CANDY Tokenomics for Beginners: Supply, Presale Stages and Vesting

When you buy a share in a company, you might glance at how many shares exist and who owns them. Most people skip that part. In crypto, skipping it is a mistake.

The rules that govern a coin's supply, how it is distributed and when it can be sold have a real effect on how a project behaves over time. Together, those rules are called tokenomics.

The word sounds technical, but the ideas are not. This guide explains CANDY's tokenomics in plain language, with a worked example so you can see exactly how the numbers play out.

What tokenomics means

Tokenomics is a blend of "token" and "economics". It answers a handful of simple questions. How many coins will ever exist? Who gets them? At what price? And when can they be moved or sold?

Good tokenomics are not about making a coin go up. They are about clarity. When the rules are clear and published, holders can make informed decisions instead of guessing.

A fixed supply of 10 billion

The total supply of CANDY is 10 billion coins, and it is fixed. No more can be created beyond that number.

A fixed cap matters because it removes one common worry: that new coins will be printed later and dilute existing holders. With CANDY, the ceiling is known from the start.

As for how those 10 billion coins are divided between the presale, the ecosystem, the team and other uses, the full allocation breakdown is published on the official site, cryptocandy.io. It is worth reading there directly, rather than relying on figures passed around on social media. According to project materials, the Pre-Seed round itself is allocated 250 million CANDY.

How the presale stages work

CANDY is sold in a series of presale rounds, and the price rises with each one. Earlier participants pay less in exchange for taking part sooner.

The minimum purchase is $10, which keeps the presale open to people who want to start small.

You may notice that the planned listing price of $0.0100 is 25 times the Pre-Seed price of $0.0004. That is simply the arithmetic between two published prices. It is not a forecast. Prices after listing are set by the market, are not guaranteed and can fall below any presale price.

There is also an early-participant incentive: the first 500 presale participants receive a free Cardaxo Virtual Card plus a 20% bonus. Cardaxo is the ecosystem's crypto card, which lets holders spend crypto wherever Mastercard is accepted and earn CANDY rewards on purchases.

Vesting: the 10% and 18-month unlock

Vesting is the schedule that controls when purchased coins become available. Instead of receiving everything on day one, buyers receive their coins gradually.

For CANDY, the rule is straightforward:

• 10% unlocks at TGE, the Token Generation Event, when the coins are created and first distributed.
• The remaining 90% is released linearly over 18 months, meaning an equal share each month.

A worked example

Say you buy 100,000 CANDY in the presale.

1. At TGE, 10% unlocks. That is 10,000 CANDY available straight away.
2. The remaining 90% is 90,000 CANDY.
3. Spread over 18 months, 90,000 divided by 18 is 5,000. So roughly 5,000 CANDY unlocks each month.
4. After 18 months, all 100,000 CANDY has been released.

If you received a bonus, for example as one of the first 500 participants, check the official terms on cryptocandy.io for how bonus coins are delivered.

Why vesting exists

Linear vesting helps avoid a situation where a large share of supply hits the market at once. A gradual release gives the ecosystem time to grow alongside the circulating supply, and it encourages participants to think in months rather than days. It does not prevent price swings, but it makes the supply side more predictable.

The burn flywheel

The final piece of CANDY's design is its flywheel: Use → Earn → Buy Back → Burn.

In simple terms, people use ecosystem products such as the Cardaxo card, CandyRush games or the AI Agent Marketplace. Activity earns rewards and generates revenue. That revenue is designed to fund buybacks of CANDY on the market, and the coins bought back are then burned, meaning they are permanently removed from circulation.

Because the total supply is already capped at 10 billion, burning can only reduce the number of coins in existence over time. How much is burned depends on real ecosystem activity, so it is best seen as a mechanism the project has designed, not a promise of any particular outcome.

The bottom line

CANDY's tokenomics rest on a few clear ideas: a fixed 10 billion supply, presale prices that rise by stage, a 10% unlock at TGE followed by 18 months of linear releases, and a flywheel designed to buy back and burn coins. Read the full allocation breakdown on cryptocandy.io, run the vesting maths on your own numbers, and remember that no presale price says anything certain about future value.

This article is for information only and is not financial advice. Crypto prices are volatile and can fall; always do your own research.