# Team & Advisor Incentives and VC investment pledge status The total amount of NOAH is 21,000,000, esNOAH needs unlocking to become NOAH · Liquidity mining & staking mining: 16,800,000 esNOAH (80%) **· Team & Advisor Incentives**: 225,000 NOAH + 1,350,000 esNOAH (7.5%). It will be released after 12 weeks and will be unlocked in 9 times. 25,000 NOAH + 150,000 esNoah will be released every 12 weeks. **· VC investment**: 225,000 NOAH + 1,350,000 esNOAH (7.5%). It will be released after 12 weeks and will be unlocked in 9 times. 25,000 NOAH + 150,000 esNoah will be released every 12 weeks. · Marketing & airdrop activities: 1,050,000 NOAH (5%) **The first issue (released in the 13th era):** According to the white paper rules, the system released the first phase of team incentives and VC rewards in the 13th era, totaling 50,000 NOAH. For the long-term development of the NOAH project, the team encouraged and negotiated with VC investment. The team and VC decided to automatically pledge all tokens released in the first 3 periods for 3 years, that is, when the release is executed every 12 epochs, all NOAH tokens under the account name will be pledged. The term is automatically extended to 3 years. **The second issue (released in the 25th era):** A total of 50,000 NOAH has been released, and the current pledge expiration time of a total of 100,000 NOAH is 2027-04-08 08:00:00. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://noah-finance.gitbook.io/noah/noah-token-info/team-and-advisor-incentives-and-vc-investment-pledge-status.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.