# Vesting

The Adrena smart contract includes a sovereign vesting module that manages $ADX emissions earned by contributors who gave time or capital to build the protocol. All vests are transparently on-chain and distributed programmatically by the Adrena smart contract. 

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**Early Contributor Vesting**

Early contributors began work in January of 2023. Vesting for this group will be paused for 3 months after the platform goes live, and then proceed to unlock linearly every month for the next 21 months. <mark style="color:green;">**There is no cliff with any large unlocks.**</mark> This 3 month lock period is designed to provide time for post-launch price discovery, to prioritize liquidity to early stakers (including Genesis Lock ALP), and to enable other market participants to buy and sell the token first.&#x20;

**❌ Unvested Staking**

To prevent unfairly concentrating early protocol revenue to Early Contributors, unvested tokens are not stakeable and therefore earn zero revenue share.

**✅ Unvested Governance**&#x20;

To facilitate efficient decision making in the initial growth stage of the protocol, Adrena provides for unvested Early Contributor tokens to vote 1:1. and core launch team 1:4 (for security reason to enable majority for the first few month, in the context of locked stake multipliers). This power concentration will naturally erode over time as tokens are emitted

<mark style="color:purple;">**Early Contributors**</mark> <mark style="color:purple;">**Details**</mark>

* Includes launch team, pre-seed, seed, strategic
* This allocation is on a 3 month lock (not cliff). This means months 0-3 there are no $ADX emissions for anyone in this category. On month 4, this allocation unlocks and starts to linearly vest $ADX over the subsequent 21 months. This will emit 17,142,857.142857 $ADX per month.
* Even though this $ADX is locked and vesting, Core Contributors will have full 1:1 voting power with their $ADX, and core launch team 1:4. This is to ensure the ability for the Launch Team to quickly pass proposals during the early stages of Adrena. At a certain point (number of months), the circulating supply will have a majority vote over the launch team.
* **It is important to note that Core Contributors can not stake or earn any rewards/emissions during months 0-3. From month 4 on, these users will be able to stake their monthly unlocked $ADX.**