TNT Supply and Incentives
Fixed Supply
TNT is capped at 100,000,000 tokens. Genesis mints the full cap across the migration, foundation, and treasury buckets. After that, incentive programs are funded from existing treasury supply.
No Automatic Inflation
Tangle does not mint TNT continuously for block rewards or staking. Incentives are budgeted and pre-funded by governance, which means there is no automatic monetary inflation at the protocol level.
Base-Mainnet Year-One Budget
The Base-mainnet launch config sets year1FundTnt to 1,000,000 TNT, exactly 1% of the 100M cap. Treasury funds this amount into InflationPool after deploy.
If governance allocates TNT to incentives, funds are deposited into InflationPool and distributed by epoch:
| Budget rail | Launch share |
|---|---|
| Staking vaults | 55% |
| Operators | 25% |
| Customers | 10% |
| Developers | 10% |
| Staker exposure budget | 0% at genesis |
See Incentives and Metrics and Scoring for the full model.
Source contracts:
- https://github.com/tangle-network/tnt-core/blob/main/src/rewards/InflationPool.sol
- https://github.com/tangle-network/tnt-core/blob/main/src/rewards/RewardVaults.sol
Source config:
Service Fees Are Separate
Service fees are paid by customers in the payment token (native or ERC-20) and are not inflation. Fees are split across developers, the protocol, operators, and stakers.
Governance Control
Governance can change incentive budgets and weights by funding or configuring the incentive contracts. Changing the 100M supply cap would require a token upgrade.