ALB Token
ALB tokenomics, emission history, and value flow
ALB is the native token of Alien Base — used for governance, staking, liquidity incentives, and the platform's Real Yield rewards system.
Last updated: July 6, 2026.
At a glance
Token contract
Standard
ERC-20 (18 decimals), OpenZeppelin AccessControl
Network
Base (chain id 8453)
Token Generation Event
August 8, 2023
Current max supply
510,000,000 ALB
Currently minted
~465,000,000 ALB (~91% of cap)
Circulating supply
~234,000,000 ALB (~46% of cap)
Mint timelock
14 days (no insider mint without delay)
For up-to-date market data: CoinGecko · DexScreener · DefiLlama.
What ALB is for
Real Yield. esALB stakers earn a share of protocol fees, paid in WETH and other liquid assets — not in extra ALB. This is the heart of the value-distribution model: the protocol's revenue goes back to long-term holders.
Liquidity incentives. Active LPs in V2 and V3 vaults earn ALB emissions on top of pool fees. (Note: AIP-5 replaces farming with a Protocol-Owned-Liquidity model — see below.)
Single-staking. Lock ALB → esALB and stake esALB to earn unlocked ALB rewards.
Emission history
Alien Base's emission schedule has changed several times since launch as the DAO matured. The numbers below are the actual schedule in effect, not the original launch-day plan.
2023-08-08
15 ALB/sec (launch)
TGE
2023-08-19
8 ALB/sec
AIP-1 (de facto) — emergency 46% cut after sniper bots captured the initial liquidity supply
2025-06
~1.875 ALB/sec (yearly inflation 30% → 15%)
3rd halving — confirmed in the Oct 2025 roadmap retrospective
2026-04
Flexible emissions, no fixed halving
AIP-5 — replaces farming with POL fund + buyback-and-burn
Today, ~91% of the original 510M cap has been minted (~465M ALB, of which ~234M circulates and the rest is locked as esALB). The team cannot mint additional ALB without going through the 14-day timelock; farming emission parameters are also timelocked for 7 days.
The original "halving every 9 months" schedule was a launch-time plan. As the project matured, the DAO adjusted the path twice (AIP-3, AIP-4) to align emissions with revenue, and finally replaced the halving model entirely (AIP-5) with a flexible system tied to protocol earnings.
Value flow (Real Yield)
V3 pool fees are split 50/50 between LPs and esALB stakers; Epsilon swap and order fees accrue entirely to the protocol share, which funds the esALB Real Yield stream, the DAO treasury, and (under AIP-5) the POL fund.
The full fee table — V2, V3 tiers, Epsilon swaps, Epsilon Router orders (Limit / Stop / Trailing Stop / DCA), Token Generator — is on the Fees page.
Initial supply & distribution
The initial 26 million ALB (~5.1% of the cap) was minted at launch, of which 1 million seeded the original V2 launch liquidity pool. The remaining 25 million was directed to a timelock contract because sniper-bot activity made the planned full liquidity-pool seed impossible at launch.
Initial mint
26 M
1 M seeded V2 launch LP; 25 M sent to timelock
Timelock allocation — growth
20 M
Fundraising, marketing, market-making for ALB liquidity
Timelock allocation — team
5 M
Distributed to the team via vesting contracts (deployed as VestingFactory in 2025-06; see Vesting)
Farming emissions — team
15% of new emissions (lowered to 10% in AIP-3)
Operating budget (salaries, infra, incentivization)
The original timelock transactions for the 25 M are at:
DAO operating budget (current)
The team has a transparent monthly budget approved by DAO vote. The most recent published cycle was governed by ADIP-01 (Sept 2025 → Feb 2026); team funding is transitioning to the AIP-5 Line-of-Credit model. The ADIP-01 structure:
$200,000 USDC reserve, allocated as Infrastructure $48k / Liquidity & Incentives $40k / Strategic Savings $112k
$42,500 revenue-funded growth: Dev & Security $15k, Legal $12.5k, Marketing $10k, Grants $5k
1,000,000 ALB/month dev allowance + 1,000,000 ALB/month POL contribution
The team uses bots to TWAP-sell its ALB allocation slowly — both to avoid impacting price and to keep sells unpredictable to MEV. There's no scheduled cliff and no surprise dump.
Alien Base 2.0 (AIP-5)
AIP-5 — passed April 2026 — is a full tokenomics rewrite. Highlights:
Replaces farming with a Protocol-Owned-Liquidity (POL) Fund. Stablecoins, blue chips, Base-native assets, and Alien Base LPs. POL yield is used for buyback-and-burn ALB.
Replaces fixed halvings with flexible emissions tied to protocol earnings.
Dev Line of Credit (LoC): the dev allowance becomes tracked debt with interest paid to esALB holders. Price-tier grant tranches at $0.40, $1, and $2 (via moving averages) unlock dev funding only when ALB sustains those price levels.
Splits governance into Alien Base DAO (governs onchain contracts) and Alien Labs (offchain product, frontend, revenue).
govALB: a new staked-escrow form of esALB with 10× voting power, 1× earning power, and a ~2-year effective lock.
Supply cap raised (one-time) from 510,000,000 → 1,051,000,000 ALB. Direct allocation increase = 200M; remainder reserved for esALB protection program and strategic allocations. Expected actual supply post-rollout: ≤ 800M.
Implementation is rolling out now; see Roadmap and Alien Base 2.0 for current status.
ALB liquidity
ALB is traded across multiple Base DEXes. As of July 6, 2026 there are ~27 ALB pairs across all venues, dominated by:
Alien Base — Several pairs, primary liquidity source with ALB/WETH at
0xbcd2…6fcB.Uniswap — 3 pools.
Aerodrome / others — small parallel liquidity.
If you swap on Alien Base, Epsilon routes through whichever venue gives the best price (almost always the native pools).
Resources
ALB on Basescan:
0x1dd2d631…50c4Source code:
alienbase-xyz/alienbase-contractsTokenomics articles on Medium:
Strategic Roadmap Update for Alien Base — Sep 2023
AIP-5: Building Alien Base 2.0 — Mar 2026
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