Emission Schedule
Describes the Emission Schedule from the Reserve to Nodes and Liquidity providers.
There are a maximum of 500m RUNE. All 100% was created at genesis and distributed via different mechanisms:
- In return for capital: 5% (SEED) and 16% (IDO) was sold for capital to start the network and give it value. They took on risk to support the network.
- In return for time and effort: 10% was allocated to a group of devs who worked since 2018. They took on risk to deliver the network.
- In return for bootstrap participation: 24% was given to users who participated in the bootstrapping of the network.
- In return for through-life participation: 44% has been placed in the Protocol to pay out to Nodes and LPs for the next 10+ years
The Reserve also backstops Impermanent Loss Protection, and is used to underwrite debt. The Reserve is depleted by block rewards and continually topped up by system income.
Block rewards are calculated as such:
So if the reserve has 180m rune, a single block will emit ~4.28 Rune from the reserve, which means 2/3rds of that is awarded to the node operators. The rest is paid to Liquidity providers.
The emission curve is designed to start at around 30% APR and target 2% after 10 years. At that point, the majority of the revenue will come from fees.
The Reserve is continually topped up by income, such as transfer fees and outbound fees. Other sources of revenue include THORName fees and excess liquidation fees on collateral.
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