Fair Launch
No presale, no VC, no IDO — Inferno follows a Community Fair Launch Model (CFLM).
What Fair Launch Means
Inferno has:
- No Presale — no private token sale before launch
- No VC Backing — no preferential terms for investors
- No IDO / IEO — no centralized launch event
- Direct Uniswap V2 Listing — permissionless, day one
- All terms public on-chain — verifiable by anyone
What “fair” really means: Equal conditions for everyone at DEX listing. No buying cheap before launch. Team tokens locked on-chain (not instantly sellable). All rules are in code — not in handshakes.
Token Allocation — Fully Transparent
| Category | Share | Amount | Vesting | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEX Liquidity | 40% | 400M IFR | Post-Bootstrap | Uniswap V2 LP — held by LP Reserve Safe (3-of-5 Gnosis Safe), paired via BootstrapVaultV3.finalise() after Bootstrap completion. Transferred from Deployer 18.03.2026. |
| Liquidity Reserve | 20% | 200M IFR | Initial lock ended 01.09.2026; 200M still held, 50M-per-90-day cap | Phase 2 LP expansion. NOT used for Bootstrap (Plan B, 08.03.2026). |
| Team Vesting | 15% | 150M IFR | 4 years (1-year cliff) | Standard startup vesting. 0 tokens available before March 2027. |
| Treasury | 15% | 150M IFR | Gnosis Safe multisig | Protocol treasury. Funded Bootstrap with 144.75M IFR plus a 5.25M IFR top-up. No automatic refill path is deployed. |
| Community & Grants | 6% | 60M IFR | Governance | Sent to Community Safe: 57.9M received after the 3.5% transfer fee (2.5% burn + 1% pool fee). 50M → Bootstrap. ~7.9M operational reserve. |
| Builder / PartnerVault | 4% | 40M IFR | Governance-locked | Governance-locked partner reward pool, not active yet. Planned payouts only for verified checkout redemptions at pilot partners within fixed budgets, vested 6–12 months. No refill; unused IFR stays in the vault. |
Note: BuybackVault and BurnReserve are protocol contracts, not pre-funded genesis allocations. The 1% IFR transfer-pool fee accrued in FeeRouterV1 until Proposal #21 (05.10.2026) and goes to BuybackController since; it is not automatically forwarded to either contract. Bootstrap was funded via Plan B from Treasury + Community Safe (~200M IFR to BootstrapVaultV3).
Comparison with Other Projects
15% Team + 15% Treasury = 30% is standard for sustainable protocol development. For comparison:
| Project | Team / Insider Allocation |
|---|---|
| Uniswap (UNI) | 21.51% |
| Aave (AAVE) | 30% |
| Compound (COMP) | 22.5% |
| Inferno (IFR) | 15% Team + 15% Treasury |
Unlike many projects, the IFR team allocation is fully vested over 4 years with a 1-year cliff — meaning zero tokens are available to the team for the first 12 months.
On-Chain Proof
Vesting Contract (Mainnet): 0x2694Bc84e8D5251E9E4Ecd4B2Ae3f866d6106271
- Team allocation: 150,000,000 IFR locked in Vesting contract
- Released so far: 0 IFR (cliff not reached)
- Cliff: 365 days from deployment (~March 2027)
- Duration: 1,460 days total (12-month cliff + 36-month linear release)
Anyone can verify these parameters directly on Etherscan by calling vestingSchedule() on the Vesting contract.
Vesting Schedule Details
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Total Allocation | 150,000,000 IFR (15%) |
| Cliff Period | 12 months (0 tokens released) |
| Linear Vesting | 36 months after cliff |
| Total Duration | 48 months (4 years) |
| Guardian | Can pause/unpause releases |
| Beneficiary | Immutable (set at deploy) |
For the full on-chain audit with 8 verification checks, see the Transparency Report or TRANSPARENCY.md.
Pseudonymous Team — A DeFi Tradition
Like Bitcoin, early Ethereum projects, Uniswap, and many successful DeFi protocols, the Inferno Protocol team operates pseudonymously. Trust in DeFi is established through code, not identity.
Why this is normal
Our transparency comes from verifiable on-chain facts — not personal identity. Every protocol parameter, every treasury movement, every governance action is publicly visible and auditable by anyone.
- Open source contracts — audited + verified on Etherscan
- On-chain governance — proposals use a 48h timelock; the untimelocked exceptions are owner-only guardian rotation via
setGuardianand transferring the deployed Governance contract’s ownership through owner-onlysetOwner(tracked as CWA-25) - Smart contract-enforced rules — not promises
- Gnosis Safe 3-of-5 — no single point of failure
What you CAN verify
- All 15 protocol contracts on Etherscan
- Every governance proposal on-chain (48h public delay)
- Treasury movements via Gnosis Safe
- Token distribution (genesis verified, Transparency Report)
- Full source code on GitHub