Tokenomics Audit Desk

Tokenomics Audit — LayerZero (ZRO)

Tokenomics Desk · 2026-10-24T22:13:16.223Z · Chain: ethereum · Contract: 0x6985884c4392d348587b19cb9eaaf157f13271cd

Verdict: Needs work

Red-flag score: 44.5/100 — Elevated

Disclaimer (short form). Economic triage based on public on-chain and aggregator data. Not a smart-contract security audit. Not financial advice. No price predictions. See the closing section for full disclaimers.

1. Executive summary

Verdict: Needs work. The three findings that matter most:

2. Token snapshot

Total supply (global)1,000,000,000
Supply on ethereum (on-chain)951,088,336
Circulating supply399,976,128
Max supply1,000,000,000
Circulating ratio40.0%
Price$2
Market cap$692,718,903
FDV$1,731,900,619
Holder count (this chain)25,529
Top 1 holder share11.2%
Top 10 holder share38.2%
DEX liquidity (all pairs)$796,643
DEX volume 24h$1,268,371
DEX pairs30
Contract owner0xcda8e3add00c95e5035617f970096118ca2f4c92

Sources: CoinGecko (market/supply), chain RPC (on-chain reads), Blockscout (holders, EVM), DEXScreener (liquidity/volume), DefiLlama (fees; emissions when tracked). Accessed 2026-10-24T22:13:16.223Z.

3. Findings — ranked by severity

1. MEDIUM Supply schedule & issuance

Contract has a live owner address — privileged functions may exist; the engine does not audit code, so the owner's powers are UNKNOWN beyond the owner() read.

Evidence: owner() = 0xcda8e3add00c95e5035617f970096118ca2f4c92

2. LOW Vesting & unlock calendar

Unlock schedule is UNKNOWN — the protocol is not tracked by DefiLlama emissions and no schedule was machine-readable. Missing evidence: a published unlock/vesting schedule from the project's docs.

Evidence: DefiLlama emissions endpoint unavailable (paywalled) or protocol untracked — unlock schedule UNKNOWN.

3. MEDIUM Concentration & governance risk

Top 10 holders control 38.2% of total supply.

Evidence: top10 share = 38.19% of total supply

4. Analysis

Holder concentration — WATCH

Top 10 wallets hold 38.2% of supply on this chain (raw on-chain; includes contracts, bridges, vesting vaults — wallet labels are a manual-review step).

Insider concentration

UNKNOWN — insider allocation % requires the project's published allocation docs (manual checkpoint).

Unlock risk

40% of supply circulates; 60% is locked or unissued — future unlock pressure exists even where the calendar is unpublished.

Value accrual

The protocol charges real fees (DefiLlama). Whether any of that value reaches token holders — buyback, burn, revenue share — is UNKNOWN without the project's docs (manual checkpoint).

Annualized protocol fees (24h × 365): $4,753,395 · fees/FDV = 0.27%

Peer comparison

UNKNOWN — no curated peer set for this token yet.

5. Methodology, limitations & disclaimers

Public sources only: the aggregators and chain data named above, accessed on the date shown. No internal cap tables, no private agreements, no team-wallet labels beyond what sources publish. Checkpoints requiring project documentation (initial allocation, holder capture of fees, demand drivers) are graded in the manual review layer; the engine grades only what it measured and marks the rest UNKNOWN rather than guessing. Figures are a snapshot; tokenomics change — re-check before acting.

1) Not a security audit — no contract code, custody, or operational security was reviewed. 2) Not financial advice — no recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any token. 3) No price predictions — supply mechanics only; valuation figures are arithmetic, not forecasts. 4) Public sources — errors in source material propagate; verify independently. 5) No outcome guarantees — a Sound grade does not imply performance; a Fragile grade does not imply failure. 6) Independence — prepared without engagement from the project team beyond the review fee, which does not influence grades.

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