The label on the packet.
Policy effective December 2026. Wallet addresses published at adoption.
| Bucket | Purpose and unlock |
|---|---|
| Community, airdrops & rewards — 35% | Phased airdrops, referral rewards, meme bounties, creator grants, future staking rewards. Distributed only under published rules. |
| Liquidity — 18% | Seeds Uniswap pools on Polygon (CHAI/POL and CHAI/USDT). LP tokens locked for 12 months with a third-party locker. |
| Chai Card & merchant reserve — 15% | Inventory for Chai Card voucher fulfilment and retailer experiments, drawn in small monitored batches. |
| Private round — 10% | Sold to crypto venture firms and accredited investors in a disclosed round targeting US$10M. 10% at TGE, 3-month cliff, then linear over 12 months. |
| Treasury & operations — 10% | Infrastructure, security, legal and compliance, audits, support. 10% at TGE, remainder linear over 24 months. |
| Team — 8% | Anonymous core contributors. 6-month cliff, then linear over 24 months. Nothing liquid on day one. |
| Marketing & partnerships — 4% | Labelled promotion, retailer commissions, integration bounties. 20% at TGE, remainder linear over 12 months. |
Vesting and lock contract addresses, and the transactions deploying them, will be published on official channels at policy adoption and listed in Whitepaper v2.0. Until then, treat this page as an approved plan, not an on-chain fact.
| Name | Chai Coin |
| Ticker | CHAI |
| Network | Polygon (PoS) mainnet |
| Contract | 0xC9810aa99f31893E0EBD05151e2bceFDB1Ca2f26 |
| Total supply | 1,947,000,000,000 CHAI |
| Decimals | 18 |
| Minting | None — no additional mint function |
| Transfer tax | 0% at contract level |
| Pause / blacklist | Not included |
| Burn | Voluntary holder burn supported |
| Source code | Verified on the Polygon block explorer |
Community burn events are announced in advance, executed from a disclosed wallet, and published with the transaction hash the same day. Unredeemed Chai Cards are burned after their validity window. A burn without a hash did not happen. Burning changes supply, not demand — it is not a promise of scarcity-driven appreciation.
Full details in the whitepaper
Chai Coin