Coingecko has maybe added one of the most important features on their site to date: Tokenomics

No clickbait actually. (in my honest opinion)

Coingecko has recently added a function where you can check the Tokenomics of the coin/token.
While researching where to invest, Tokenomics can be seen as one of the more important things to look at.

Why?

Let me try to give the newcomers a little guide to why this is important. Excuse me if some information is wrong, or not detailed enough. This is my first time trying to explain something here on Reddit. Feel free to give me constructive feedback. :)

Well, let's commence while taking the 'tokenomics page of Hedera Hashgraph($HBAR) as an example:

Hedera initial Allocation Pie Graph

The Initial Allocation of the coins/tokens is very crucial. The initial allocation is preset in advance. This is the distribution(in percentages) of the Total Supply. Here you should watch out for :
- (de)centralisation : Do the founders/initial investors have a significant portion of the supply or do you think their share is not big enough to make significant price action movements when one decides to sell in the future.
- How much they reserve for their eco-system (aka. how much of the distribution is made for development, growth, to pay our salaries,...)
- Portion reserved for retail investors (like you and me)
- ...

For me, and correct me if I'm wrong, one of the more important pieces of the pie to look for is the initial distribution to the team and how big the portion was for the big initial investors.

This shows how much sell pressure there is, or has been, during bull runs when the initial investors saw their gains rising and decided to sell their allocation.

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Next up we have the Vesting/Supply Schedule. Shows how aggressive tokens are being distributed. Meaning, how fast tokens are coming into the Circulating Supply.

For example: if a token has a Total Supply^{(refers to the total amount of coins or tokens of a specific cryptocurrency that have been created or mined, that are in circulation, including those that are locked or reserved.}) of 10B and there are only 2B in Circulating Supply^{(The circulating supply refers to the coins that are accessible to the public and should not be confused with the total supply or max supply. If you can trade them, the tokens are considered being 'in circulation'}), this means 80% of the tokens still have to be released, causing inflation to the project and with it, sell pressure.

Let's take the vesting schedule of the $HBAR token:

Vesting schedule

Here we see that the most aggressive period is already behind us. Limiting upcoming inflation.

This could also imply less sell pressure in the next bull run, meaning potential more upside, relatively to the previous bull run. I emphasize the word 'potential'. Nothing is certain.

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Well, think that's it for this little Tokenomics course!

If you want more information about what tokenomics are and why they are important.

I found this explanation on the binance site quite informative: https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/what-is-tokenomics-and-why-does-it-matter

Cheers