, or is the bigger part of that thesis still ahead?