Sentient Unveils Tokenomics, Market Forecasts High FDV at Launch

Original Title: "Sentient Announces Token Economics—How Will the Market Price It?"

Original Author: ChandlerZ, Foresight News

On January 16, open-source AI platform Sentient announced the SENT token economics. The total supply of SENT tokens is approximately 34.3 billion, with 44% allocated for community incentives and airdrops, 19.55% for the ecosystem and R&D, 2% for public sale, 22% allocated to the team, and 12.45% allocated to investors.

According to Polymarket data, the market's probability of betting that Sentient's FDV (Fully Diluted Valuation) on the day after its launch will exceed $200 million has risen to 99%. The probability of it exceeding $400 million is 87%, and the probability of it exceeding $600 million is 83%. The current trading volume in this prediction market is approximately $330,000.

SENT is used throughout the ecosystem for agents, models, data services, and other artifact-driven products. Artifacts can also use SENT to pay each other, enabling composable on-chain value flows between services. The total supply of SENT is officially set at 34,359,738,368, which is exactly 2³⁵. The official team mentioned they will share the full story behind how this number was chosen in the future; however, technically inclined readers might be able to infer the reason themselves.

The SENT allocation is divided into five major categories: community initiatives and airdrops, ecosystem and R&D, team, investors, and public sale.

Community Activities and Airdrops — 44.00%

These tokens account for 44% of the total supply and are specifically allocated for airdrops, community grants, bounties, and incentive programs to reward users and developers for verifiable contributions to the GRID. To ensure broad ownership, 30% of these tokens will be unlocked at the Token Generation Event (TGE), representing approximately 13% of the total supply, while the remaining 70% will be linearly unlocked over four years. By design, individuals who build, test, and share open-source intelligence and products will be eligible for the largest share of tokens. Airdropped tokens will be fully unlocked at the TGE.

Ecosystem and R&D - 19.55%

This portion of tokens accounts for 19.55% of the total supply and will be used to promote ecosystem development, research and development, growth, infrastructure construction, and the operations of the Sentient Foundation. To ensure a long-term stable supply, 30% will be unlocked on TGE (Token Generation Event, or token launch day), while the remaining 70% will be linearly unlocked over four years.

Team—22.00%

This fund pool accounts for 22% of the total supply and is exclusively allocated to the team members of the Sentient Foundation and Sentient Labs, including employees, founders, and key contractors. At the Token Generation Event (TGE), the team fund pool is locked for one year, after which the funds will be linearly released over a six-year period, with an additional one-year freeze period.

Investor — 12.45%

This portion of tokens accounts for 12.45% of the total supply and is allocated to investors who supported Sentient during the private sale. Investor tokens will be locked for one year and then linearly unlocked over the following four years. This structure is designed to reward the confidence of early investors.

Public Offering - 2.00%

This public sale accounts for 2% of the total supply and aims to encourage broader participation from the community at the project's launch. This allocation will be fully unlocked at the TGE. The specific structure of the public sale will be announced soon.

At the end of November 2025, Sentient will launch an airdrop registration portal targeting four groups: community contributors, active users of Sentient Chat, top voices on social platforms, and external open-source researchers.

The second season of the program will be based on new roles based on contributions, clearer upgrade paths, and multiple reward mechanisms. Rewards will include SENT tokens, NFTs, and merchandise. Specific details about airdrop activities have not yet been announced.

Sentient is an AI research organization dedicated to building an open artificial general intelligence (AGI) economy. It is developing a platform and protocol that allows open-source AI developers to monetize or commercialize their models, data, and other innovations. On this platform, developers can collaborate to build powerful AI systems and become key stakeholders driving AI transformation and prosperity in this new open AGI economy.

Sentient has proposed the "OML" (Open, Monetized, Loyal) model concept, aiming to drive a shared open AGI economy through the OML model. This model seeks to build a shared open AGI economic system involving millions of AI agents and billions of users, providing endless momentum for innovation and development in downstream applications.

At the product and architecture level, the core of Sentient is its intelligent network called GRID (Global Research and Intelligence Directory). Officially described as a collaborative system composed of specialized agents, models, data, tools, and computational resources: when a user initiates a query, the task is decomposed and routed to the appropriate agent/tool/data source, and then multiple results are aggregated into a consistent output.

For general users, Sentient Chat is positioned as a unified entry point and distribution channel into the GRID, emphasizing that users can see which capabilities and sources are being invoked during interactions. For developers and ecosystem partners, the GRID provides a channel for their work to be used, distributed, and potentially generate future revenue. The SENT token economy encourages contributors to integrate various Artifacts into the network, directing incentives toward more valuable modules through signals such as staking and usage volume.

To support the middleware capability of multi-agent collaboration, Sentient launched and open-sourced the ROMA (Recursive Open Meta-Agent) framework in 2025. ROMA abstracts complex tasks into a recursive hierarchical task tree: parent nodes are responsible for decomposing goals, dispatching context to child nodes, and aggregating results after they are returned. This approach makes the context flow in medium- to long-chain tasks more transparent, traceable, and debuggable, and also facilitates replacing different models, tools, or adding manual verification steps at the node level. In its product updates, Sentient described ROMA as the backbone for building high-performance multi-agent systems and simultaneously released it as an open-source foundation for community-based secondary development on GitHub.

In July 2024, Sentient announced the completion of an $85 million seed round, setting a record in the AI crypto space. The funding was jointly led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, and Framework Ventures, with participation from Ethereal Ventures, Foresight Ventures, Robot Ventures, Symbolic Capital, Delphi Ventures, Hack VC, Arrington Capital, HashKey Capital, and Canonical Crypto.

One of the core contributors to Sentient is Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Polygon, while Sreeram Kannan, founder and CEO of EigenLayer, serves as an advisor to the project.

In addition, according to Sentient Labs' public personnel page, the other two co-founders are Pramod Viswanath (a professor of engineering at Princeton University) and Himanshu Tyagi (a professor of engineering at the Indian Academy of Sciences). Pramod Viswanath has long focused on information theory and communication systems, leading Sentient's AI safety and theoretical foundation development. Himanshu Tyagi specializes in privacy preservation and decentralized learning algorithms, providing academic support for model training and privacy coordination.

The core engineering and development team, which mainly consists of university professors and researchers, focuses on AI research, platform engineering, blockchain development, product management, and operations. Overall, the team structure integrates academic research, engineering implementation, and cryptographic economic mechanisms.

The officially disclosed ecosystem has reached 60+ partners/integrations, covering model partners, agents, data providers, model and verifiable reasoning, and other categories.

Overall, Sentient's differentiation lies in defining the path to achieving AGI as a composable open network. It attempts to address the long-standing issues of funding, distribution, and sustainability in open-source AI through the SENT incentive and staking mechanisms. As a result, its key variables are more about systems engineering and mechanism design rather than isolated model capabilities. These include whether the quality of ecosystem integration can continuously improve, whether incentives will lead to genuine usage value, and whether the multi-agent system can form a replicable model in terms of reliability and security.

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