Vesting, explained clearly.

What Vestly does

Vestly locks tokens in a smart contract and releases them to a recipient on a fixed timetable. Once a schedule is created, nobody — including Vestly and the creator — can change it or take the tokens back. Recipients claim what has unlocked, whenever they want.

Create your first schedule

1. Connect a wallet. Use MetaMask, Rabby, Coinbase Wallet or Robinhood Wallet. Vestly asks to switch to Robinhood Chain if needed.
2. Pick a type. Team, investor, creator, treasury or community. The type sets sensible defaults and labels.
3. Enter the token and amount. Paste the token contract address. Vestly shows your balance and checks you have enough.
4. Add the recipient. The wallet that will receive the tokens, plus an optional label like "Core team — Alex".
5. Set timing and confirm. Choose a start date, cliff and total length. Approve the token, then confirm the schedule. Two wallet prompts, one time.

How vesting works

Every schedule has four numbers: amount, start, cliff and duration. Before the cliff ends, nothing is claimable. After that, the unlocked amount grows in a straight line until the end of the duration, when 100% is available.

unlocked = 0                                  if now < start + cliff
unlocked = amount × (now − start) / duration  while vesting
unlocked = amount                             after start + duration

claimable = unlocked − already claimed

Schedule types

Claiming tokens

Recipients open Claims and connect the wallet the schedule was made for. Every schedule shows its progress, what's claimable now and what's still locked. Pressing Claim sends everything unlocked so far to that wallet. There's no deadline — unclaimed tokens simply keep adding up.

Public unlock tracker

Paste any token address into the public tracker to see every Vestly schedule for it: total locked, unlocked, claimed, upcoming unlock events and the split by category. The link is shareable, so your community can follow unlocks without trusting a spreadsheet.

Smart contract

// Read claimable amount with viem
const amount = await client.readContract({
  address: "0xa18332891b0f0909c481e56de75ac1b09b8607b4",
  abi: vestlyAbi,
  functionName: "releasable",
  args: [scheduleId],
});

Robinhood Chain details

Security & limits