# Vesting
Some governance tokens may be held by a Vesting contract. This means that can be "owned" by an Ethereum key but not freely transferred until a vesting terms are complete.
## list of tranches
When looking to understand to overall vesting schedule for tokens, I...
- **must** see a list of tranches 1005-VEST-001
- **should** see a visualization of the vesting schedule with a break down of the type of token holders (e.g. team, investors, community) 1005-VEST-002
For each tranche:
- **must** see a tranche number 1005-VEST-003
- **could** see any annotation of what this tranche is about (e.g. community schedule A)
- **must** see a sum of tokens in the tranche 1005-VEST-005
- **must** see how many tokens in the tranche are locked 1005-VEST-006
- **must** see how how many tokens in the tranche are redeemable 1005-VEST-007
- **must** see the vesting terms for each tranche (when unlocking stats and ends) 1005-VEST-008
... so I can understand how circulating supply could change over time.
## Details of a tranche
When looking into a specific tranche, I...
- **must** see all the same details as the [list of tranches](#details-of-a-tranche)
- **should** see a list of ethereum wallets with tokens in this tranche
for each ethereum wallet:
- **should** see the full eth address of the wallet
- **should** see the total tokens this address holds in this tranche
- **should** see how many tokens in the tranche are locked
- **should** see how how many tokens in the tranche are redeemable
... so I can see the details of how tokens are distributed in this tranche
## See summary for a given Ethereum key
When looking to see how many tokens I have in total, and how many I might be able to redeem, I...
- **must** be able to [Connect and ethereum wallet](0004-EWAL-connect_ethereum_wallet.md) 1005-VEST-018
- **should** be able input an ethereum address
for the a given Ethereum wallet/address/key:
- **must** see a total of tokens across all tranches 1005-VEST-020
- **must** see how many tokens across all tranches are locked 1005-VEST-021
- **must** see how many tokens across all tranches are redeemable 1005-VEST-022
- **must** see a list of tranches this key has tokens in 1005-VEST-023
- **must** see a total of tokens in each tranche 1005-VEST-024
- **must** see how many tokens in each tranche are locked 1005-VEST-025
- **must** see how many tokens in each tranche are redeemable 1005-VEST-026
- **must** see an option to redeem from tranche 1005-VEST-027
- **should** see how many tokens I'd need to disassociate to be able to run the redeem function (this should be rounded up to avoid the transaction failing due to more tokens having unlocked since the user looked at the form)
- **should** see link to [disassociate](1004-ASSO-associate.md)
... so I can easily see how many tokens I have, and can redeem.
## Redeem tokens from a tranche
Note: it is not possible to choose how many tokens you redeem from a tranche, instead you select a tranche and the smart contract will attempt to redeem all. However, it will fail if some of the amount it attempts to redeem have been associated to a Vega key. Therefore the job of this page is to help the user work out how many tokens to disassociate before they can successfully redeem.
When looking to redeem tokens, I...
- **must** [connect the ethereum wallet](0004-EWAL-connect_ethereum_wallet.md) that holds tokens 1005-VEST-029
- must see see all tranches that you have tokens in (including tranche 0) 1005-VEST-036
- must see a total of tokens across all tranches (including tranche 0) 1005-VEST-037
- **must** select a tranche to redeem from 1005-VEST-030
- **must** see the number of tokens that can be redeemed 1005-VEST-031
- **must** be warned if the number of tokens you would be attempting to redeem is greater than you have unassociated 1005-VEST-035
- **should** tell you how many tokens to disassociate for the redeem function to work (should round up to create a buffer for the tokens that may unlock between now and when the user gets to the disassociate form)
- **should** see a link to disassociate
- **must** submit the redeem from tranche [ethereum transaction](0005-ETXN-submit_ethereum_transaction.md) 1005-VEST-032
- **must** get feedback on the progress of the Ethereum transaction 1005-VEST-033
- **must** see updated balances (in the trance and my eth wallet) after redemption 1005-VEST-034
... so that I can use this tokens more generally on Ethereum (transfer to another key etc)