When you receive an airdrop, you don’t always get all the tokens at once. Many projects use vesting — a structure where tokens unlock over time. A common setup is “20% at TGE (Token Generation Event), then 80% over 12 months.”
This matters for a few reasons. If you’re planning to sell immediately — which most people do — the initial unlock percentage determines how much you can actually sell on day one. The rest is locked. And if the token price drops after launch, you might end up holding tokens that are worth less than what you owe in tax on their original value.
Vesting schedules are usually published in the project’s tokenomics docs before the airdrop. Read them.
