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GUIDES What Is a Vesting Cliff in Crypto and Why It Decides Who Actually Gets Paid
A vesting cliff is the single date before which a founder or investor holds zero unlocked tokens, and mixing it up with a startup equity cliff is how cap tables and token treasuries get built wrong.Ask a founder what a vesting cliff is and most will describe the one they know from their first startup job: work twelve months, then a chunk of equity unlocks all at once. That's the equity cliff, and ...
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What Is a Vesting Cliff in Crypto and Why It Decides Who Actually Gets Paid
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