An optional protection a creator can turn on when launching a token: their own tokens, and anyone who buys during the token's early-buyer window, get locked on a cliff-then-linear release schedule instead of being instantly sellable — so nobody can pump and dump early, even by just waiting out a clock.
When creating a token, you can check a box to enable vesting. It's a one-time choice made at creation — there's no turning it on for a token later. If enabled, two groups of holdings get locked instead of being freely sellable the moment they're bought:
The creator — every purchase the creator makes of their own token, for as long as the token exists, is locked. No exceptions, no waiting it out. Early buyers — anyone who buys while the token is still in its early-buyer window has that purchase locked too. That window only closes once both 48 hours have passed and at least 15 other real people have bought the token — whichever takes longer. Buy after the window genuinely closes, and your tokens trade completely normally with no lock at all.
Locked tokens still count toward your portfolio value and profit/loss like normal — the only thing they can't do yet is be sold. They release gradually and automatically; nobody has to manually unlock anything.
Every locked purchase follows the same two-stage schedule, set by the creator at launch (7-day cliff / 30-day vesting by default).
The moment a locked purchase happens, those tokens move into a separate locked balance. They still belong to the buyer and count toward portfolio value — they just can't be sold yet.
For the cliff period (7 days by default), nothing releases at all — 0% sellable, no matter how much was locked.
After the cliff, the locked amount unlocks gradually in a straight line over the vesting duration (30 days by default) — a little more becomes sellable every hour, automatically.
Once the full vesting duration has passed since the cliff ended, 100% of that locked purchase is free to sell, same as any normal balance.
Vesting is a trade-off the creator makes on behalf of the token's early economics — a trust signal for traders, at the cost of the creator (and early buyers) not being able to sell everything immediately.
| Feature | Vesting-Protected | Normal Token |
|---|---|---|
| Creator's own purchases | Locked, released on cliff + linear scheduleAlways applies, no waiting it out | Sellable immediately, same as anyone |
| Buyers during the early-buyer window | Locked, same schedule as the creator | Sellable immediately |
| Buyers once the window genuinely closes | Sellable immediately — vesting never applies to them | Sellable immediately |
| Cliff & vesting duration | Creator-configurable (0-90 day cliff, 1-365 day duration) | Not applicable |
| Early-buyer window closes when... | 48 hours have passed and 15+ other real buyers exist - fixed platform-wide, not adjustable | Not applicable |
| Locked tokens count toward portfolio/P&L | Yes, immediately | N/A |
| Can be added after token creation | No — must be chosen at creation | N/A |
We'd rather you know the real limits upfront than find out later.
Enable vesting at creation if you want to prove you can't dump your own holdings right after launch — or skip it and let it trade freely from minute one.