Here’s a number that should make every token founder uncomfortable: roughly 70% of tokens launched since 2020 spend the majority of their lifetime trading below their initial launch price. That’s not a bear market statistic. That’s the baseline.

Delphi Consulting, the advisory arm that spun out of Delphi Digital back in 2018, just released a free Token Design Toolkit aimed at fixing the problem before it starts. The tool lets teams model and simulate their token economies, covering everything from unlock events to liquidity at launch to demand absorption and staking sustainability. Think of it as a flight simulator for tokenomics: crash in the model, not on mainnet.

What the toolkit actually does

The Token Design Toolkit replaces static spreadsheet workflows with dynamic simulation. Teams can model how their token behaves under different market conditions, test what happens when large unlock events hit thin liquidity, and evaluate whether staking incentives actually hold up over time or just delay the inevitable sell pressure.

Neel Daftary, who goes by @0xdaft and serves as the lead developer on the project, ran live demos of the toolkit in early June. The tool is hosted on Delphi Digital’s member platform and carries no paywall, no paid tier, and no usage limitations.

The data behind the tool

About ten days before its release, Delphi published its “State of Token Markets” report on June 2, 2026. The research analyzed more than 540 token launches dating back to 2020, and the headline stat: approximately 70% of those tokens trade below their launch price for the majority of their lifetimes.

What this means for investors and builders

For project teams, the implications are straightforward. If a free, publicly available tool exists to stress-test your tokenomics, and you choose not to use it, that’s now a signal. Investors and community members can reasonably ask whether a project ran simulations, what the results showed, and how the design was adjusted in response.

For investors, the toolkit introduces a layer of accountability that hasn’t existed before. When a project’s token collapses on its first major unlock event, the question shifts from “how could anyone have known” to “did you even run the simulation.”