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The PUMP Token Unlocks: When Tokens Release, How Much Stays Locked, and Why the Trackers Disagree

BloFin Academy10/09/2026
PUMP has no official token unlocks schedule. Trackers reconstruct a cliff-then-tail calendar and disagree with each other. The deeper catch: locked PUMP sits in ordinary multisig-controlled wallets, not an escrow contract, so locked means custodial discretion.

PUMP has no first-party token unlocks schedule, so every calendar you see is a third-party rebuild, and the trackers disagree with each other and sometimes with themselves. The shape they broadly agree on is a cliff followed by a long tail of tranches. The catch most of them miss is subtler: locked PUMP sits in ordinary wallets that a multisig can move whenever it decides, rather than in a vesting contract that releases on a timer. For the full allocation picture, see pump tokenomics and supply.

The shape: a cliff, then a long tail

PUMP launched on July 12, 2025, with most insider tokens then held behind a twelve-month cliff that ended around the middle of 2026 and began a roughly three-year linear release. The two largest locked buckets are the team share and the investor share, put at 20% and 13% of the one-trillion supply. The rest splits into an ICO share of about 33%, a community and ecosystem share near 24%, and a small livestreaming share (source: DropsTab). As of this writing, that tracker puts vesting at roughly 69% complete, with about 1,037 days left, showing around 686 billion PUMP unlocked and 314 billion still locked. The next scheduled release is about 8.96 billion PUMP, under 1% of the supply.

The useful way to hold this is as dated lumps more than a smooth daily rate: the cliff released a large block once, and the remaining tranches arrive on their own dates over the following years. Any source that quotes you a tidy X-tokens-per-day figure is smoothing a schedule that arrives in steps, and that false neatness is where the trackers start to drift apart.

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Why the trackers disagree

With no first-party schedule to check against, each tracker rebuilds the calendar from on-chain guesses and press coverage, and DropsTab itself warns that some of its vesting detail may be rough. Treat any single calendar as an estimate rather than a settled fact. The disagreement can run deep: some widely shared explainers date a PUMP unlocks event to January 2025, which is impossible, because the token launched only in July 2025. Any schedule that places an event before the launch should put the whole page in doubt.

The issuer's own numbers leave it unsettled too. Pump.fun's token page still calls the total supply one trillion PUMP, while the same screen reports billions of tokens already burned, so both figures cannot be current at once (source: pump.fun). Checked directly on the Solana blockchain for this article, the mint's live supply was about 835 billion PUMP, and it falls a little every day as burns reduce it, well below the one-trillion figure the page still shows.

Where locked PUMP actually sits

This is the point that changes how you read every number above. Locked PUMP sits in ordinary Solana wallets run by a multisig, rather than in a vesting or escrow contract that releases on a timer. The wallet that CoinGecko labels the token custodian is a plain token account, and when it was checked on-chain for this article, it held about 283 billion PUMP, roughly 20 billion less than trackers reported for it only days earlier. The holders simply moved it, with no contract forcing or blocking the move. Why the mint's supply falls at all comes down to the buy and burn, covered in pump buyback and burn explained.

So locked here is a policy choice more than a code guarantee: the tokens can move ahead of any published tranche date, or sit past it, at the holders' discretion. Whether the burn retires supply faster than these unlocks add it back is a separate question, answered in how the burn compares with unlocks.

The circulating number hides releases by design

The circulating-supply figure most sites show, around 390 billion PUMP, is an adjusted number more than a raw count: it takes the total and subtracts a handful of specific wallets the trackers judge to be non-circulating, the custodian among them (source: CoinGecko). That method carries a blind spot by design. Any release outside those flagged wallets, or any shuffle between wallets a tracker has yet to label, leaves the circulating number untouched, so the float can grow while the headline figure sits still.

That is why how much is unlocked has no single clean answer: the gap between one tracker's unlocked figure and another's circulating figure can run into the hundreds of billions of tokens. How that same gap distorts a valuation, where circulating supply is set against fully diluted value, is covered in pump FDV versus circulating supply.

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Frequently asked questions

Is there an official PUMP token unlocks schedule?

There is none. The issuer has published no first-party vesting schedule, so every calendar you find is a third-party reconstruction, and they disagree with each other. Even the trackers that do publish one warn that parts of it may be rough, which is why any figure you quote should carry the source and date beside it.

When did PUMP unlocks start?

The token launched on July 12, 2025, and most insider allocations were held behind a twelve-month cliff. That cliff ended around the middle of 2026 and started a roughly three-year linear release of the team and investor allocations. Any schedule that dates an unlocks event before July 2025 is wrong.

How much PUMP is still locked?

It depends on the tracker you trust. One widely used source shows roughly 314 billion PUMP still locked against about 686 billion unlocked, or vesting around 69% complete. A precise figure stays out of reach, because there is no escrow contract defining locked to the token, so treat any single number as an estimate tied to its source and date.

Are locked PUMP tokens held in a smart contract?

They sit in ordinary Solana wallets moved by a multisig, which is a policy choice more than a vesting or escrow contract. When one custodian wallet was checked on-chain for this article, its balance had fallen by about 20 billion PUMP from what trackers reported days earlier, with no contract governing the move. Locked here means custodial discretion, so the tokens can move ahead of a published date or sit past it.

Why do PUMP circulating-supply numbers differ between sites?

Because each site subtracts a different set of flagged wallets to get its circulating figure. Any release that happens outside those flagged wallets is invisible to that number by construction, so two trackers can report very different circulating and unlocked totals for the same token on the same day.


Researched and written by the BloFin Academy editorial team with AI-assisted drafting. Primary sources are Pump.fun's own token page, DropsTab, CoinGecko, and direct Solana on-chain checks. All facts independently verified against cited documentation current as of September 2026.

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