The anime industry is booming, and is predicted to grow to $60 billion by 2030. However, despite its massive popularity, the AnimeCoin Foundation has a great opportunity to reach fans who have remained passive of the art form.
Aiming to build an open and decentralized anime universe, the AnimeCoin Foundation is launching ANIME, a token better designed to coordinate incentives between creators and fans of the genre.
Here's everything you need to know about the anime ahead of its premiere, which is scheduled to take place later this month.
What is ANIME?
ANIME has been described as a “culture coin” that will run on Ethereum and the Arbitrum Layer-2 network.
Launched by the AnimeCoin Foundation, ANIME will have a total supply of 10 billion tokens, over 50% of which will be given to the Web3 community, with main launch partner Azuki – a popular NFT suite and crypto-native IP.
Of the 10 billion token supply, about 77% will be unlocked immediately upon the start of trading.
When will the anime drop?
The ANIME token will launch on January 23, 2025.
WHO GET THE ANIME AIR DROP?
The ANIME Token supply will be distributed in six different buckets, more than 5 billion or 50% of the total supply will be allocated to the Web3 community.
Azuki community
The largest allocation of ANIME 37.5% is set to be claimed by the Azuki community.
As ANIME's main launch partner, holders of all three significant NFT clusters—Azuki, Azuki Elementals, and BEANZ Official—are expected to be eligible to claim ANIME tokens.
While the Azuki community hasn't provided any details about the allocation for each NFT, the project has been using a point system for a long time. “The Collector's Case” In user profiles. This will be a program Role playing The present and future of the Azuki Ecosystem Awards.
Any unclaimed ANIME tokens from this group will be added to the “Community Development” basket.
Domain expansion.
The second largest amount of ANIME tokens is held at 24.44% for the AnimeCoin Foundation and domain expansion efforts.
This is the development of the anime ecosystem Financial support The foundation will “provide programs, startups, ongoing foundation work and initiatives designed to bridge the gap between AnimeCoin and the wider anime industry,” the foundation said.
Of this allocation, 2.444 billion tokens will be fully unlocked at launch.
team and advisors
Azuki's team, contractors, initial advisors and contributors to the AnimeCoin Foundation will receive 15.62% or 1.562 billion ANIME tokens. This group of tokens is subject to a one-year grace period, meaning they cannot be transferred or sold during the first year.
The tokens will be unlocked for more than three years, and the unlocked tokens can be sold after a gap of one year.
Community development
The second community segment is dedicated to the “Community Development” bucket, which holds 1.3 billion ANIME tokens, or 13 percent of the total supply.
Holders of ANIME tokens and participants of the final AnimeDAO control this pool of tokens. Those participants can manage this 13% to support community initiatives.
While the initial allocation is 1.3 billion ANIME tokens, this percentage may be pending unclaimed tokens from the Azuki Ecosystem bucket.
Company classification
An additional 7.44% of the offering is reserved for Azuki Co., which has a one-year cliff and a three-year grace period.
Partner communities
The final 200 million ANIME tokens or 2% will be allocated to other Web3 communities, including Hyperliquid (HYPE) token stakers, analytics platform users Kaito and the Sup program, Arbitrum communities, as well as yet-to-be-revealed projects syncing with the AnimeCoin vision.
Details of specific communities included in this allocation are expected soon.
How to ask ANIME
No formal information has been provided about ANIME's claim, but the AnimeCoin Foundation has included a disclaimer that there is no new domain outside of it. Anime.xyz It is used for token generation event (TGE).
Edited by Andrew Hayward.
Editor's note: This story was originally published on January 16, 2025 and was last updated with new details on January 17.
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