$SAI Tokenomics

$SAI is the native ERC-20 token of Sharpe Terminal, an AI-driven crypto trading intelligence terminal. It has a fixed total supply of 1 billion tokens deployed on Ethereum mainnet. SAI captures value from the platform through a buyback-and-burn mechanism: 100% of revenue generated by Sharpe Terminal products is used to buy SAI from the open market and permanently burn it.

Tokenomics describes the economic design of a cryptocurrency: total supply, distribution between stakeholders, vesting schedules, utility, and value-accrual mechanisms. Strong tokenomics align long-term incentives between users, builders, and investors. Weak tokenomics (uncapped supply, concentrated insider allocations, or short vesting cliffs) typically lead to persistent sell pressure and price decay over time.

$SAI has a fixed maximum supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens, with no inflationary mint function. Circulating supply expands gradually as vesting unlocks proceed, and contracts as the buyback-and-burn destroys tokens. The Live Metrics panel above shows the current circulating supply, which is also published on public token directories.

The $SAI token contract is 0x3567aa22cd3ab9aEf23d7e18EE0D7cf16974d7e6, deployed on Ethereum mainnet as an ERC-20 with 18 decimals. Always verify this address on a canonical source like the official Sharpe site before transacting. Imitator tokens commonly appear on EVM chains using similar names.

9.67% of supply unlocks at TGE across Seed, Strategic, Public, Ecosystem Development, and Liquidity allocations. Public finishes vesting at month 10, Strategic at month 12, Seed and Marketing & Airdrop at month 18, Treasury at month 24, and Ecosystem Development and Liquidity at month 36. Team & Advisors have a 24-month cliff followed by 24 months of linear vesting, finishing at month 48.

100% of revenue generated by Sharpe Terminal flows into a treasury. The treasury buys $SAI from open-market venues like Uniswap, and every token bought goes to a burn address and leaves circulating supply forever. Supply therefore falls as platform revenue grows.

The loop runs like this: more traders use Sharpe Terminal, so more revenue flows to the treasury, so more $SAI is bought back and burned, so more traders notice $SAI. The token depends on platform usage rather than on new buyers. Revenue and supply destruction are the two inputs.

$SAI has a fixed maximum supply: 1 billion tokens with no mint function, so total supply can never increase, and every buyback-and-burn lowers it for good. Circulating supply is a different number. Vesting unlocks add to it on a fixed schedule while burns remove tokens in proportion to platform revenue, so circulating supply rises until vesting completes at month 48 unless burns exceed unlocks. Unlike inflationary tokens, $SAI emits no new supply through block rewards.

Scheduled vesting unlocks introduce new circulating supply, which can create temporary sell pressure if recipients liquidate immediately. The $SAI schedule is designed to minimize this impact: 9.67% TGE unlock to bootstrap liquidity, multi-year linear vesting to spread unlocks across up to 48 months, and a 24-month team cliff to prevent insider distribution at launch. The buyback-and-burn offsets unlocks by removing tokens on the buy side.

$SAI is available on Uniswap (decentralized, on Ethereum), Gate.io, MEXC, and BingX. The deepest on-chain liquidity is in the Uniswap SAI/ETH pool. Always verify the contract address (0x3567aa22cd3ab9aEf23d7e18EE0D7cf16974d7e6) before swapping on a DEX, as imitator tokens commonly appear on EVM chains.